The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-18

their women and old men when they went
forth on some distant freebooting expedi-
ton. are used in Saint-Jean as cellars
under some of the houses and as els
terms
This little place has seen many vicis-
situdes- The foundations of that very
port of Saint-Jean were laid by the
Knights of ST Jerusalem, when they
were here in the sixteenth century. under
the leadership OF their Grand Master.
Fillers de Isle Adam. who was claimed
as ancestor by the VilIiers de rIsle-Adam
who wrote so clearly cpcn that particu-
lar point and SO confusedly upon all
others They also rebuilt the tower at
ST. Hospice, which had been destroyed
by Gibalin Grimaldi, the first Lord of
Monaco. and his troops when the power
OF the Saracens in the country was
definitely broken
We had been walking UP green lane
and along step path leading through
little pine forest. A turn in the road
brought US in view and within few
wards of the martello tower, which forms
such a conspicuous object from afar The
westerly side of the tower was partly
hidden by huge scaKoIding. and. going
round TO the front, We saw that it shell
tered colossal statue OF the Madonna
and the Child.
This" said the Professor" lis a
statue upon which the sculptor Signor
Galbusieri. Tranquille Galbusieri. has
been at work for the last three years.
Here he comes"
short. strongly built tawny COM
plexioned man came in view from the
direction OF the picturesque little cha
pelle de Saint-Hospice. until quite recent
" the abode of hermit. whose reputa-
ton in the vicinity IS curiousiy contest
ed point. some holding him up as an
exemplary model Of piety. others as just
the reverse.
He is dead said 1.-The Professor
'Requiescat in pace Signor Galbusieri.
with his family. is now the sole popula-
ton Of this extreme point The view
is magnificent but many modern comforts
are lacking in the tower. So il is now
without its drawbacks for lengthy resi-
dence- Signor Galbusieri is a Milanese-
He has made a special study of casting in
bronze, ard was selected by VI. Gal. a
merchant of Nice. who emassed a fortune
in the olive oil trade, to model and cast
4 huge statue OF Notre Dame de Laghet
which. in memory of his wife. he had
vowed TO erect on the st. Hospice Point
using the tower which is his property. as
a pedestal. Ii is a grand base, and the
statue when complete and in position
will be visible thirty kilometres out at
sea-
Signor Galbusieri took US into the mar
tello, where he has lived for three years.
and the center of which is taken up by
an immense plaster model OF the statue
in bronze which stands outside. \ wind
ing staircase in the walls. between four
and I'VE metres thick. leads one TO the
top OF the tower. At present this ter
race. wheEce a superb view OF the sur
rounding country is obtained It's encum-
bered with an iron framework. upon
which the statue will stand later.
Then We descended 10 solid earth again.
and went into the foundry established
by Signor Galbuseri for the casting in
bronze OF his statue, no slight undertake
ing, for 1t measures eleven metres forty
centimetres in height. Perhaps. indeed.
II ought TO have been in ideal proportion
with the grim massive tower that is TO
form its base Looking like a-modern
Vulcan, Signor GaIbusieri came and went.
the glow from the furnace lighting up
his face, bringing out all its ruggedness
and vigor. A couple of workmen were
smoothing away the asperities Of a por-
ton of the Madonna crown, which seen
at such close range. was stupendous IN
size.
The work so Signor Galbusieri tells
me- said the Professor win be ready
about the month of May II IL inspired
by Notre Dame de Lashet, a wooden
statue of the fourteenth century that is
one of the most precious treasures of the
monastery OF LLaghet. behind La Turbie
Tradition has it that In the middle OF
the seventeenth century rich matron OF
Monaco. one Camilla Porta. was so III
that her doctors gave up her case as
hopeless In despair she abandoned the
social world of Monaco and retired to the
little chapel of the Virgin at Laghst
where she spent her days in prayer and
fasting