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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05
R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.,

the completion Of the clay model IS
curious and remarkable process. Work IS
begun at the base of the statue A solu-
ton of plaster and India red Is sprlnkleu
over the section to be cast This prevents
the cast from sticking to the clay.
When the portion is dry, plaster or
paris IS applied on top of it TO the thick
ness of about two inches. Only a very
small portion of the statue is cast at a
time, as it is necessary to divide the plas-
ter into DIVISIONS which can be removed
The clay surface governs the size of
the divisions hen the plaster Is dry,
IL is removed by strips of tin TWO inches
wide, which sticks into the uncovered clay
and separate the dry divisions from the
one to adjoin 1t.
After the division has been removed,
little holes about the size Of a marble are
bored into the dry part, and when the
other part is put on the plaster runs INTO
these little holes and forms BAH ana
socket joint. About ninety divisions We're
made in the Hancock statue before the
model was completely covered.
When the divisions Of plaster contained
in each of the sections are fastened to-
gether, a hollow mold of the section is
formed. Into this mold plaster is poured.
The mold is then shaken and rolled around
TO prevent the wet plaster from settling
solid, the object being TO cast the mold
hollow. When about two inches of the
plaster has dried about the sides OF the
mold, the mold is torn away and the pas-
ter section remains, an exact reproduction
of the clay model.
A Roman joint is then cast on it where
it connects with the adjoining section.
One section is cast with the mounting,
which is wedge-shaped and the adjoining
section is cast with a cavity, into which
the wedge-shaped piece fits, thus forming
rthe Roman joint.
The plaster must be of pure white and
free from all imperfections. Its surface
must be smooth before it goes to the
bronze founders, and the sculptor spends
considerable time in dressing each section
and applying retouching plaster TO the
surface. the edges of the Joints must be
so smooth that they cannot be seen, eX-
cent on the closest inspection. If they
were apparent in the plaster, so they
would also appear in the bronze; the
| bronze would not then present the appear
/ anee of having been cast in one piece-the
4 aim desired
/ 1t is in the joints that the founder gets
/ in his finest work. He casts the final
/ bronze in imported French, sand direct
/ from the plaster of paris. This entails a
/ great deal of labor, and in some instances
| a sculptor has had to do his work all over
/ because of an accident happening 10 his
] MASTER cast at the foundry
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05

This Is mining upon "a new scale. and ID
so enjoyable that the men, working Ia the
lots around, have discovered nearly nfty
new mines inside month. an worth az
least so 20 a ton or more. But this is
OK A GOLD STREET.
You're riding upon a gold street now
grinned the guide as the mules pulled
us along
a eoid what?'' exclaimed. forgetting
"A gold street. This street is paved
with nuggets You don't believe it?.Well
When we first found gold we had 10
nave a smooth pavement ter cart the
ore over. We hadn't contracts for any
building stone out here. and we didn't
know what to do. We need gold smelt-
ing works here more than We need gold
Ihe ore lies IN piles waiting 10 be worked.
one or the mines had been shafting that
gay and the ore didn't come up Well IL
had only IS worth of gold TO the ton
Inat don't pay for the smelling here
These nuggets is hard as iron.' said
me owner Fiji up the streets with them.
An u take my pay 10 haviu' the street
smooth, T. sc won't ask me ter do any
We took him up On his offer and filled
up ior q mile with gold ore. When the
SoIo all gone from here. II it ever is.
reckon THIS pavement might sell for a
dollar an inch dug up.
Well, now III leave you" said he
pulling up at the door OF the saloon. back
81 Wnlcn Is the best hotel in the place
And If yer want ter admire the scenery
Dack OF yer Windcr, ye better do il this
morning IL won't be there tomorrow.
WAT do / mean" he asked laugh
ing az my surprise. Il mean Gods COS
pei truth. We're shipping the scenery
now for certain. That hill over there Is
70 be leveled this afternoon and sent
down to the works. We scraped IL yester-
day and found gold at the rate of SEQ
a ton But that Is nothin'. when tho
independence gets gold a thousand dol
lars 10 the ton IN some spots.
An, by the way. If you ever say any
thing about Stratton put il strong for
him. He's the squarest man TO be found
IN these parts. He's the backbone Of
Cripple Geek, money fool as he isl
And then 1 had dinner at this. the rich
est gold town In the world, but of dinner
at the mines / must write again
Constance Merrifield.
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when you start out to do" it, as l did
just before New Years day.
The same carry-an that had brought
me to KS hotel from the stopping place
of the stage coach called for me promptly
in the morning and l got in, ready for
the drive that promised such wealth
Il suppose yen do the Golden Circle
fust," said the guide, adding; The Col
den Circle is what we call the road that
winds round through twenty hills and
past forty gold mines. It's about ten
The Golden Circle by all means"
said.
horses Cripple Greek owns as yet the
sun came out fun and bright. rs that
Pixies Peak2' / asked, slanung my eyes
upward to where its great black dagger
slitted the face of the golden disk.
UNDER PIXIES PEAK.
That's Pixies Peak, and no mistake. -
said he, "and you're riding now through
the country that was the western war
cry a few years ago. I suppose We ain Z
old enough to remember the Pixies Peak
OF bust period. are We? But l am! To
Pixies Peak or bust came twenty-five
years ago. And I've lived here ever since.
This street used TO be my COW pasture.
rich man now2 Well. Sis. l amt goin'
ter talk. Talkin's dangerous in these parts
now. But I'll only say that own a mighty
hotel, an mere, now the folks scoop up
their cow pasture soil an sends il ter the
smelling works cause it's gold"
At this my guide looked at me eau
tiously, triumphantly. It's pure gold. =
he repeated; this hull country's GOLD
nothin' but gold. You bring up lots OF
II that needs to be smelted."
But we were past Bennett avenue now
ana into the real country. The grass
was dead upon the hills and there were
no cattle. But plenty of activity reigned.
In the top Of the nrst hill / say a queer
think sticking up. It looked like wind
mill. and i was turning and letting out
queer sounds. That's a new shaft" said
my guide. Them fellers there's got a
grub stake and they're workin' It, They
expect 10 find gold
What is a grub stalker" I asked.
"A grub stake. sad my gulue. sis a
plot Of land that amt worth much Of
anything. A fellow that wants a grub
stake goes out ter work by the day until
he gifts about $50 saved. Then he buys a
little hin from somebody and digs down
for gold. Fifty dollars buys about fortv
square feet of land that's been gone ove-
and nothin' found yet. Them fe0ers
found enough the first DAYS diggin' ter
pay fur their shaftin'. Now they only got
Ter play with the shaftin' gear. The gold
does the rest
Hello. there's Stratton." exclaimed
my driver, touching up the mules and
turning them aside into a field Here,
git out an We'll 90 over ter see him. He's
at the Independence mine now That's
his own property. No side partners.
Stratton takes out almost all the gold
from the Independence himself. He owns
part Of the Portland, too. Bat there 5
other feilers in that. He can't run it as
he wants ter
AS ! stepped from the oarry-ail heav-
iiy built man, who had been leaning over
what looked ike a coop on top OF a small
elevation OF land a few rods away, look
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KeeIy Stockholders.

from the Philadelphia Family Gail.
FIVE gray-haired men climbed the ,Iinev
stars leading to the han in which the
pany was held, an hour before the So
sion convened. They Were fun Of their
troubles. and talked loudly of prosecuting
WINE seated around the stove, but were
silent during the meeting
A composite photograph of the gather
ing would have probably shown man of
ABOUT % years, gray-bearded and gray
heaaed- one fact alone singuarly den-
onstrated the condition OF the cornpanv
Inc secretary announced that he had sai,f
out l.vgy notices to stockholders. and oS-es
ed not found" NsN H'aiA-
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HOW A STATUE Is MADE.
The Process Described in Detail by
an Expert Artist.

FROM the w aShlngtOn Times
Few. if any, people outside of sculptors
or their assistants know how a statue is
made and cast into bronze. The process
by which it is done is long, tedious and
expensive, the least defect often causing
the whole work to be gone over. The
castings are also very brittle. and If
they are bumped together or dropped they
smash like an egg-sheH.
Henry ]. Elhcott, the distinguishes
sculptor Of this city. who has Just finished
an equestrian statue of Gen. Winfield
Scott Hancock. which will be erected a.
the corner of Seventh street and Penn
sylvania evenue, northwest, explained, the
process to a reporter.
Mr.. Elioott has just completed his
plaster model of the statue and the buiId-
ing OF this is quite an intricate piece Of
work The clay model has been finished
for some time, hut the transformati ZION
from the clay to that of pure white pIas-
ter of paris model is a very important
feature of statue building
The clay model of the sculptor. would
De useless without a sectional duplicate
of il in plaster of paris. because tho sec
tons OF the latter are the models for the
bronze cast.
The clay statue is sciid, so 1t nlEst be
divided into perfect solid sections They
must fit together so well that the Joints
cannot be seen and be so strong as though
il was solid.
The sculptor. then must be able 10
build IL up, placing one section into the
other, on the keystone plan, until the
whole is finished UP. When it is built up
on this plans II there are any alterations
or changes, or touching Up to be done.
he does il while It Is standing.
The standing statue is then taken apart
section by section, packed in straw and
shipped TO the bronze factory.
The building OF the white statue after
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we all pulled up. The ropes work partly
by machinery and partly by human aid
FOR the gearing of this great mine is still
very crude.
We had only few feet to lift. for the
mine is so shallow YOU could easily see
INTO II Il the top structure We're not built
over H. Many of the mines are not deep
al all; they are in the side of hills.
When the miners came un l was aston
lShed TO see that there We're only six Of
them. They carried between them three
small buckets. In the buckets were Jumps
about the size of your fist of dark rocks
specked with something yellow, and with
greenlSn lines upon SEINE Of them. In one
Of the buckets lay lump very large and
all yellow. That's pure gold said STRAIT
ton. - J on can have it. The independence
gives great many of those pure gold
humps. other mines YOU have to ASSAY
and smeit and work over them with syn
eide But not this daisy little mine"
The men stood by smiling. while the
buckets We're being tnptiea into clos
ed wagon bound with iron bands that
stood nearby. Here, boys, hitch on the
mules and haul the stuff TO the works.
And that'n do for to-day"
why, it's only 10 o'clock / said. do
you dismiss your men early when there's
earth"
stratton look at me keenly. Young
woman said he, 4 thought you must
be one of She smart ones, coming from
civilization out 10 Cripple Greek. But
see you don't know any more than the
rest OF them.
Young woman. I worked five years at
carpenterlng and looking for gold. When
! struck il l called 1t the Independence,
because l knew il would make me indie
pendent for life. There's one over next
TO it l called Washington because I'm
patriot. But that one wasn't any ac-
count
This mines got more gold in it than
there is now in all the world. / could
buy up England with the gold that's IN
der here, tapping the earth with his foot.
But l don't want 10.
The gold is down there. and there it's
going 10 stay until ] know what to do
with IL ] bring up $1,000 worth a day
for me at present. The men know it.
too. II they make mistake and bring
up double the quantity they get laid or
for week and no pay. / want that
money left down in the earth. You can't
burn II and you can't steal ii when it's
there"
The other mines Oh, they're differ
/ ent. The Portland took up a million in
q week-yes. $l,Oo0O0 in gold in a week
That was the week they were sinking their
shaft. To get their shaft down they had
3 10 displaCe that amount OF pure gold But
they needed il. The Portland is a com
pany, you known. Has peSky stocks and
buys up land and does all sorts of worTi-
some things. They need 10 get out their
I gold as fast as they can. But the little
1 Independence isn't that way
Here ! could see that Mr.. Stratton was
getting tired for he works nights In
told. and sleeps daytimes and we shoosx
I hands gOod-by with him.
We drove back TO the town for Il was
near noon, and the miners were comine
4 nome TO dinner. Cripple Greek is so near
I the gold mines that a mine owner can
easily 80 20 his mine from his home as
a business man goes daily TO his ONCE
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05
A NEW POKER DECK.
Eleven and Twelve spots I'm Each of
the Various Suits.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
Draw poker, Americas national game,
has made it's way steadily in popularity as
a means of social recreation, ever since
United States Minister Schenck made it a
fad in London years ago.
A serious drawback to the general intro
duction of the game into the parlor has al
ways been that the number of people who
can sit into a game has been necessarily
limited to four or five. The ideal game of
poker is with five players. On the deal
twenty-five cards as exhausted. That
leaves tweny-seven in the deck from which
the players may draw. Less than that
number in reserve is likely to see the
deck exhausted on the draw which makes
IL necessary to go 10 the discarded cards
to complete the draw, very unsatisfac-
tory arrangement.
To meet this objection and to make it
possible for a party of eight to sit around
a table a new deck has been made that
contains sixty. The new cards are the
eleven and twelve spots in each suit The
new. deck is. known in the trade as the
full house"
A dealer near Union Square says that
the new decks are selling quite freely, and
that the indications are that six. seven
and eight-handed games of poker will be
the most popular rOund-table game of the
winter. The addition of four eleven and
four twelve spots to a deck will at first
strike the player as novel, and II will take
him some time to get used to such a start
ling hand as three twelves and a pair OF
elevenS.
The addition Of the additional cards in
wolves no change in the rules of the game,
although it will upset all present theories
of chances in the draw. and the card
sharps will have to do some new figur-
ing. The Introduction of the eleven and
twelve materially increases the possible
number of full-hand combinations. in
creases the possibilities of ''fushes'' and
''straights'' and adds an additional and
most delightful uncertainty to a most de-
lightfully uncertain game.
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Ell up. His face was scanned and his eyes
had the dark, concentrated look that j
notice an the gold dicgers wear.
When he saw DE was 10 have "a woman
visitor he started towards us
That man." said my guide as he
walked uu TO meet Strattou els the only
man in the world who doesn't want 10
know how much money he Is worth Hush
Don ask any more questions I'll ten
Sc an about him by and by"
strattOn. the man who doesn't want To
know how much he's worth shook hands
with ms. greeted us in "A few words. and
invited us up TO see the Independence mine
at work
Have YOU ever been to a gold mine ?
II you haven't yOu'l be disappointed the
first time YOU see one
We stood at the top of "A little shafting
apparatus. hearing the sounds a few feet
below and waiting for the signal. Ii came
IA sharp twitching of the ropesi Then
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05
FROZEN TO THE IRON RAIL.
A wildcat Found Strangely Entrap-
ped in Montana.
From the Anaconda Standard.

From the Anaconda Standard.
What is by long odds the best hunting
story of the season comes from St. Regis,
and the section foreman, Nels Thomp-
son, who looks after the Snake track at
that place, is the hero. 1t is probably the
first case of its kind on record and es-
tabhskes an interesting precedent in the
killing of wildcats.
Last Thursday morning as Thompson
and his gang of Scandinavians were
pumping their handcar along the track
on their way TO their work. which that
Regis, they were startled by the angry
snarling Of a wildcat ahead of them. They
slowed up the car as they rounded the
blum, and strange sight greeted their
eyes. The morning was bitterly cold, and
a fringe of ice bordered the banks of the
below the track. Broken ice and a wet
trail up the bank showed that the cat
had swan through the icy strea m and ex-
planned his present predicament. For he
certainly was in the .gravest predica-
ment in which ever wildcat found him
self. He was fastened firmly to one Of the
steel rails by one fOrefoOt.
The superstition is that the cat had come
through the river and leaped up the track
embankment His last jump brought one
il froze TO the steel. There he was. held
as fast as II in the jaws of a trap. The
ground showed that he had struggled to
free himself, but his efforts had been in
vain.
A blow from a crowbar cracked his
skull and the victim OF cold water was
dead. 1t required a strong pull to de-
tach the frozen foot from the rail- and
when II did come, patches of skin still
adhered to the steel.
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4.10 +. NJ.
ooh. hang It all, what ais thegirl?
My temper's turning sour
I'll be a bankrupt, for I've hired
These horses by the hour
George V. Hobart.

breeches-buoy now hangs from the haw-
ser by the snatch-block; 10 the slings by
one side of the whip-line has been made
fast, and the buoy is hauled off to the
wreck; a man gets in. putting a leg into
each opening, and is hauled to shore
through surf that often covers him; he
is taken out and the breeches-buoy travels
to and fro over this aerial railway till
all are rescued.
Then the apparatus is recovered as far
as possible, the beach-cart is drawn back
TO the station, the boat and gear are put
in order, and the rescued ones are at
tended tn
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Copyricht. 1895 by Rymau Interview syn
dictate.
Crinpla Greek. Jan Upon my table
there IS uuEget Of gold. 10 was a New
Year present 10 me from Mr.. Stratton. the
owner or the Independence mine o. cripple
Greek The nugset weighs thiriy-hve
ounces Of pure gold and is the largest one
ever brought un. II was found an hour
after my arrival at Cripple Creek, and Mr..
Stratton. the biggest mine owner In the
world. generously handed 10 10 me as a
memcuto OF my visit u amt positive it's
the biggest one we ever brought out" said
he when he gave il 10 me. butts its the
biggest one you'll ever see IL You go back
TO the city again. They don't grow 'em
in town"
Cripple Creek to-day is the most inter
esting plac6 I ever saw. and l know how
the Sphinx looks from the banks Of the
Nile. and have a very clear recollection OF
the Alhambra. The treasures of the old
world are not in 1t with the treasures Of
our new one
To reach Cripple Creek you must take
a stage from Colorado Springs, or you
can Journey in a carry-an from PIKE
Peak. where tourists go. Cripple Creek
IS at the foot of Pixies Peak. II isn't a
creek" as its name would lead you to
believe. unless you want TO think OF the
little tortuous stream that runs through
It,
Cripple Creek is a settlement OF streets
and houses. The outside limits are about
SIX miles square. but the people i've ~
the middle where there is strees-oel Il,
,.z4+ ayenua-which Is the main street OF
the town. At each side OF II there ar
houses. and branching each way are sil,
streets-precisely as. you Woulu hilu ~
any little country place, 81. a,
But the wonder OF Cripple NIeeN
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Price of Eugene Fields Death Mask


The New York literary man who col
lects death masks and reviews books heard
that a death mask of Eugene Field was
taken shortly after his death He found
out the name of the man who had the
mask and wrote, asking him for a replica
of it. The terms offered by the New York
suit the Chicago Spectator. He wrote
TO New York that he would not allow a
replica of the mask to be made, but would
sell the original for So 600
Maybe it was because the critic wanted
the mask so badly that this answer entire
~ upset his temper. AT all events. when
ne wrote TO the hica goan again he de-
clined the offer unquadifiedly
But, the letter concluded, Il should
De happy to pay $500 for your death mask
at any time. l am afraid only that sum
take to cover your cheek"
The negotiations have not been resumed
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A DAY At CRIPPLE CREEK.
Constance Mortified Visits StrattOn, Owner
of the independence Mine.


priv Tcn
n
NiisE-iIsv Thes ~ssiT Gods
~ Evr.anI nt.rs
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The San Francisco Call SAYS that there
IS no state in the union save Califorrfis
that can celebrate her Christmas holi-
days with an ice palace festival in one
place and picnic amid blossoms in an
other.
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This Is mining upon "a new scale. and {
so enjoyable that the men. working Ga fhc
lots around, have discovered nearly fifty
new mines inside a month. an worth az
least SO 20 ton OF more. But this Us
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4.VV 4. NJ.
The trusting hour-I see her not,
Ah.i well. / shan't demur-
It's bliss divine, a pleasure sweet,
a JOY TO wait for her.