Show I THE TALLEST TOWEL Ii i The Marvelous Monument To Be Erected in the Champ De 1 j Mars Paris I I A collossal tower 1000 feet in height will be not only the principal attraction j of the Exposition but the most daring work ever undertaken by any engineer The pyramids of Egypt St Peters the Washington Monument all the e wonderful elevations will seem the work 1 of dwarfs beside this massive iron eon struction on whose summit wLl float the French flag This tower consists of four iron pyramids placed 300 feet one from the other each pyramid being 50 feet square at the base and 16 feet square At the first story 250 feet above the ground these pyramids are united by a glasscovered gallery50 feet wide which makes the tour of the construction This gallery will be used for soirees etc At the second story is a room 100 feet square covered by glass At the summit is a cupola with an exterior balcony There will be placed the electrical apparatus destined to light the Exposition Each pyramid will have an elevator constructed in the same manner as the Swiss railroads It is startling to think of an elevator taking one seven times as nigh as the Column Vendome but there will be no danger The elevator will be drawn by a cable but steel grappling hooks are to be arranged in such a manner that if the cable breaks the elevator will remain suspended There has never been an accident on the Righi and M Eiffel who is the originator of this stupendous scheme says his elevator will be even more secure than any vet constructed A vertical elevator will also take passengers pas-sengers from the central point to the summit of the tower When at the top we can admire the night Paris and thn millions of lights In pleasant weather we can see the most splendid panorama that human thought can imagine Above the hills which with their green foliage surround Paris we shall have a view of over one hundred miles We shall see Com iegneRheimsFontainebleanChartres Dreux Creil the villages lost in the I woods and the rivers trailing their silver sil-ver ribbons across the valleys But this metallic tower will not be built expressly for the curious it will render service to science In the cupola will be installed telescopes pluviometers pluviom-eters anemometers etc Astronomical and meteorological observations will be made under new conditions and experiments experi-ments which have heretofore been impossible can for the first time be attempted Atmospheric electricitythe velocity of the wind the transparency of the air Foucaults experiment to prove that the earth revolves all can be studied Spectroscopes for analysis of the light of the sun and stars will be placed under the dome A study equally interesting in-teresting will be that of the variation of temperature with altitude For the public a very strange sight will be the effect of lightning and the deviation of a falling body The tower will be surrounded by ali a-li htninb rod but in itself the tower will form an immense lischtningrod by which will descend formidable quantities quanti-ties of electricity In a thunderstorm everone in the tower will be struck by lightning although unconscious of and receiving no injury from this electric shock I I When the night is black with elonds from the foot of the tower one can see a continuous sparkling fall of lightning To produce that effect a lightning rod + will be placed on the summit of the tower and the conductor will be interrupted i inter-rupted for the space of two yards The i ligutning will thus jump from one section sec-tion to another with continual explosions explo-sions At the base of the tower on immense blocks of marble inscriptions recalling i the history of the century will be engraved in guilded letters There will be tound extracts from the U Declaration I Declara-tion of the Rights of Men the names of illustrious Republics etc I The weight of this tower will not be greater than 7000 tons almost enough iron to make a railroad from Pans to I Saint Germain by way of Versailes I The cost will be about 1000000 but the inventor of this gigantic work asks only the admission fees for ten years to pay all the expenses of the builamg Chicago Times I |