| Show I COIN HARVEY BELIEVES OUR CIVI LIZ A TION IS VANISHING He Hc Builds Pyramid In Which to Preserve Records PLANS S COMPLETE C Solid Concrete Structure Will Have tight Air-tight p Compartment miters Editors The Note Note TIM CoInS Coln harvey in jn the time follo follon n nr- nr ar article tide Is 11 a former resident of n He lie was a 11 real re-al p r tate hero here In the boom 1118 lays hall had a II fine hom home lon at a near n 1 ty t street anti anil e dro a spanking team about town n B NEA tee Sort Sen ler ILLE Ark July ly 10 A A huge concrete pyramid that will preserve records of ot present present- present day day civilization for tor millions o of years ears It If necessary Is being built among the back hills of it the Ar- Ar Arkansas Ar Arkansas kansas Ozarks by William Hope Coin Harvey wealthy resort hotel owner On the passageway leading to the central crypt will be a copper tablet for tor some archaeologist ot the year or thereabouts to decipher It will trill read When hen this Is red read re d go below i and find rind a record of oC and the cause of the death of ot a former civilization civilization tion A OF DRY Harvey who was a close dose friend and worker co ot of the lato William Jennings Bryan and a leader in the free silver m m-ement m ement that Bryan Dran espoused In tIme the nineties be- be believes be believes that some ome day our OUI our civilization tion must pass just away away Just I when ho doesn't to know except that t it t will m many mapy y yea b bt t tn And n i he bW 1 anti nt future gen gen- gen generations orations who poke around in our ruins to have nS BC full and com corn complete complete an account of ot our custom and Inventions as possible Hence the pyramid Our SOur civilization of ot today Is richin rich richIn richin In Intricate Inventions Ir and cultural devices but it can leave little It if Itan an anything In the way of or lasting records for tor the ages to come he says This pyramid which I regard as the greatest undertaking of ot my life nCe will wll preserve records of oC time the world ot of the present resent for tor the great great- greater greater er or civilizations of o the tho future and those nations and civilizations roa may have the opportunity to build bl up Uj upa upa a happier world through finding out the ml and advantages of oC the life liCe of ot our age ago I I have decided to erect my py- py pyramid pyramid py pyramid here because geologically the Ozarks are among the oldest mountains In the tho world The pro pro- process process cess ot of erosion has diminished their original height of ot more moro than fee tto Ho less than 1400 feet above sea level The hard lime lime- limestone limestone stone base which I have hae effectual effectual- effectually ly Iy protected from the action of oC Continued on tage Two I i WANTS TO LEAVEU LEAVE U UI Si S PYRAMID Continued From Page rage One ground water is II as Aa enduring as any substance known and und the hili hills I have already become so worn that It Is ii I Impossible for the pyramid to become burled buried through erosion Of the nearby mountains mountain WORK ALREADY AID BEGUN DEGUS Work ork on the foundation of the tho big pyramid has hu already begun and nd construction of the main maln body will start within a few tew weeks The pyramid Is to be feet Ceet high 40 feet square at I its It base and six feet foet square U t the top It Its con con- con construction will bo be require sacks sack of cubic feel Of sand and cubic feet of gravel The total cost I Is estimated at The top of a 0 rounded hill hili hu ha been beon excavated to rock bed-rock lime lime- limestone limestone stone for the foundation and ap approximately proximately hole holes have been drilled 25 6 feet teet Into titto the rock In which cement shafts will be bo sunk a as protection against erosion In the center of the there will be he a room 20 feet square quare surrounded by a 8 scid concrete wall eight feet thick This cham chant chamber chamber ber will contain two vaults vault from which the air can bo be exhausted by bya bya bya a system of pipes leading to the out outside SAMPLES S OP W f MACHINERY In these vaults vaulta will be placed various arlous examples of ot this genera genera- generation's lions lion's tion's achievements minIAture airplanes ne radio sets phonographs linotype machines machine steamships au- au automobiles au and ond other mechanical do- do de devices vices Magazines and newspapers newspaper theIr page pages covered with waxed v paper to prevent the Ink from fad fad- tad tad-Ing ad- ad log will be bo placed In the vaults os a will a a copy of Common Sense Sene I a book MOk by Mr Harvey There will be bo nothing to perpetuate the names names of ot any people aside from the tho records in the books bookland and magazIne No ro names name will be engraved on ho ho bc wall walls After the tho vaults are tilled filled thc they wilt will be sealed and the air will be exhausted by means Of the pIpes Then the mouth or of orthe the shaft loading leading to the crypt wilt will willbe willbe be and sealed sealed and the pyramid will willbe willbe willbe be loft left to wait alt for tor the prying oas eu of some curious scientist scores of centuries In the tho future Copyright 13 19 6 NEA Service Inc |
