Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-13
FINE HOME OF JUSTICE.
Chicago to Have Largest Court
 house In the World.
FLOOR AREA OF FOURTEEN ACRES

GOO Cubic Feet of Space and Will
 Cost, With FurnishinEs, &5,O0O, ,OOO.
 Weight of Structural Steel 11,0OO
 Tons-Grand Interior Decorations.
 The new Cook county courthouse,
 which was recently dedicated at Chi
 cago. will be the largest structure of
 the kind in the world, says the Chicago
 Record Herald. It will contain 12,00O,-
 900 cubic feet of space and Is to be
 larger than the First National bank
 building. twice as large as the Railway
 Exchange building and two and one
 half times as large as the old county
 courthouse. Its cost will be, including
 furnishings. $5,OO0,O00.
 The courthouse will rest on 130 con. crete caissons. whose diameter is from four to ten feet each. These caissons extend down to solid rock, 115 feet be-
 low street grade. and contain 450.OO0 cubic feet of concrete, or twice as much material as is embodied in the Auditorium tower. The concrete weighs 33.O00 tons and would fill 1000 cars. The structural steel is of the most durable and heavy sort. It weighs II, 900 tons and would fill 400 freight cars of the modern type. The granite to be used for the exterior of the building will measure 21O,0OO cubic feet and will weigh 14,OC0 tons. It would fill 600 railroad cars. Therefore the total weight of the building, without interior works or furnishings. will be 58,00O tons, including the concrete founda- tions. Leaving them out. the total weight will be 25.000 tons. The addi- tlonal equipment probably will bring up the aggregate weight to 35.000 tons.
 The new courthouse will have floor area of fourteen acres and one mile of corridor. space. The floor space of the old building was five acres. The offices of the county collector and recorder alone will have 10000 square feet of floor space or 10000 each.
 The new edifice will be departure in that 1t will be constructed on office building lines. Heretofore. architects say, public buildings have had ornate exteriors with interiors that had to 1t the plan of construction. General effect was sought for, and not the com fort and convenience of the public officers who were to use the building in their daily work The building will be magnificent. even if 1t lacks few of the old time structural frills There will be a dash of the classic in its de- sign. and the aesthetic eye will be more or less satisfied. The structure will be marked for It's grandeur. so- lidity and repose.
 The three double doors in the main will be separated one from the other by piers. At the right and left of the entrance and betwen the doors are 10 be four carved figured panels in high relief, Justice" will be depicted In the panel at the right of the entrance. and at the left will be . great panel symbolizlng Law" On . shield between the figures will be carved the seal of Cook county. Two panels are to be over the piers be- tween the doors. and one will represent
 Labor on Land" and the second "La- Dor on Sea"
 The three main doorways will be 20 feet high and F feet inches in width. There also are to be entrances on and Randolph streets. but the Clark street approach and lobby will be the most pretertious. The caller, as he goes into the building from Clark street, will find himself in an immense vestibule finished In marble and bronze, with marble and stone pam Jed floor and carved ceiling of orna- mental glass and bronze. The main nall and corridors of the first floor will De finished in Italian marble of a soft buff color. The walls, arches and raulted and molded ceiling will be of ihis marble, and the panels will bs filed with rich mosaic of Italian Re nuisance design. similar to the palnce ,f Mantua and other Italian buildings, put with such symbolism as will make he effect fitting as to time and place. The floor will be paneled on from pier o pier by coiored marble and further , with figures in marble and stone. richly fioriated and folIated. Italian renaissance grills will fill the srches where the elevators are located md serve as screens and doors to hem.
 There are to be five 3J0 horsepower ,ollers mechanically stoked and with ,atent ash removers and coal feeders. These will distribute 5000 square feet f direct heating and c2.O0O of indirect. Inc system win be of the direct vacuum the direct heat to be 70 and he indirect 12 Fresh air will be jumped through the structures steel Irteries in vast currents. The air first vill be washed by running water and ben dried by bafiie plates. Ducts lead ng to fan houses will exhauss the foul 
 The granite to be used will be gray sh in color. as vhI,er effect would poilcd by Chicago smoke. Some Idea f the sire of the courthouse can be aimed when it is said that 1t will be nore than twice as large as the new Commercial National bank building. he steel in that structure Is figured af 900 tons. while in the new courthouse here will be twice that amount pius .0p tons Tbe plan Is to fni<h fhs courthouse on May next and the een- ral belief Is that the contrscfo1 cnn