The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-07-22
aARTHoLDr STATUE or L1uEnrY
Compared With Tho "Wondcr or tho
World" tho Colossus Of Rhodes, ~

Compared With Tho "wonder or The
WORLD" tho Colossus OF Rhodes.
London Telegraph. &
Il may not be without interest to com.
pare this curiously ingenious continuance,
evolved by NJ. Dartholdi IRON little stat.
uette one.third smaller than life, with
what Is known as the Colossus OF Rhodes.
NJ. Bartholdi's figure Of Liberty stands,
without reckoning the diadem, one hun.
dred and FIVE feet high; bat the extreme
height from the fec! to the upper end Of
the torch held by the outstrelched hand Is
one hundred and thirty.seven feet nine
inches. The statue will be placed on
granite pedestal eighty.ihree feet high. To
those who like to be told that tho letters
In the inscription, "ru Is Pstlup," run.
ming round the interior Of the drum OF the
Dome oil 81. Peters a, Rome are as tall ID
He guardsman. andihat the pen held by
the ApoaileS. Luke Ia one oil the span.
drils Of the arches Of the dome Ia eleven
feet long, 1t may be interesting to learn
that person Fix feet In height, standing
on the lips OF NJ Bartholdi's head OF Lib.
s1ty, can only just reach the eyebrow; that
people Can Jump with ease In and out Of
the tip OF the nose, and that the eyes
measure six feet from corner to corner.
Turning to the old "Wonder OF the
World" we find that 1t was the largest OF
The hundred colossal statnes OF the Sun
which at one time embellished the city OF
Rhodes. l. was upwards VI los feet high;
IL " persons had arms long enough to Elm.
brace It's thumb; the fingers were longer
than the whole bodies OF the majority OF
the statues then extan,; the hollow OF the
limbo, when broken, resembled caves, and
inside might be seen huge stones, inserted
to keep the statue in position. 1t took
twelve years to cree. and ceL. three hundred
talents. The story that the legs OF the
Colossus extended across the m outh OF the
harbor is generally considered TO be a |
fiction; but that 1t stood close to the entrance
Of the tort Of Rhodes, and was made to |
serve as pharoe or lighthouse, seems Ger.
tain enough.
1t was overthrown and smashed to pieces
by an earthquake fliy.six years aiier lis
erection. For nine hundred and three
years the Fragments OF this Wonder Of the
World strewed the mole Of Rhodes, aud
then they were sold by the CALM ON At 10
3 merchant OF Emesa, who carried away
th.ss prodigious marina stones on the
backs OF nine hundred csmels. Hence
Scaliger calculated thu. the aggregate
weight OF the b:orzs must have bsen seven
hundred thousand poduts. It would be
useful 10 know how many Thousand pounds
weight Of hammered copper there are In
the Colossus of Msuhattan. Euthouskes
are happily rare in North America, and the
most formidable foes with which N, Bart.
holdi's ,t'n-skinned goddess has to deal
will be the violence q the wintry winds
and the possible atmospheric corrcsion tt
the metal. Granting that toe iron frame.
WORK within does not give way, and that
tho hlmsy epidermis OF copper does not
crack, decay or disiutegrste from its nor.
NAL himsiu.2s, the Colossus will presen,
iInly neutrality-suspicious. to the traveller
arriving from Europe in the beautiful bay
Of New York.