Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-24
include circle quite round the long flowing

include a circle quite round the long flowing dress, just above the hem. The third section would stand above this and show more folds of the dress, and reach part way up to the knee. In like manner, the whole figure would be divided into sections.
 "The quarter size model was first divided in this way, and then to lay out the full size plan it was only necessary to make plan ot each section four times as large as the section actually was in the model. Every part of the model was covered with marks or dots for guides, and by measuring from dot to dot, increasing the meesurment four times, and then transferring it to the larger model, an l exact copy just four times was made. For each of these large sections, however, there 1 had to be a support of some kind, before the l plaster could be laid on. Having marked on l the floor an outline plan of the enlarged sec- l ton. wood framework was built up inside l the plan. Then upon this framework plas- | ter was roughly spread. It soon resembled, 1 in rude way, the corresponding section of | the quarter sized model, but was four times l as large. Then the Workmen copied in this pile of plaster every feature of the model
 section, measuring and measuring, again and
 again, from dot to dot, correcting by means of plumb lines, and patiently trying and re-
 trying till an exact copy-only in proportions
 four times as large-Was attained.
 ''The great irregularity of the drapery
 made it necessary to put three hundred marks
 on each section, besides twelve hundred small
 
 spondence in proportion between the enlarged
 sections of the full-size model and the sec-
 tons of the quarter-size model Each of
 these marks, moreover, had to be measured three times on both models, and after that
 came all the remeasurements, to prove that
 a single mistake had been made. 'When these sections in plaster had been completed, then came the work of making wooden molds that should be exact copies both in size and moulding of the plaster
 These were all carefully made by hand. Il l was long, tedious and difficult. Each piece t was mold of part of the statue, exactly
 fitting every projection, depression and curve
 of that portion of the figure or drapery. In
 to these wooden molds sneets of metal wer' , laid, and pressed or beaten down till they lit | ted the irregular surfaces of the molds. Al the repousse, or hammered work, was don' ' from the back, or inside, of the sheet. Il a the mould is an exact copy of 8 part of tn : statue, 1t is easy to that the sheet of metal D 1 when made to fis it, will, when taken out ant f turned over, be copy of that part of tn
 | statue.
 f "rhese sheets were of copper, and eacl r was from one to three yards square. Fac
 formed part of the bronze statue, and c 1 course no two were alike.
 # ''In this complicated manner, by maxim , first q sketch, then 8 quarter-size model, thel t a full size model in sections, then hundred if of wooden copies, and lastly by beating int = shape three hundred sheets of copper, th
 enormous statue was finished. These thre
 hundred bent and hammered plates, weighin in all eighty.eight tons, form the outside { g the statue. They are very thin, and wbi they it each other perfectly, 1t is quite plal T. that if they were put together in their props e order they would not stand alone Ihes lt hammered sheets make the out side of u z statue; but there must be also skeleton, n bony structure inside, to hold it together
 This is of iron beams, firmly riveted togethe l. and making 8 support to which the copps > shelf can be fastened"
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