The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-12
AN EXTRAORDINARY GLOBE.
Reproduction of the world, Fifteen
Feet in circumference, ON which
Man Has Mnrlseh S.50O Hours.


Man Has worked $500 Hours.
Special Correspondence Chicago Chronicle
There has just been completed at Lin
coin. Ill, the largest scientifically made
globe for the study of geography ever con-
structcd in this country, and probably the
largest ever made in the world. Larger
balls have been made, but only for show
purposes. and they have been wanting IN
scientific value. while this one is accurate
in its smallest details.
The Lincoln globe was made by George
Christian Schneider, an expert watchma-
ker of this city. and is fifteen feet In cir
cumfcrence at the equator. This makes
It upon a scale of one-half inch to the de
gree at the equator, and the diameter is
about ffty-nine inches.
Mr. Schroeder spent $500 hours in hard
work and diligent study in compiling and
constructing the globe, and so far as can
be learned it Is correct in every partlcu-
lar. The whole is original except the geo.
| graphical Information and this Is credit
| cd to the various authors. The expense for
maps and aliases alone was $500 and the
| globe contains more than double the
| amount of information and detail shown
! Asia and Africa are especially ahead Of
! any other general map, or even any spc-
| cial map, in existence.
! The foundation for the globe Is an iron
| frame spun over with telegraph wire which
was covered MALT an inch thick with cot
ton batting soaked in glue. Above this a
| paste consisting Of sifted sawdust and var
nsh was added to the depth of another
half inch and all was painted over many
! times%
The portions representing the land were
! then built up I'm relief from botting paper
| which was also painted over many times
and then rubbed down smooth to receive
| the drawings.
This process has produced a shell as hard
| as wood, and one in which all danger of
| cracking or chipping is removed and the
whole is vanished and can be washed
without injury. There is. not penstroke
| upon the globe, but every letter has been
engraved upon it and filled in with black
| oil paint, and any new discoveries can be
easily added al any time. The land is
| painted in a light tan and the water a
| light blue, and every part, no matter how
| small is clear and distinct, and though
many of the names are so small mat
they cannot be read with the naked eye
| yet under the magnifying glass they show
| up sharp and clear AS an example Of
| this, 1900 names appear In Australia, $500
names in the Indies. $50 in the province
| Of Manchuria and $50 ia German East AZ
! RIGA.
Every railroad and canal of any i'm
| portance Is shown. and all the principal
| steam and sailing ship routes, together
| with the distance between the principal
! seaports. These distances are given in
/ English statute miles instead of geograph-
| zeal miles, and hence are more easily un-
| derstoOd than those given on the ordinary
! globe or map. For convenience in finding
| distances east or west a table OF the
| length of each degree of longitude for each
degree of latitude Is given.
! River courses and mountain ranges are
! indicated so far as space will permit, and
| the attitudes Of the principal peaks are
! indicated
! Ocean cables and ocean currents, both
| warm and cold, are shown, and the Islands
in the oceans are given IN a more compre-
/ hensive way than in any one map.
! Mr.. Schreiber began work on his globe on
| Jan. 5, 1895, and completed the task on
/ March q, 1893. although the work Of pre-
/ pairing IL for exhibition was not completed
unjl this week. re Will exhibit & IN this
country for two years, and possibly in the
! Illinois building at the Omaha exposition
and then Will take itsto the Paris exposi-
ton. HIS hope is that he may eventually
| place it in the hands of some institution
| OF learning.
As a result of his study upon this matter
Mr.. Schneider Is convinced that the por-
ton OF the globe upon which We live is the
under instead of the upper portion The
| proportions Of land and water and their
relative positions cause him to be sure
that what we call the north pole Is in
reality the South pole, and vice versa.