Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-01-20

OF the homes in the community. There
is little doubt, therefore, that the stock
holders or Board OF Managers could,
upon providing school houses and re-
formatories, be allowed to designate
teachers, officers and other employees,
TO be paid by the State.
There will be "A gymnasium and pub
| lie bath which, IL is said, will rival in
magnifcence the finest in ancient Rome
and excel them in equipment and i'm
proved appliances. This building will
resemble In shape the famous baths
/ patronized by Roman beauty in the
early centuries, aud will be constructed
/ entirely OF marble aud onyx. The
Turkish and Russian bath depart
ments will Do gorgeous in their
furnishings and luxurious in
their ccommodatlons, ami it
I is proposed 10 make this building ex-
pressiys Of all the possibilities involved
IN either correct regard for the laws
OF health or the refined, luxurious tastes
Of the children OF wealth and idleness.
Another and somewhat unique fea-
ture will be public library, that is
public so far ss the occupants OF the
building are concerned This is not
altogether new idea. as even In the
far West new buildings have been pro-
vided with law Libraries for the use
of the lawyers VINO may become
tenants. Ia the New York structu re
however, not only will law library be
provided, but medical works, school
books and literary works of every kind
for, as a matter OF course, all the vari-
Gus kinds OF business conducted else
where in the city will be represented in
the community. On the street will be
palatial stores that will vie with the
largest In New York at the present
time. Then, too, there will be offices,
occupied by professional men, and for
these the legal, medical and other libra
ries will be provided.
NO IDEA OF THE BUILDINGS.
No correct idea can be presented OF
the style OF the buildings or how all
will be combined in one aud covered
by the same roof. The realization OF
the project will require several blocks
of ground-four or more, perhaps. &C
cording 10 size and location. Within
the centre wall, which will iuclose the
whole property, will be numerous court
yards and driveways which will be dec
grated aud adorned in such a manner
with shrubs and flowers and fruit trees
aud flowing fountains. that the inmates
will not need to visit the parks either
for pleasure or amusement. The sever
al buildings may be connected with
each other by archways, and, II separ-
ated by streets, will be connected by
means Of tunnels.
Ii is deemed necessary to select site
sufficiently near the business center and
center OF population TO make 1t not
only easy Of access, but so easy that IL
will create preference in its favor.
For this reason, as we'll as because the
project should embrace in itself and
typify and exemplify all the progress,
advancement and exsltation OF the
nineteenth century, its altitude will De
greater than any building yet construct
ed. IL is to be thirty stories hign
and the top OF the dome, which Is TO
serve as the crowning adOrnment OF the
whole work, will be five hundred feet
from the street. ! a the center OF THIS
dome the principal elevators will be To-
Gated, through which access TO all parts
of the building can be effected with
eass. The capacity Of the elevators
now constructed, in reference TO speed,
need only be limited by the power OF
endurance Of passengers.
Solidity OF construction will be the
principa feature, and, as q result OF
this, no extraordinary attemps will be
made at architectural adjournment. There
will be no Corinteian columns or capi-
tais or none OF the artistic display which
the quality of the materials and the
duration Of the buildings
rendered possible at the Worlds Fair.
II will be a monument to the progress
~ the nineteenth century, which it IS
intended to save from destruction or
decay for the benefit of innumeraole