Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01
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HER LIFELIKE STATUE.
Signalixed Her Departure from th'
World of Artists


Before her marriage she had been IA
| NOUS scuIptress. She had made several por-
traits of well-known men, and everyone pre-
dicted for her a still more brilliant future,
when she suddenly set all predictions at
naught by marrying wealthy man VINO uls,
approved of her keeping up her professionals
work. She was very quiet under TINS re-
striction, but was supposed to rebel inward
". Therefore when, at a dinner party one
evening, she asked her old friend, Ten.
Bashar. to come and see her on the follow.
ing evening and inspect her last piece OF
work. which she thought the best and most
lifelike she had ever executed, he sup,
posed he was to use his influence to prevail
upon the husband to permit her to resume
her place among the working fraternity OF
artists.
Il am sure you will like it, general, she
said, with winning smile. 1T fairly hives
and breathes. l confess 1 am IN love with
it myself"
On the appointed evening the general,
With some misgivings over the delicacy OF
the task intrusted to him, presented HIM
self. Instead of inviting him to the studio,
his hostess, to his surprise, offered to bring
her last bit to him.
''Well, yes, you might call it So" she an
swered, as she went out of the room. In
few minutes she returned, bearing In her
arms-a baby!-Chicago Times-Herald.
Some Interesting Facts Regarding
the Output of Crescent bicycles.
This article is intended to convey con-
ception of the enormous amount OF raw ma
terial consumed during a season in supply
ing the demand for one of the most popular
bicycles made. The Western Wheel Works,
Chicago, makers of the Crescent wheel, have
the largest, and without doubt the most
complete, bicycle factory in the world, and
can turn out, when running to fullest ca
pacity, T25 finished Crescents IN twelve
ho,,re anroYNlpfo aaa1yN IN f1afQW hlGVclP
per minute.
They used during 1866 $50 miles of tub
ing, or enough to nearly reach from Chi
eago to St. Paul if placed IN a straight line.
The spokes were made in their own fac
tory, and required $50 miles of wire, or
enough to reach from Chicago to Lincoln,
Neb.; so miles of brass rod was required
for spoke nipples. If the spokes, spoke nip
pies and tubing were placed in straight
line they would reach from Chicago to the
Rocky Mountains at Denver. The cranks,
if placed end to end, would cover a distance
of y miles. They used 80 miles of steel for
crank axles, wheel aXles and pedal axles,
and 10 miles of steel for seat posts. If the
rims that were used in the manufacture of
Crescents In 90 were placed one upon the
other they would make q pile 1880 feet
high, 1900 feet higher than Pixies Peak
and about the height of Mount Elias in
Alaska, whose summit has never yet been
reached by man. 1t required 32,0S4 square
feet of sheet steel to make the Crescent
hollow tooth sprockets, and 2l,876 square
feet for the steel stampings of the head and
seat post clamps, or in all enough fiat steel
to cover an area of II acres. There were
used 10 miles of cork grips, log miles of
, finished hubs, and % miles of steel wire to
pin frames together before brazing. The
finished chains, end to end, would reach
20 miles, and the different pieces of which
they are composed would reach 2374 miles,
or in all 3073 miles, the distance from Chi
cago to Cincinnati. The bearings of 1895
! Creseents required 1891, 300 steel balls,
which, if placed in a straight line, side by
side, would reach a distance of 453 miles.
| To lace the chain and dress guards on the
| ladies Creseents manufactured in 1896 re-
quired 49,, $50 yards of cord, or 2464 miles,
| enough to allow small boy to stand on
the top of the Auditorium tower in Chicago
and fly his kite where the people in Des
| Moines, Iowa, could see it. To supply
| Crescents sold in 1896 required LOCO, 742
bolts, and 1,4SS,075 nuts, having an aggre-
| gate weight of % tons. The total weight
| of the complete bicycles was 1885,, 842
| pounds, or l,l9l tons. To crate these bi.
! cycles required l,235, 740 square feet of lum.
| Der made up in pieces; 72,7lS, 668 separate
and distinct pieces entered into the con-
struction of 'y6 Crescents, and if all were
! placed in straight line, end to end, they
would reach from New York to some dis.
lance in the Pacific ocean west OF San Fran
cisco.-Crescent Bulletin, July l, 1897.
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