The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29
Liberty EnIIghtening the World.

This new Wonder of the World,
which is now being loaded on the
French transport Isere for shipment to
this country, is the largest statue in the
world. Some idea of its magnitude
may be obtained from the fact that 43
persons found standing room within the
head. A six foot man standing on a
level with the lips only just reached to
the eyebrow While workmen were
employed on the crown of her head they
seemed to be making huge sugar caul-
dron, and they jumped with ease in and
out of the tip of the nose. Fifteen peo-
pie might sit round the flame OF the
torch, which elevation can be reached by
a spiral staircase within the outstretch-
ed arm.
The London Daily Ne,gs, in speaking
of it. says ''It is out and away the
largest statue of modern times. The
Colossus of Rhodes was nothing TO it.
1t would carry the 'Bravaria' or the
| Hermann in its arms. 1t towers to the
SKIES from the yard of the Rue de Cha
zelles. where it has been eight years in
construction, and the view from its cor
! onet sweeps clear of the six-story houses
and beyond tbs walls of Paris"
/ The weight of this stupendous statue
| is 440, 600 pounds. of which 176. 600 are
copper and the remainder wIought-iron
| 1t is expected to arrive in New York
( about the first of June, where 1t will De
/ erected on Bedloe's Island, this being
| the location selected for it by Gen. w.
/ Sherman. who was appointed by the
/ President to make the selection. When
/ placed in position it will loom up 305
/ feet above tide water, the height of the
statue being Isl 2 feet, that of the ped
estal 81 feet, and the foundation 52.1.
This imposing statue, higher than the
enormous towers of the great Brooklyn
/ Bridge or the steeple of Trinity church.
which is the loftiest in the city of New
| York-higher, in fact, than any Of the
colossal statues of antiquity-bv its rare
artistic proportions, as we'll as by its
stupendOus dimensions, will add anoth-
er TO the Wonders of the World. A
word should be said of it's artistic mer.
it. The pose, stride and gesture, with
its classic face, are pronounced pei feet
the drapery is both massive and fine,
and in some parts is as delicate and silky
in effect as if wrought with fine chisel
on the smallest scale.
The inception and execution of this
| great work are due to the great French
sculptor, NJ Barthcldi, who has devoted
eight years OF his life and most oe his
fortune to this great work, and whose
generous impulses, which must be on q
scale commensurate with this noble
work, prompted bin to make such a gift
to the United States. The committee
in charge of the construction of the
base and pedestal for the reception OF
this great work are in want of fund;
for its completion, and have prepared a
miniature statuette, an exact counter
part of the original, six inches in height
the figure being made of bronze and the
pedestal of nickel silver, which they are
now delivering to subscribers througout
the United States for the small sum oi
one dollar each. Aside from its beinC
lasting souvenir of this colossal stat
ne. it will ornament our homes and beal
testimony that we have contributed t
the completion of one of the grandes
works of modern times.