♦ KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



[Oct. 1G, 1885. 



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It was designed and built under the ptrsonal super- 

 vision of the architect, Mi J Mibon Kirb}, of \.thutic 

 City, New Jersey. It was first intcndtd to mike it 



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•onccits, 4c, while the 



iwdih, as it lb termed. 



The elephmt : 



hotel, but later this idc 

 «lecided to construct the 

 using it as an auditorium for 

 platform on the top, or the h 

 would serve as an obser\ itory 



structed of wood throughout, and is covered with sheet- 

 tin. The total length from the trunk to the back 

 part of the hind legs is 150 ft. The platform of the 

 howdah is 88 ft. from the ground, and the total height 

 to top of crescent on flag-pole is 150 ft. The height 

 from ground to body, when standing immediately under- 

 neath, is 24 ft. The legs are 18 ft. in diameter, and the 

 two hind legs are provided with circular stairways 

 liv^ing to and from the rooms above. 



The first room reached in passing up the stairs is 

 jermed the stomach-room, and is dignified with this 



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title, not because it is provided with thi wherewithal to 

 chetr the inner mm, but owin^ to its special location 

 I in the bodj of the beast The different rooms m the 

 I animal are likewise christened after thur particular 

 loc ition, as the thigli-room, briin room, hip room, &c. 

 The gi xnd hall, or auditorium, is reached upon iscend- 

 I inr the stairs, and this is found to be \erj spacious md 

 I airy, the ceiling being ^erj high md slightly dome- 

 shaped. A gallery passes all round the hall. At the 

 further end of it a flight of steps lead to what forms, in 

 fact, a continuation of the main hall, only on a higher 

 plane. The main hall is 80 ft. long and 32 ft. wide, 

 while the upper part of the main hall is 36ft. long and 

 triangular in shape. There are thirty-four rooms in the 

 structure in all, which are located principally between 

 the walls of the hall and the outer walls of the structure. 

 Most of them are quite small, and are very extraordinary 

 in shape, their walls conforming to the shape withou 

 of that particular section of the colossus. The eyes 



