The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-01-08
SOME TALL CHIMNEYS.
Towering Smoke-Stacks That Rival tn
Worlds Highest Spires.

Worlds Highest Spires.
The tallest chimney in the United
States is claimed by Kearncy, near
Newark, n. j., it being $50 feet high, 20
feet in diameter at the base, and con-
tanning no less than 1857, 600 bricks.
Enormous as some of the American
smoke-stacks are, they are but pigmies
besides those in the ''old country"
! Scotch and English chimneys, it seems,
are famous for their cloud-reaching
pecllliarities. At the Dobson & Barlow
Mills, Bolton, England, there is an
octagon stack $685. feet in height and
| over 80 feet in diameter at the base.
Glasgow, Scotland, is famous for its
tall chimneys. Tenant & Co. have one
which runs up S55ll feet, with a base
of 50 feet while the great Townshend
stack, in the same city, towers
! 1853 feet into the air from the founda
! ton, with big base measuring 50 feet
in diameter. This is generally spoken
| OF as the tallest chimney in the world,
although the men of Paisley declare
that they have one 500 feet high. In
Halifax, England, there is an octagon
| tower rising 3St feet, with base of 80
feet and weighing 10, 900 tons In Brad
| ford there is a stone shaft rising 800 feet
above the ground, being feet at the
summit. AT the shell foundry of Wool
witch Arsenal there is a chimney 223 feet
above the ground and 16 feet below it,
with a Portland stone cap weighing
seventeen tons. The West Cumberland
Iron Works have one 251 feet high, and
at the Dundee Linen Works there is one
rising 2S2 feet from the ground. At the
Edinburgh Gas Works there is one ris-
ing 341 feet into the air, and Huddersfeld
has circular shaft of 32l feet. In
France the tallest smoke-stacks are
built of iron, the most notable being two
at the Crusot works, one being 1877 feet
high and the other 279 feet Liverpool,
too, has one cloud TOUGHER in the shape
of chimney at Musprats works 400 feet
high.
Taken by themselves these attitudes
do not, perhaps, convey any very strik-
ing idea to the reader, but when placed
in comparison with the height of other
structures it will be seen that they rank
among the highest constructions in the
world In fact, there are but two or
three OF the remarkable columns, monu-
ments, towers, etc., that lift their heads
above tho highest of these chimneys.
The Washington monument is only IS
feet higher than the Paisley chimney,
and only one pyramid, that of Cheops, is
higher than the Townshend smoke
stack in Glasgow. The Bartholdi statue,
which is 500 feet high, is II feet
shorter than the chimney of the
Edinburgh Gas Works, while the towers
of Notre Dame, Paris; the porce-
lain tower, China; the spire of Trinity
Church, New York, and the lofty tower
of st. Botolph's Church, Boston, Eli
gland, are all exceeded in height by the
Bradford stone shaft. The City lfall
tower, Philadelphia, is only 81 feet
higher than b., Paisley smoke-stack,
while Dobson & Barlow's chimney is
nearly twice as high as the leaning
tower of Pisa, and is so feet higher
than the dome of the Capitol at Wash
ington. The Bunker Hill monument is
overtopped 80 feet by the West Cumber-
land chimney, and the Woolwich Arse
nal smoke-stack lacks only feet of be-
ing twice as high as Pompey's pillar
| Boston Globe,