Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-07
A UNIQUE SUGGESTION.

That IS unique suggestion made by correspondent of the New York Evening Post in regard to site for the proposed worlds fair. It is no less than that the fair be located in New York harbor where he would have constructed great marine city for the purposes of the exposition.
 The Posts correspondent is believed to be MT O. B. Bunce, the author and member of the book publication house of D. Appleton & Co, who has already identified himself with certain enterprises which combine the aesthetic with the prac- tical. He had a project for living on house roofs among elevated gardens ally approximated in the very high build ings for apartment houses now frequent in New York. His arguments for placing the fair in the harbor will, therefore, be regarded as somewhat less chimerical than if broached by an equally imaginative man who had less conception of and less genius for the severely practical. Mir Bunce answers the natural objections to his plan in this manner :: ''The magnificent new sound steamer the Puritan reveals to us what can be done ill this direction The Puritan is four hundred feet long by nearly one hundred feet wide. Let us imagine an chored in the bay fleet of twenty barges twice this length and twice this width, each built upon double bottoms, all so placed as to form, by adequate connec- tions, continuous structure, furnished with ample landing stages, and surmounted hy edifices of appropriate design. Twenty barges of the size mentioned would give an area double that of the Philadelphia build ings." In reply to the question where this structure could be placed, he con- tinues: 'There is long stretch of shallow water to the right of Bedloe's island, toward the Jersey shore. Here our fleet could be anchored, close to but little apart from the tides of traffic, and not more than fifteen minutes sail from the city" It is urged that this would be a feature which ill grandeur and originality would surpass the Eiffel tower; and there is little doubt, indeed, that it would. MT Bunce admits that the expense would be very great, but claims that the excess in this respect over other methods would be but small matter, as it might be ex- pected would seem the case with mind capable of such a conception The en- thusiastio author of the scheme closes his suggestions with this rhetorical rhapsody |: "What magnificent picture it would make in our great bay by day and by night! We may trust to our architects to plan for us something lofty and noble, made splen- did by towers, minarets and domes, just as we may trust our engineers to anchor the fleet in such manner that no assault of wind or wave common to our harbor could disturb it. What Q vision of beauty it would be-a new industrial Venice, a marvellous city of the sea, more strangely beautiful than any architectural dream of poet or painter And it can be done if we only believe 1t can be done."
 It would, indeed, be @ magnificent picture of the daring enterprise of Amer ican genius. And it would lend Q picturesqueness to the whole project that no other method of location or design could hope to impart. MT Bunce's sug Q0etiOn miUhf well in1uoo ipvouf;oo%;op