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railroad line. The shop is of sufficient height and dimensions, being about 200 feet in length, and provided with iron girders for hoisting our statuary. The railroad tracks enter the building and will thus facilitate transportation. The shop is so located that it may be conveniently reached by the assistants employed. It also has excellent light. In this shop we have erected a number of pointing machines, the invention of Mr. Robert T. Paine, which will secure for us exactness and a speed of reproduction that would otherwise be difficult if not impossible to attain. Most of the sculptors who have been entrusted with commissions for original work have promised to assist in this workshop. Though the work there will be chiefly of a mechanical nature, the unusual proportions and character of it are a strong impetus for the younger members of our profession to come and gain experience, and I have reasons to expect that the occupants of this building will not be mere mechanics but artists highly interested in their work. I have appointed as their foreman Mr. Gustav Gerlach, who has assisted me most effectually on former occasions and has had unusual experience through his work in connection with the Chicago and Buffalo Expositions. In the near future I shall, however, be obliged to establish another shop perhaps in St. Louis, for making such figures as could hardly be transported by reason of their size, for making the replicas, and for placing the statuary upon the buildings and the pedestals. In regard to this I will report to you in due time.

I hope I have herein made clear to you my mode of procedure in all its essential details, and I would request you please to give your opinion as to the feasibility and propriety of my plan in the report, which I would ask you to address to the authorities of the St. Louis Exposition.

I am,

RESPECTFULLY YOURS,

CHIEF OF DEPARTMENT OF SCULPTURE,
ST. LOUIS WORLD'S FAIR