The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-02

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again called into use years hence,if any
thing should occur to bring up this fig
ure to the public notice. The Worlds
fair now, of course, at once attracts at
tentIon to Columbus and his group of
rocky pie biters from Spain. Here we
see them in ell their wanton wildness
and freedom. Columbus had not got his
clothes on yet when saw him. He has
good figure, though, and a nice pink
torso. He was Sc years of age at the
time he had this torso taken, believe.
The bodies of the entire Columbus
group had been made, and with cheap
ribbed underwear on them they stood in
little convention at one end of the
room. Some were kneeling, some were
standing and some were in other atti-
tudes that would have looked heroic if
the drapery had been little more extern
sive. The bodies and limbs are made as
follows: First they are modelled in clay
in the position exactly that they are to
assume when completed. Then the
mold is made from this and then the
wax is put in first, followed by o heavy
coarse cloth, three thicknesses of which
are used to give strength and firmness
of character to the subject.
A lady was engaged in dressing the
figure of Columbus. She attends to the
costuming of all the wax people. She
was just putting wad of excelsior into
his bosom as | entered. Another young
lady has the somewhat monotonous job
of putting on the hair and whiskers, one
at time. Many think that the wax
works wear wigs, but this is not true
Each hair is put into the wax by means
! of little steel jabber, and the wax
pressed down again to hold it, 1t takes
three days to put the hair on a man like
List or Ole Bull. In getting up figure
of Col. Ingersoll of course one day would
be ample. In the Columbus group there
is one sailor who has not shaved for a
week. This is effected by putting the
beard in full, and then clipping it to The
proper length. He looks quite lifelike,
and has irregular teeth which, with his
sandy, stubby beard, give him regular
sea dog look.
Ferdinand will be represented also. l
saw his bust in beeswax. He was rather
a plain man with a look of anxiety
which I attributed to feeling of uncer-
tainty about the time when his new
clothes would reach him from Grand
street. Ferdinand rescued himself from
oblivion by giving his hand in marriage
to Isabella of CASTLE on the 18th of Oc-
tober, 1869. Five years later, Ferdinand
was proclaimed king on the death of
Henry ~, who was Isabella's brother.
1t is said that her folks opposed the
marriage on the ground that Ferd could
not give the necessary bonds even if he
got the Office of king; but he did, and
gave good satisfaction.
In 1892 Ferdinand drove all the Jews
out Of his dominion because they would
not advertise in a paper with which he
! was connected. 1t was in this same year
that Isabella fitted out two of the three
! ships necessary for Columbus to go in
and discover America, and when he re-
! turned Ferdinand and Isabella obtained
bull from Pope Alexander confirming
their title to all the territory they had
! then or might thereafter discover in the
western hemisphere. So Ferdinand and
| Isabella had quite a lot of wild land for
\ sale at the close of that year, which if
| they'had kept would now be very val
liable. Take Minneapolis and New
York, for instance; both Of these towns
were then in their infancy, and the
ground was cheap. Take. the land, for
instance, on which Trinity church and
Days billiard hall now stand. Thees
4 lots are now worth millions of dollars,
and yet a few years ago they were Sc
cured by planting the Spanish flag on
our coast or buying state of the i'm
provident red man with schooner of
| Tokay wine and AIRED carnelian nose ring.
Isabella's bust as it will appear in this
great historical tableau will have a bru-
nette appearance with black hair. She
will have far off look and hollow legs.
She was having her measure taken for a
throne on the day visited her. Isa-
bella died Nov. IS, 1904, and Ferdinand,
after paving up the earth with his tu-
multuous grief and making a perfect
show of himself at the grave, proceeded
! to marry Gernaine De Folk. She was
niece of Louis XII of France, and if she
! had been a grass widow could have
! been called De Folk Grass, which would
have been bon mot Ferdinand died
Jan. %. 1916, and had marble prevari-
cation placed over his tomb, which went