The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-02

Jhlng should occur TO BRING up Ln1S ng-
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 all their wanton wildness
and freedom. Columbus had not got his
clothes on yet when saw him. He has
a 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 heavy
coarse cloth, three thicBnesses of which
are used to give strength and frmness
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 a wad of excelsior into
his bosom as l 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 man like
List or Ole Bull. In getting up a figure
of Col. Ingersol 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 hfelke,
and has irregular teeth which, with his
sandy, stubby beard, give him regular
sea dog look.
Ferdinand will be represented also. /
saw his bust in beeswax. He was rather
plain man with look of anxiety
which / attributed to a 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
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 |
a 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 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
we're then in their infancy, and the
yround was cheap. Take the land, for
on which Trinity church and
Oaly's billiard hall now stand. These
OTIS are now worth millions of dollars,
md yet a few years ago they were Sc
,ured by planting the Spanish flag on
'ur coast or buying state of the i'm
,rovident red man with a schooner of
rokay wine and AIRED carnehan nose ring.
Isabella's bust as it will appear in this
,reat historical tableau will have bru-
lette appearance with black hair. She
viii have far off look and hollow legs.
'he was having her measure taken for a
hrone on the day l visited her. Isa-
ELLA died Nov. 26, 1904, and Ferdinand,
fter paving up the earth with his tu-
nultuous grief and making a perfect
how of himself at the grave, proceeded
o marry Germaine De Folk. She was
iece Of Louis XII of France, and if she
ad been a grass widow could have
zen called De Folk Grass, which would
ave been a bon mot. Ferdinand died
an. %, 1915, and had a marble prevari-
alton placed over his tomb, which went