El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-08
GIGANTIC HOAX
FOOLS SCIENTISTS
iContinued from preceding Dagel
advice, and kept their plans wen to


themselves
Where Foley Came In.
1t was at this juncture that Mich
ael Foley comes into the story. he
was down on his luck. as usual. Life
had not been a continuous round OF
pleasure for him He had been dis
appointed in love four times. He had
met with many physical accidents, his
BODY bearing numerous bruises he
had but recently broken both arms
and a leg. he was working at the
time as foreman on a gypsum quar-
~, but he was on the lookout Tor
anything better thai might turn up!
1t was not hard to interest the dis
coutented Foley in the scheme. he was
the very man that was needed There
was still one draw back-the quarry
ing must be done at night or sundays
and the quarrymen did not IKE 70
work then. Extra rounds OF beer
solved this difficulty and the men
set to work -'fracturing out as large
a block as possible OF the gypsum
Foley himself, a short time before
his death, carried the story along
I'VE succeeded in detaching from
the bed, near Gypsum creek. a rag
ment u feet long. 4 feet wide and p
inches thick. This block contained
the unhewu form OF the future Car
diff giant" which gave me new
grip on life. The next problem that
confronted US was how to remove this
immense mass Of rock 10 miles 10
railroad. The man who TOOK the con-
tract broke down every bridge be-
tween Fort Dodge and Boone IN get
ting the stone there 1t was finally
loaded on a flat car and shipped to L.
Burghardt a Chicago sculptor
"3urghardt was in the game He
lived on North Clark street, in Chi
cago. The block was removed 70 his
barn the windows and doors blinded,
and a German sculptor named sale
and another named markham began
the work of chiseling out the giant
Making The Giant Old.
Hull found so much trouble in
keeping his workmen at their task
that he was obliged to do much Of the
work himself To give the giant
water-worn appearance, HUI Killed a
sponge with water and sand, and for
weeks rubbed the gypsum until It ac-
tuaIly took on a fair semblance Of an
tfouffv Pores in the giants skin were
made bv pounding the image with a
Ieaden hammer, filled with darning
needles. The pores thus produced are
the min holes which so puzzled
number OF learned microscopes.
with all this the statute stiIl
looked fresh. so Hull washed the
surface with gallon OF INK, and then,
this tint being too artificial, the
whole was rewashed with sulphuric
acid. giving il a dingy hue. as of
great age. ] have often had a quiet
laugh TO myseI over lHe remarks OF
investigators on the reddish tinge'
about tie giants nostrils and finger
nails.
when all this was done the giant
was ready for transportation"
nuryfnE The Statue.
This is as far as FOleys story car
ried the Cardiff giant but investi-
CATION dfscloses the remainder. fully
as authenticity.
The statue completed. It was
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s.Tinished marble. c. Olds' Hull mad
not vet decided where he wanted to
inter and discover the giant figure.
This was a matter which must be
Thought over carefully. The figurs
must be found where the theory that
it was the remains OF a prehistOric
man would be borne out by sur
rOundings. etc
SO the giant started on it's journey
ings. Freight bills trace it from Chi