THE DAILY PRESS
CITY UNVEILS GIGANTIC CLOCK TOWER
Seven stories of carved granite rise over the plaza; the great face, forty feet across, was turned to true time at half past two.
PRESIDENT HALL drew back the crimson drape at 2:30 this afternoon before a crowd estimated at four thousand, and the plaza fell silent for a moment as the first sun struck the new tower's east face. The structure — begun eleven months ago and finished two weeks ahead of schedule — climbs 142 feet to its copper bell crown.
The face was cut in a single sheet of alabaster by the Orengo workshop, and the four gilded hands were forged from the old town anchor, a gift the harbor ward declared long since surplus. Commissioners called the ceremony "the day the city found its shadow."
Engineers Praise the Gear Train
MASTER CLOCKMAKER IDA VOSS, who tuned the escapement overnight, reported the mechanism "a hair ahead of the observatory clock, and proud of it." The pendulum is a solid bronze drop of 900 pounds, swinging free in a shaft the mayor walked to the top to view.
HARBOR LIGHTS RESTORED AFTER LONG REPAIR
TWO YEARS after the great glass cracked, the lighthouse keepers relit the west beacon last night. Fishermen were asked to bear with the dark months; the board of lights called the renewed beam "strong as a river."
The new lens, set in its brass cradle on the fourteenth, turns a full circle in thirty seconds. Keeper M. DOLAN will remain at the post through the autumn season.
| Stock | Last | Chg. |
|---|---|---|
| Railco | 88.40 | +1.20 |
| Steelworks | 12.60 | −0.40 |
| Lumen Gas | 44.10 | +0.80 |
| Granite & Co. | 19.75 | 0.00 |
| Harbor Line | 6.20 | +0.15 |
Bonds steady. The tower's granite, worth $310,000, now quoted for the first time.
EDWIN CALLOWAY, 84, printer, compositor and keeper of the great type case on Ninth Street, died peacefully on the 3rd. His last job set by hand, according to his widow, was the masthead of this very paper — "and he never once broke the P." Services at noon Saturday.