The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 2, 1947, Page 3

—. "army of chee Barbicane pe ohne oat cot: ‘Murchison, | been So ‘ means prep of November. foremen and add excavation was’ fixed for that Barbicane called to- 3 nhs te ressed -re-embarked Tam for New Or- His o was to enlist an anid to collect ™ greater part of the of the ‘soil having ully examined, by repeated borings, as follows: “You are well of the object aware, frien with Sie I have’ assembled you | these ther in ‘of m and a half thickness. . We have, therefore, a dred feet. This this wild part of Flor- business is to construct a. on measuring nine feet in its interior. diameter, six feet and with’a stone revetment |g -well of sixty feet‘in diameter e dig down to a depth of nine hun- one work must be Cat gaat within eight months, .URING the eight months witch 5 predection. of oe: meng ; e weeks at the ve eats had ‘been carried on simultaneously — extreme rapidity. A stran oral at Stones Hill bet: Retin acti hens a 1,200 chimn: circularly reer around it as aj rents of fi ental pont, each ple in diam. a 11 eter, and separated from eac other by an taterval of three fect The circumference occupied by 1,200 ovens presented a/2 length of two. miles. Being all bon structed on the same plan, each with its high: quadrangular. chim- | gled pr Aaa produced a most singular | ti Each of these furnaces contained ee nas 140,000 pounds weight of These furnaces, constracted of: fireproof prick, were po gore adapted for burning g pit coal, wit a flat bottom u ich the i so that you have 2,543,400. cubic bar's laid. This bottom an ¢0 feet of earth to excavate in 255| cited at an angle of 25 degrees, | reservoirs filled little by little; na, days; that is numbers, 2,000 cubic feet per I reckon for its accomplis is to say, in round day. hment upon’ your courage as much as the| by the time that the whole melt- ing was completely accomp it was kept in abeyance for a few allowed the metal to flow into receiving troughs;‘and the 1,200 converging trenches carried the molten metal down to the central /™ upon your skill.” well. Pig eight o’clock in the morning} ‘The day following that on which! | voles 9 & alae Pa = vot Florida; the he day of the ce domi and bor- pero: po il, oO orida; , Bar and from that moment that prince ane DOd heoh complated Rarnne of tools was never inactive for one moment in the hands of the excavators. The gangs relieved each other every three hours. . At the expiration of the first] diameter, which should exactly peng the = had attained the| fill up the space reserved for the med for that lapse of| bore of the Columbiad. This cylin- i namely, 112 feet. This depth| der was composed of a mixture of was doubled in December, and/clay and sand, with the addition trebled in January, and on the of a little hay and straw. The space 10th of June, twenty days before|left between the mould and the expiration of the period fixed | masonry was intended to be filled by Barbicane, the well, lined|up by the molten metal, which throughout with its facing of ‘would thus form the walls six feet stone, had attained the depth of|in thickness. This cylinder, in or- 900 feet. At the bottom the ma-/der to maintain its equilibrium, sonry'rested upon a massive block fhad to be bound by iron bands, and ing thirty feet in thick-'firmly fixed at certain intervals by mould. His object now was to raise within the center of the w om with a coincident axis, a cyli measur: ee re, sueeencaeaen Young People of With ‘Walking’ Car Church Scheduled —— = a Bgl had ‘Soshable’ Tonight| No ‘More Parking Worries| ide ei The young people of the Con- gregational Church will hold an Briton Carries On old-fashioned ice ‘cream “Sosh- able” at 7 o’clock tonight at ‘the LONDON.—(AP)—Twenty. will’ farnigh ‘whe’ Qurtng the Baten oul ig Albe: aaah evening and at intervals a pro- sien, parking gram will be presented. Tables of various sizes, set After driving home to their up inside the Service Center and{' i apartment house, they simply - carry their homemade auto- ‘, mobile upstairs in their hands, .,, and shove it into the hall clos- et. Albert's car ‘is two feet 10 venient for ordering ice. cream and other refreshments, For} atiy who will, participate, a horse shoe’ pitching tourney will be in progress - with * the court well lighted. .An attrac- tive. “Oscar” will. be: presented to. thé, fined whnaet sie x: The: Service Center is locat- ed next to the Congregational Church, ', William street near Southard. 16 Cuban Students Sixteen students from Escuela rived at Meacham Field Wednes- inches wide — just small enough to get through ea front door of his “factory room in his second floor be ment. It seats two people, side by . Side, is. powered with a three horsepower motorcycle engine — gets 75 miles to the gal- n. Albert hopes to prer eh the car. ican Airways. The party will visit several other cities' in Florida and re- turn to Havana Monday. ——on we VERY DEAR * CHICAGO. — William McGaf- fin, foreign correspondent in Czechoslovakia, needed shoe laces and handkerchiefs, also some candles, because of elec- tricity rationing in Prague. As he éould not: find these articles, he wired home for them. They cost $7.60 but the minimum charge Plus express came to $13.46, so the bill was $21.06 by the time they arrived in Prague. JUMPS FROM BRIDGE . ‘SAN FRANCISCO.—Frank H. Cushing is suffering from a sprained back and exposure af- is Guaranteed PURE: ter leaping 265 feet from the la Golden Gate bridge. Mr. Cush- iP ce Your Refrigeration ing operates a “thrill circus” and his wife said the jump was on @ ‘ a publicity stunt. ok x * 5 22 *. id SS Set RE ASE Saat ET cS SR Aw Reset ls PR A NNR eSATA SES AR Wes REE EEN eI SNES ARM SEIS ARIAT OPIATE ICO, ASW Bit Oa 2 BN AE LT THE ARTMAN PRESS PRINTING is ie) _ PHONE NO. 8 sét to work upon the central|)' 900 feet high, and nine feet in the |Smoke, evaporated the ‘ An orchestra on the lawn, will make it con-|: Land Here on Tour REAL ICE BASIS and You Will Get GUARANTEED Refrigeration Service REAL ICE~ Thompson Enterprises, Inc. | (ICE DIVISION) tion of foreign substances. elve o'clock struck! A gun- shot suddenly yealer forth and shot its flame into the air. Twelve a canyon yg Pegi moisture of the m and hurled it upward through the vent-holes of the stone lining in the form of dense vapor- clouds. These artificial clouds un- rolled their thick spirals to a height of 1,000 yards into the air. - (Te be continued) ; Farewell Party. to Navy Chaplain A farewell party was given last night by the Bachelor Girls Club in the: North Beach Hotel for Chaplain: “Chuck”: Phieffer, Rrotestant ‘chaplain. ‘aboard’ the USS ‘Gilmore. Boys and girls gathered at the hotel for ‘ distribution of — bi- cycles and they all rode ina group around Roosevelt Boule- ‘vard. Refreshments ch ot os ‘the private; bé ort ‘Beach Hotei pach otis i had an: rahidoagee th time. ‘Present. we re, Bliasi 0, 1 Hilda Casiills, Joait: : ertson, [ eiasie Albury, Sylvia San ez, Jaurina La Fe, Shirley Lieder, Tommy Wright, Ray LeBlanc, Jack Kelly, Jack Yeagle, W. Bloodworth, and Chaplain Phieffer. ; KEPT BUSY BY PRANKSTER NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.— When she received several cases Pias de Camaguez in Cuba, ar-| of unordered beer, four bou- {| quets of flowers and. several day aboard a special plane from! the Compania Cubana de’ Avia-! cion, a subsidiary of Pan-Amer- ; cakes, a visit by police investi- gating a report of a fight at her home and the arrival of an am- bulance, Mrs. Dessie Hinto was convinced that she has been the victim of a belated April-fool prank or of a practical jokester. ee ee eee oe More Economicall It Is PURE Healthy and Safe KEY WEST. FLA.