Battleship made of stone
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Battleship made of stone
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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A Battleship Made of Stone-A Landlubber's Feat
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Caption: A battleship twenty-eight feet long, which is built of flat slabs of stone. The funnels are short tree trunks
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ALTHOUGH four months of his
vacation went into the building |
of a stone battleship, John von |
Wiegand of Brooklyn, N. Y., is proud |
of the monument which tops a little |
hill of broken rock, overlooking a stone |
quarry at Haines Falls, N. Y., in the |
heart of the Catskill Mountains. |
Mr. von Wiegand is a retired police |
inspector, having passed the age limit |
of the service. A little over a year ago |
he spent his vacation in the Catskills |
and conceived a plan for building a |
structure out of stone. His choice |
settled on a battleship. |
A number of boys, seeking some |
form of diversion, soon became inter- |
ested in Mr. von Wiegand’s plan. |
To each one he gave a time card on |
which was kept an accurate record of |
the working hours. So, aided by his |
staff of juvenile engineers, the former |
police inspector constructed his battle- |
ship step by step. |
The ship measures twenty-eight feet in
length and eight feet in beam. It is built
entirely of flat stone slabs of varying sizes
and shapes. The funnels consist of short
lengths of tree trunk, with the bark left
on. The masts are merely young trees
with the branches stripped. The decks
and roof of the superstructure are of large
flat slabs of rock, such as are used for
sidewalks, while the turrets are shaped
with curved stones and armed with
“guns” made of young tree trunks,
stripped of branches and bark. No
~~. cement or mortar has been
used for holding the
stones together,
since the weight of
these compo-
nents is suffi-
\ cient to keep
\ them in place.
In the vitals
of the battle-
ship has been
placed a bottle
containing a
record of
the names
of the con-
structors.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1918-01
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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72
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Filippo Valle
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 92, n. 1, 1918
