Show FERRIS WHEEL FOR NEW YORK The Ferris wheel the Worlds fair wonder is to be set up in New York this summer Inventor Ferris says that Chicago wants to retain it and also al-so that London wants it j I The Ferris wheel Is 264 feet in height and 254 feet in diameter Each of the I thirtysix passenger cars is larger than a passenger coach When the wheel is I filled with passengers 2160 persons I are on board and are carried up and j down like birds in a nest i The wheel is built entirely of steel 1 and looks much like an immense bicycle bicy-cle wheel revolving between two huge towers It is really a double wheel placed on the same axle and twenty I eight and onehalf feet apart but held I together by struts and ties The cars are built of wood and steel and are upholstered and artistically finished Each weighs nineteen tons Three thousand incandescent lights of various colors are arranged in groups around the crown of the wheel J These are extinguished and relighted I at intervals as the wheel revolves producing pro-ducing an effect at a distance similar 1 to a huge display of fireworks Six months were occupied in building the i wheel Its cost was about 400000 1 Boston Post > i |