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Show igain, and finally puts the red-hot. glowing mass In a vise. "All the different parts of the flower he forges separately. He makes the veins, or radical ribs of the leaves, with the peen of the hammer. The same tool, when It is slightly tilted, and its blows directed to the outside of the leaf, makes the serrated edges of the leaves. He first holds the piece from which the leaf is made in the tongs and heats and flattens it on the anvil. He forms the center rib in the !eaf by letting that part lap over the edge of the anvil while he flattens the rest of the leaf. "Mr. Cran works entirely from memory, mem-ory, and uses no model. His skill In metal working is said to be greater than that of Van Boeckel himself." FASHIONS ROSEBUDS OF IRON New Jersey Blacksmith Probably the Most Skillful Metal Worker in the World. Louis Van Boeckel. the blacksmith of a small Belgian hamlet, lias won more than local fame by his skill in lashioning flowers from metal by iveans of the tools of his trade. He has an American rival, however, in the person of James Cran, a blacksmith whose smithy is iu Plai n field. N. J. "It Is interesting to watch this smith make a rose." says a writer in the New York Sun. "He first fashions the core, and then forges the smaller petals, hammering the ends out flat. Next, he takes a contrivance shaped like a screw-driver and opens the outer out-er petals first. . . . After hollowing hollow-ing out the petals, he grasps the iron rosebud in a pair of tongs, thrusts it into the fire, and he-ats the stems of the petals. He takes It out of the fire, and hammers the stems into a solid mass. "He forms the larger petals In the same manner, and having thus made the complete rose, he grasps it with larger tongs, heats and hammers It |