Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — Its Site. [ARTICLE]

Its Site.

Springing up from the waters of New York Bay, near the center of the harbor, and commanding an unobstructed view out through the Narrows to the ocean, Bedloe’s Island is an especiallv favorable site for the erection of a beacon-light that shall at once guide the mariner to a safe haven and symbolize to the emigrant when he first reaches our shores the idea of liberty which has been so largely instrumental in bring ng him hither. The island itself is much larger than appears either fromthe New York shore or from the lithographic pictures of statue and island which have recently been scattered over the country. It has an area of four or five acres, and will doubtless be a delightful'breathing place for the city resident, and a Mecca to the wonder-hunting country visitor, when It has received the last beautifying touches of the Pedestal Committee and is returned to the Government. The foundation on which the pedestal is to rest is a vast mass of gravel and sand and lime, ninety-one feet square at the base, sixty-seven feet square at the top, and fifty-two feet ten inches in height. It rests on a bed of gravel some twenty feet belo .v the surface.