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Grand Rapids Morning Telegram
Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan
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In New York, complaints arise that subscriptions for the Bartholdi statue pedestal come mostly from poor and middle classes, with the rich and society, including the Seventh Regiment, showing indifference. Unveiling delayed by about a year; statue made of copper sheets, initially gold-like color turning dark reddish brown.
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It Will Be a Full Year Before it Will Be Unveiled.
New York, June 18.—Complaint is made that the subscriptions for the Bartholdi pedestal have come almost entirely from the poor and middle classes, the rich, as a rule, resisting all appeals. A member of the American committee said to-day: "It has been simply impossible to interest society in the statue project. We could not make it a social matter. The indifference of the crack Seventh Regiment has been especially vexatious." It will probably be a year before the statue will be ready for unveiling. After the pedestal is finished, three full months will be required to put the three hundred sheets of copper together that make up the completed statue. Upon its completion the statue will be of bright, gold-like color, such as that of new penny metal, pure copper and not bronze, so that it will have a strong reddish instead of a yellowish tinge. The elements will, however, in a year or two, cause the statue to take on its permanent color—a dark reddish brown.
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New York
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June 18
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it will probably be a year before the statue will be ready for unveiling. after the pedestal is finished, three full months will be required to put the three hundred sheets of copper together. upon completion, the statue will be bright gold-like color, turning dark reddish brown in a year or two.
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Complaint is made that the subscriptions for the Bartholdi pedestal have come almost entirely from the poor and middle classes, the rich resisting appeals. A member of the American committee said it has been impossible to interest society in the statue project, unable to make it a social matter, with the indifference of the Seventh Regiment especially vexatious.