The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-26


millions of summer visitors but the
star feature of them all will be the re-
volving restaurant and cafe, first Of
the kind in the world. You may eat
and drink and in thirty minutes see the
miles around, all spread out at your
, feet.
If you are facing north when your
oysters are served, you will be looking
west for the soup and south when the
roast arrives. By the time the coffee
and cigars come on you will be back
north again. In half an hour you will
; have travelled 900 feet around the cir
conference of a great circle, or thirty
feet a minute. Not fast enough to
make you dizzy but fast enough to let
you see the entire panorama of New
York, while you are dining leisurely,
without moving from your seat at table.
You will be 800 feet above the ground
while you dine-highest eating place
in the land. Thsi revolving cafe will
be twenty-five feet wideZ500 tables
moving slowly around in great circle.
There will be seating capacity for
2, 500 persons at one time.
!, In mechanical construction this re-
vOlving cafe will be something like
a moving sidewalk or an escalator.
The entire circular platform is to rest
on roller bearings. Under the middle
of the platform, extending around the
entire circumference, is large, cast
steel rack. At sixteen equi-distant
points there will be electric motors OPP
Grating steel pinions. These pinions
engage the rack directly and simulta-
neously move the circular platform
slowly and noselessly around.
This revolving cafe will be on the
same floor with the main hall, flush
with it's concrete floor. The extreme
outer edge will be protected by an iron
railing six feet high. So it will be i'm
possible for you to fall off into space
while you are taking your dinner.
What will Coney do next?" ask visi-
; tors when each new season comes
around with it's newest marvel. Luna
Park and Dreamland, each seemed The
summit of achievement. Last year
the advent OF the Globe Tower was an
nounced-nobody believed it could be
done.
But the mighty foundations are laid
and now the steel structure is going
up. It is promised for May Is next
1t is. planned to give the visitor who
pays 10 cents admission amusement for
an entire day on the eleven fl. Ors.
The ground floor Will be an auton CO
bile garage, together wi h various small
concessions. Just $50 feet above the
ground will be the pedestal roof garden,
900 feet in circumference. There will
be popular price restaurant, vaude-
vile and roller skating rink When
you get $50 feet in the air you will
come TO the Aerial Hipperdome Here
there will be a continuous Touring
circus. Here. too, will be the teles-
copes for observation and miniature
circumference.
The main nall and revolving cafe will
be 300 feet above the ground, circling
around the great ballroom. Another
fifty feet and you come to the palm
! garden in the air, a third restaurant,
statuary, fountains and cascades, a
scenic aerial rairload and all kinds of
novelties. AT 500 feet you come to the
observatory platform, fitted with teles-
copes. The ocean, all Coney Island,
Greater New York and a goodly part
of New Jersey will lie at your feet.
At 600 feet will be stationed the
| United States Weather Bureau and 2
wireless telegraph station. 1t will be
the highest weather observatory in the
United States, all surmounted by a
search ght, which will not have its
duplicate any where on earth for size
and brilliancy. The steel fagpole
! finally pierces the atmosphere at a
height OF 200 feet.
Some 1888 tons of steel viii be re-
CURED for the tower. This is more
/ than it took to build the Wiiiiamsport
Bridge. The whole structure is to be
absolutely fireproof, with concrete
floors
There will be huge elevators to take
amusement seekers to any floor. Thous-
ands of electric bulbs will outline the
structure at night it will be the first
thing to catch the eye when you go to
Coney Island; it will be the first thing
in New York that passengers on incom-
ing ships viii note on the horizon miles
J away.
This mighty fabric of steel will rest
upon 300 concrete piers each thirty
feet long and five feet in ciFcumfer.
ence. Five iron rods will reinforce
each enc FIR the entire len2r1. This is
a Chicago invention. A gigantic steel
co q first drives the steel caisson thirty
| feet into the ground Then it is fitteC
with concrete reinforced with iron rods.
SurEnounting each grouping of these
piers are concrete footings reinforced
with heavy steel grillage beams. From
I this viii soon rise the steel work of the
tower until it reaches 700 feet in the
air-a finished structure consisting OF
a great globe supported by mighty
semi-circle arches. the whole topped
with the loftiest dome in the world.
One query remains: What will Coney
island do next, now?