The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-05-02

Cosmopolis has started to rise in no
BILE proportions The wonderful city
which men have dreamed, written and
talked of for centuries is already COM
ing into existence in Belgium.
Years ago in Boston, continues the
Brooklyn Eagle, young sculptor
named Hendrix Christian Andersen
conceived the idea of city of palaces
and gardens, printing presses. tele-
graph instruments and telephones TO
which learned men of all countries
should be attracted.
For years he and his collaborators
worked At last the plan was hnlshed,
and then the architects discovered that
there was already capital of the OLD
world where men were storing in gar
refs and cellars archives which they
hoped their dream palaces would con-
tain.
Andersen went at once to King Leo
pold II. of Belgium, and the American
| citizen and the monarch started TO
/ plan the creation in Brussels or
place of palaces where the learned or
i all countries were TO work together
for the common good. But differences
arose. King Leopold proposed to COM
| mand. His Cosmopolis was to be
world school. Andersen proposed to |
lead. His Cosmopolis was to be cen
ter of clubs and friendly societies.
Foundation Laid by Leopold.
Finally Leopold laid the foundation 4
of Cosmopolis in his royal park of
| Teryeuren. seven miles from Brussels
and erected there the first of its build
inus-the Colonial museum. That mu-
J scum is now built and furnished. Only
the foundations of the great world
school. next 10 it, were dug when King
Leopold died. His successor. King Al
bert. and the Belgian government were
, appalled, at the cost of the enterprise
and ordered the work to cease.
} Private enterprise then stepped In
} As result the Association of Inter
0 national Societies was established IN
Brussels. having as its working head
the Socialist Senator La Fontaine and
: Paul Ottley the Catholic leader. Beer
: naert being its president
The Association of international So
= cieties has received Andersen ana
2 those who speak for him with en-
) thusiasm. The association is wealthy
q through donations not only from the
. Belgian government, but from private
O nersons and other countries, among
70 which America. represented by An
9 drew Carnegie is foremost.
The foundations of the world center
laid by King Leopold at Terveuren
- will nov be redug, and Cosmopolis is
~ TO rise on them. This metropolis OF
% % proper knowledge and human progress
~ is TO be in the form of a rectangle,
* three miles long and two-thirds of
M mile broad. 1t is to be divided into
rs three parts.
50 The first will deal with physical cul
10 ture and will be the Olympic. 1t vii
u contain a colossal swimming basin, Q
10 great stadium, gymnasiums for mel
SO and women, gardens and grounds FOL
90 games, fencing arenas and kindergar
- tens.
% The second section will be the ar
% center. In it will be a temple of art
o. conservatory of music and tragedy
0e a fine art school, an art and musl
04 library and a museum of casts. al
rs situated in the center of gardens cor
IL tanning an open air theater. an ope
10 air painting school, botanical and zoe
10 logical gardens, natural history mt
IL scum and Conservatives.
'50 Will Rise to Height of 1000 Feet
The tower of progress and the un
versal press over 1000 feet high, is
% render practical services. In immens
% underground chambers of its basemeI
% the worlds printing presses are to
30 placed, working continually for ii
'.Io bureau of international information
% the offices of which are to be situate
90 % In the four walls of the huge arches
"a pavilions, each seven stories hig
ia which support the tower.
% The first floor of the tower, rear'
90 on those arches, will consist of an ii
% mense circular hall. Twenty-four e
.25 vators will run from it to the secol
Is floor, where will be another huge b;
D35 devoted to the general assemblies
.25 congresses. From the second floor 81
.25 teen elevators are to be run to the t
80 of the tower They will pass sto
after story each story divided in
four sections. In every section the
pose will be the office of an information
oors society, each society connected w
the other and with the world outs
by telephones anu eleclElc receive
-, telegraph and wireless apparatus
The tower viii be surmounted by
ood immense searchlight and power
wireless apparatus. From the railrc
ms: fepots at its base underground =
mind roads are TO run in all directions
find In the square dominated by
ore, tower imposing buildings are to ar
4 Of chief among which will be the inter
tionaI courts of justice and the tenn
= of religions.
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