The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-11-27

4 SJdSiUI VI Tue CIOSSs NC 8pO6tl66 ~
times will pass in front of the Savior
looking at him, all except Judas, who
will hang his head. The church will
be Illuminated with many hundred
windows and lights. In the two de-
pots with 10000 pieces each there will
be the usual ticket sellers. baggage
agents, truckmen ETC., all performing
their regular duties automatically.
The track for the train will be ia
feet in length, running entirely around
the piece, under a mountain. through
the depots and beneath the cathedral.
The train will be completely appointed
even to automatic engineer. fireman
and conductor punching tickets. The
water-mill of Is. 900 pieces will be in
complete running order. Without the
cathedral and upon the grounds will
be 600 automatic figures of visitors
stroiling about. There will also b.
loaded street cars. boat racing, dancing
prize fighting, racing, etc."
:'How will it be possible to keep so
many figures performing such extrem.
ely complicated motions without end
less machinery p
"That is where my strongest hold
comes in. l can do anything with
machinery, and my machinery is SO
simple that it runs almost noiselessly.
The locomotive power viii be furnish.
ed by sand falling on a wheel which
runs wooden engine, and this moves
the entire LOO figures, Why, my
figures and appliances are 80 finely ad-
justed that five buckets full of sand
will operate the piece a whsle day.
Three thimbles full will start the ma
chinery. and a thread no bigger than
a No. 8 thread will keep it going.
The motive power will be in q box
placed near the piece. The engine /
have already completed. This ark
which you see here is the only com.
pleted piece which l have set up. /
do not set them up when done for the
reason that the thin material used
easily warps unless nicely packed
away in boxes. 1t will take eleven
large boxes to hold the whole, and the
gross weight will be $500 pounds.
The piece can be set up from the boxes
in three or four huns. | shall not
set it up here until it is all completed.
1t is quiet place out here in Kirk
wood, and | Gin work without the
constant interruption that l would
have in the CITY,"
''The material ? Yes, it does take
considerable. have already use' up
967 cigar boxes and 800 laths. 1t
will take in all
1900 CIGAR BOXES,
six hundred iaths and five hundred feet
of lumber. The cigar boxes get for
one cent each. use no tools except
my knife. Of course / have saw,
square, and ehisel,. but / use no lathe,
scroll saw or moulding plane. ALI my
figures are made with a simple knife.
and | can work much faster with it
than any man can with other tools. l
shall use up $4,000 lineal feet of trim
ming on this piece. Among the small
er features which l have not mention.
ed will be four arched bridges like the
st. Louis bridge, aud under which
the train will pass a representation
of Adsm, Eve and the serpent in the
garden of Eden a large number of
wind-mills, and also a blacksmith-shop.
"Tbis knife which / am using is u
large Wostenholm, as you see, with
four large heavy blades. By next
May when l 60 out Of this church tho
blades will be worn down to almost
nothing.
Gam I going to sell the piece when
it is completed ? No, it is the inten.
ton Of myself and partners to travel
with it and exhibit it. It will be 90
far ahead of anything that has ever
been shown in this country that it
ought to draw well. The first regu-
lar exhibition will, of course, take
place in st. Louis, although it will be
set up and shown in Kirkwood espec-
tally to my railroad friends, who are
greatly interested in it. We shall &C.
cure competent lecturer to explain to
visitors the cathedral and other points
of interest"
When the reporter left, Mr.. Yohe
was slasbing away with bis knife in q |
way that was truly marvellous, and
beyond belief until seen. No boy who
thinks himself q tolerable whittier
should fail to see YOhe make the chips |
fly. He can cut fg cures out of pine |
block as readily as an ordinary man
could cut out of cheese.
Polishing the Wrong End.
Many men daily polish their boots who
never give thought to the condition of their |