Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — Largest Mirror in the World [ARTICLE]

Largest Mirror in the World

The largest French plate-glass mirror ever brought to tills country, and, according to the Importer, Jacques Kalin, the largest mirror in the world, lais been set up in the dining-room of the new portion of the Hotel Savoy, says the New York World. It took two days and a night, with over a score of workmen, to get it from the steamer to the hotel and to set it In place. The dimensions of the mirror arc 158 by 158 inches, making about 174 square feet of glass. It Is nearly half an inch thick. The glass ahiue weighs f)00 pounds, and the combined weight of it and the case it came in was over a ton. The mirror Is not only the largest but the most expensive in the world, its actual cost being In the neighborhood of .$.>,000. The cost of manufacturing the one glass'would have been alxmt SI,OOO. |> n t live different glasses had to lie east before this perfect one was made. The expense of moving It was fully SSOO. The package was so large that there are but two steamships in commission which could bring It across the ocean.