Arizona silver belt., 1896-11-05
SHAMEFULJY NEGLECTED.
Barthold's Statuo of Liberty in
 New Yor.i Harbor.
The Splendid Tcstin,ontai to America Allowed to Eaii Into Decay Pres ent Appearance of tho
 Grest Figure.

Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty is so sadly out of repair that sl5090o will be required to place it in proper condi- ton
 The gigantic work of art France proudly gave to light and ornament the harbor of New York is rapidly becom- ing a monument of carelessness. h. stead of insipring the admiration of the visitor, it gives birth to disappointment.
 As you pass meath the first arch tky looseness of the briekwork is promi- nently in evidence. The walls arc scanned and scared. Climbing the stairs, rifts through which the light streams arc observed on all sides These were not in existence in the stat ue at first, but are the result of the rivets intended 10 hold the huge dress of the goddess in position having fallen out.
 Liberty's dress is literally ragged and falling from her. Some of the copper pieces of her attire are loose. and so far from being fastened to the next patch that one can insert ones hand between the plates. Riyets that are loose in other places rattle every time a gust of wind strikes the folds of the dress on the outside, producing a sound like gigantic rattle Eox.
 Whenever there is fold in the dress, the turn of the fold has been subjected for some reason CT other to rusting--aS it is called with iron---but with coppcr it is the depositing of verdigris. or oxide of copper. Many of these rents arc large and constantly growing in size. In one place, about half way between the head and feet, 27 rivets have f.r.- out in a row, leaving the copper rlata barely hanging and bent outward. A good push would force an opcn.rr sufficient to permit a man to rut h.s whole arm through Libcrty's watch pocket at the waist.
 At the top, where Miss L;bcrty's brains ought to be, are windows which are really the openings in the crown surnounting her head. These win dows are no longer tight and firm.
 Climb up through the hollow arm that holds 0loft the torch. When you arc II? in the torch, you may lool; cut and down upon the crown of Miss LiE- erty's head. These six holes in her skull where the holts have fallen may be observed. Dame Nature is we'll on in the work of taking cut a rlatc or two of her skCll, the most gigant C piece of trephiriny ever known. The rain ray pour through until scme day she will have q fine case Of water on the b:Gin.
 As the wind blows against the Eu~r
 lr # TOchs, sways and vihratcs urtI nly thc Lrovest feel safe. This is r-..
 TT verse all the time. and the statu"
 eds thorough reinforcing ard lrc". .-g all over. The steel beams CT ii inside are powerful enough, hut they are th.el; with rust from the salt air and To;sture that come in through th~ riyet holes and rents of the dress con- t!rually.
 Crcr there were electric lights all tho vrCv Up the stairs on the inside. Tic wires are still there, but the Fights rrc Fone. Now only smoky cil lanterrs flicker and fuElc, shedding Ettle l'rh' tut much rnusecus smoke. ' is like rlmb 'n dungeon, excep; for the lght that Uct.s through the riyet holes.
 Liberty has Eeen described e much a Goddess of Light ss Goddess of LiL- erty.
 Now she is a Goddess of rarhre--. Not an electric light on the irs'Gr where once there were hundred. Cra. the torch had siN powerful ClC".r:. lights flooding thc harbor with th,.r piercing raya. Only one is left from the ruin. IL is in lad repair, ard 9 ran has to bc kept on duty csery nigh to cl'Tb u2 and ifs it when it goes ou'.
 "Wish I had dollar for every t'r.. I have climbed up there," he saif, 10 @ Sunday Journal reporter. "I figure it out the other day, and have clm5cE up those stairs over coco nilC1."
 Hot only Is the torch almost bcrcii Of light, but the colored lights that y.c-r cree all about the crown G.t gone. Crlv the places are left where they uaed 70 be screwed 0n. One ..orr than ;OOc0 candle power of i,gh'. -aoEa rvery night from the lofty statue ov only one light is left, and when it fails the statue will be enshroudCd n darkness.
 Only two men are employed 10 cGTe for the statue, and they do little. The reason is that Uncle Sam has TO money for the rurrosc. What is spent comes from the lighthouse appropriations, at 'i" c~0crse of other lighthouses. The
 1its of the bout line running to the 7land arc supposed to go to the fund for the cowrlctioa of the statue, Eut there are TO rrcitj. The beat is required to r,a''e its regular hourly trips winter and suEmcr, passengers or no rasscn- r"rs. end the expense has been greater than the income.
 ITO gay nothing of completing the statue, it would cost at least Sf5O.O00 r. do the needed repairs" said one of the cm.loyes at the island. There is TO S15O,cCO in sight for repairs, and not 0 cent for completicn."-N. '. Journal.