Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-05-11

tower saws Mr.. Kinkel, Will DE lts nighty
,',.onortions The main entrances VIII DE
aannroached by four large portlcoes with
r,ppir,;l;ons These will open into large
pp,,hi;c lobby surrounding a dome l92 feet
r diameter and about the same height.
This Lobby and rotunda will contain foor
surface OF more than $4,000 square teet.
From the lobby four large platform STAR,
WAYS and four l0xlO elevators VIII
lead to the upper parts. Inc pm,
cipal frame construction OF the lower WIN
be steel, and the stress upon IL VIII DC hoV
more than 1880 pounds TO the SQUARE
inch. with maximum WIND pressure Vi
not less than sixty pounds 10 the square
inch On the ground floor there will be, be-
sides Hobbies and rotunda, twelve large
rooms. each having about 4,OOO square
feet of surface space, to be used for res
taurants. bazars, etc. From this floor
the four large elevators, capable OF car
rying comfortably fifty persons eacn,
will raise their loads at the rate OF 2oO
feet a minute to the second floor, wnlch
will contain twelve rooms similar 10
those on the ground floor. The second
four elevators will be a little smaller and
will raise their loads 100 feet higher than
the first ones The third four eleva-
tors will lift 200 feet higher than the sec
ond, and here at the top floor two elevators,
6x6 feet, will take passengers at the same
rate of speed TO the top of the tower. 80,
The globe at the apex of the tower Will
be twenty. five feet in diameter and will be
formed of prismatic glass containing SIN
teen powerful electric lights, which may be
seen at distance of about fifty miles. On
all the outside balconies, which will sur
round the tower at intervals OF 100 feet,
there will be strings of electric lamps with
globes of varying colors.
Some idea of the immensely of the tower
NAV be gained from few of the estimates
of its cost. The steel for the framework,
for example, will cost S439,0O0. 1t will
weigh 5, 80 tons The foundation of gran
tie. croncrete and brick will cost SS4.OOO.
The cast iron ornamentation and foot plates
will weigh $3.50 tons and will cost S23s, 600,
while the galvanized and corrugated sheet
iron, copper, etc, will add Sl2O,OOO. IL Will
cost S75, 900 to provide lamps for the tower
and Sl5, 900 for lightning rods. The glazing
will cost $50 900, the painting $4,000. The
staircases alone will cost $4,000 The en-
tire cost of the tower will be 81 ,6S7 900
Mr.. Knkel is now engaged upon another
tower-One which he says will. eclipse this
one if it is ever erected. He is rather reti-
cent about this last one, but by putting this
and that together, and by pressing Mr.. Kin
KEEL little closer with questions / learned
that some New York capitalists who are
not quite content to let Chicago have all the
glory and profit of Columbus discovery
of America have resolved to erect Co
lumbus tower in Central Park, and have
inspired Mr.. Kinkel TO set himself to
work on the plan of it. Mr.. Kinkle says
that in view of the fact that the discovery
was made in 1892, the tower commemora-
two IF tbat no 14try feet llRl
How far the arrangements for this tower
have progressed / can not say, but Mr.. ID.
w. c. Ward, the secretary of the Abbott
Manufacturing Company, has been over
from New York two or three times TO see
Mr.. Kinkle about it, and Mr.. Kinkle is
now hard at work on the plans.
WILLIS B. HAWKINS.