The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21
THE NEW ATLANTIS,

Atlantis is the name that will hereafter
dignity and distinguish Il location in the
Atlantic Ocean about sixteen miles east
of the Highlands of Navesink and thirteen
miles south of the Long Island shore.
The old and somewhat ill-favored title of
Cholera Banks will surrender to that of
the classical Atlantis of Grecian mytholo
gy. Here palatial structure is at once to
be erected on huge iron stills that will dc
fy the greatest storms of the ocean.
The foundation of this building will
consist of thirty-six iron cylinders fifteen
feet in diameter and one hundred 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-bracings, 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 i'll position
they will be filled with concrete, and the
| foundation, as a whole, will represent
three dozen iron-incased pyramids of rock,
rising from depth below the ocean-bed
an towering thirty feet above the level of
/ the sea.
! In the construction of the building wood
and other intlammablc material will not be
used, but the entire superstructurc will
consist of bronze, steel, iron, glass, and
/ tiling, thus ing it tire-proof in the full
est acceptation Of the term The style of
! architecture will be imposing, as may be
seen by the illustration. There will DC IN
amphitheatre calculated to accommodate
fifteen thousand people, and Il roof garden
that will hold three thousand. From the
latter place will be witnessed Il marine
panorama of majestic transatlantic liners
passing near by, and every other charac-
ter of waterbornc craft entering and lcav-
ing the greatest harbor of the Western
world Several private piaZzas for per-
mancnt hotel guests and four extensive
promenades are other features of the plans,
which also calls for fishing pavilion,
/ telegraph and telephone offices, Turkisk
Russian, and sea baths, Il photograph gal
lerv, and various bazars.
In order to protect themselves against
the charge of erecting a menace to navl-
CATION, the promoters of the cntcrprlZc
have given notice to the government that
they will bind themselves to place pow
crful rejecting light in the main tower of
the building, and maintain it the year
round.
The officers who will be responsible for
the construction of this ocean hotel are
Captain r. d. Evans, United States navy,
in charge; James G. Mcclure, engineer;
Captain Howard Patterson, superintend-
ing engineer.
The consideration of creating building
out III the sea opens up peculiar line of
thought. As the structure will be situated
more than marine league from the near
est shore, the United States can exercise
no jurisdiction over it, either in the sense
of interference or protection. Atlantis
may become an independent power, with
every right, according to international
law, to form its own government and to
prescribe its own laws. Thursday, June
14th, the fla" of the New Atlantis was
raised on a buoy anchored on the site Sc
lected, and a new autonomy was establish
ed on a submarine sand bank.