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Show Utah 'Historical Quarterl), 36 notation of "b").'9 Perhaps these figures, separate from the $18,135 expenses, may represent Dallin's out-of-pocket costs for the bronze statue and for the base or pedestal. When the White Fund manager proposed a counteroffer to Dallin of approximately $30,000 for the statue, Lawrence objected to the meager sum; but another brother favored acceptance of the offer, saying: "The money doesn't count. Just do it anyway. My father needs it." kO The final business transactions, as related by Lawrence Dallin, seem more incredible than all the previous political maneuvers and opposition that had robbed DaHin of his commission for more than fifty years. When Joseph O'Connell, the manager of the White Fund, presented his estimate of costs of the monument, it was at once apparent to Lawrence Dallin that his father would receive very little money for his efforts. Knowing that the statue could be cast into bronze by the Gorham Company of Providence, Rhode Island, for half the price shown on the ' estimate (the fund manager had indicated that this final casting was to be done by T.F. McGann and Sons at Somerville, Massachusetts), the Dallins insisted upon handling the business of completing the monument themselves. Already the separate parts of the statue were being prepared by Caproni Galleries for shipment to the bronze foundry. Lawrence Dallin made the following accusation: ... I went in and fought the thing out with a bunch of grafters and the City Hall. . . . Tobin was the mayor at the time but this O'Connell who ran the White Fund had all the final word of how the money was to be spent. ... But, they really tried to get me when I tried to pull the rug out from under them and let Gorham do it . . . and they actually sent, as I told you, those ,. Holograph, Dallin Collection. "! Lawrence Dallin interview. Dallin in his studio with a marble bust of his mother and a bust of his son Lawrence. and His Paul Rez l gangsters over with a big [manager of Caproni Gal looked like they had gur They knew just what thl horse's head, P~ul Revert There was a five thousam and over twenty-five tho thirty thousand dollars. TI When the newspaper! , oston would erect the st No contract with the Wl agreed upon the price. If April 19 [Patriot'S Day] 1 pretty much of a rush o~ ' newspaper also repm statue is now at foune The Dallins reasoned result in more dela~ L",------'-- silent, conceding tc watching as th persons. On J signed a COl Revere statue in bror "PN'rt~'rI at the Paul Revel This long-awaited vi in his declining ye unexpected trage """+u,~u local renown for hi: L""'''''-U to join the Frene II. Arthur who had in 1898, felt a strong ,for the Revere dedic news came to Cyru . months after the R strain affected I . "Cyrus Dallin's Dream of! . Lawrence Dallin interview .~anager, George Robert , . Boston Sculptor's Son V |
