Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — The Statue Itself. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Statue Itself.

The statue itself is 151 feet high, made of copper and iron, and weighs nearly 200 tons. An elevator and a stairway will ascend from the base of the pedestal up through the statue to the head, whence the stairway will continue through the uplifted arm to the torch held in the hand. Upon the small balcony beneath the torch there is standing room for fifteen persons. The height of the entire affair is reckoned as follows: Height

of base of foundati n above high-water mark, 8 feet; height of 53 feet; height of pedestal, 117 feet; height of statue, 151 feet. Total, 32a feet. This raises the torch several feet above'the pinnacle of Trinity Church spire, the loftiest *hdi lice in the city proper, and makes it nearly as high as the water-tower on the bluff near High Bridge, which is the highest point above the sea-level in the city. An incomparably beautiful view will be had of the harbor, the city, and the surrounding country from the apex of the statue.