Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-11-01
A NOVEL IDEA.
M. PaIacio's Design for a Colossal Monu-
 mont in Memory of Christopher Columbus.

The construction of the Eiffel tower I has awakened the pride of the nations. It | is said that North America proposes to | construct an iron tower which shall be higher than the one in Paris. England also desires to have monumental tower.
 When North America proposed com petition for the construction of tower to be erected at the Universal Exposition of 1892, Spanish architect, native of Bill boa, MT. M. Alberto de Palacio, drew an original design, of which we publish an engraving.
 MT. De Palacio has conceived a most perfect form, the sphere, which could not have been used prior to the knowledge of iron as building material, because only by the modern methods of uniting the various parts, of which this saterial IS susceptible, could sphere be produced with diameter of nearly 1000 feet, that is, equal to the height of the Eiffel tower. This idea symbolizes the geographical completion of the earth which was realized by Christopher Columbus discovery of the New World.
 The following is description of the magnificent design: The colossal sphere is mounted on a base which is 262 feet high, and is crowned at its North Pole by the caravel which carried Columbus to the New World. The monument is bril- liant with the colors of the continents, oceans and islands of the terrestrial sphere 1 The sphere will be encircled at the equator by platform 3,280 feet, or more 1 than half a mile, long An exterior spiral running around the northern hemisphere will form a track nearly two miles long, | leading from the equator to the North | Pole. At night the sphere will be illumi- mated by the lines of light which will form the outlines of the continents and islands, thus casting over the city torrents of refulgent brilliancy The great pyra- nids of Egypt, the Sphinx, and the Colossus could lie in the hollow interior
 like jewels in their case. So much for the exterior aspect.
 An interior track runs around the south
 ern hemisphere from the South Pole to
 the Equator, where it joins the exterior
 spiral. The total length of the spiral is
 nearly four miles, over which the sight
 seer can travel on tramway.
 In the base and under tha majestic
 central rotunda will be placed gigantic
 statue of the great discoverer surrounded
 by the navigators and missionaries who
 rendered his discovery fruitful In tho
 semicircle around this Olympus of heroes
 inclosing the amphitheater, will be ale
 gorical statues representing all tht
 Spanish nations.
 ) In the remaining spaces of the com
 partments in the base large Columbus l library will be distributed; auditorium ], for the cultivation of the natural sciences ? museums of zoology, mineralogy, ant botany of America, rooms for the Spanisl ; Geographical Society, a great maya museum in the interior central compart
 ment, meteorogical observatory in tn hull of the caravel. All this IS indepen dent of the promenades, cafes, an t restaurants for the public.
 5 In the interior the celestial sphere ca 9 be exactly reproduced. It can also b
 used for magnificent panoramas, becaus g the spherical form is the best for obtain t ing illusions of perspective. There wi
 be place for public entertainments.
 This astonishing monument can serv
 as perennial remembrance of the frs Spanish-American and Colonial Expos
 tion.
 MT. Palacio secures the stability of tn
 immense mass by means of 8 simpl 8 method similar to that used for eque n trian statues so that the sphere will [ T able to resist winds of greater force tha b a cyclone.
 t From a business point of view M n Palacio makes the following calculation h One hundred thousand spectators pa, # ing an entrance fee of S1, will bring Sl0( d 0O0 This will replace the capital in e days, without counting the profits of u X cafes, entertainments, etc The estimate
 total cost is $6,000,000.
 3, IEDIsPENsABLE DATA FOR THE ESTIMATE q Diameter of the sphere ....... eS4 it. Il Elevation Of the sphere above the ~ Total height of the monument .l.3l2 1T Surface of the sphere .... S37 ,9S9 So. V 1- Volume ............ ........... Is, ,492 S4l (" l. Length of the equatorial plat o form ;;-.--..,..; ;.-...-. 8,2sO |" ft. 10 Length of the ascending spiral. .I9,6s4 !" 'e Total pressure of the wind of hur- IS ricane against the amount 4, ,30O, ,0on T g. Cost of the sphere and its base $5, ,O59, 200 7 Cost of the machinery, eleya- 7, tors and other accessories s1 24O OO( ie ie The architect, Mir Palacio, is u l49 designer of the movable bridge at Bilbo it it used in connection with the submariI 'J aS railway of Orton on the coast of Spain. ~ La Illustration EspaIlOlay V Amaricana