The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-09-13
BAR1HoLDl's GREAT WORK.

BAR7HoLOrs GREAT WORK.
THE BIGGEST STATUE EVER MADE BY
HUMAN HADs.
l visited Bartholdis great statue
of liberty enlightening the world to-
day, but no description that | can
write will give you a correct idea OF
its magnitude. 1t is now dark tower
like mass, surrounded by scatfolding
protruding over the house,tops of the
Rue Chezclles, and has been the sub
ject of much curiosity and specula'
ton. One intelligent street car con-
ductor described it as a part of the
new foundry, another informed his
questioner that it was shot tower,
and it could readily be taken for Ell
ther. 1t is we'll known that the
money which it has cost was raised
by public subscription and individual
liberality, and that it is to be erected
on Bedloe's Island, in New York har-
Dor, as a monument ofthe friendship
that has always existed between
France and the United States. There
is no doubt that it will eventually
| reach that destin alton, notwithstand-
ing the present hue and cry and that
we will live happily eves afterwards
The project first acquired practical
shape during the Centennial. and
was taken up by committee COM
prising men of mark from both ma
tions, by whose energy and patience
it has reached its present advanced
state.
| It has been completed as high as
the chest, and only h e shoul
lders and arms remain to he execut
ed 4: in fact. both hands and the fore
arms are already finished and ready
| to be put n place. The head, with
| it's spiked dladem, figured at the Ex
hibltion of 1878, and now stands al
the base of the statue. The workmen
| of whom about eighty are employed
| on the vast mass Of copper plating
look like pigmies in comparison ane
recall Gulliver and the sLlliputians 3
The hammered copper sheets, whicf
measure about tenth of an irch II
thickness, have been made very skill
fully to simulate the folds Of the dra
pery and 20 follow the general con
tour of the figure, which. holdin,
aloft in its left hand the lamp whenc
the light of Liberty is fgurativel
supposed to diffuse its rays over th
globe, will closely resemble the con
j paratively small statue which wa
inaugurated on the Place de la Re
7 public on the 14th inst.
The statue is one hundred and to-
ty.six feet high, or about sixteen Zee
t hig her than the historic Columbus
Rhodes, and will stand on pede:
tial one hundred and forty-three fee
high, so that the lamp will be at a
elevation of nearly one hundre
wards above the level Of the islant
In vertical diameter the head meas
ures fifteen feet, the nose being NOR
+ than three feet long, whilst the for
finger is eight feet in length. !
4 large portion of the floor of the worl
shop is covered with the arm, section
of which are already enveloped wit
their copper plating, while in the cas-
of others only the earliest framewor
10 has been prepared.
HOW IT WAS BUILT.
The system adopted in the CO.
struction of the different parts of tt
statue has been as follows; First tt
= original model was produced, the
" this was reproduced on scale fo'
|. times larger and divided into section
y from which moulds on scale sixtee
D. times that of the origional were pr
pared for the statue itself. After tt
e. shape and outline of each section hs
y been roughly initiated by woodt
framework covered with lath the ls
r: ter received coating of plaster, fro
ID which when perfected the outline, u
'n dulations &C., of the surface were q
curately reproduced en- silhoutte (
IT: thick slices of wood. afterwards fix
rd firmly together. On these gabarits,
~ they are called, each seperate secti'
ay of the copper plating is careful
ii. hammered into its appropriate shal
ID When ultimately erected in Ameri
ay the heads Of the bolts and nails W
m be turned inward and the exterior
the statue will, except upon close {
animation. present the appearance
a solid piece of metal. The inside
ate the monument-capable Of hpidi
forty persons, while there will
room for dozen in the lantern its
is strongly braced in every dir
ton by ties and ponderous girde
the whole being calculaed to sta
the heaviest gales known on the
(. lantic. Additional steadiness v
0n' be supplied by forming sort of
es- ner casing, the space between VIII
H. n. and the outer one will be filed W
W. sand. The total weight of the sta'
is two hundred thousand kilogra
lay mes, eighty thousand of which
IN copper and the rest, one hundred q
er. twenty Thousand. are iron.
The figure will be conveyed to