Show f WILL THE TOWER BRING STORMS 1 the eiffel tower is said to have changed the climate of paris As a matter of fact there has been coincident coln with its existence a marked climatic alteration we have an amount of sultriness followed by heavy rainfalls rain falls and thunderstorms thunder storms which is to say the least abnormal nights are hotter than I 1 ever felt them before and new yorkers find them quite as aa hot as any they remember ay I 1 in their own city it is true that apart from the sprightly crowd at the champs de mars there is something peculiarly exhilarating in the atmosphere there Is this because the tower is like jupiter a collector of clouds charged with electricity and productive of thunderbolts der bolts scientists have not yet said their say but it stands to reason says a paris letter to the new york wawne that when the key hey at the end of franklins Pran klins kite string was able to draw down a thunderbolt the vast mass of iron which springs to the height of yards into the sky rather in the form form ot of a steeple than a tower towe ought rought to to suck to it electricity in proportionate quantities and from great IN distances w I 1 have been a good deal to the champs de mars and never lost an opportunity to mount the tower I 1 have noticed from it that it is the rendezvous to speak in a figure of storm spirits and indeed a kind of vortex into which they rush when they do this they get unruly and behave like made things As the witches say in macbeth they meet in thunder in lightning and in rain nevertheless there has not been a single electrical accident on or about the tower last sunday I 1 was perched high up there when the winds beat and the rain fell in deluges and the thunderbolts went flying about but somehow were impotent to do mischief it was very curious to note how the storm clouds rose advanced met played their furious pranks and when a good deal spent danced off again to collect fresh strength As I 1 saw the biggest of the white clouds and its dusky forerunner approach I 1 climbed to the highest platform of the tower and was hardly there when it was upon the giant with a crash of thunderbolts and a deluge of rain which I 1 thought must sweep me off notwithstanding the solid but low parapet A sailor would have said what tremendous seas we ship for perhaps berha s five minutes the rain tense formed a dense curtain and nothing was visible at a short distance then the upper atmosphere cleared and I 1 was above the storm I 1 could see the other isolated clouds forming junctions and there was in the way of light ninga fine pyrotechnic display this tasted lasted for perhaps half an hour the storm clouds then careered north deluging as I 1 have since heard the north side of paris and shivering trees at montmartre it divided or forked one I 1 part art going on toward the southeast and the other north toward montmorency I 1 also noticed that white contingent clouds arose in the direction in which the storm was going and made for it and that by the time the eastern section got to the horizon it took menacing proportions chicago daily |