River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-09
SOME TALL cHlMNEYs.
Towering Smoke-Stacks That Rival the
Worlds Highest Spires.

Worids highest Spires.
The tallest chimney in the United
States is claimed by Kearney. near
Newark, n. j., it being 1856 feet high, %
ieet in diameter at the base. and con-
aiming no less than 1867, 900 bricks.
Enormous as some of the American
moke-stacks are, they are but pigmies
besides those in the ''old country"
scotch and English chimneys, it seems.
ire famoaa for their cloud-reaching
oeculiaritiSs. At the Dobson & Barlow
Mills, Bolton, England, there is an
Sctagon stack $685. feet in height and
over SO feet in diameter at the base.
Glasgow, Scotland, is famous for its
all chimneys. Tenant q Co. have one
which runs up 3551< feet, with base
If 80 feet, while the great Townshend
stack, in the same city, towers
i6S feet into the air from the founda-
ion, with big base measuring 80 feet
IN diameter. This is generally spoken
If 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 SS1 feet, with base of so
feet and weighing 10000 tons. In Brad
ford there is a stone shaft rising 500 feet
above the ground, being feet at the
summit. At the shell foundry of WOOL
wich Arsenal there is chimney 22S feet
above the ground and Is feet below 1t,
with a Portland stone cap weighing
seventeen tons. The West Cumberland
Iron Works have one PSI 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 34l feet into the air, and Huddersfeld
has a circular shaft of 32t feet In
France the tallest suloSe-stacks are
built of iron, the most notable being two
at the Crusot works, one being 1917 feet
high and the other 279 feet. Liverpool,
too, has one eloud-toucher in the shape
Of chimney at Musprat's works 400 feet
high.
Taken BY themselves these attitudes
10 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 the highest of these chimneys.
The Washington monument is only 55
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 329 feet high, is IL 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, En-
gland, are all exceeded in height by the
Bradford stone shaft. The City Hall
tower, Philadelphia, is only 81 feet
higher than the 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 so feet by the West Cumber-
land chimney, ana the Woolwich Arse
nal smoke-stack lacks only feet of be-
ing twice as high as Pompey's pillar
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