| Show sydenham CRYSTAL PALACE mr horace greeley writing writ ilig lilg from london to the new york tribune gives the following particulars of the tile cost CO of the pew crystal P ilace liace sao isac sac union the crystal palace at sydenham nam a southwestern suburb of bf london is a revival revisal and amplification lafica altion of that in hyde nde park in which the grea great t exhibition of the world s industry was held in ja 1851 1651 that exhibition I 1 having been triumphantly closed the tile contents removed and the tb e order for tor or the speedy demolition of the building impera lively given the materials were purchased by an enter enterprise pris ilg director francis I 1 uller and his associates for or with whom the oramal or ginal constructors fox and enderson henderson II contracted to remove and re erect them for od tile the estate of acres known as park crowning a lovely eminence eminence perhaps at least ten len miles from the centre of london and four or five miles from the nearest compactly built bulit portion of the he great metropolis was chosen for tile the site of a new crystal palace this proper property tv was wes V valued bv disinterested appraisers at or about 2500 per acre and the company added to it by bub sub subsequent sequent purchases acres more at a cost of f they then than sold off acres for retaining tile the acres best adapted to their purpose sent seat at a cost of hereupon the revived crystal palace was commenced on the ath of august 1852 2 it was to have been opened to the public bli on the of may alay 1854 1654 but was not actually lv opened till the loth of iune june following when the Q quen u agn prince albert and the archbishop of cante canterbury abury participated in the ceremonies the grounds decorations co illustrative courts ac were then very imperfect and are not even yet vet completed the enterprise formidable at the 0 outset has continued to grow on the hands hinds of its pi ejectors the original capital of was long since increased to oa on the back of which a debt of over lips has already been contracted dulwich bulwich wood adjoining the site has been leased at the ate rate of a year the cost of mading planting and ornamenting the grounds is given giren at an artesian well to furnish an abundance is ii to cost fountains lakes and hydraulic works about sculpture about fine arts about the edifice including purchase and removal of the nalin hyde park as aforesaid illustrations of natural history and find geology the palace has been greatly enriched by gits gifts of rare plants trees and other objects of national interest and there will probably never be a time when the palace will not be receiving additions to its contents but I 1 reckon ten millions of dollars just about the fair cost of the whole concern ten years hence should the measure of public patronage be such as to insure i 1 s continuance and prosperity the edifice itself is 1608 feet not quite one third of a mie in length bv feet wide at the central transept bansept ran sept it h 13 and at the two smaller transepts feet wide the wings at either end have a length of feet the height alt fit the building is 68 feet from the ground floor to the base of the noble arch or vault 72 2 feet across cross forming the roof the central transept has 1 a vau van vaulted cited roof of feet span and the third gallery here crosses the main avenue at a height heigh t of okjoo loo feet from the floor the ground floor rests on column columns and a nd hasa has a basement beneath it known as sir joseph Pax tons tona tunnel containing a gigantic warming apparatus of furnaces boilers ac including an iron network of fifty miles of steams pipes I 1 believe no general warming is in now ow deemed keces siryl but the ap apartment artmont for tropical plants was admirably heated on wednesday last |
