Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-13

6tronE-Limbed Visitors with Lanterns
10 be Admitted to the Monument.

The WINDING IRON STAIRWAY NEARLY COM
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NEEDED Fol, COM
PLETING THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IN
THE STRUCTURE CAUSED By HEAT AND GOLD
A force OF workmen is still engaged in CON-
strueting the iron stairway in the interior OF
tne W ashington monument, and il will be
completed in less than q month. There will
then be facilities for ascending the monument
without the elevator. The public have been
denied access 10 the monument for several
months, because the elevator was no, running
regularly. Formerly visitors could be taken up
on the elevator, as IL was daily used for carry
Ing up wOrkmen and material for constructing
the monument Provision was made only tor
running IL on business, but visitors could be
taken along without extra expense. When
the work ceased the elev ator stopped its trims
until Congress should make an appropriation
for running IL for the exclusive benefit of the
lars. No
In the mean time, however the iron stairway
winding around the interior framework was
begun, ana is now nearly completed When in
Is finished liraited number of passes will be
1ve-hUndred-Ioot level, provided however they
supply themselves
WITH LANTERNS.
Not ray OF light enters the monument except
through the single door at the base and the
little windows on the roof so that a rnIsstep In
Tie darkness might prove disastrous Passes
Viii therefore be issued only to- those who are
Able 10 light their own path. All the provisions
nrGcting the monument. Now that 1t is COM
pieted, appropriations will have 10 De made for
senienL At the same time money will be
eeeded tor lighting 10 and furnishing other
facilities Tor VISITORS who regard IL one OF the
principal things TO be seen and visited at the
capital
Col. Casey the other day, that the ton OF the
md pfper
account Of the heat of the SUM-
never made such a statement" was the
reply; fhat Is carrying the thing a little too
Tar j do say however that the. TOD OF the
monument moves with the seasons. that Is in
t 10 summer II swings little To the north and
In The winter 10 the south When You consider
that the distance travelled Is not more than
three sixteenths OF aa inch, however, it can
scarcely DC called mOYe ment. There is move
ment in every thing, for that matter and il can
De made appreciaoe only when the testing in
struments are Oh such delicate nature 10 be
able 10 measure IT, The swinging plumb bobs.
now several hundred feet long, which were
used continually as the monument was in
course OF construction, informed us of any
movement IN the structure. There was ALWAYS
movement as the weight increased, but il set
tied evenly. The roof OF the monument is only
few inches in thickness and will readily re-
spond TO either heat or cold, while the BODY o,
the shat Is so thick that temperature has little
or NO effect upon H. 1t Is not surprising at all
that the top will move slightly by contraction
or expansion, but the movement can be distiu.
Euished only by the
MOST DELICATE MEASUREMENTS.
II Is the same way with everything around us
Take that wall over there" pointing 10 the
State, War and Navy department building
"fou may md little crack in winter between
a couple OF the stones. They have contracted
Look Tor IL again In the summer and you can
end It, The stones have expanded and closed
IL up nicely, unless some dirt collected in the
crack, and then tue mortar cement between
The stones has been crumbled by the expansion
This movement OF the monumen t can scarcely
be called such In the common acceptance OF Tn.
term for IL doesn't travel d distance as great a
hall the width oil your little finger nail"
DIsESTABLIsHNENT Nor FAR OFF-A Lon
don dispatch says: The liberal press, refiectins
She real opinion and purposes of the liberal ma
jority in the house, predict that disestablish
ent Is eertaain 20 be considered in the ne XII par
hAmen. and a ball passed severing the ofifcia
connection bet1ee state and church.