Nothing is finished yet, but the Eiffel Tower is open to the second platform. The public can go up there on foot, for the elevators cannot work before a fortnight. To open the tower even thus partially the workmen have labored all night, changing off hands as midnight hours advanced. Except in block, it costs 2f. The ascension begins at 11 o'clock, and it would take too much cable space to describe that scene of yesterday amid the happy patient crowd below and the glorious harvest of Russian, Flemish, and English restaurants above.
Telephone communication regulates the number admitted at one passing.
M. Eiffel remained all day, ever active and full of contented zeal, whenever he was recognized. Cheers were given a Mme. Sommer, who was the first lady to touch terra firma above, and next came in placid solemnity an Arab chief. All the French press came, and one or two foreign journalists. Each and all inscribed their names on the Figaro Eiffel sheet.