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THE RAILROADS.

An Immense Bronze.

The largest bronze casting even at tempted in America, says the New York Times of Aug. 10, was made at E. FAry's works, on Forsyth street, yesterday. It is the mammoth buffalo head designed by Kemeys, the sculptor for the east portal of the new Union Pacific bridge across the Missouri at Omaha, the model of which has long attracted attention in one of Tiffany's windows.

The head measures 9 by 5 feet, the box containing the sand and plaster mold was 22 by 22 by 26 feet. Some of the bronze manufacturers had said such a huge casting could not be made at all, so Mr. Favy received many hearty congratulations from the represetatives of various bronze casters who had gathered to witness his experiment.

Three small orncibles of molten metal were first poured into the mold. The clouds of steam rising from white hot pool, the half-nude attendants and the rapidly rising temperature in the little shop made a realistic reproduction of the regions where Orphens went wife hunting. The gas vents in the mold were lighted, the fiery stream from the big crucible was started and in three minutes the casting was a success so far as any one can tell until the molds are removed on Saturday. The little shop the expects to exhibit a bigger buffalo than Buffalo bill ever saw, and when the mammoth creature rises on a great stone arch, guarding the plains that once were his own, it promises to be an imposing and worthy example of American art.

This will not be the only copy of the figure, however. A firm of elctrotypers have undertaken to make a reproduction from the cast, and if they succeed it will be an even more remarkable mechanical acheivement than the bronze casting.