Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1916 — Putting Sixteen Tons of Genius Up On a Roof [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Putting Sixteen Tons of Genius Up On a Roof

NEW YORK.—When “Dick” Healy bossed the job of boosting a wooden nutmeg figure up to the top of the state capitol in Hartford, Conn., he said he and Nutmeg had the time of their lives. Now Healy has been having a

tussle with Genius*jot- Telegraphy, a 80-foot tail, 16-ton’ weight gentleman, with wings, up on the tip top of the building at Broadway and Dey street. It required only about au hour to raise Genius 26 stories to the roof, but It was a week before Healy and his ten riggers got the statue perched on the eight-foot base at the top of the tower, about 82 stories above the street. ( Moving sixteen tons of Genlus.'on skids across the roof wasn’t much.

what with electrical donkey engines to do the pulling; but to stand the winged gentleman on his feet on a platform just large -enough for himself wad somethlD Evriyn a Satrice Longman designed the statue and William Welles Boeworth executed it. Genius grasps what looks like a lot of live wires with one hand but the idea is that they are sections of lightning picked right out of the sky The other hand holds a coil of wire which winds around his legs,, reDresenting the means by which the 50-word night letter telegrams are sent. Genius will wear a SI,OOO suit of gold this winter. Ordinarily Genial doesn't get a look in for gaudy raiment. ; * -