The Tipton advertiser., 1875-11-25
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look after the removal from the
also foAod recent cAis4l marks. Tbe
most damaging circumstances now
coming to light, however, were those
connected with NewelI's drawing
from the Onondaga, County Bank
portion Of money in : draft to Hull's
order, thus connecting that myster-
ious man and his four horse. wagon,
and his western stone cutting, very
intimately with the giant.
Yet oil the discussion helped to id.
vertise the exhibition, which being
now removed from Newell farm to
Syracuse, was visited by such throngs
Of people rs 10 require special trains
ON the railroad. Four thousand tick
cts were sold in day. The giant
was yielding an income equal to the
interest on three million dollars at !,
per cent. and large bids were made
for its purchase, ~ high as e25, 900
being offered for an eighth.
But this was to be Of short dura.
tion. The FIRST decline in fortune was
brought about by Barnum, the show
man, who now came to Syracuse de-
sirous of buying share and assum-
ing the management of the show,
ard being rejected, purchased in re-
taliation. from = German sculptor of
the vicinity, named Otto, an unfnish-
ed imitation of the Cardiff Giant; en-.
gagged the sculptor to complete it,
and then placing it on exhibition at
Woods Museum in New York, cir
culated tho pamphlet description OF
the original ~ an advertisement, and
denounced the exhibition at Syracuse
as that Of . counterfeit giant! An
application was made 10 Judge Bar
nard for an Injunction against Bar
NUNS exhibition; but that solemn ju-
dicial functionary replied 'that he
had been doing some business in in
functions, but was going to shut
down now"
The original OF the humbug came
on to New York after = short recep-
ton in the State Geological rooms in
Albany, to find its prestige stolen by
Barnum, aud after an unsuccessful
exhibition Of . few days at the me-
tropolis, was hurried away to Boston.
Here it was of course visited by the
learned men of Athens, and among
the earliest, by Dr.. Holmes, who re-
ported it to be an immense statue
cut from stone by unknown hands,
aud Of wonderful anatomical devel-
opments. Ralph Waldo Emerson pro.
nouncing it beyond his depth, very
wonderful, and undoubtedly ancient.
Cyrus Cobb, tho artist and sculptor,
declared that the man who called
that . humbug simply declared him
self foo.
On February 4th, number Of
learned Bostonians visited the image
in sort of official body. They ex-
amined it long and patiently in every
way known 10 science. The exterior
wss tested with acids; the head WAS
bored into; the compass was carried
around the body in search of iron.
The learned conclusion was that the
giant was piece of s,ratifed gypsum
and was probably old. The subject
invaded the Boston Clubs. A whole
evening was occupied with it at the
Thursday Evening Club, the presi-
dent delivered : learned address to
prove that the giant must be modern
because its features we're Napoleonic.
The Boston Exhibition proved
brief resuscitstion Of the financial
success Of the humbug, but after .
few weeks the susoipicion of fraud
had became 10 general that the reve-
nue began to decline, and after few
months the Cardiff Giant passed out
Of public notice. If
The revival Of the subject during
the past year by discussion in some
quarters in this country and Europe,
and the reconsideration of it's merits
in some scientific circles, has perhaps
made it worth while to present this
simple connected statement of facts
occurring in the history of the Cardiff
image from its origin to the close OF
its career. These facts being all ca
pable of verifcation may thus sid in
refu,ing the errors that will be likely
to arise where the attempt is made to
dignity this Cardiff giant by consid-
ering it AS anything more than clev-
er hoax. W. A. McKnasy Of
Biaghomton, in the Ner Highlander.
The New York Tribune has been
for some time trying its best to train
with the Democracy, and if possible,
beat little common sense into the