Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — PAYING THE PENALTY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PAYING THE PENALTY.

SljeJlenwcralicSfnlitul RENSSELAER, INDIANA. IV. BcEWHI*, ' - " Foxuana.

SIGHTLESS BYES THE REWARDS 0F GLASS-BLOWERS. AIMmIMA k WUtk Uw WeffaH* toW with tto Ovtatatr that toww fOgh Art la Oliw Blowing. The most carious and interesting thing to see at Venice la London—next, of coarse, to the superb and bewildering spectacle which Mr. Imre Klralfj has placed upon the great stage—la the furnace of Dr. SahrlaU. Salrlati glass has a world-wide reputation, and many traveling English have visited the works at Horano, where the glass is made. Bat this is the first time that the process has been shown Id England. The Sal-

viati furnce at Olympia Is in Modern VeniceL If yon are fortunate Dr. Guilio Salrlati himself may act as your guide, a courteous gentleman who Is a son of the Salviati who revived the Mosaic industry at Mura no after it bad practically fallen into disuse for years. Entering, you find yourself In a semicircular room of

considerable size with raised tiers of benches to enable the spectators to witness the manufacture of the glass. In the Center stands the furnace, which consumes dally some three tons of good British oak. The fnrnace la divided Into different "pete,* each containing molten glass of some special color, and the temperature is about 1470 degrees Fahrenheit. What la the composition of the

glass Dr. Salrlatl declares that he - himself does not know. Xt la a jealously guarded trade secret The visitor may notice a taciturn eld man who mores quietly about among the workmen sad disappears bow sad again Into a dark room at the back, where the mysterious materials are kepi Sometimes ha la to be seen

fitting outside, staring glpomily Into tbs Shallow lead-lined canals made In imitation of these of hh own Venice. * goon TV- Smtyfatl nnJvttinLT? SfMißibMitf tkiniititn It

wdT known. To this is added nitef, soda, lime, oxide of lead, arsenic god 'many other secret things to give the exquisite tinges of amber, sea green iend pink, which are one of the chief beauties of the Salviatl glass. Through the sketches of Mr. W.

P. Britten in Black and White the reader will be able to get a good idea of the process. In front of the furnaces are three or four rough seats, each furnished with horizontal projecting arms covered with iron. At these seats work the brothers Barovler—Benvenuto, Vittorio, and Pietro

—three of Dr. Salviati’s most skillful workmen. They asked much to come tb England, and it is said that each Mayjaiake from £l2 to £ls per day, 1» addition to a share in the profits upon the sale of the articles which they produce. - Benvenuto is going to make a plfece of glass—a flower vase supported on a Sea-dragon. He has no pattern, no gauge, and his only tools are some pincers and scissors. He takes a long blowpipe of.iron, dips it into one of the pots, and withdraws it with a quantity of glowing glass hanging to the end like honey on a stick. Twisting the rod deftly in his hand,heisat his seat in a moment, anfa constantly rolling the rod backwards and forwards on the arms of his seat, he begins to fashion the bottom of the stand with a pair of pincers. The glass soon cools and ha 9 to be plunged again Into the furnace. Again ft s is withdrawn and manipulated with extraordinary dexterity. It takes shape as If by magic under the hand of the artist, and becomes a round stand with a stem to support the dragon. Then an assistant takes it away to keep it hot in another furnace. Now comes the dragon from anoth. er pot. A piece of pink glass is pulled out at length; there is the dragon’s body. It is bent quickly round, tha

tail curling upward, and with incredible swiftness, each touch nicely calculated, the head is, fashioned, the mouth open breathing flame. Here comes the flame, a morsel of red glass from another furnace, put deftly in the open mouth, and fashioned in three or four touches into a long, pointed tongue. Then come the eyes, the wings, the legs, and there is your dragon, a marvel of art wrought in soipe six or seven minutes. So the piece is built up in sections, each joined to the other by heat, and the work stands complete—a miracle of design and color, created straight from the brain of this lithe and handsome Italian, as true an artist as he who points pictures, makes statues and builds churches. But there is a fearful penalty which all these artists must pay. Blindness comes upon them at middle age. The glare of the furnace, the fierce radiance of the molten glass, burns the eyes, and at 40 or thereabouts they become blind. Benvenito Barovier, though he scarcely looks more than 30, cannot even now see to read. It is a fate these glassworkers cheerfully face. They love their craft During the years of youth and early manhood they devote their lives to art, to the production of fragile dreams of beauty in glass which a touch will pulverize, and then they are content to go into the night and spend their eld age in darkness. For they are rich and honored.

But. Thomas Dixon, Jr., the Baptist sharpshooter of New York who paid #155 recently for thirty-one robins that be shot out of season on Staten Island, reaped the recompense

of his reward for being a brute. It is gratifying to be sura that there is at- least one place in the country vrbei#justice deals alike over game laws violated, and the Staten Island •Squire wbo was nqt afraid of his plain duty deserves the whole amount of the $155 fine, even if the law does not allow it

HE ALONE KNOWS THE SECRET.

BENVENUTO BAROVIER.

DR. GUILIO SALVIAT(?)

ALLESAND(?)

TOOLS OF THE GLASSBOWERS.