Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-01-10

silver, set into the block. flush with
Bhe surface. On this same level is a
stone from Salt Lake City, with the
beehive carved on the
front. IAe tablets extend to halfway
up the shaft. The last ones are on the
two hundred and forty-foot level. OF
these the highest is that from Wales,
handsome black stone, highly pol
lshed, and bearing an inscription In
the outlandish tongue of the land of
the Cardiff Giant.
The car has long ago passed through
the old portion of the shaft, and is run
ming rs smoothly as at the start
through the neat. exact masonry of the
new work, The dark surface of the
granite is checlered with white
squares, the faces of marble blocks
That extend entirely through the walls
acting as bond TO the masonary. The
corsscrs of the shaft in this portion are
neatly rounded ipstead of being square,
as below. At every fifty feet from the
iloor to the roof there is an elevator
landing, the floors of levels being ex-
tended to meet the car, and guarded by
q nj. :, h latticed gate. These occur on
a. 'Gernate sides, and, the car having a
door in both the east and west sides,
exit from the car is thus provided in
either direction At four hundred and
sixty feet the smooth walls are broken
by the projection of twelve buttresses,
three on each side. These are the rib
stones which support the roof of the
monument At the bottom they extend
about six inches, leaning out more and
more as they go up, until at the top
they project about five feet. The mid
die ones on each side are little in ad-
vance of the others, narrowing more
rapidly to form an arch for the sup.
port OF the capstone. The light from
the incandescent carbon is by this time
beginning to be dimmed by that from
the outside, drifting down from the
windows in the roof. The great wheels
that have been devouring the cables
seem to be falling upon the car, and
suddenly the conductor gives a long
upward pull on the hand-rope and the
car comes to a stop in the midst of a
sheet-iron cage. The air is chilly and
as the passengers step timorously over
the threshold they button their over
coats and turn up their collars.
This upper landing is cold, lonely
place. the abutting ribstones cutting it
up into angular spaces, and the bare
floors and shining white walls tending
to give it a lonesome air. On each side
two oblong windows give views into
the atmosphere and down upon the
Aattened earth. The world looks big
ger than one thought it to be; it
stretches away on every hand to melt
ing blue horizon, family outlined, with
here and there hilltop intruding its
sharp point as if in claim of recogni.
tion as part of the scene. On the
south side the Potomac reaches down
toward the sea; silent and steadfast,
Immediately beneath lie like a map the
flats of the river 'front.' with dredges al
work here and there. A steamer is
crawling down stream at slow pace
and the shipping thinly scattered along
the wharves is silent, as If ashamed o
its scarcity.
From the west windows magnifi
cent view is obtained of the Virginis
shore, with Arlington showing like ;
yellow spot to mark the resting place
of the soldier dead. The Potoma,
drifts out of sight around bend, ant
then appears again for moment will
flash. The haze that softens thu
horizon makes it almost impossible t.
discern the peak of Sugar Loaf, thir
ty-eight miles away in the northwest
ern sky, but after a moments search
appears, the summit seemingly float
ing in the atmosphere. The northern
view is first mass of houses, dull RET
in tone, enlivened by patch OF whit
or light brown here and there, wit
certain streets shooting straight ou
from beneath until their convergip
lines lose themselves. Beyond th
houses are the heights, marred at in
tervals by great red patches of expose
earth, marking the course of the Aque
duct tunnel. OFF to the right, just be
low the Soldiers Home, is larg
patch, the walls and banks of the me-
, reservoir. A country road some mile
, out suddenly climbs hill and show
itself through the tees, like stead
; column of yellow smoke.
, The city proper is best seen from tn
east. From the base of the shaft to th
: Capitol, standing like a Chinese wal
, the mall stretches in a charming su'
( cession of groves, graceful pathway
, and ornamental structures. Th
l Smithsonian Park is gorgeous Her
: and there some more forward tree h;
e declSed itself in gaudy array and flame
: out in the midst of the softer green an
h brown of its neighbors. The pictul
, is marred, however, by line OF smol
n and steam from the railroad cuttir
: across the middle of the park.
The spectators are awed, surprised
n chilled into silence, and they occasion
IS ally glance upward at the maze
p stones in the roof, the convergir
q arches, and the seemingly light. ali
Il mode of construction. and then shu
/ der slightly and hurry into the ca
q Some take of their hats and put the
-e heads through the windows, exclail
m ing at the dwarfed appearance OF t
p workmen on the mound below. al
,e then looking up toward the cap-ston
A. wondering at the multitude OF hgl
n ning-rod points which cover each
N the four triangles of the roof. L