The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-08
ATALANTIs

kTALANTIS.
sition was greeted at first presentation
with q derisiye laugh, but now that the
promoters have actually gone to work
the question stands, Is the scheme prac-
ticable?
Who are the projectors? Well. the
three best known are Captain r. d.
Evans of the United States lighthouse
board, Captain Howard Patterson and
Mi. G. VI. Coen. From the window of
their office in New York floats Q blue
Gag, with D red border and q white star
in the center, and another just like it
floats from the staff on q buoy anchored
on the Cholera banks, where the new
Atalantis is to be. II il not Just yet the
flag Of d new nation. It is certainly the
flag of q new and original notion. Some
weeks ago the projectors steamed out to
the banks, and with brief ceremonies
anchored q buoy and took formal pos
session of the neutral water and the
sand bank under it, hitherto sacred to
the much besung McGinty. And now
says Mr.. Coen:
''In the construction of q foundation
we shall use about 900 sections of cast
iron pipe, all 10 feet in diameter and
about IN inches thick. These sections
are bolted together by fanges upon the
inside. The joints are machined and
Allied with jute and red lead for the pur-
pose of making them absolutely water
tight Each cylinder. when completed,
win be 1853 feet long. In the first place,
we begin. TO put the cylinders together
in shallow water near d wharf or shore.
These viii be put in place by the estab-
lished processes, bolted together, and
the whole finally made firm by frame
work or How truss bracing. We shall
dredge ont the sand at the bottom OF
each cylinder till the weight OF the
cylinder sinks Ii sufficiently. Then the
water will be pumped ont, and the in
terror made solid with concrete. The
top Of the cylinders, or foundation 81
orr buildings, ID to be 8S feet above
high tide, far above amy tidal wave In
this part Of the ocean.
On this will be erected q large square
casino. two stories high in the main
and four In the towers. It will contain
snitsof rooms for hotel purposes planned
with en- idea to every convenience and
10 be furnished luxuriously; win have
four large piazzas, four extensive public
promenades, eight private dining rooms,
Kitchens, lavatories, 0tcs. Steam heal
and electricity for lighting purposes
will be used In every room and depart,
ment. The other buiiding or buildings,
for all sorts Of picaics, conventions,
pleasure parties, etc, will DO Of similar
foundations and connected with the ca.
sino by bridges. The result, says MIR.
Coen, will be to secure all the advan.
tages Of an ocean voyage without crowd.
ing or seagickness. And they say they
will have il ready for use in the sum.
mer of 1896.
Sporting men say it would be an idea
p1acs for . prize fight. t il also. limited
that IL IL 70 snpersede Monte Carlo,
which is expected TO close in o few
years when the present franchise runs
ont And Just think, says q brilliant
criminal lawyer, what d place for an,
willing witnesses An hour ind d hall
trip. and there you are safe rader the
protection Of q foreign fac. Then * !
client gets into any little dif1culty b
can take d trip for his health ont there
and stay until tbs thing blows over.
It's cheaper than Canada and more con
venient-all the comforts Of i home,
ron might say. I should say that one d
the things Atalantis could get alonl
best without would be an extraditior
treaty.n But the protectors mir at III
such suggestions and declare that Alta
lantis shall be q place Of Law and goot
xaorals-no refuge for fngitiyea.