New-York tribune., 1903-04-08
BIG ST4TU4RY SHIPPED
1t Is To Be IN Place for the Dedica-
ton of the st. Louis Fair.

Karl Bitter director OF the department of
sculpture of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
al St Louis: Gustav H. Gerlach, superintendent
Of Mr.. Bitter's shop, at Weehawken, n. J.. and
a score of workmen yesterday were busily load
ing into cars part Of the heroic size statuary
which is to decorate the worlds fair grounds
and buildings. The shop is in the old round
house Of the Erie Railroad at Snyder's Point,
and a new track has been laid. so that the
largest furniture cars on the Erie road be
backed into the building to be loaded. 1t is
expected that the statues shipped yesterday
and to be shipped within the next few days
Will reach ST. Louis in time TO be in place for
the dedication ceremony on April 80
Mr.. Gerlach. who the superintendent for
Mr.. Bitter for the statuary work preliminary
to the Pan-American Exposition and who was
prominently identified with the same depart
ment of the Chicago Exposition, says the num-
Der Of groups made and being made for St.
Louis is nearly twice large for either of
the others There will be somewhere between
two hundred and fifty and three hundred
groups. The figures sent away yesterday were
nearly all of heroic size. varying from eight to
twelve feet in height Among them were the
four great pieces for the Mines and Metallurgy
Building, two male and two female. These
were too large to be loaded into even one of
the huge furniture cars without separation.
more sections, which were accurately fitted to-
gether before they finally loaded piece
meal into the car. The weight OF one of the
parts of any of these, although constructed Of
staff. is about one thousand pounds. The lower
portion of the figure symbolizng civilization,
for the Liberal Arts Building. tall that
it could just be passed through the doorway.
The upper part Of the body and the pedestal
were carefully slowed beside it, and the three
pieces just filled the space between the end of
the car and its side door All the parts
raised to the necessary level by ropes and
pulleys.
One of the pair of mammoth lions for the
decoration of the grounds viii be completed
within the next five days. These figures will be
fourteen feet long and about eight feet wide
and. on account of the poses, nearly sixteen
feet high. -Four more figures for the Mines and
MetaIlurgy Building, each over twelve feet
high, and typifying coal, cOpS~r, IRON ana gold.
will go forward about the same time as the
first lion. The pair of heroic figures in sit
ting posture, to flank the shield holders in the
tympa mum of the Machinery Building, are pro-
crossing well. and Giuseppe Passa, the sculptor
OF the pair, expects to nave one ready for snip
meat next week. The big Centaur and Cupid
for the Liberal Arts Building will be shipped
prcba bly, to-day tomorrow
The beautiful female Hgure for the COlOnnaOe
of the Varied Industries Building, which Bruno
louis Zim Is modelling, will be ready for ship
ment within q week
Mr. Bitter yesterday afternoon visited the
shop and inspected the work already COM
Dleted and that in hand. He was picturesque
figure in his tan suit OF corduroy and his pink
outing shirt.