On the east face, cut in the stone, may be read "_Ducit Amor Patriae"_ and on the west face, "By the Corporation of the City of New York, 1857--Honor the Brave." At the moment of writing the building beyond the Worth Monument, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street, is in the process of demolition.

At one time the New York Club was housed there, and there, for years, the sign of the Berlitz School for Languages stretched across the southern face of the structure.
"Were all the statues in New York made by St.Gaudens ?" was the recent naive and ingenuous question of a visitor from the West who had just completed the first two days of his stay.

"Most of the good ones were," was the laughing rejoinder of an artist.

"At least that is the way it seems.

And nearly all the pedestals for them were made by Stanford White." In query and response there is a certain amount of justice.