| Show FERRIS WHEEL BLOWN TO PIECES A Monster Charge of Dynamite Brought it to an Ignominious IgnominIous ious sous End EndA A GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT Ruin Buln of ot tho mho Wheel E Estimated to bo be Worth Eight Thousand Dollars Boilers lIan AH As Scrap Iron Chicago May 12 Blown to pieces by lw a n monster charge of ot dynamite the tho Ferris wheel came camo to an nn Ignominious end en 1 yesterday at St bouts after atter a n varied career carror of Jt 13 years At Its end endIng Ing hag It teas waa unwept mind and unsung Constructed as ns ono of ot tho the engineer engineering ing feats of ot a n 1 century the tho wheel first was a 1 feature of the tho Chicago worlds tends fair in ht 1893 Then for tor a 1 long period of ot monumental monumental mental and Inactivity It towered In an min amusement amu ement park pari at North orth Clark street and avenue It tt finally was tuns removed to St StLouis StLouis Louis to form for tOl the second time tho ho huge mechanical marvel of at a 1 great ex ox exposition position For Jor more titan than a month heavy hel wag wagons wa ons one laden with tho the 1000 COO tons of ot steel of or Its construction lumbered through Chicago streets Tho Thu old olt wheel which land had become St Louis Lads white ele ale elephant died Bled hard It rt required pounds of dynamite to 10 put It out of or business The Tho lint first charge charse was teas exploded un tin under tinder der tier time the supports support at al the time north side of the structure wrecking Its ha foundation lion tion and permitting limn tho wheel to drop to Ie tho the ground a n matter of ot but hut a few fell feet feel As S the time wheel settled It slowly turn turned ed NI with whim Its bottom as a 11 support and anal andt then hen t after lifter tottering a moment like a II huge giant In ht It collapsed Within n f fw few w minutes It wua a 11 tangled mass macs of ot steel and lilt Iron 30 ur or 10 feet teet high h The huge axle weighing 74 tons tans slowly with vilh the rho remnants of the wheel the smaller Am braces and steel frame work When time the mass slopped Flopped It bore no resemblance blance to the which was ws so en KI fa ta familiar fur millar to Chicago Ro and St Louis and to their amusement seekers tromp from nil all over Oler tho limo world who In lit tho the days las when It was In operation made tho the trip to the tho top tOil of Its Us height of ot tee feet I and then slowly around and down to the tho point Following tho the blast that wrecked wracked wr tho time wheel hut huh which failed to shatter Its ItH foundation came nn on explosion of another charge haro of ot pounds of ot dyna dym dynamite mite Tho Thu slicks were sunk mink In holes holed drilled In III the concrete foundation that hut supported the tho pillars on tho the north northside side nido of ot lima tho wheel The wheel was the tho wonder of ot two continents by reason rca on of ot Its cost of Us Its us and 1111 Its utter uselessness It 11 was vas the rival of ot Nisei tower of tit Paris Chicago was glad hll to 10 got get rid of ot It II and St Louis Louie Is said fald to 10 have witnessed Its destruction with Leith wit h satisfaction George Georgo Washington Calo Cillo Ferris l president of a n engineering firm originated tho the idea of ot the tho wheel that bore boro his mane nume taking the thu notion from a n bicycle and adapting 11 tho the con constructive principles principle of ot steel steal bridges in lit Its ILK erection Ferris financed tho the wheel built It ItIn ItIn In let erected It tt ut lit the Chicago Columbian exposition and took tank In III at Rt 60 SO cents n II ride Time Tho Ferris took look u kaleidoscopic trip I hi to tn Europe Later he h lost all nil Interest t In tho lie mon monster ster and died In Pittsburg of or tuber Ho lie was only 10 40 years curs old oil lime Tho stockholders stockholder who 1 h had hall made per rr cent profit out lilt of time the wisest wheel III In 1893 8 3 Inter atop cased the ground In III n North Clark street sad and It there Ferris Wheel park was not a 1 and tho the wheel was taken down clown and removed to St HI Louis on Juno Jane J J a 1903 Time Tho hl cost of mf taking down tho limo wheel was WILS Its ruins nto esti estl estimated mated d Its as worth sono as ns scrap cral Iron |
