New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-11

gsre feet ~ inches The length OF the head Ii 81
inches The neck y inches IN circumference and tho
breadth across the shoulders Is feet inches The
length OF the right arm feet 81 inchemuch too great
for the hight Of the statue
What IL is we may regard as pretty well settled by
cent scentiae examinations II IS not easy to under.
stand how IL could ever mistaken for perifactlon,
nor would IL to our mind he natural TO mistake for
antique The supposltiOn that IL was carved by the
early Jesuit missionaries Of Western hewYork for
various reasons prepOsterous Inc missionaries had
other things on their minds In those
DAYS, and, besides. the Onondaga statue would
not have been their style The eorroson OF the stone
y water was supposed to show that It must have
NAMED buried some hundreds OF years before 1t
e1numed last October. But caeiul experiments have
recently demonstrated that the species 0f gypsum Of
which il Is carved yields 70 the action OF water with
remarkable rapdity that few months or year
two at most would account for all the abrasion which
the stone mas apparently suffered More than this how
ever 1t is by no means certain that the stone was not
away before il was carved PFoL marsh OF Yale
College after close examination decided That 1t
was. He detected the marks oil artificial smooth
ing, with tools sand-papcr "Hde tho cavities
supposed to have been formed by The water Even
under the unfavorable circumstances IN which the
investigator is placed mt Woods Museum, We think
that confirmation OF Prof. Marshs supposition can be
perceived the left side OF the head especially there
arc waterchannels which seem have been nearly OBJ
liberated by the ehise and smoothing instrument
We don't know that the statue IS much less
curiosity for being hoax; and when on Monday morn
ing we Mr.. Barnum leaning over the railing
with admiration beamngF from his race we could
not help rejecting that humhug which he admired was
indeed object Of interest. The Onondaga humbug has
been beautifully aged from first TO last and Il Mr..
Wood could only ind the who did nall and put him
in glass case by the side Of the Cynocephaus he would
possess the most remarkable group Of curoses that
ever was exhibited TO a Eew-York public.
TIE ONONDAGA IMAGE-iIGHT FROM IOWA.
An article has appeared in The Dubuque
Times, written by gentleman 81 Fort Dodge, iowa,
which claims throw light on the Cardh Giant ABOUT
the 9th Of June 1903 two registered their names az
the ST. Charles Hotel, Fort Dodge George Hail Of
BinghamtOn n. Y, and II. T. Martin ~ Boston. For
several weeks after movements OF suspicious character
were noticed ana they finally purchased an acre OF gyp
sum land from John McDermOu paying 800
They built santy on the ground and employed men to
open gypsum quarry, for the purpose a. tey SAID, TO
send a handsome piece 20 New-NoIk They got ont "a
large stone dressed IT, eleven feet three inches IN length
and three inches wide, aud loaded II on rail-
road car The theory that Hall aud Martin TOOK inc
stone 10 Chicago, where N worked INTO a STATUE
thence to BlhghamtOn, and thence 10 NeWtIs iafil
The correspondent expresses the opinion that Col Wood
formerly OF the Chicago Museum ~ concerned ~ the
affair." as he happened he around just when they we're
digging up the giant II Is SAID that tho man VINO carved
the giant Is now Chicago but prefers 10 Keep quei
dispatch 10 Philadelphia Press.