The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-02-22
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STAND \ v SINCE 1859.
\ Prot. \ ;illisni ~. Goodyear. Curator
III 81 EineI Arts MUSEUM AIakss |. 4
Statement.

1uuseuht.at " g OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES siNuSSt
made IA Stats,nent, Iof general sinteres.
yesterday concerning the leaning tow;
er Of Pisa. He has secured fresh owl,
iaeaae that itsisi,n no present danger
of4falliRg. The recent scare ms to thu
danger OF its downfall will, Ii Is com
ildently believed. be ended Us soon as
Prof. Goodyear's statement reaches
Italy. ItSis now on the way to the
royal academies lof Milan and Venice
and the Society lof Architecture Of
Rome. ~ y 4 y. +. z y. q 4. i
There has been no subject SO uni.
.yersally noticed in the press OF En-
rope and the United States for many
years, said Prof, Goodyear, ,:.as .lhe
alarming reports Of the probable fall OF
the leaning tower Of Pisa. So far; as
the United States Is; coneerned almost
equally wide notice lis now. being sis-,
en stheataot thsft these alarming ferl
ports are wholly baseless. s,gS W., q
st can be. stated on y certain :au-.
tliori.y, that, although the ltalianeop.-
mission on the tower had obtain.d
from the British museum as early, Us
July % copies of the. original drawings
Of Cresy and Taylor made in 1929, yet
on septemhers.17 the commission was
still endeayoring 10 obtain "a copy OF
Cresy, aud Taylors text, AT that da,e
the text, without which the plates We're
useless, was still unknown to the COM
mission. Al that date the members
were still groping for the true facts,
although they had not hesitated US
early as July 6 TO alarm the civilized
world with ythesimyressiog that th,s
tower was going 70 fall. /,
4"llhe point % the riatter5ls that The
conimisstott was obliged tt. know what
the inclination 1.-the lower was when
tlle%l iist modern surveys were made
before it could stale, how much great
er the inclination Is now. This infor-
mutton had ID cbMefrom Cresy & Tay.
!or, who surveyed the tower In 1917.
and published these surveys In 1920.
'.srtsaccoi ding TO It's own confess
sion in Its report, the commission had
been unable; tit9 purchase u copy Of.
Cre[Fy. & Taylor. and In this dilemnll
instead Sof visiting md consulting
some library olitsIaes Of Pisa land the
British museum library would Ger.
'tainly Observation-Disclosures commission) !,
1t relied sfor It's information about
Cresy u Taylor, atisecond hand, on nm
Italian author of the year. 1881.
There is this further point In the
/, general problem. The next survey iin
the order Of time atter cresy & lay
Tor was that or Rohault de Fieury,
who published his surveys In 1859. For
some reason tuiiexplaineds and certain.
ly not good one. the commission
chose to discred!t DE 'Fleury's survey.
In SO .doingIit raised the question and
left It undecided: as to whether tho
tower had moved since that date sew
en- centimeters, or whether It had
moved since that date 20 centimeters.
AS there had, been no later survey
until ties activity ofsthe italian gov
eminent commits sion. it follows that
any movementalater. than 1859 might
be very recent and might ;be Still in
progress, in which case final down
fall would be- only a matter Of time,
the proof Is now offered that no
movement Of the tower, SO far as the
report OF the commission Is concerned
has taken place since 1859. Conse-
quenily the entire present alaEm us
absolutely ba:eless. q
"Not only that, tie commlsslon+has
made a mistake OF 40 -centimeters In
Its figures. lt4is proved by De iFleu-
rvs survey as compared with that OF
Cre:y & Taylor that the tower had
moved 80 centimeters before 1859,
undoubtedly. as the result of All earth
quake In 1S4G. 5s,,, 81, ..,s
Roth OF the supposed rates Of i'm
ellRa,son Gs announced by The COM
mission are incorrect. The commission
announced that in 1929 the inclination
was sSGls millimeters. It was really
81 mIllimeters.= 1T also announced the
rate ort19lO as 92 millimeters. 1t was
really ,s4h mililmeterss in 1859.
The commission Furthermore an
nounced the rate sof flc cease asmeter.
between 1929 Sand55 1910 as sbelng &: V
,milllmetcrs and ALSO announced the
total incl eased inclination between
those dates as 20 Scentlmeters.
Therefore III We divided the sup
posed increase Of 20 centlmeters by,
the rate Of increase per meter we
ought to obtain the axial hight Of the
tower. But when tais division { is
made the lresulting axial hight is only
aC,metsis and &c centimeters, which,is
the axial hight according to Cresy &c
Taylor OF the six stories c5bove the
arst, ,hps leaving the entire lower
story, which Is nearly one-G quarter or
the axial hight. out OF computation" ]
Goodyear said I'm conclusion
that every day sor.e new publication
vas brought, to his attention reciting
The same facts ,het caused the orig
inal alarm Aside from 3sach3 a Gu,
lamlty as an: earthquake, the pro.
'fessmor declared, The tower vas ,insnc
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