Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1891 — Another World's Fair Novelty. [ARTICLE]

Another World's Fair Novelty.

I Among the novelties proposed for the' World’s Fair is a grgantic water tower, i the design being that of W. F. Smith, of Chicago. He. proposes a circular building, with a dome 250 feet above the floor, the rotunda to be just 250 feet in diameter Up the center is an enormous l shaft, in which is a standpipe for pure water and around it elevators. The water rises to the apex of the dome and flows down over it equally on every part; but on the apex stand models of the three I vessels used by Columbus, large enough to hold three hundred spectators at one ' time. - I The dome is to be of clear glass, with steel ribs; these break the flowing water i into ripples and' produce the illusion of a greatly agitated ocean surface. By : an inner arrangement the whole dome I surface of rippling water can ba illuminI ated at night by variously colored lights, i The water is caught in a moat around the base of the dome, and flowing thence through pipes supplies the head for many cascades and fountains upon the grounds. In the base of the structure is to be an immense aquarium, and there will be spacefenough for 12,000 persons, to view the interior.