The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-07-16
III feet; height of statue, Isl feet
TOTAL 329 FEET.

above the pinnacle OF Trinity church
spire, the loftiest editice in the city
proper, and makes it nearly as high as
the water-tower on the bluff near High
Bridge, which is the highest point
above the sea-leyel in the city. An in
comparably beautiful view will be had
OF the harbor, the city, and the sur
rounding country from the apex of the
statue.
Aside from its value as an earnest OF
French good will, as an artistic tri-
Gmph, and as an observatory, the
statue viii be useful as lighthouse.
A powerful electric light will illumin-
ate the world by night from the torch,
while coronet of lights will be placed
on the spurs Of the diadem. i Is cal
culated that these liQhts will be visible
on Z clear night at q distance Of eighty
eight miles al sea. This viii make the
statue one OF the most important light
houses on the coast.
The outer wall OF the fort, which COW
ers about hall OF the island, and comes
down nearly to the waters edge on the
southern side OF it, is TO be lett stand
ing, and viii make very massive and
effective frame for the statue, which
will be placed in its centre. From the
inner or parade wall of the fort ter
race viii rise to the base of the pedes-
tal-the space beneath the terrace be-
ing utilized for the machinery for the
electric lights and the elevator.
THE SCULPTOR.
The distinguished French sculptor,
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, by whose
hands the repousse statue of Liberty
Enlightening the World has been
shaped, was born at Colmar, in France,
and IS about 30 years of age.
As i pupil OF the famous AIRY Schef-
fer, his artistic ability was recognized
in the bas-reiief of Francesca de Rim
ini," executed in 1852 Ills name was
first brought into prominence, how
ever, in the United States in 1872, when
his wellknOwn statue of Lafayette was
forwarded as a gift from the people of
France and placed N Union Square,
New York City.
At the Centennial, where he was one
of the French Commissioners. he was
awarded a medal for the exhibition of
the bronze statues of Peace" The
Young Vine Grower" and Genius in
the Grasp of Msery.' He is also a
Chevalier OF the Legion of Honor in
his native country.
1t was his wish that France should
present to the people of the United
States n suitable gift commemorative
OF the traditional feeling of good will
existing between the two Nations. He
therefore volunteered his artistic SER
vices TOR the construction OF an enor-
nous figure representing Liberty En-
tightening the W orld," to be placed on
Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor,
and he became SO enthusiastic in car
rying on the project that when sub
scrlptionS Jagged he pledged his own
private fortune to defray the running
expenses of the work.
Bartholdi has made his mark IN Pa
rFiiisitallR3 Fl tall3 art.. and is at present ENGAGED
of the solid rock in the side of noun
tain at Belford, which viii be eighty
feet long and thirty feet high.
Gen. Charles Z. Stone, formerly OF
the United States army, has been en-
@inccr-in- chief Of the undertaking, and
Richard N. Hunt architoct-in-chief.
ANCIENT MONUMENTS.
The conception OF monumental work
seems to be characteristic OF certain
degree in the advancement in the civ
iIiZation of nations. Without mention
ing monuments properly so-called-
dolmens, menhirs, columns and pyra-
mids-we generally discover in the
history of ali great nations mention OF
some one colossal statue. Its concep-
ton often mars the apogee OF local
progress. The ancients erected many
immense works in honor of their di-
whites With them the omnipotence
of a god often appeared to depend on
the magnitude OF his image, which,
however, they always try to endow
with all possible force and majesty.
The most imposing figures we recog-
nize as their most powerful and most
venerated gods. in ancient Egypt the
colossi formed an essential decoration
OF the grand temples and palaces. Be-
sides its magnificent pyramids, its obe-
lisks 100 feet in height, its gigantic
tombs, its iDnumerable and enormous
sphinxes, Egypt was covered with stat
ues fifty and sixty feet high, cut from
single blocks OF stone.
Herodotus mentions the colossus of
Osiris, which was ninety-tWo feet high.
At Memphis a few years ago there was
exhumed the statue of Rameses IL,
which was forty-nine feet high. Be
fore the entrance to the palace OF Lux
or were seated four similar cOlossi forty
feet high. Near Gournah can still be
seen the fragments of a gigantic seated
q ha
4 single red granite stone. The two
colossi OF Mennun measure more than
sixty-two feet each, and with their
pedestal weigh more than 1,436 tons
The four seated statues which dec
orate the facade OF the great temple OF
lsamboul were siXty-one feet high.
The Greeks, also, erected many stat
ues to their diyinities; they We're most
| frequently OF bronze or covered with
plates OF gold and ivory.
The Minerva Of Phidias was thirty
nine feet high. In reality it was a
/ wooden statue. supported on the in
| side by homework, and covered with
! beaten and sculptured sheets OF gold
/ and plates of ivory finely carved. This
was all put together with so much
! QIc2lJ OF HaEGiiHH iA!it ~ was Alii it'ocol
bic to discover the joints. The cele'
brated Jupiter Olympus. by the same
/ sculptor, was also OF gold and ivory.
.The god was represented seated, anc
vas forty-two feet high.
Phidias made several other colossa
Minervas, one of which, the ''AthenG
Promachos, was entirely of bronze
fifty to sixty feet in height. The Coios
sus OF Rhodes. the work OF Chares o
Lindos, was erected 800 years B. c.
in honor OF Apollo. TO assure its sta
| bility it was filed with large stones
Nevertheless it was oyerthrown by al
earthquake.
Rome, especially under the Empire
| erected many colossal bronze statues
most often representing Caesars deiie'
during their lifetime. That of Nero
by Zenodorous. was 10 feet high.
In Japan can be seen a bronze statu
of the great Buddha, seated, which l
fifty feet high. In China and India tn
greater part of the gigantic idols ar
of masonry or of wood roughly carved