The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-09-26

lights OF the metropolitan
Museum in New York and
R0EsznS upon the collection of arms
SEeR armOr in the main gallery has re-
BsEnEnated past of tall knights ana
GeG48e Indies, has fancied himself
7sREn3CeIOt or Guinevere, in the city's
sEy1IEMSHid collection of mail and plate,
ssf decorative trapping, battle axe
ssseaF and broad or long sword.
And many, no, doubt, have stood in
Kms1anatiOn before the medieval arm0r-
sFTE workshop set in paneled recess
NJ carved oak to the left Of the gallery,
n signature bit of Old World charm,
Mamw anvflS, hammers whose stroke
3MS rang through centuries of steel on
xsex2. modelled knights in the gay pan
s4aFy Of the Middle Ages, and the ac-
RRHtFPznents Of a warfare when COM
5saaxH9s Clashed to the sound of trum-
74<k
1sxa only few of the visitors to the
mHs4Sm have been fortunate enough
sfR ri lost in the cool, cOrridored base
BzrSe and find, tucked away in an In
conspicuous corner, a complete pract1-
1z3 NFmOrer'S shop, where q master
sarSzEseF plies his inherited art with
skill that puts him on a level with
zRsERae of the great master ArmOrerS of
The Middle Ages, writes N. II. McCl0s-
RcF in New York Tribune. This
AE9ES%R is NJ. Daniel Tachaux, and
8fEss% few who have been permitted to
SEing open his shop dGOr-a door quite
N6e many another along the corridor
-9Rxy well count themselves among
7te fortunate blessed. for they have
srEaH 4 shop like no other in this coun-
arFA show now closed to the public
aUR guarled by all the impossible and
IHgRsGeFable barriers Of government
gegzREHaIOn.
For here, in wOrkroOm originally
11ts'Hshed for the purpose of clean
az%s EeTNfrfng and. in some rare cases.
K1SsSgaOg pieces of defective armor. nj.
Ia9R1RUx and his young French assist
HUI Sergeant Bartel of the ordnance
-sREzzRg4ments are carefully working out
sltsssRS and models of defensive armOr
4fss9 SaH be worn by the allied soldiers.
NAL which it is expected will result in
EHafdng down to a very great degree, AS
9aesEHntage Of Killed and wounded in
d1sfS present war:
Forty Models Now at the Front
When the war broke out A1r. Robin
RxG director Of the Metropolitan Mu-
8<FWM. Fearning that the government
WEx I'm need of models for the prepHra-
8iSR OF armOr obtained the sanction of
+EEs., F.1-y1Stooc in r1ooiD0 tho dono rtmoD4
u HuzOr at the disposition of Secre-
1KEE Of War Baker. BashfOrd Dean.
FsK=EtoF Of the department and man
Via haS given his life to the study OF
aae' subject, was commissioned as
Hz i~c and immediately sent abroad to
EtstRzr1 on the status of armOr-what
WIS, already in use and what additions
HdSght feaSIbIy be made. He returned
aa a8se. United States late in January of
sak- present year. and has since kept
aFe &rH90r workshop of the museum
HRSS, &n holidays and weekdays, turn
RR= aRr models in accordance with
g9at suggestions of General Pershing
zE7 the ordnance department. After
azEeERa and patient experimentation
AE experts forty models have been
meade, and are even now being tried
ABHf 6R the fighting front.
Mary in the little workshop where
41se $1HR comes in through miniature
;E14eR and is DETECTED in myriad col
sBrs by small tools, age old; bits Of
hE1SS and bronze, steel bright from
JtAzRsiIing and armOred suits wrought
U7dfl the intricate traceries of medic
VEL decoration. NJ. Tachaux plies with
%dFf9 skill and the ease of long prac-
fftEs the very tools used by his anceS-
7AsS md handed down from father to
SHA through hundreds of years. The
EAsRSeuTn has collected from all PARTS
vi a4ae world the. implements used in
The fabrication Of ancient armOr, COM
711STag some ninety kinds of anvilS
sERA stakes" several hundred differ
sERz types of hammers, curious shears
aEl Instruments whose use would be
NRafe unknown were it not that six
xFAsOTers-heirs of past skill - are
lfTjag today. One of these is in Ores
t6raa, one in Switzerland, two in japan,
BaP IN London and the other America
ARs In the person of NJ. TachauX, who
1HeS collected about him the dusty rO-
7s4s8ee Of an almost forgotten art and
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