Another Monte Carlo.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 49, 18 December 1894, Page 4

Another Monte Carlo.

Considerable interest is now being aroused, says the Westminster, concerning the “ Kingdom of Atlantis,” an island which is to be made to order in the Atlantic. The idea is to erect a number of palatial iron structures, -connected with one another by artistic bridges on the principal of connecting structures among the islands of Venice. Atlantis is to be situated about 11 miles from the Long Island shore, and about 17 miles east of the Navesink Highlands.. The leading spirit in this strange idea is Mr C. M. Coen, who is very confident that his new island town will not‘prove a failure. Wood and other imflamrnable material will not be used in the construction of the buildings, but the edifices will be built entirely of glass, tiling cement, iron, steel, and like material, thus rendering them fireproof. 1 The first or main floor of the principal building will be situated far above the sea level. It is stated that it would require a wave 30ft higher than has ever been measured in the Atlantic Ocean to even touch the girders of the lower floor of the building. So original an under“laking f.as naturally proved very captivating to the citizens of the United States, who are always on the look-out for anything new. It is alleged, by the way, that the place is to be turned into a kind of American Monte Carlo. Its distance from the mainland will put it outside the ordinary United States jurisdiction.