Show it i SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 4 1928 THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINE- R 0 0 i''4 f i & U i hxperts Studying Excavations for Skyscrapers Declare thai An Impression of the Tidal Wave Which Some Day May Engulf New i With the Rock Formations York 4 a i Manhattan Some Day Tilting as Well as Sinking Jt Is Believed Possible That Many of the Giant Skyscrapers if Still Existent May Crumble Before the Island Is Fully Covered by Water t Will Be Swallowed Up by the Sea DOUGLAS PrOFESSOR Uni- r : physi- - I! versity professor of trraphy declared during the recent conference of the British Assojua-'tio- n for the Advancement of Science ' held at Glasgow Scotland that New York City would endure throughout Vthe ages lie said the Island of V cSSS Manhattan is firmly established on a massive rock formation anchored A " deeply in the bowels of the earth-t- hat r3- r:—--- it never could subside In his opinion the "settling" Dr Chester A Reeds of process of Manhattan halted three American! Museum ofNV Natural IVnrk thousand years ago But now comes Historv Who Sinil Excavations and Found Evidence Dr Chester A Reeds geological exThat Manhattan Is Sinking pert of the American Museum of Natural Historv to dcclara that Manhattan is slowly but none the less huge forty-stor- y New York Tele- surely sinking into the seal According to Dhonn ' hiiilHino" cftTnrbttA only Dr Reeds' careful measurements of the a few years a?o Hp found nn rock formations underlying Manhattan debatable In that excavathe island is sinking at a rate of one inch tion that proof land which i formerly in each 41 years 8 months 2 days 3 had growing trees was hours and 17 minutes Calculating broadly now supported feet belotv the nearly fifty this is about two thousandths of a foot a level Of hicrh ttdel hL? ts At : r ruceus yremcuons year uie rate oi tji tf - -oi W u 11 declare that at this rate of Mk Geologists v j nnn subsidence which la by no means alarmtit' ior iruiwon would iuoujrear9 the direst prophecies of reformers ing enough to cause the slighest concern to this or numerous future generauave saia mat tne wickedness tions the year 19G9 will have dawned world's greatest city would Sodom before the surface of Broadway is even and Gomorrah dfstriiftinri bring InnntV one inch below its present level And it The island is fourteen miles long from l will be 2428 A D before the gradual ui jaaiiery to tieiigatfe and from a mile sinking will have reached one foot to two ana a nail miles across from the Hudson to East RiverJ Its highest Using these figures as a- basi3 for calculation it may be observed that by the in TfnriAl- - Monhorfan One year 397928 which will be 396000 years and Eighty-firis 250 feet abov street now: the top of New York's present me sea Ana at rate of two thoustallest building 792 feet in height will andths of a foot the everyi year the sinking have sunk below sea level process at this point wouldi not be comDr Reeds who declared that the sinking plete until 125000 years have process still is going on based his declaraseems there is littleelapsed it need for tion on findings in the excavation for the present residents of Manhattan to worry were are the findings on r wmcn ur Keeds bsed his decla ration that Blow destruction upon the most densely jwpu atedi island of the f&Shs&&£ Sfe-'- i ?' r?"-t?- i1 i-'- o-' E Wbk ZVwgjjjtwiMwiSgSaf - i - 5rV- v"-f'"- t:' '1u-"-!u:?- r Jt 71 i-- i 4 if--"- J - —- ( "iiiV "ta S £ ? !! N - 1 3 JF — j - " irp— t -- VdrIMil fSa tijrrnlTU ! if'i?- - 4f —- " ''V i': 7 TVe ' S' i i 1 F st fi-o- land sank and that the vege- - So 4 - X L X'' a V ar t W JST ' ' f t i V - ' r i ' I a I II I I - ' I : t i i tne-tiuaso- i ' -- - 7'n:V hVr I ! -- i i ip Tr2-4- ' p - t ir Jsr lJ W i i i- I'll' 'i:: t Uj ' n ' -- r j "1 from Its mouth to a point fifty miles up Ttnt: i IHM"lMiiW'WiW!i ''t :r ' ru f irr:r'ji i - - i - - Vr ' ' V irately waf'"kin ' 1-- ' i t r JI I -' ?- I 1 u J W which the island the rate at toward the ocean's level While Manhattan tilnwlv recedes ' Dr "Von 111 l IJ f " k uie norm- — "v-uuut that farther investi- - west of New Yorkfcerrain is elowly emerging fatlon showed that and gaining greater altitude above eea m uvea uuiru icveu mis movement ne earn was along and grew directly a "zero line" or hinge line extending after the glacial from Central New Jersey to a point juiit His geo- - north of the City of Quebec a line which period logical research ac- - was determined by the movement of curately placed that the huge masses of ice of the glacial period which in the period v The beds of the Hudson and East neighborhood of was divers Dr Pedg said furnish other vldcnce that the island of Manhattan is ag0' SSiJ?0!"'! With these figures slowly being submerged The Hudson be could determine Iiiver shows a particularly deep depression !! the told the British ecientists as-Glascow that th If ndon became an arm of the sea when CJ representing i uo naniain Vnat manv years of that gTowth kl i that lu would ? the land Vt fatU spot had rZ that two hundred feel durin! ceueu a aistance of forty-fiv- e as ctrtJSl0'!?1???? position just feetdown to- rd the ocean bed later sinking of the TviVdiCated the 1 hd Reed Johnson' findmcs ivnrij the : v most conservative - it V - cross-forme- d : Evn ju:?3 - :lfliA Vv?Avv- va Ai' trees once grew on Botanical Garden The peat was examined a by growing vegetation secthm1 if the trunk on what was! then the surface Vt rLth? e"th iwhere Manhattan SdcoStS £21 t 9 a rth& branches still JrLS1VpntVlti0n :m :" "I" - I 1 1 1 1 1 can-"yon- 1 T ' r ' - ' I i o i I I - j V ' 1 L t I j" 7 --- ( ( AYork " -- V 4 ?""7' vj ' ilkr TSie T 'I - I : 1 '- - J V 7 - '1 X''''V'-'-- - If f 'rirTT'miiMnwiiiiiMnf mr " PRESENT SKA LEVZL C1QPQ') Abve at Left 1 JCuc Clinip9e of mi Appearance ! : - -- Kiht f-- s f I '"1 v lijTrw!sapsa TOirllripmn rri inian— mM ir f ' B - 4 n f LEVEL Ir YEAR200000 LlPD SEAijuwn Ulgfl Above Se Is the Lftimated Sea Level in the Year 200000 Level and 7 "777 E5TTMITED M r: LEVEL CT YEAR I Krwpspw Ftfttor Serrl " MM rjil — But Dr Reeds holds to his stout aver the city is sinjeinj? that it is moving !owly seaward at the same rate that burd those old juniper trees in eanfls which are now nearly fifty i fet below hlp-- tide lvel The rate is a foot every five hundred year A tlow process true But a certain orie according to the famous geologist Jut what will happen when New York tionthat -- r 1— 300 000 ESTIHAIH) SEii ISVEL2X YEAR 59 9 2B And now many iNew poncing luting xorK tuiiaings wm stand the strain of the leaning tower of Fisa7 Thus when picturing New York partly S LrrrnJ1"36 A?8"aJ?f!?Ala?tin 5i 5 with Just the Top of the Tallest liuildincs Holdin- - Their Head Above the of the question might well bring closer At Riht Is the Estimated Sea Level for 397923 A D with Only bv thousands of years the dire destruc- ' t thfl Tin rf fVTan!iaftan Xn !!! niilit!n Slinwin" ox vxiB uon cuy Sea Level in the Year 300000 Kaging Floods yf jlMi-yfci- first might appear to be idle rpeculation tion warn that the sinking of tho! land ' - Photo O by Major HaraUton Lower Manhattan as It Stand Tclday' At f ?! " 4 i : X Seumograph at the American Mium of Natural Hliorr Apparatus of a Like future Has lieen troployed from lime to Time to Detect Sinking of Iandi Formations iand tank and formed a deep valley where the river now runs Thu valley eed was deeper than Tuth cnt3t gcologiral history of tho nver would cre'lt it with making Vegetation formations in salt marthes along the immediate Atlantic Coast 1'ro- lessor Johnson also laid showed that the A 132S ed streets Five stations have recently beea erected for nhsprvino fl nutria tnn of sea level" around Manhattan Three are in jamaica way soutneast oi the city cne at the Battery at the south end of "ton The conclusions from obsemtions c f wi xxuicssor jonnson dieted would ie that the eea level ftj i rather than by a subsidence of thj land! 5 the 2 Kjver side and Dr' feet below the eea tinue'd: n sixty-fiv- e y ' The slow movement of the -- land into 'the ocean need give New Yorkers no fear of earthquakes A reading of New York's geological palm according to Dr Johnson shows that there is no need for fear of the spectre of a violent temblor rocking the many'j storied heights of masonry and steel down into the narrow j V ! tage of the sinking "In excavating for the New 'Jelephonel building in tower oiannattan he said "bed rock consisting of Man hattan schist: enty-fiv- e feet below high tide on wai with each York ' I' : world i ' ' if d tationhigher driven J A 8 |