Daily American organ., 1856-08-12
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAPIToL EXTENSION The following items are
copied from the statement of Captain M, Q. Meigs,
the engineer in charge of the Capitol extension;
Total cost per window for work and materials In.
Guiding setting, handling, saperintendence, and
every expense, 81, ,e69s The total cost Of win
dow, as originally designed, was Ss2z 90 Thus II
appears the windows have been doubled In cost
The increase is not so much due, Captain Meigs
says to any alteration in design as 10 an alteration
in the mode of construction, and adds, If the OBJ
ject of Congress was TO provide accommodations at
the least expense, a plain brick building would
have been the most appropriate, as they directed
the erection Of a white marble building in the high
eat and richest style of architecture, have sup
posed the best and most durable construction was
desirable. 8 r
In answer 20 the question, how much are the
plaster casts for the bronze front door TO cost and
how much viii be the cost of the doors to be exc
cuted from them Capt. Meigs replies, the design
and plaster casts viii cost $60o0 the door, if cast
and chased in the Munich foundry, 81 900; freight
say $200--total, $4,000. IL executed in this
country, the cost of the bronze viii be probably
somewhat greater The door which will separate
the old Representative chamber from the corridor
of entrance into the south wing and the new Rep
resentatve chamber will be of bronze. The design
and modelling will cost $S, 900 !; the bronze work
is estimated at 90, ,2l6--total, $l4,4l6. Those of
the Baptista at Florence, by Ghibuts the most per-
feet and the most celebrated in the world, are en-
tipely of bconze, and it is proposed to follow this
the most perfect example.
Mr. Crawford has been paid for the designs and
models of the last pediment north wing and of
the figures to go over the east door of that wing,
fourteen figures and accessories, 100000 He is
TO receive for the designs and models of the east
ern door, north wing, $4,000; eastern door, south
wing, SO, 600; design and model to crown the new
dome of the Capitol $4,000; total for fifteen
figures and two doors, $4,000.
Mr. Randolph Rodgers is to receive for the de-
sign and model of one large door, the model to be
executed in Italy and the casting in this country,
$4,000. Mr.. Butler is to receive for the design
and models for mantel for the Senate receiving
room, $500. 1t is to be executed in bronze and
marble here. @h HEtA
As to sculpture to be introduced in the exten-
sion of the Post Office building, Captain Meigs says
the principal gate into the building is an arch, in
the ordinary form of triumphal arches, and the
span, drill, and keystones will be decorated with
sculpture in the usual style of such principal en-
frances The design embraces mask OF Fidelity,
with the usual emblems on the Keystone, and
winged figures in the spandris, representing steam
and electricity as the gen of the railroad and tel
egraph. They are nearly completed in marble
They are smaller than life size they will cost, com
pleted, 5000. In conclusion he says The au-
thority of law for it is the appropriation for erect
ing the building, which is understood as directing
the details to be carried out, in manner CORE
spending with the general richness of the archi-
lecture If nothing were to be put in the building
not on the plans it would be necessary to build it
without floors, hinges, locks, window sash, or roof
The scratch of pen upon an architectural eleva-.
ton may indicate work which, executed in marble
from detailed studies, may cost ten thousand dol
lars" ng aUsr"agH -'sn@ F.. @aaa
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