Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-22
The HotcIintbc Ocean.


tugooat to the Cholera shoals, about IL
miles of the Long Island coast, and left
a flag floating from buoy which was
anchored in the wafer. Tuesday il was
announced that contracts have been
awarded for the construction Of ar
enormous hotel upon iron piles. Mr.
C. NJ Coen is at the head of the enter
prise The hotel is to be called the At
lantis. The first building will be 260x
2G0 feet in size, and it is expected will
be ready for occupancy by next season.
1t is expected that the lighthouse part
of it will be in use by next fall or win
ter.
The building, it is said, viii have an
enormous hall, which will contain many
thousand people, and there will be
rooms for many guests. The fact that
the hotel, if it should really be built,
is Just beyond the limits Of the United
States, has given rise TO good deal OF
speculation. In conversation with a
New York Sun reporter recently a
sporting man said
This thing may be sanitarium, for
all know, but it strikes me that big
arena there would be mighty good
place for a prize-tight. Prize-fghting is
getting to be uphill work nowadays,
with the increasing stringency of the
laws, and if people will travel thousands
of miles from New York 10 see good
fight they could afford TO put up liber-
ally to have that fight within few
miles from home. There is deep Sis
picion in nay mind that in the penal
code of Atalantis there will be no pen
alties attached to the participation in
or management of boxing exhibitions. >
Nov here's another consideration.
In few years there wont be a big open
gambling place anywhere. Monte Car
los franchise runs out in few years
and then the man who makes his living
breaking that bank will have to go to
work unless new place is found. \
place like Atalantis, that will run itself
TO suit itself. would be a pretty good
sort of spot for the location OF new
Monte Carlo. Don't understand me as
meaning that the men who are behind
all this intend to put their island to
anv such use. know some of them,
and | don't believe they are the kind OF
men who would care to 90 into that
business, even though it would pay tre-
mendous profits But what if they get
an offer from some man so great that
ii would be folly to refuse it?
Not less interested than the sporting
men are the lawyers and politicians.
The latter see in the new nation inter
esting political complications new
postollice and customhouse arrange
meuts, possibly, and, if Atalantis is
successful, the possibility of scores Of
other toy nations built upon sand and
rising from the bottom of the sea, with
a corresponding multiplication of olli-
ces. As to the lawyers, they can see
unlimited possibilities ahead
"Whv, Just consider" said n small
but brilliant legal lnminary, what a
place for inconvenient witnesses. A
half hours trip and there you are all
safe under the protection of foreign
flag. Then if client gets into any lit
tie difficulty he can take trip for his
health out there and stay until the
thing blows over. It's cheaper than
Canada and more convenient; all the
comforts Of a home, you might say.
should say that one of the things Alta
lantis could get along best without
would be an eXtraditiop treaty.
Mr.. Coen. the prospective proprietor.
disclaims any intention to engage in
any snch business. He said ave shall
do nothing in Atlantis that could not
legally be done in this country. The
form of government will be modeled
on that of this country, but will differ
in some details
1t does not seem TO have occurred to
the gentlemen engaged in this interest
ing discussion that should MIR. Coen S
dominions became troublesome ii would
be comparatively simple thing for the
United States to annex it, unless, in
deed. it should place itself under the
protection ofthe sugar trust.
The Atalantis Company applied yes
terdav for a patent on the construction
OF the superstructure. The contract
for the building of the foundation has
been granted TO Anderson X Barr, ~
Eleventh street, Jersey City. Ihe
buildings are to be constructed in sec
tons. The fitting together of the va
rious parts is q secret which will not
be revealed until the patent is secured
Anderson X Barr constructed the
Hawksbnry river bridge in New South
Wales and the Cape Hatteras light
house. Captain Anderson, Of the firm,
has submitted plans to the government
for the building of three forts on artifi-
cial islands 10 be constructed on line
between 5 ,ndy Hook point and Il
Long Island shore. The firm has beel
engaged for many years in deep-watel
work. -.
/ he plan followed in the building O
the Hawksbury river bridge will be
iapted to the construction OF Atlantis
INew South Wales the builders hac
t, wolk in thirty feet of water and tC
90 d wa $50 feet for foundation. Or
tle Cholera Banks they will have tt
WORK IN sixty feet OF water, but 1t !;
believed firm foundation will bt
f}und at 100 feet. To begin with, 8
hoIlow cylinder made of inch-and-a
h If iron. ten feet in diameter an(
ilyelye feet high, will be set on end OF
the the bottom Of the ocean, inside of
caisson. c The sand enclosed by the
bottom rim of the cylinder will thel
l,o3oed ont and as this i