Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-12-24

flsce in q room with carpefed fioer, sc.
Grant, laughing. )-0h, that picture Wa got
op to chow on my aides. There VA a formal
turning over OF the surrendered forces on the
next day, but the real surrender took place ~
l have told you.
TEE BIG BRONZE FOUNDRY OF rBR COUNTRY
Now I will show you my foundry" said
MILF; and he led the way to that building but
stopped 10 answer . question as 70 the m aning
OF the brass cannon scattered over the sward at
si1ee and sevens, giving the enclosure the ap-
pearance OF a di,api.lated arsenal. These are
the rebel guns contributed by government for
the Lincoln monumcnt, and are 20 be melted for
The statues. Most OF them appear 90 have had
rough usage, and Mills pointed out one that, by
the nature Of the fracs lure at its rnouth. showed
tbat. curiously enough, IL had been disablel by
receiving bail size larger than its own cali
bre, plumb in its muzEle. We might have
PAUSED TO NoRaLIZg
over the fact that these instruments Of carnage
accustomed to vomit Olth death aud destrac-
ION we're 10 be converted into the eff gies OF
chr stan rhils1, hTCpis's, divines and states
men but we were four miles from dinner, the
hour 7. m. and we dl'nI.
The Mills FOUNDRY is
7HK LARGEST BEoNZE FOUNDRY IN TIE coVN-
TRY,
the Chicopee foundry in Massachusetts, coming
neht, and Woods IN Philadelphia the third
l.
terral features as enormous cranes that vii,
raise 100 600 pounds OF metal with ease. and thr q
have capacity for much more; furnaces thai
will hold 20, o0e pounds Of metal and into which
cannon eleven feet long can be taken whole and
melted and two large ovens for baking moulds
one 10 feet square and the other 10 by 10.
THR "wHAr is 1T" ON THE CAPITOL DONE
POINTING to the larger one OF these ovens
Mills said, "This is the oven use in drying the
moulds for the Goddess OF Liberty on the dome
Of the Capitol"
Star mar.-Do you mean to say that you
baked that abomirable p
Hold on, said Mills, al Am only responsible
for the casting; the model, as you know, was
furnished by Crawford"
Star MAXWELL, what about that crazy head
dress?
hiils-ll tell YOU how that was. You zee.
me crawford model originally wore the classic
Cap of Liberty; but JEFF. Davis who was Sec
retaIy or War, objected that the liberty cap
was not MT emblem tor q born freeman-that
III was the cap the need slaves we're required TO
wear in the times of ancient Rome, and IL v as
nor, therefore, the proper emblem of A merioans
VINO were born Tree. SO Crawford went 10 work
ard put kind of helmet on hts God less. with
The skin OF an eagle SO placed over the head
mat the claws hung down by the side OF the
face: ON this eagle skin, over the top of the
heed, be planted six ostrich feathers.
Star man." What, in the name Of the times
that tried mems FOULS, had ostrich feathers 20
do with Yankee Goddess OF Libertv?,
Well" raid Mills, ''that put. me in mind OF
ciltlchm made by an Irishman who was look
ing AT the castings here one day. And sure
ssld he, WAT kiLd OF . bird is il that's got a
tail on top OF its hesdT' There was a good de al
- OF ABSTRACTION atout this esgle-skin ostrich
teatber head-CIess, and several Congressman
snd others wanted me 20 alter it, but refused
IL was Crsw'ord's model, and had DO business
10 change IL. IL II, undoubtedly, an awkward
lcOkltg Shair. good many people who see y
. the Come have az idea that some part of IN.
tesfoldiDg has been left about the head. M.
Goddess SENDS 800 feet from the ground, and 10
~ ieet : inches high. They were afraid it would
Oe too heavy for the dome, and so l wa. re-
quired TO cast II but three eIghihs OF an inch
thick. aud The whole weight was but lS00o
ioulos. odfiy enough, they didn't take the
same rTecsution about the iron rork-the Is
solid." ''
- Al. Row was that
~, "a, oI ~ Ioss somebody got paid 10y the
Mills evidently doesn't want - be held re-
>portih'e Tor The design OF hi. Attending
mounts TIE CARTE! dome. ana i put down in
he guide cooks as the Go ldess OF Liberty; aud
he h2s reason.
In Sunuerian phrase ii is not only an ..sbor-
ton but
"A BIDICrLosITy."
What there is about il typical Of the Goddess
Of American Liberty or any other goddess II /.
hard TO make out. From the west front il looks
Ikea
wARTr swBBT-PoTAToI
on end From the east front il picture. a .ou,y
with q lobster on her head and papoose NJ
her back, undertaking the difficult task of
totiug three srenlless pumkins and roll or sole
leather. From New Jersey avenue, south, il
looms up in the shape II an amazonisn washer.
woman bearing prodigious armful OF stifrv
sterched clothes; and from b Atre-t north IL
taxes the form OF horse blanket hung over a
pnmp TO Dry; and irom every point o. view the
Msnke Wucnre headdress and distended eve
balls give. the critter" q Crazy look thar !.
not nisdrected towards the frsane ASYLUM.
across the Anaccstia.
STURDY ARTIST.
In takin. leave Of Mills, we could not but en-
terrain afeeling OF cordial respect for the in
domtable old man who has worked hi, ysv mn
from the plasterer's trowel through 50 many
obstacles, and who, whatever critics NAV nav of
us works las been sturdily true 60 hi. own con-
victioDs; has copied from nature ONLY. and "a
was said OF Landseer. ''has treated nafios.l