The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-01
The STATUE OF. CIBERTY:'
Comparisons Which VIII Convey to the
Reader so1ne Idea of It's Size.

Comparisons whicl, VIII Convey to the
Reader sone Idea of Its Size.
The face Of Liberty, which has a sublime
expression, has been placed upright on O
franc near the building so that visitors may
see it. 1t is eleven feet four inches high
that is, from the chin to the tiara which she
will wear about her brow. A man standing
on another mans shoulders would hardly be
able to look over the top of her head. The
face is made Of six pieces Of bronze, riveted
together with nails, which show plainly to
one twenty feet away, but which ut greater
distance are invisible.
Liberty's fingers are scattered about in con.
fusion OH the floor of the workshop and look
like joints of stovcpip. Her middle finger Is
six feet six inches long and so largo that fat
man might easily crawl into it and there
conceal himself. Her feet would make q
Chicago girl chuckle They are ten feet
across. The two feet stand in q large fenced
inclosure near the fort and cover consider
able ground. At least twenty people might
step on the goddess corns Mt once.
Tho torch which Liberty will hold in DIR Is
colossal in size. Forty people might stand in
it at once Tho rim about its upper edge IS
substantial iron railing four feet high. Not
far from the torch stands tho golden flame
which forever is to burn in it. This artistic
piece of work, which looks like sinuous flame
turned into bronze by some enchantmont, Is
nearly six feet high and about four feet Ill
diameter
The statue will be taller than the lofty
pedestal. 1t will be two and a half times as
high as the queen of Brobdingnag. The peo.
ple among whom Gu]liver was so cute mani.
kin and SO great a curiosity were sixty feet
high. Swift multiplied the size Of ordinary
men and objects by ten. Liberty isabout l3t
feet high, and to her the colossal queen OF
Brobdingnag, who ate with knife us long rs
a scythc and drank out Of q cup as largo rs
hogshead, would be os a dwarf two feet -four
inches high would be to man six feet high.
If Gulliver,s Itt1o lnlrsc, Gluadaclitch, who
was 0 years old and 40 feet high, and small
for her age, had been proportioNally ns large
rs the Statue of Liberty she would have been
100 feet high, and small for her age Tho mis-
chievous dwarf, tho smallest in the kingdom,
who was only so feet high, would be to the
Statue OF Liberty as dwarf foot q inches
high would bc to us.
To be Of the same comparative size as the
statue the rat in BrolMingnag, which was as
big as mastiif, would have to bc as big as
cow; the mastiff, equal i'll bulk to four ele-
pho.nts, would have to bo as big es ten Gle
phants; Jumbo would be no larger to the
statue than pug deg. To retain his reputa-
ton of being the largest elephantin tho world
lie would have to be 800 feet high. The colos-
sal elephant at Coney Island is no bigger be-
side the statue than horse is beside n man.
The Washington monument is no bigger to
the statue of liberty than shaft IS feet high
in country burying ground would be to M
ordinary person. We appear to the statue rs
a man little less tlan inches high would
appear to us-New York Journal.