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Evening Star, Issue 7627, 1 June 1888, Page 3

They do not do things by halves in America. A case in point is the work of moving the Brighton Hotel bodily from its present position to a spot about three hundred yards further inland. This has been rendered necessary owing to the encroachments of the tide at Coney Island, where during the last five years about two hundred yards of sea beach has been absorbed by the ever-advancing ocean. Some idea of the tremendous difficulty of the work may be gleaned when it is stated that the hotel is a structure weighing 0.000 tons, is 460 ft long, 120 ft deep, five stories hich, and has five large towers. The engineers, however, are confident that the work will result successfully, and that the hotel will be ready to receive visitors by the time the summer season opens. The method of moving the hotel is by digging right under the foundations, and placing there 125 flat cars on rails. These cars arc all lashed together, and run on twenty-four tracks. When all is ready, and the whole hotel has been undershored with these cars, eight locomotives will pull it smoothly to its new restinz Place. The process will then be reversed! the foundations filled in, and the work is complete, without the removal from the hotel of even so much as a piece of nrnrkerv Meanwhile, at high tide, the wave; Tare washing through the network of the excavated foundations,