Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-12

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Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
NEW YORK. Aug. l0.-The new Diana
for the tower OF the Madison Square Gard
den will be Of aluminium Copper was Che
material Of the original chaste goddess
who pointed with her bow to the wind's
eye from that lofty pinnacle a while ago.
The white metal is far better for the pnr-
pose on account OF it's comparatively small
weight for the bulk. II is only about as
heavy as chalk. The wholesale price OF 10
has been brought down by improved pro-
cesses to SIS pound
Perchance aluminium will at some time
In the future be the material UNIVERSAL
employed for making statues. Inasnuch as
there is plenty of il TO be had. every CAY
bank being a mine of IL. IL may reasonably
be expected that processes will eventually
be discovered for separating IL In unlimited
quantities at a comparatively cheap rate
from the materials with which IL Is found
combined in nature. One important 3D.
vantage that IT has for statuary and mouu-
mental purposes is the fact that IL does not
corrode. and is as untarnishable as gold.
The aluminium Diana is being put togefh-
er by a New York firm. She win be thlr-
teen feet high. whereas her predecessor YES
eighteen feet In height The sculptor. ST
Gaudens. and other experts, were of tbs
opinion that the original goddess was too
big. So they took II down and ordered q
new one. while the big copper huntress YVES
shipped to the worlds fair at Chicago. ~
will be remembered that the pure-rninded
citizens of the great inland metropolis
which batbes her large feet in the waters
OF Lake Michigan were shocked TO observe
her lack of clothing. her only garment beina
q trifie OF drapery which blew away frOn
her lovely form like flag from fits pole.
But then Il Is well known that Chicsea
10 the most vfrtuous city IN the Union.
Only a few years ago her municipal gov.
eminent put iron corsets on two sphinx -
at the main entrance to Lincoln Park. for
the sake Of decency. At all events. such
strict views on subjects of this kind ara
not held in New York. and the new Diana
will. have no more clothing than the Oh
one-that is TO say. practically nothing at
all. Even the nymphs who dance at sacred
concerts Sundays at the roof gardens
are better attired. though they have re-i
duced their garments to an ultimate mini
mum.
The aluminium goddess will be stamped
out with dies from sheets OF that metal tire
parts thus made being finally fitted togeth-
err. IL Is in the same fashion that all sorts
of architectural ornaments of the sort
devices represent dragons, imps. grfilns.
and sll sorts of things from the diabolioaf
to the angelic, including faces and heads.
They are placed on salient points CT bufld-l
ings. to adorn them. Some are OF zinc.
others of copper. and others vet Of brass.
architects during the middle ages. ana
many of the designs used for them today
have been brought down from times even
more ancient. The devil, who was such 2
popular character in Europe a few hundrst
years ago, was employed 10 a great extent.
for a device In making a gsrgoyle US
first pattern Is modelled In clay. From this
a plaster cast Is taken, then a mold frofn
the cast. ana finally a die from the rnoia-
Heads of oxen for market places ana heads
OF horses for stables are manufactures ~
the same way.