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26 TAE MarRINE REVIEW THE OBELISK AS IT WILL LOOK WHEN ERECTED IN LOCKS PARK, SAULT STE, MARIE, OBELISK AT SAULT STE. MARIE. The semi-centennial commission ap- pointed two years ago to celebrate the opening of the first canal at Sault Ste. Marie to commerce will some time dur- ing the present summer erect at Sault Ste. Marie an obelisk in commemoration of the event. The obelisk has been com- pleted at one of the quarries at Bran- ford, Conn. The shaft is-of hammered Stony Creek red granite, is 45 ft. long, 5 ft. 5 in. square at the foot, tapering to a dimension of 1 ft. square and then fin- ished to a point. It weighs about sixty tons. Its shipment has brought about a transportation problem that several rail- road traffic men are figuring out. The only solution seems to be the use of a Pennsylvania railroad car which is used to transport heavy ordnance. The long- est car available is 36 ft. and it will be necessary to mount a bed on swivels to carry the shaft and to ailow for the sway of the shaft as the train rounds curves. When the question of routing the shaft was figured out, several traffic men had to give up the task, as they were not cer- tain that all the bridges on their respec- tive lines were capable of sustaining the enormous weight of the car and its 'load. About twelve years ago the battle shaft at West Point was cut at a quarry at Branford, and this had to be shipped in a roundabout way. It is 41 ft. long and at that time was the longest shaft ever transported by rail in this country. The monument is boxed and ready for shipment, and the foundations are now being prepared at Sault Ste Marie. The obelisk was designed by Charles I. McKim, of the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. This firm also designed a battle monument at West Point and the monument of the prison ship martyr of the revolution erected in Brooklyn, N. Y. The contractors THE OBELISK AT THE QUARRY,