Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13
A NEW ATLANTIS.
A MODERN HOTEL IN MIDST
OCEAN.
A Gigantic Uudertaking-A Grand
Pleasure Resort on Cholera Island
Own.

IIarper's Weekly
Atlantis is the name that will here
after dignity and distinguish location
In the Atlantic ocean about sixteen
miles east OF the highlands of Nave
sink and thirteen miles south OF the
Dong Island shore. The old and some.
what ill-favored title of "Cholera
Banks" will surrender to that of the
classical Atlantis of Grecian my.hol-
ogy. Here palatial structure is at
once to be erected on huge iron stills.
The foundations of this building
will consist OF thirty-six iron cylinders
fifteen feet in diameter and one hun
dred and twenty feet in length. These
piles will extend thirty feet below the
bed of the ocean, and will be secured
to each other, according to the claim
OF the engineers, by girders, cross brac-
ings, and in other ways, so as to defy
the mightiest storm wave that ever
rolled in the Atlantic. After the great
tubes have been placed in position
they will be filled with concrete, and
the foundation, as whole, will present
three dozen iron -cased pyramids of
rock, rising from a depth below the
ocean-bed. and towering thirty feet
above the level OF the sea.
In the construction OF the building
wood and other infammable material
will not be used, but the entire super
structure will consist OF bronze, steel,
iron, glass and tiling, thus making it
tireproof in the fullest acceptation OF
the term. The style OF architecture
will be imposing. There will be an
amphitheater calculated to accommo-
date fifteen thousand people, and
roof garden that will hold three thou
sand. From the latter place will be
witnessed a marine panorama OF ma
jestic transatlantic liners passing near
by. and every other character of wa
ter-borne craft entering and leaving
the greatest harbor of the western
world. Several private piazzas for
permanent hotel guests and for extern
sive promenades are other features of
the plans. which also call for a fishing
pavilion. telegraph and telephone Off
ces, Turkish, Russian and sea baths, a
photograph gallery and various bazars.
In order to protect themselves
against the charge of erecting men,
ace to navigation, the promoters OF
the enterprise have given notice to the
government that they will bind them
selves to place q powerful rejecting
light in the main tower of the build |
ing, and maintain it the year round.
The officers who will be responsible |
for the construction of this ocean no.
tel are Captain X. ID. Evans, United
States navy, in charge; James C. Nc
Guire, engineer, Captain Howard Pat
terson, experimenting engineer.
The consideration of creating a |
building out in the sea opens up Pc
culiar line of thought. As the struc-
ture will be situated more than q ma
rine league from the nearest shore
the United States can exercise no jur.
isdiction over it, either in the sense OF
interference or protection. Atalantis
may become an independent power,
with every right, according to interna.
tional law. to form its own government
and to prescribe its own laws. Thurs
day, June 14th, the flag OF the New
Atlantis was raised on a buoy an
chored on the site selected, and new
autonomy was established on a sub
marine sand bank.