Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-15

| mO0el Gl6 beeG0OVen SUaGuo erected
! in Boston in 1866 followed. Then came the
| model of General Benton by Harriet Hosmer
| of Rome, unveiled at st. Louis in 1866, and
| that of Horace Mann by Emma Stebbins of
| Rome, erected in Boston in 1865. The fa-
nous allegorical bronze door of the national
| Capitol could be studied here as well as in
Washington. 1t was modelled by R. Rogers
| in Rome and hung in the White House in
/ 1861. believe its cost was $780, 600. The
| theme, as it is almost superfuous to state is
| the life, exploits and death of Columbus
| Passing model of Huskisson Statue at Liv-
| erpooD, a sitting Peabody Nondon1 and some
models of statues belonging to private fami-
lies in New York, came to the, model of
| Henry Clay Oby Joel Hart of Florence), the
statue cast from which may be seen in New
| Orleans. Then followed an angel, also by
| Miss Stebbins Gin Central Park, New York;,
the Humboldt statue by Mr.. Miller, jr.,
which was unveiled in st. Louis in 1877, and
| the group in Philadelphia representing lion,
with dying lioness and two cubs, modelled by
w. Wolff of Berlin.
OF course there were plenty of other stat
| ues, for Austrian, German, Servian and 9TH
er cities. Chief among these were portions
of the gigantic Germania statue, which is
about forty feet high, and was recently set
up near Bingen-on-the- Rhine. We crossed
the street to inspect the furnace and moulds
where the casting is executed. The main
oven was said to have capacity for five hun
dred weight OF molten metal. Near by was
| a figure of Daniel Webster by Thomas Ball.
Returning to the foundry proper we found
the men at work welding together the parts
of giant equestrian statue of Koenig Will
| liam Won Wurtemburg, destined for Stutt-
CART, and statue intended for some charita-
bic institution in London representing wo-
man administering draught of water to
cool the parched lips of a sick man. Out
side the door were two female figures, over
| life size the models of F'Soldiers' monu-
| ments at Detroit and Providence, and u
third of similar significance prepared for
Worcester, Mass. The noise was deafening
and hurried out to visit the rooms where
negatives of the models were being taken for
use as moulds into which the alloy of the
statue proper should be poured These
moulds were of clay, which was made to ad
here to the plaster -of-paris section of the
model and then hardened by careful but
simple process. Those who have had any
thing to do with stereotyping will readily I'M
derstand this reversing operation from plaster
to clay.
One of our American students here,
young Harpersburger, was awarded the honor
of modelling the San Francisco statue of Gar
field. He has Just finished his work and sent
the model to Nuremburg, where the statue is
to be cast. I believe he gets 1000 for his
share III the work. The figure of Garfield is
ten feet high, and think the total height of
the monument is twenty-four feet.
One would naturally expect that Munich,
a city so richly endowed with the facilities
for this bronze manufactures city where
the majority of the bronze images in the
whole United States may be comprehensive
ly surveyed-would itself have some remark
able monument in the same lire. In this ex-
pectation the facts abundantly justify us.
Out in the suburbs to the southwest of the
city stands the Ruhmeshal1e (Hall of Fame),
handsome structure in the Doric Greek
style, with open galleries or corridors adorned
by the busts OF forty or fifty local celebrities.
This chaste Greek temple is on an elevated
terrace at the rear of large Green, upon
which hundreds of childSen are usually at
play and where the presence of a score of
May-poIes testifies to the grand periodical
festivals which are there held most
commanding site in front of this Ruhne-
s1alle, and f1anked on either side by the
wings of the structure, stands the Bavaria"
a bronze image measuring sixty-nine feet in
height. The statue consists of a female fig
ure standing beside lion, holding aloft in
one hand laurel wreath and clasping the
hilt of saber in the other. The German
idea of fame too often involves this notion
of slaughter But let that pass. You can
ascend by a spiral staircase to the head of
EFBavaria" !" and there FEview the landscape
o'er' from apertures in the bronze that are
invisible from below. I suppose half doz-
en- men could easily be accommodated in her
capacious head at once.
To descend from the sublime to the ridicu-
Ious, a mention of the glories of Munich
would not be complete without allusion to
the slaughter houses and cattle market be-
longing to the municipal government. A
slaughter house is not naturally a thing for a
poet to gush over, but this of Munich is pos
itively aesthetic. 1t covers nine acres of
ground with its various departments. The
handsome brick buildings were erected in
1S7G-7S at cost of 81 ,250, 900. Prior to the
reputation of the American hog this
establishment was lit maqso!e-
um for our porcine representatives.
In it's present capacity as repository for
the carcasses of the vulgar European hog, it
is difficult to survey it without pangs of
jealous discomfort. Why should men wash
tripe in elegant marble tanks, while you and
1 ride second class and eat our soup with
q plated spoon? Here is a nut for the COM
munists to crack.
It took nearly an hour to explore the vari-
Gus departments. Here were long spacious
buildings filed with fresh Stayed carcasses,
which were suspended by the legs from ira
pezes fastened to the ceiling. Along the
side of the room was machinery whereby the
carcasses could be lowered OF elevated at will
by the simple turning of a crank. There
were separate buildings for the accommoda-
ton of beef, mutton and pork. [ then pro-
ceeded through long series of buildings,
where various branches of the slaughtering
business was being conducted Here the
cattle were slain, hung on hooks until they
had finished bleeding and then dressed The
handsome tile floor inclined toward the cen
ter of the room, and its pattern was made up
of network of grooves TO secure prompt
drainage Hydrants at the sides rendered it
easy to food the floor in a moment and clear
it of any coagu1ated blood which might have
accumulated. Scores of men with barred arms
were deftly ripping, quartering, and washing
where the pin feathers were being removed
from swine by means of a hot water bath III
huge tanks provided for that purpose. A
railroad passed along at the rear of the estab- |
and here were pens adapted to re-
ceive the animals from the goods wagons" |
in which they had been shipped. If any
thing could seduce an OK hog into for |
saking the railway train for the slaughter
house, should think it would be tae tempt
ing stables and pens into which the fenced
inclines led. Nevertheless saw apparatus
in the shape of two wheeled hand-car de
signed for obstinate cases, showing that there
are some cattle that have the sagacity or the
stubbornness to resist the temptation. The
pens were entered by patent gates that swing
both ways and would hinge at either side.
The clean white straw in the unoccupied pens
was as immediately bestowed as though pre-
pared for royal reception. 1t seemed sac
-ileee to disturb it. Lastly, I inspected the
place where the refuse is gathered for sale.
Even the most offensive material is carefully
saved for fertilizing purposes. The washings
ire conducted to huge tunnels, and then
,mptied into tanks below which are equip
bed with wheels SO that they may be hauled
20 their destination by span of horses.
Incidentally, in speaking of the Bavaria
statue, charged the German-speaking peo
oIe with belligerent proclivities. The most
exasperating substantiation of this charge is
furnished by the corps student in Munich
and every other large German city, who make
a person of common sense very tired. The
corps student is the missing link between
ultra civilization and the most ancient bar
barism In his former capacity he is anala-
2ous to the American dude only good deal
more so. It needs not to be explained that
be is allied to the remotest heathenism by
means of his warlike instincts. You can
always tell him by the embroidery upon his
expressionless face. The only thing which
in any way excuses the diagrams on his face
is the fact that otherwise his expression
would be too blank and vapid for tolerance
am not sure, however, but that they might |
be utilized in some other way Gas cigar-store |
signs perhaps) without having resort to this |
degrading expedient. The truth is that duel
ling is TO a large proportion of the universe