The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-31

the French flag. This tower consists of
four iron pyramids placed 300 feet one
from the other, each pyramid being so
feet square at the base and Is feet
square.
At the first story, $50 feet above the
ground, these pyramids are united by a
glass covered gallery so feet wide, which
makes the tour of the construction.
This gallery will be used for sOirees, etc.
At the second story is room 100 feet
square, covered by glass.
At the summit is cupola with an
exterior balcony. There will be placed
the electrical apparatus destined to
light the Exposition. Each pyramid
will have an elevator, constructed IN the
same manner as the Swiss railroads.
1t is startling to think of an elevator
taking one seven times as high as the
Column Vendome, but there will be no
danger.
The elevator will be drawn by a cable,
but steel graphing hooks are to be
arranged in such g manner that, if the
cable breaks, the elevator will remain
suspended. There has never been an
accident on the Right, and NJ. Eifel
Whe is the originator of this sUupendous
says Lis CACN6AOA WAAl VIC CECA4
more secure than any yet constructed.
A vertical elevator will also take pas
sengers from the central point to the
summit of the tower. When at the top
we can admire the night, Paris and the
millions of lights.
In pleasant weather We can see the
most splendid panorama that human
thought can imagine. Above the hills
which with their green foliage surround
Paris, we shall have a view of over one
hundred miles. We shall see Com
piegne, Rheims ,Fontainebleau, Charities,
Dreux, Creil, the villages lost in the
woods, and the rivers trailing their sill
yer ribbons across the valleys.
But this metallic tower will not be
built expressly for the curious; it will
render service to science. In the cupols
will be installed telescopes, pluViOm-
eters, thermometers, etc. Astronomical
and meteorological obsery atoms will be
made under new conditions, and expert
ments which have heretofore been
impossible can for the first time be
attempted. Atmospheric electricity the
velocity of the wind, the transparency
of the air, Foucault's experiment to
prove that the earth reVolVes, all can be
studied.
Spectroscopss for analysis of the
light of the sun and stars will be placed
under the dome. A study equally in
teresting will be that of the variation of
temperature with altitude. For the
public a very strange sight will be the
effect of lightning and the deviation of a
falling body.
The tower will be surrounded by g
lightning-rod, but in itself the tower
will form an immense lightning-rod, by
which will descend formidable quanti-
ties of electricity. In a thunderstorm
everone in the tower will be struck by
lightning, although unconscious Of and
receiving no injury from this electric
shock.
When the night is black with slouds,
from the foot Of the tower one can see a
continuous sparkling fall of lightning.
To produce that effect a lightning rod
win be placed on the summit of the
tower and the conductor will be inter
rupted for the space of two yards. The
lightning will thus Jump from one sec
ton to another, with continual explo-
sions
At the base of the tower, on immense
blocks Of marble, Inscriptions recalling
the history of the century will be
engraved in guided letters. There will
be found extracts from the Declare
ton of the Rights of Men" the names
of illustrious Republics, etc.
The weight of this tower will not be
greater than 1000 tons, almost enough
iron to make a railroad from Paris to
SAINT Germain by way of Versailles.
The cost will be about 81, 900 900, but
the inventor of this gigantic work asks
only the admission fees for ten years to
pay all the expenses of the builGIng.-
Chicago Times.