Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1891 — "SUNSET” COX IN BRONZE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

"SUNSET” COX IN BRONZE.

Louise Lawson's Statue Made for the Letter Carriers Ready for Casting. The letter carriers of New York some time ago inaugurated a movement to erect a monument in Central Park to S. S. Cox, the late member of Congress, who was a great friend of the postoffice employes, and had rendered them great service. They appealed to their brethren throughout the country, and met with great success. From every State in the Union subscriptions poured in on the committee, which was soon in

(i position to set about the work practically. It was decided that the monmument should be a simple statue standing on a plain granite pedestal, and the contract for making the model was given to Miss Louise Lawson, the sculptor. She has completed her model in clay. The statue will be of bronze, will be nine feet high, and will stand on a pedestal twelve feet high. The model represents Mr. Cox as in the act of speaking in Congress, his eye on the Speaker, his right hand raised, and his index finger extended, while his left arm hangs by his side. Those who have seen the model differ in their opinion of its artistic merits. Some claim that it is a poor piece of work which can never be accepted by the art experts who are to pass upon it, while others insist that it is all right. The letter carriers have accepted it and agreed to pay Miss Lawson SIO,OOO for her work. Her original design was a monument that would portray the history of letter carrying from the days of „the„ fabled Mercury down to our own times. But the letter carriers wanted a simple statue on a pile of granite, and they have had their way.

STATUE OF THE LATE S. S. COX.