People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — WON’T SHOCK BOSTON. [ARTICLE]

WON’T SHOCK BOSTON.

Wooden Fence Will Hide the Bacchante’s Beautifully Chiseled Limbs. The MacMonnies statue of a bacchante is going to Boston, after all, and is to be set up in its destined place in the courtyard of the Public library, which Architect McKim is bound that it 6hall decorate. It has been refused once. Then an attempt was made to give it to Brooklyn, and that city declined it. Now a decorous wooden fence will be built around it, which will hide the chiseled limbs of this representation of physical delight from the eyes of all except those especially bidden. It is said, however, that it will be only a matter of a short time when this environment will be removed, and the beautiful figure will be open to the inspection of all who visit the library.