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way Say, "Goodmorrow! Goodmorrow! Take time while you
may, Just step up yet closer; I'll give you a chance To have something
far sweeter than just a bright glance."

Appendix

The Sculptors

The planning, the placing, the naming of all this noble sculpture has
practically been done by two men - the late Karl Bitter of New York, a
man of great executive and technical ability as well as of immense
inspiration, and A. Stirling Calder, on whom the honor for the great
bulk of the work rests. Besides acting as personal overseer for the
execution of the sculpture of the Palaces and Courts of the Exposition,
Mr. Calder has designed the Nations of the Orient, The Nations of the
Occident, The Fountain of Energy, The Stars, Column of Progress and
its sculpture, and The Oriental Flower Girl. Since the sculpture is one
of the strongest factors of this Exposition, we should extend to Mr.
Calder our heart-felt appreciation of all that he has done to help make
this Exposition such a wonderful, artistic success.

Robert Ingersoll Aitken
Robert Ingersoll Aitken was born in San Francisco in 1878. He was a
pupil of Arthur F. Mathews at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art and
later of Douglass Tilden, the well-known California sculptor. He has
done a great deal of very strong, compelling work. The examples of his
sculpture seen at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition are of
pronounced virility and of fine composition. He is a man who excels in
technique. He has done in San Francisco the Victory for the Dewey
Monument in Union Square, the McKinley Monument, the Bret Harte

Monument and the Hall-McAllister Monument. In the Metropolitan
Museum of New York is "The Flame." At the Fine Arts Palace are a
number of works from his chisel - The Gates of Silence, the Gates'
memorial, being by far the finest.

Herbert Adams
Herbert Adams was born in Vermont in 1858. He has had many
advantages, not the least of which were the five years spent in Paris.
While there he did the beautiful bust of Adelaide Pond, who afterwards
became his wife. In 1890 he returned to America, becoming instructor
in the Art School of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. He has done a number of
works for the Congressional Library, the Vanderbilt bronze doors of the
St. Bartholomew Church of New York, the tympan of the Madonna and
Child in the same church, a statue of William Ellery Channing and
many others. His beautiful busts of women are said to be unsurpassed
even in France.

Edward Berge
Edward Berge was born at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1874. He was
admitted quite early in life to the Maryland Institute of Art, and the
Rhinehart School of Sculpture of Baltimore, following this instruction
by the usual finishing-off at Paris. He had the good fortune while in
Paris to study under the great Rodin. He won bronze medals at both the
Pan-American Exposition of 1901 and the St. Louis Exposition of 1904.
His many very interesting fountain figures seen at the Panama, Pacific
International Exposition have won deserved praise from the many who
have seen them.

Solon Borglum
Solon Borglum was born in 1868 at Ogden, Utah. The greater part of
his early life was spent on the plains of Nebraska, lassoing wild horses

and photographing at the same time every detail of this strange life
upon his brain. He spent a short time in California, where he began his
life as an artist. Realizing his limitations, he went to the Cincinnati Art
School, where he studied some time under Rebisso. It was while here
that he spent all of his spare time on the anatomy of the horse. The time
soon arrived for a sojourn in Paris. His "Little Horse in the Wind"
excited pronounced attention at the Salon that first year abroad and
honors were bestowed upon him as long as he remained in Paris. He
has given the Indian the greatest attention, and is one of the best
sculptors of the red man in the United States. He has but one group in
the Fine Arts Palace - "Washington."

Edith Woodman Burroughs
One of the chief women sculptors of the United States is Edith
Woodman Burroughs, born at Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, in 1871. She
was a pupil at the New York Art Students' League under Augustus
Saint-Gaudens, later studying in Paris with Injalbert and Merson. In
1893 she was married to Bryson Burroughs, a New York artist. She has
made a specialty of fountain sculpture. No one who has ever seen her
Fountain of Youth at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition can
forget it. It will always be a source of regret that the appropriation for
the Panama-Pacific International Exposition sculpture was reduced,
thus preventing the public