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Show CANDLE MADE TO BURN FOUR YEARS AND SEVEN MONTHS Now York, April 19. Tho largest candle ever manufactured Is dstlned to burn four years and seven months In memory of Joseph Pctroslno. tho New York detective who was assassinated while on a Bccret ml6slin to Italy. It was finished the day Petroslno's body-reached body-reached America and was sent to the pro-cathedral In Mott street where the funeral took place a few days later and where It was designated that the great candle should burn continuously In memory of the slain officer. But threats to dynamite tho church if the candle was kept there were ro-celved ro-celved and it was hurriedly returned to the firm which 'made ft. It now awaits tho disposal of the widow who Is making arrangements to havo It sent to her husband'B birth place In Italy and there enshrined. The candle is nine feet high and three feet six inches In circumference. circumfer-ence. It weighs 17S pounds and Is almost al-most completely covered with 14 carat gold leaf. Its 'composition is Austria bces-wajc to which a slow burning substance sub-stance has been added. It cost $350 and Is the present of the manufacturers, manufactur-ers, in whose home Pctroslno lived when a boy. They computed that It would burn within ten hours of four years and seven months. |