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Show 6T The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, November 28, 1982 Of his tower's transformation Would Gustave Alexandre Eiffel have approved? by Patricia Pullan Baltimore Sun Writer an paint it every seven years operation requinng 6,000 gallons of paint for the 210,000 square yards of surface, and taking 60 men four months on the job. The yellowish-browcolor, by the way, is specially blended to catch the suns rays. Would Gustave AlexPARIS andre Eiffel, who transformed Pans so dramatically when he built his tower for the Worlds Fair of 1889, approve of the transformation the Eiffel is undergoing now? Henriette Venot-Eiffe- n grand- l, daughter of the French engineer, could not be happier about the towers renovation. She was present when Jacques Chirac, the mayor of Pans, inaugurated the refurbished first level. Work is continuing on the second and third levels of the tower. This is the first time anyone has touched the Eiffel Tower, except to THE SUMMING CURE will of 1,000 tons of excess metal accretions with which it has become weighted down over the past 93 years. A more slender, more modem and elegant tower, fitted with electric elevators instead of the old hydraulic ones, will take on a new lease of life sometime next summer. nd the tower r iwmwivFBwswi The facelift will cost 205 million francs (about $29,285,000) financed by a loan; the balance will come from entrance fees. Parisian taxpayers will not be burdened, as the bill will be taken care of by the Societe Nouvcelle de la Tour Eiffel (SNTE), the company operating the tower on behalf of the city. ar After 90 years of private ownerthe tower became public property on January 1, 1980 when it was signed over to a new major ship, shareholder: the city of Paris. This followed a dispute over the elevators carrying visitors between the lower and upper levels. A group of experts commissioned by city officials to examine the tower found that it was overloaded, operated to its Pansien, and the more elegant restaurant is the Brassene, decorated in Gay Nineties style. ONE OF THE AIMS of the facelift of the tower, visited by about 2 (THE SECOND LEVEL, when completed, will boast a prestige restaurant but the chefs name has not been revealed.) The Gustave Eiffel room, designed like the salon of an ocean liner circa 1900, with damask-covere- d walls alternating with bird-sey- e maple paneling, will be available for receptions, seminars and film or stage shows. Another attraction for an extra is the area containing the charge hydraulic machinery that operates the great elevators. It suggests the engine room of Jules Vernes imaginary submarine Nautilus in 20,000 badly and was vocation as the citys landmark. best-know- n million tourists every year, was to encourage Pansians to make more use of their tower. Parisians now make up only 5 percent of visitors, Mayor Chirac said. The renovation of the towers first' level includes a stylish reception room named the Salle Gustave Eiffel, two restaurants, a cinema, souvenir shops and, for the first time, a post office with its own Paris Tour Eiffel postmark. The two restaurants are combined within a single pavilion. The less expensive one is called Le Leagues Under the Sea." AS FOR SOUVENIRS, an unemployed Frenchman, Jean Kardas, bought 6)4 tons of surplus iron joists, between 14 and 20 feet long, from the scrap metal dealer commissioned to remove them. He decided to cut the joists, which were to have been melted down for scrap, into 20,000 paperweights. Trimmed and varnished, stamped and numbered to guarantee its authenticity, each relic of the tower will be sold in a presentation box at $100 each. 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