Berlin has its bears and New York City and Zurich have cows. Hamburg has some cows, too, along Mittelweg and Rothenbaumchaussee, but the real attraction is the Hans Hummel water carrier, reproduced 100 times. These fiber glass figures, all 1.83 meters high and weighing 240 kilos are placed in “areas populated by tourists” such as around the Alster, the Rathaus, the Hauptbahnhof and even at the airport. Since the end of May, they have sprouted up “like the terracotta army figures in China” according to the Hamburger Morgenpost, and will stay until September 30, 2004, to be joined by 100 more over the next months. The first 100 have been sponsored by local businesses, such as Alsterhaus, Dresdner Bank, and Thalia book store, at EUR 2500 each, plus the cost of hiring an artist to paint them. C&A department store and Elsner Shoes (numbers 6 and 77, respectively) used their own in-house decorating teams, while the Hamburger Bank (numbers 40 and 41) let their apprentices go for it. The stores at the Bleichenhof called on students of the Rudolf Steiner School to paint their man. Otherwise, all have been painted by local artists or art students. In the fall of next year, the donors will decide which figures to put up for auction. The proceeds of the auction will help the homeless. City Management Hamburg (CMH), a group of 450 businesses in the city, initiated the idea, all because one man from CMH went to Berlin and fell in love with the bears.