The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-02-02
From the n. Y. Evening Pos
TRINITY CHIMES.

Two hundred and eighteen feet
above the pupy nortals on the side
walk beneath, but who from that vast
height look like crawling insects-in
a perfect wilderness of huge dust
covered beams Of wood and braces of
iron, hang the crest bells which make
the chimes of Trinity Church. Few
persons who having ears to hear have
for thirty years visited New York
without listening delightedly to the
noble music that rings forth every
hour from the lofty spire of Trinity
and of all the many millions who
have heard these bells probably not a
dozen score know anything Of their
history, their size, or their capab:li
ties,
Trinity Church spire, from the
street level TO the top of the golden
cross that surmounts it, is 2S4 feet
high. Tie esger climber, in his pur
suit of knowledge under difficulties,
can only achieve the outlooking plat
torn, which is at height of $50 feet
from the ground. and which is reached
by various flights OF ordinary steps
concluding with narrow stairwsv,
which in a darkened tower winds
about a central sIone pillar for the
ST hundred feet or so. The whole
number of steps and stairs TO be
overcome Is sos. and the last so or
100 are SO nearly straight up and
down as to be exceedingly fatiguing.
Indeed, taking in:o consideration the
narrowness OF the tower, its darkness,
and the short steps sharply curving
round 4 central stem, an imaginative
man might fancy himself in the bot
tom of huge stone bottle trying to
crawl out by the coTkscrew.
The climb is well worth the while
of almost any man Of reasonable
avoirdupois for ones-for from his
high elevation a magnificent view of
the city is obtained, while its whole
suburbs and surroundings are laid out
before him as msp unrol!ed at his
feet. Not only are the cities OF New
York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and all
the scores of cottages that circle
round eacl within his view, but the
eye OF the beholder can glsnce north
through the city 10 the rural shaces
of Wesjchester ard Connecticut /;
eastward he can look clear over Loaa
Island to the sea beyond; turning
his eyes southwark it takes in Gov
erncr's, Staten, Bedloe's and Gibbet
Islam and then sees through the
Narrows the road Atlantic in the
distance, while on the west and north
again be overlooks the gcodly towns
near New Jersey-Newark, Jersey
City, Orsnge, Weehawken, Union
City, Communipaw and the others !;
and rests upon the grand old Psi
sades snd the Catskill Mountains a'ar
off, with the silvery Hudson CLEAN
ing a. their feet, as it rushes onward
past the great city to the greater sea
This is the "Visitors' Platform -
above it twenty five feet in the clock
tower, through the circular windows
of which the four large dials look to-
ward the four cardinal points of the
compass. Th.se dials are accessible
By mechanics, who in case of accident
to the hands of the clock face, can
with much toll reach them by means
of ladders. Above this still tower
the spire and cross, far above the
reach of any save the most adventu-
rous climber, and only necessary to
be reached in the case of some
unusual and unforeseen accident. a
number of years ago the cross was
struck by lightning, and for some