The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-04-12

The CRYSTAL PALACE AT SYDEEHAM.---It is
well known to the readers of the Scientific
American" that after the Crystal Palace was
ordered to be removed from Hyde Park, in Lon
don, joint stock company was formed, which
bought the whole materials with the intention
of removing them to Sydenham, few miles
from London, and re-erecting them there. The
company is very wealthy and the new will far
surpass the old Crystal Palace in every particu-
lar; it will certainly be wonder equal to some
of those in fairy tales. The building is situated
on the brow of hill, from which on the one
side London and the Thames are distinctly visi-
BILE, and far in the distance, the ocean. The ma
jestic proportions of the building rise from the
sky line of steep hillside and far surpass in
magniicence the structure of Hyde Park. The
building, too, has gained two wings. Towers
rise from the ends of the wings to height of
230 feet. The nave is now Al feet higher than
the old one, and upwards of 100 feet wide
The pillars which support the galleries will be
clothed with creeping plants, and it will lie
painted in such way as to produce the effect
of vast tunnel of rainbows. An immense
collection of rare works of art have been made
by Owen Jones, and Digby Wyatt, who were
employed to traverse Europe in search of arti-
eles Of beauty and rarity, with authority to pur-
chase to the amount of 100000 They return
ed laden with the richest spoiIs of European
art. All the richest and most beautiful gems
of statGary, sculpture, architecture, and paint
ing. are represented.
The nave is to be a splendid conservatory
Flower beds, green banks, trees and shrubs will
entwine their green leaves and lovely crests
amid iron pillars and flowing fountains, the
water OF which is raised from an artesian well
500 feet in depth, and is then forced by means
of an engine into the great reservoir On the Sy-
denham side of the Palace, which is $50 feet
square, and twenty feet deep. Here another en-
CINE drives it into the reservoirs on the SUBMITS
of the towers, $50 feet in height. Such will be
the circulating system of the garden that 2,000
tons of water may be forced Though its entire
frame every minute.
This new Crystal Palace will cost ten times
as much as the one in New York, namely
fl ,000, 900, about $4,000 ,00o before it is fn-
ished, thus showing the vast amount of capital
IN this country. The enterprise is one of the
most original and noble ever conceived.
Perhaps the grandest idea connected with it,
apart from the building itself, is the construc-
ton of huge organ. of such power that its
volume of sound will fill the immense pile
The Directors of the Palace have consulted
committee of gentlemen we'll skilled in the the
ory OF music and sound, who have reported on
the subject The dimensions of an organ capa-
bic of sending its thrilling tones through the
whole structure, will be 180 feet wide, 40 feet
high, and so feet long. The internal construc-
ton will be like that of house in STORIES for
the convenient support of sound-boards and
pipes. The feeder of the bellows will be work.
ed by steam, and this will certainly be new
branch of business for that useful friend of man
the steam engine. Two pipes of the organ
will be 64 feet long, and will resemble huge
chimneys, but they will be of beautiful con-
struction, and form an ornamental frontage to
the instrument This magnificent organ will
cost f25 900, (about s125.O0O,) do not know
whether such an organ will be built because
proposed, but as the DIRECTORS have done so
much on such grand scale, it is. possible they
will not be behind in the music line Scientific
American.