000.000 compared with 9.000 G0f
rounds secured from the French and
British. Yes, the job eost some mer-ey
but your Uncle Sam did it and did i
when the world was calling for help.
Colonel Ayres does not touch upon it
but it just comes to mind that the
same co-operation that put it over ?
applied to our peace-time affairs would
1 result in but what's the use that is
i another story.
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Mr Baker has examples of his art
in all parts of the United States. A
bust of James Whitcomb Riley was
mr de for the city of Indianapolis Por.
trait busts of notable Americans exe
cuted as private commissions as well
as fountain designs have been placed
In cities from Boston to San Francisco.
Mr. Baker comes from a family of
sculptors. His father. John Baker,
was one of the most prominent eccles
iastical sculptors In England before -his
death and many of- the restora
tions of beautiful old abbeys, in Eng
land have been made possible by bis -great
knowledge of Gothic architec
ture. Mr. Robert Baker, his brother,
has executed some very noble concep
tions. i The busts which Mr. Baker has
made during the past half year in
Washington are interesting from many
standpoints. The aim of the sculptor,
(n each one of them, has been to pres
ent a likeness without flattery or Ideal
ism. One beholds therefore, a repre
sentation of the subject as near like
his own living appearance as It " is
possible to catch and retain in marble
or bronze. And because this f aet
exists, there attaches to the portraits
a historical as well as artistic, jralue.
