The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1891-07-17

not had the opportunity of investiga-
ton would be amazed to see the con-
structions in artificial stone which have
taken place in the last decade. The
magnitude of these works would as
found the old Roman engineers, whose
works are historic.
Tho Vaune aqueduct, thirty-sevcn
miles long, to supply the city of Paris
with water. is built of composite stone.
1t comprises two and a half to three
miles of arches, some of them as much
as fifty feet high, and eleven miles of
tunnels. 1t also includes eight or ten
bridges of seventy five feet span. The
pipe is six and half feet interior diam
eter, with q thickness of nine inches at
the top and twelve inches at the sides.
The lighthouse at Port Said, Egypt, $50
feet high, is another notable example
of artificial construction. A Gothic
church at Vis;net, near Paris, is one
piece of stone, including the steeple, 1870
feet high. The municipal barracks at
Notre Dame, Paris, of artificial stone,
have arched ceilings whose spans vary
from twenty-five to twenty-five feet.
Over thirty-one miles of the Paris
sewers are constructed of this material.
The jetties at tho entrance of the Suez
canal are built of artificial stone blocks,
each weighing about twenty tons, and
16, 900 of them were used in the im.
provement of the docks in New York.
Space will not permit of statement
in detail of scores of hundreds of ex-
amples of artificial stone construction
in this country. but among the more
recent may be mentioned the Pompciaa
villa at Saratoga, the Moorish villa,
Hotel Ponce de Leon, Alcazar hotel
and the Casa Monica, st. Augustine,
Fla. These hotels, the most magnificent
in the world, are constructed of artiil-
cial stone, including roof towers, cell.
ings, baths, etc. There is not a joint
in these immense structures. The bal
comics, high up on the towers, are of
solid terra Gotta, and weigh five tons
apiece. The Casa Monica las a front
age Of 450 feet. More than GO, 900
barrels of cement were used in the con-
struction of these hotels.
A dwelling was erected a few years
ago ut Port Chester, without joint or
seam. The house is fireproof. The
floors, roof, stairways and towers r
all of stone and 1000 barrels of cement
were used.
An interesting application of this
material in the construction of a hollow
sustaining wall was made Mt the Gene
terry of Passy in supporting a bank of
earth % 1-2 feet high. Numerous rus
tic bridges in parks and cemeteries in
various parts Of the country have been
built of this material. The most i'm.
portant and general uses, however, to
which artificial stone is put is that of
trimmings for brick buildings.
1t is specially adapted for entire
fronts Of commercial buildings and for
churches, schools, hospitals and dwell
ings. 1t is also largely used for wall
facingin Easements of frame dwellings.
Late Improvements have been made
which greatly enhance its value as a
building material, whereby the surfaces
of the stone are made rough, represent
ing the tool work of the ~stonecutter.
And buildings erected of this material
are represented as being much admired,
and the stone in them is not easily dis
tinguished from the natural stone
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