River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-07
UNITED STATES COAST LINE BATTLE SHIP.

battle-ship that will cost So, 900, 600.
4 The materials of construction will be
brick, iron and wood, and plaster will
| be combined with paint in effective
imitation of iron and steel Upon this
model ship there will be mounted fifty
guns of all calibers, from the great IS
inch monster. that carries projectile
weighing /, 100 pounds to the 1-pounder
rapid-fire guns and the gatlings.
/ Everything appertaining to the fully
equipped battle-ship will be seen in its
proper place. Turrets, torpedo-boats,
torpedo nets and booms, boats, anchors,
chain-cables, davits, awnings, deck
fittings, and the appliances for working
eli of these things, will be shown. The
1s.inch guns, of which there are four.
will be models, as the real gun and
carriage weighs rs tons, and would
require building of great strength for
support Officers and seamen and
marines will be detailed to illustrate
the discipline and mode of life on ship
board. The super-structure will show
the cabins, staterooms, messrooms,
galley, mess-tables for the crew.
lockers and other fittings. There will
be opportunity to exhibit on the berth
deck the machinery By which the ship
will be ope rated, charts, and instru-
ments of navigation, ordnance imple
ments. including electrical devices,
gun-carriage, motors, range-tinders,
models of type ships, and samples of
provisions, clothing, bunting, signals
and figs. There will also be portraits
of naval heroes from the time of Paul
Jones to Farragut, Foote and Porter,
and the costumes of the navy from 177I
to the present time will be worn by the
attendants.
The directors of the exposition con
tinue to receive hundreds of plans for
extraordinary buildings, some of
which viii be erected by private enter
prise They will add materially to the
interest of the great show and become
permanent attractions.
Among other clever ideas Mr.. j. Il.
Holpenny, of Chicago, has submitted
plan for a huge leaning cantilever
tower, 225 feet in height and 20 feet
square, to be built of steel, weighing
500 tons and costing $500, 900. The
tower, according to his statement, will
support 100, 600 pounds in weight on the
top story, which will lean 100 feet from
the perpendicular. This tower, he
claims, could be built in eight months,
including the shop work and erection.
The plan is for the tower to be in the
form of a gigantic letter L., of which the
lower part acts as a foot to counterfeit
the lean of the superstructure. He
saws the framework is of steel truss
construction, forming a huge cantilever
t.irr ~
which combines for support sub
structure of metal The tower frame
and 81 bstructure as whole resem-
bles the letter l., making in principle
an immense unyieldiug l. of which the
lower part acts as foot or offset to
counter the lean of superstructure. The
depth of the substructure is as feet, area
165 by 115 feet. The construction of
the foundation is chiefly of plate-riv-
eted iron girder work, imbedded in con-
crete, which forms solid bed about IS
feet deep. This girder-conerete founda-
ton has the characteristic of being CO
tinuous in structure and rigid through
out. and is especially designed for
building on yielding substrata, such as
the deep clay of Chicago.~ On
the girder work there are bolted
steel-bearing plates, and on these
plates the massive truss foot
of the cantilever rests. This
foot at the left side will be attached to
the metal parts of the bed by large
steel pins and eye bars, but these con-
nections will not be brought into play
unless the tower is heavily loaded. In
the superstlucture three lines OF trusses
constitute the main supports; two form
sides of the tower, the third has mid
die position and lateral truss system