| Show it THE PROCTOR TOWER one of the groat great features for the coming worlds fair 0 chicago infra ocean the location was bet set down for the lake front but the location will now necessarily have to bo be changed the directory by its executive committee has just approved chief of 0 construction burnhans Curn Burn hams recommendation of the lake front as the place for the building and already the plane plans of abachi t sects ecta I 1 holabird Uola bird and koche roche are completed and the ways and means committee negotiating with tho the chartered company which proposes to at once campay materia materialize ize the daring dating conception of the designer D 11 proctor of this ci city 1 A siegle 1 gle capitalist a pit alist of chicago backs the enterprise to the extent of half the stock already preliminary work has been started regarding the foundation problem the IT iron n steel and elevators t of which theoe there will bo be sixteen A great trouble with wi th the pans paris eiffel tower was the inadequacy of means to make the recent ascent but Chi cagos provisions visions in this respect will be simply perfect the cut explains itself and on the mighty construction peo people pie can find delectation at once enjoying not only the air air and the eights but all 11 the creature comforts covered elsewhere in the grounds by privileges privilege a and concessions concession S fully 1150 feet high will rise the stanch metal of the tower and from the summit will loiter away into th the a blue for additional foot feet a steel stee 1 flagstaff flying an immense american flag ibis this ensign feet thanks to an artificial current of air will at all times unfold its stars and stripes though every other flag in the columbian metropolis droops lifeless A the proctor tower as originally designed was 1402 1492 fee feet high supported bysie by six iron pillars that I 1 formed ormed a space pace feet in diameter As the pre present e it bake lake front ro nt house is only feet 1 3 C chief ie f burnham recommended mgt that I 1 the b tower bo be modified so as to admit of its construction an on the existing area this will necessarily leduca its heights about feet in order to plant the great steal stee support on a solid foundation the rhe tower will have five platforms Slat platforms forms arranged at intermediate late points between the base and pinnacle one of the advantages the tower over AI 31 giffels Eif fels invention v that the elevators ascend a perpendicular shaft and are not anted up an incline half hall the distance but what is regarded as the creates greatest triumph is the striking grace and beauty of the structure it is beamut mcl artistic strong and bag has been pronounced by experts to be the most daring of american engineering gi |
