Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-08-28
LETTER FROM NEW YORK..
NEW YORK, August %, 1876.
lSpecidL Correspondence.

Like munlcn anu OeCnOlu VI Io-udJ,
and like Rhodes of old, New York is to
have her Colossus Right after the
Franco Prussian war the French govern
ment, to show its gratitude for favors
shown that suffering realm and in fur
therance of the reciprocal good feeling
which has existed between the two coun-
tries ever since the struggle in which the
American Eagle was Matched, voted to
our metropolis a colossal bronze statue
Of Liberty to stand before our .watery
gates and bear aloft in its mighty hand
beacon to warn off danger, while it
should greet with symbolic welcome
the voyager to the home of the Star
Spangle Banner. But great bodies move
slowly, and thus it was not till last fall
or several years alter the passage of
this laudable resolution that we began
to hear much about steps toward its
practical carrying out. Then it was
that after choosing Bedloe's Island as
the site of the monument work was &C
lively commenced and soon the papers
teemed with paragraphs relating to the
progress of the work in the Partisan
studio, where the figure was being mod
eled. So rapidly have operations been
pushed that there have been received
this week at the Custom House, eight
boxes, containing as many sections of
the gigantic female who is henceforward
to preside over our harbor At last &C
counts only two of these boxes had been
landed, one of which contains the right
hand and wrist and the second, the torch
which the hand will eventually hold.
This hand, while not exactly the sort
that fond lover wonld yearn to press,
I would be a positive godsend to any
mother with numerous and turbulent
offspring; for, beside being fourteen
feet long it is six or seven feet broad
]. and weighs good many pounds, and 1
have no doubt that in any little case of
i family discipline, little of it would go
a good way. 1 haven't been able to
: find anybody who could give me the cor
rect dimension of the finished statue,
u but if your readers are generally famil-
lar with comparative anatomy Gas doubt
d not is the CASEY the foregoing figures
y together with the fact that the thumb
nail on this little clipper" is two feet
&c long, will afford them data enough to
enable them to calculate the total height
Sc to nicely. The eight big boxes, for
- ming the first instalment, contained on,
arm only, the freight on which, from
n Havre to New York, was trihe unde
IN $500.
70 Probably at no time in his long ant
~ eventful life has Commodore Vanderbilt
been the focus of such general and con
,f- slant attention as now in his last hour
ur or rather what all the doctors kee
&c insisting ought to be his last hour;
But as he has had three months of then
w. already and shows no signs yet of a
III early REIMBURSEMENT of life these wis
descedants of Galen are beginning
nl- recall Mr.. 0'Conor's resurrection ate
their fellows had pronounced him to a
intents and purposes dead man. an
. I. are commencing to "hedge" a little O
their aracular prophecies. Some weel
ago their regular report was, ''Mr. Val
Is :. ;; derbilt can hardly last through the night
After ten days or SO of this they kind
J. consented to reprieve the old gentlems
w for "a week or MORE" and now Il
learned brothers gravely announce tn
T. 3 ''the patient may live for months or ev
E. o. years." but that he has got to go at las
Now, it strikes an impartial observ
that the anxious family might get
z. A.. much information as that out of lots
and fellows who would be glad to stal
around and "predict" at couple
+ dollars day, instead of prying the
owls in broadcloth from one to two thor
Brow. and per cent. above market rates I
very much the same kind of work.
b. B. but what "the patient is very old a
vi. feeble and liable to die at any momeI
". W. but when that is going to be- the doct'
don't know any more than l do
During all this time that Mr. V. |
III been confined to his house the newspap
have condition, surroundings and c.
wen versatiOn so far as they could by a
pur- means obtain it. with untiring re
1t varying the enforced mOnOtOny of tn
quite reports by reprinting all sorts of pro
'dent bic and improbable anecdotes of his i
this The Commodore himself to whom,
. or would think. all this obituary-favo
rman attention might be unpleasantly sugq
L. Z. tive, takes 1t all in good part. and e
latch shows considerable interest in the D
zee Of lie solicitude. The crowd Of report
make and visitors that throng his doors
'oint- not seem to trouble him in the lie
Nc He directs their questions to be ansy