Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1877 — Arm of the Statue of Liberty. [ARTICLE]

Arm of the Statue of Liberty.

Tns arm of Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty. which is about to be placed on a temporary pedestal in Madison Square, fronting on Fifth avenue, will, with the thirteeri-foot pedestal, measure forty-five feet in height. The pedestal is to be of solid masonry, covered with wood painted to represent cut stone, the base twentythree feet square and thirteen feet six inches high. In bas-relief upon the outer face of the pedestal will be a representation of the whole statue when it shall be placed upon Bedloe’s Island. Upon the side facing Madison Park a staircase will be built leading to that which runs spindly through the arm to the balcony of the torch hpon the summit The privilege of mounting to the flambeau, while in Madison Square, will not be extended to the public at large, but subscribers to the fund for the purchase of the permanent pedestal, and others interested in its progress, will be admitted upon obtaining the necessary passes from H. W. DeStoeckel, who is in charge of the statue during the absence of Mr. Bartholdi in Europe. The expense of placing this fragment of statue in Madison Square is paid for by the Department of Parks, $972 having been appropriated for the purpose. Its erection has been given in charge of Mr. W. F. Croft, the architect. The arm will remain in Madison Square until the year 1880, before which time it is not thought possible a sufficient sum will be obtained to warrant the commencement of work toward the erection of the complete statue. Several French; societies have expressed their willingness, if allowed the privilege, to light the huge flambeau upon the evenings of National holidays, and to pay for the gas which will thereby be consumed. The arm will have been placed in position by March 4, next, when it will be photographed, and copies sold for the benefit of the Pedestal Fund.—-N. F. World. —*»»■■'■ ■ ■ A few days ago a Kentucky farmer applied to one of the Southern railroad civil engineers, and asked that, aa his neighbors were getting the promise of them, a cattle-guard be placed on his farm in the spring. His cattle, he said, would then be weak, and needed protection. The placing of the cattle-guard was readily promised, whereupon the innocent farmer suggested that his son, a young man, who knew a good deal about stock, might be made the said cattle-guard* . ■