Show TAKES LONG TO CAST STATUE many del cate and laborious opera eions red immense pains and immense labor attend the production of a bronze statue of any size even after he artist has done his work remarks a sculptor to begin with the plaster model has to be completely covered with mall lumps of a special kind of sand sometimes as many as 1500 1 to 2 pf these pieces being required after these blocks of sand are dry they are taken off the cast one at a time and carefully care filly ily put together to form the mold the latter Is then filled with clay and the same operation Is again gone through a facsimile of the plas piss ter cast being thus obtained then comes the most delicate part of the whole work the clay model or core as it is technically called has to hav a quarter of an inch taken off its surface which as may readily be imagined is anything but easy especially if it the subject be at all ornate the core is then again put into the mold which has of course to be reconstructed once more being kept exactly in the center by means of iron rods the molten bronze is then poured in from the top completely filling the space between the core and the mold |