Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-29
14-TON LIBERTY STATUE
READY FOR LOAN DRIVE
Took Fifteen Men a Month to
Build Voigt's Huge
Replica

Fourteen tons Of clay and plaster.
fifteen men and orc months time were
required TO complete the replica Of the
Statue of Liberty erected on South Penn
Square by Max Noigt for the third
Liberty Loan campaign, it was learned
today.
The mouth of this statue is three feet
across and the arm bearing the torch
weighs $50 pounds. Mr.. Noigt says. This
arm presented the greatest difficulty
and nearly "stumped" the sculptor Its
enormous weight made 1t difficult
task to put 1t in place. The statue is
composed of fourteen separate sections.
In making drawings for the replica,
the New York authorities would not
permit Noigt TO go near the original.
He was forced to study 1t from the Bat
terry through a spy-glass. he said.
The canvas box in which the statue
is now incloscd will be taken off some
time within the next few days and
mammoth American flag will cover the
statue until Il Is unveiled on the open
ing day of the campaign, April G. The
same secrecy will be observed in this
draping as In placing the statue. n
large number Of amateur photographers
were foiled by placing the statue on its
pedestal at q o'clock in the morning
The work on 1t was completed in Noigt's
! studio, 1Ti5 North Twelfth street, where
! It was found necessary to rembve part
Of ceiling to build IL.
I A determined stand was taken today
/ by the third Liberty Loan committee
/ against the Stacker who wears a Liberty
! Loan button when he has no right to it.
! The strictest observance of the rules Of
! distribution and use Of these buttons Is
/ II be insisted upon, an announcement
said:
In previous campaigns the buttons
were Unfortunately distributed and in
many cases fell into the hands of un-
/ patriotic persons who used them as n
screen to create the impression that
/ they had purchased bond. This will not
/ be allowed In the third campaign, which
opens April s.
The buttons will be distributed only
| by banks. trust companies and other In
stitutions selling and delivering the
bonds. No one who has not made at least
one payment on a bond is entitled to a
/ button. An example will be made Of
/ the first Stacker caught wearing a but
ton to which he has no right it was
announced.
The Fourth Street Club, 80 per cent
| OF whose members are in active service,
has offered itself bodily to the Liberty
Loan committee, and the members serv-
| ices have been accepted as an emer.
/ sency corps. The matter of the Liberty
Loan buttons has been turned over to
! them, the announcement says.
This club is held up to other insti-
tutons of the city as Il ''lve-wire" or
ganization that has gone into the cam.
| paign with a good system as well as
good spirit. Each member will be reg
istered and a record kept of the days
| on which he can most conveniently work
In the bond-selling campaign. Each man
is expected 10 devote four days a month
| to the work.
The following calendar circular has
been sent to each member to be re-
turned to the secretary Of the club:
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