New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-27

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Il Il FISK, Fisk :: .: 80: - -:
George w. Janyer.
Through THE Herald" Observation-Disclosures. 1165
Previously subscribed 55i 3o1
Total TO seS3 SIS
One OF the most interesting features connected with
Yesterdays subscriptions the manner In which
$1,000 raised the floor OF the Consolidated Ex
change. quarter OF an hour before the close Of
the board the subscription book put out and In
exactly fifteen minutes fifteen members had walked
up and signed the book for 800 each The names Of
these fifteen subscribers found In tho list already
given, beginning with that of c. G. Wilson. It
seems to be an implied rule that the subscription shall
close the board each day at p M, otherwise adj
dtiona might have been secured yesterday.
Many others doubtless will be added during the
coming week.
Committeeman regard yesterdays subscriptions o.
encouraging inasmuch the day was half holiday
and the weather most execrable. That the fund has
had excellent start Is shown by a comparison OF
the subscriptions with the pledges given
at the meeting of the General Committee on
October 10. At that meeting sums were pledged
amounting to s365,0OO. OF this amount, ss5 900
has been transferred regularly to the books leaving
S2700OO stl pledged but not yet regularly entered
under the binding provision of the Finance Com
mittee. There is no doubt that the entire amount
remaining pledged Will be formally subscribed during
the coming week. and it is therefore reasonable 10
compute the aggregate progress toward the guarantee
fund as having reached the sum of So53, ,345, or
nearly one1fh Of the entire amount required within
three days Of the formal opening Of the books.
This progress IS all the gratifying. when 10
is considered that only one Of the many great trans
portation companies centring in tho city has sub
scrbed. The impression prevails that number Of
the large railway corporations banking institutions
and industrial branches of trade holding back
with the purpose of allowing the minor contributions
TO come in first, and then to fiji up and overflow tho
fund with their larger subscriptions. That the entire
amount required Will be secured within this week
seems TO be settled conviction at the several head
quarters of the Fair committees.
meeting Of the Executive Committee % the
Committee on Permanent Organization was held at
the office of John NJ. Bowers No "a william.st.
yesterday afternoon. To this committee had been
referred the letter Of Samuel d. Babcock to Mayor
Grant advocating the appointment of a subcommittee
to solicit subscriptions from the various mercantile
and industrial trades Of the city. The proposition
met with much opposition the ground that every
body knew the necessity for subscribing promptly.
and that to appoint solicitors would be 10 acknowl-
edge that the project needed booming. Although
the committee remained IN session until late in tho
avening, conclusion reached report,
however, Will be presented by the subcommittee TO
the latter at City Hall Wednesday afternoon.
If an international exposition is held In this coonty
in 1892, OF the features VIII be tower That Is
settled 1t Will not be an Imitation OF the Elhel
Tower, but the execution of an original American
idea from which the Efel Tower appropriated.
IL is well known that when the plans were being
prepared for the Centennial Exhibition OF 1876 Presl-
feet high. The committee having the project under
control hestatGd for long time HdsGGea ems Hn
Finally the decision was promulgated In favor OF
the great marble structure that now strands as
Memorial Hall upon one of the prettest bluffs In
4 few days ago Commodore A. F. Bateman ssn.
IN the Worlds Fair Committee through Mayor Grant
a design by W. l.. Judson of a great tower when
it was intended should become part Of the pT0possd
Fair Since them it has been learned, Worlds
Fair Tower company has been organized for the
purpose of carrying out this design, which emoodcs
many new ideas. we'll some OF the original
featnres of the Bonzan0 conception. The company
has been organized with capital stock OF s3.SoOUo
ihree-fourtbs of which has already been subscriosd
for. The Phoenix Bridge Company was requested h
submit estimates, and President Bonzano agreed 70
build the tower for S2. 10000, the amount OF me
canital stock and to subscribe In the name Of his
company for a large block Of the shares,
decIaTe that Il makes no difference to them in what
city the Exposition Is held-whether it be New.fork
Washington or Chicago-the tower will be built just
The same II Is proposed 10 build the structure within
The EXPOSITION grounds il possible without expense to
purchased ba OUTSIDE Of he Exposition limits and tn,
Tower erected thereon and operated as separate and
sn'i msnV new features as p make It impos 10 call
Il an imitation OF the Eiife or any other tower ever
erected
The tower as projected is to be 1000 feet high.
From a base OF solid masonry 400 feet IN diameter.
into which the ten main trellised uprights i'm
bedde1. the structure rises win gradually convers-
ing incline toward the apex. which has diameter Of
and from tres TO trellis giving all sides uniform
support and strength almost incaculable J!
proposed to ascend the tower in two ways ono oi
these IS by carriage driveway, which encrcles tbs
inner eNtTemities Of the structure. with an
ascent of eight feet in each one hundrd.
This roadway will be seventy-hve feet wide at ne
four carriages abreast 10 pass up or down or tun
at any point. The driveway encrcles the tower ssv.
eneen times, the distance from base 70 apex oolns
3.76 miles. The ascent is 50 gradual that eams va"
From the opposite side OF the base rom wncn ING
driveway starts beclns car taHK ,. Will 49, hoss
around seventeen times nom base 10 . 70 be rn AZ
one baf minnte beadway cars capable OF seating sixty
persons each operated by ihs Jaasoh pntr1s,o 10
system. This system dI,ed Is me by sthssdless
which cars, are prOpsliIsa OepssiSated that ss,4co
persons can be carried daily n The & cars e the toS
Of the tower and th.y the 20 This revenue II costs
bicycles would Sad The "a Eir. Tower In elevator
whereas Il Is proposed TO ohTsv o. % 90 20 So :" pri h1
TOP OF the yassenrers are crowded into an uncom-
trh, Elevator car seeing nothing upti the top
IS reached while IN he on ore M 40
@ Sn The traction or the carriages. AT various
nont on the way up II Is proposed to have stations
for reslsTsn,s and Tr siyRsl station 'p
III The ststement thai tho subs ts'riptlon book sent 10
The Evening Post" was returned 10
the Finance Committee without cx.
with the book was that no subscriptions would bs
received by That paper as long as there was any
prospect OF Central Park bstpg included wthA The
Fair sitA