Show how STATUES ARE MADE alade dick tinto I 1 to I 1 the florence correspondent of the N Y apt almes imes writes that the inducements for amer tors to remain in italy powers hart I 1 crawford and other sare that they have C constantly P on hand more orders than thy they can e execute and employ numerous workmen at cheal cheap walis wages lie he quotes these workmen who actually I 1 perform the tha whole or nine tenths of the chi selling cutti cuttina cutting nr la in marble what the thel employer employ pr sets before them there ill in plaster pl astor receive italian wages a small smail dally daily dall dail pittance it i if taken to new york they wound a at t once triple and quadruple their italian earnings and would probably set up for themselves es as carr cart era in a small way or as decorators and ornament ors of churches chu relles relies and public buildings the chisel is no longer the tool of the master sculptor his instrument is an odd bit of stick with ith which he scoops away at th figure in clay or at the mud as he will tell you himself when finished us as nearly as nearly as such s u cb a material mater lill can be a mould is taken and from that mould a cast in plaster if necessary this coat is still s t iti ill further farther finished and sand and i is th then en handed over to the cutter cutler whose duty itis to make an exact fac facsimile simile 3 in n marble tile the sculptor proper may never touch this marble alid and when he is told it is done he is ready to deliver it to io its owner I 1 the workmen in mr powers studio have executed not far from 40 proserpine pines from the one plaster original composed by tile the master and the greek slave has in the same way been reproduced three or four times the best bust in italy never touches the marble he may suggest or order hair strokes here and there but lie he does not handle the scraper himself in III all this the work workman mau man though ha he may execute unassisted ly y the tha statue the head or the group asmo mor more e the author of his big work than is the clerk who I 1 copies the prime ministers rough draft or llie the calligraphist who en grosses a set of re resolutions you can see how impo impossible sible it would be for sculptors occupying and requiring in fn this way tile the work of many mapy roen men to transport their studios to america |