Jón Bjarnason Academy - 01.05.1931, Blaðsíða 47

ing the three days of the celebration without a single accident
in which anybody was seriously injured. Although over fifty
thousand people milled back and forth on the Plains during
the exciting events the chief of police informed the writer that
it had not been necessary to make a single arrest. He also said
that there had been no signs of intoxication or of the excessive
use of intoxicants during the celebration. This was none the
less impressive because of the interesting fact that the Chief,
who had charge of the police force, was a Chicago policeman
on leave of absence. Whatever the difficulty which Chicago
may have in governing itself, one of her policemen proved an
efficient head of the police force of Reykjavik, Iceland.
“To be admired also was the national exhibit of arts and
industry; the books, manuscripts, and relics in the national
library and museum; and we stood in silent and awed wonder
before the exquisitely beautiful conceptions of the sculptor,
Einar Jonsson, whose genius the world will one day applaud
as it now does that of Rodin and of Bertel Thorwaldsen. Rich
in imaginative and interpretive talent, Einar Jonsson is too
poor to put his creations into marble or bronze. But the Ice-
landic Government has built a museum where they will remain,
until some person of means devotes part of a fortune to
the perpetuation of some of the finest art of the age.”
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