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Show NEW YORK'S BIG NEW ARMORY. It might bo supposed, rrom tho plans for the now armory in the Bronx, that New York was preparing for a civil war. It will cost $1,290,000, and will bo far huger and more formidable for-midable than the Bastille which the French had to tear down in 17S9. Of the cost $1-10,000 goes for -10-foot retaining re-taining wall between the armory and the reservoir which the big guns of the battery will commaji-l as though a hostile fleet of ironclads were likoh to come sailing through Jerome park in defiance of the police. The equipment equip-ment for the great guns will cost a quarter of a million dollars Tho building Is to be COO feet long. 100 feet wide, and 90 feet high, with medieval towers rising 144 feet The ground space Is 100,000 squnre fe't. which is big enough for a world's fair building build-ing tl has room for 100,000 people, of whom 00.0Q0 can sit comfortably to watch the mimic warfare of the Eighth District Corps of coast artillery artil-lery The vast arched roof or steel and glass, like that of a terminal train shed. Is to be so constructed that it can be stripped off, turning the structure struc-ture into a rort girl with massive stone walls. It will be ery grand" Indeed, and no doubt will prove a good drill ground for the artillery. But could not their training havo been provided for less expensively? As a defense against an invading enemy en-emy the value of all these tons of costly masonry is not apparent, Springfield Republican |