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14 Utah Historical Quarterly . Dallin and His Paul RI and sent it to the Boston Art Club for a run-off competition limited to Dallin, French, and Kelly. The committee again considered "all the models that had been presented" but could not reach a decision. The committee then began negotiations with other artists that dragged on for more than a year. Different models were presented and considered. In an effort to speed matters, a move was made to have the commission given to some artist without asking for a model, but this idea was rejected. ]H The committee's failure to make a decision and the group's subsequent inaction were predicted by a critic who additionally charged that the committee was "now casting about for means of opening communication with those distinguished men who were not so reduced in purse or reputation as to contend for prizes." 19 The committee was undoubtedly still waiting for Thomas Ball to enter his model, a surmise largely verified by a news item in the Transcript, June 23,1883: Thomas Ball had r year, 1882, according to Ten. 20 Ball's interest in Glad MacIntyre, yvho intI Mr. Thomas Ball, the sculptor, has at his studio on Bedford Street a bronze statue of "Paul Revere's Ride." It is a spirited work, and is in many respects superior to some of the models recently shown at the Art Club of the same subject. . . . The work is interesting and unlike anything yet shown. The committee have not yet seen it, and a decision will not probably be given for some time yet. Mr. Ball will probably return to Florence in September. ,. Downes, "Cyrus E. DaIlin," p . 6; "Art and Artists," Boston Evening TTIlnscript, January 22, 1885 ; Cyrus E. Dallin, "Dallin, Autobiographical," Salt Lake Tribune, December 23, 1894: Dallin Biographical Manuscript, pp. 7-8; "Revere's Statue." Sculptors such as Augustus SaintGaudens and Paul Bartlett may have been the artists approached by the vacillating committee. •• American Architect. The second Revere model, made in May 1883, was not accepted b'y the indecisive committee, an indication of the inaction and vacillation that was to stretch over more than a half-century. This model's present location is unknown. Photograph courtesy of the Robbins Library. Then there arrive( George Washington sta to submit a model in tll to find himself too late. Ball's undoubted ability model as well as those of ewspaperman Thomas the three winners oj entry into competiti While he awaited SOi statues; and , of 1883 Cyrus g: , sketching, and at the Studio Bui Dallin's second 1 at Chase's gallery 1 u .. u ...'-~ This new model present ventional and vividly dr steed, the "midnight illI direction he has come, . message he bears for ea. of the statue are powe singularly fresh, earnest: encouraging apprai for in Septemb< , calling attention commissioned to erect, Knowing the reverence Utah, and also knowin€ "2ded. (Boston, 1892),p. ... "Story of a Statue" 1940 " DalIin Biographical Mall 1, 1884. "Art and Artists," Boston .