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Show I IRON IAN THE MEM COLOSSUS I Weighs 100,000 Pounds find Is Fif ty- j Jsix Feet High. In Hia r Now Stockings. Special to Tho Tribune. L BY JOHN C. SMALL, h ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 1C While this I city offers hptel accommodation in abundance there Is one visitor now on h his way to the World's Fair who will be ' unable to find a place anywhere In the exposition city where he can lay his , head. Thin stranger who Is destined to I stand upon his feet from the tlmo the fair opens until It la cloned Is Mr. Vul- j can of Birmingham, Ala., who tips tho ' scalo at 100,000 pounds and stands ilf ty- six feet high In his new stockings. Sleeping cars were not made with berths for Brobdlgnaglans and Vulcan had to suffer several very serious surgical sur-gical operations before his ponderous frame could be put aboard the cars for the trip to St. Louis. With hla 15.000 pound head occupying one car near tho engine and his feet, each six feet long, in a car to themselves near tho end of the train, this giant, sprawled out over seven freight cars, looks very much llko Gulliver strapped down by Llllputlans in Dean Swift's nursery stories. When Vulcan arrives In St. Louis he will be carefully put together again and mounted upon a pedestal of coal and coke In the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy Metal-lurgy where he will represent tho great i-esourses of the Birmingham, Ala., dls- I' cincc U Vulcan waa cast in iron from a model I built by the well-known sculptor, G. 1 1 Morettl, and all of the metal used In I ' ills construction as well as the minerals I composing the foundatlona for tho I Htatue are from Alabama mlnea. The monster exhibit cost $20,000 and it has required almost a year to complete It.' ; More than a simple enlargement of the human form waH required, for Vulcan's Vul-can's head Ih exaggerated by 2& feet. This gives the colossus an appearance of symmetry from the levels from which lie will be viewed. Such a treatment of proportions Is a part of the sculptor's study, but is seldom practiced on such a large scale as In this instance. Morettl designed the model In an old church building at Passaic, N. J., where a high roof permitted the frame to be reared, but the Improvised studio wad not properly heated and shortly after completion the plaster was frozen and the head began to crumble. The sculptor sculp-tor quickly loaded the structure upon ears and In the milder climate of Bir mingham completed the model. Then the casting of tho parts began i' and such a feat as the foundrymen have performed was never before 1 equaled. The figure was modeled In fifteen pieces, dimensions of some of the sections being given as follows: Head, 7V feet high 7 feet across, weight 16,000 pounds; circumference of neck, eleven feet, six lnches; clrcumference of j chest, 22 feet; width across shoulders, 30 feet; length of arms, 10 feet; circumference circum-ference of waist, IS feel, 3 Inches; diameter di-ameter of calf of legs, 14 feet, 3 inches: diameter of ankle, 2 feet; weight of spear head held In right hand, 250 pounds; weight of hammer In left hand, 1 300 pounds; weight of anvil block, G000 pounds. The strap over "the left Bhoulder and the apron worn by Vulcan Vul-can are separate pieces and are used to strengthen the sectional joints," |