Telegram-herald., 1889-12-05

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his arrival To make sure OF recogniz-
mg him. they had. before they left
hOms, studied very carefully the feat
ures II portrait that adorned the walls
Of their home. Thus prepared, they
scanned the hundreds Of faces Of people
who lefL the beat, until they were quite
sure that they had found The original Of
the likeness.
The train stopped. the story came %
al end, and with many additional zssur-
ancss OF never ending gratitude and
thousand apologies for their Intrusion.
husband and wife wended their way
towards the city, | am quite sure ex-
ceedingly pleased with the unique visit
they had made. They left neat box Of
exquisite biscuits. which were a particu-
larly grateful acquisition on our long
journey as well as an evidence Of kind
thoug ghtfulness on the part OF the giTers.
Before they had passed fully out Of sight
they turned and waved a final sdieu.
Or. Talmsge, who surely more than any
other living man could substantiate
claim 70 the world as his parish, was
yisibly affected.
We reached Paris. tired and hungry,
at Z IN the evening. Seated at the table,
discussing plans for the most profitable
use OF the few hours we could command
in the gay capital, before departing for
Rome the next morning at 10, we were
interrupted in a manner somewhat SINH
lar TO our London experience Of vista
ton, but on much smaller scale. A
few visitors were warmly received, but
others had 10 be disappointed
As We arrived the day after the
Worlds exhibition closed, we were un-
fortunately not able TO see it in its glory.
Getting up early in the morning, how
ever, we took coach and drove over 10
the grounds in order 10 see the famous
Eiffel tower. DIR. Talmage was quite
enraptured with the gracefulness of the
structure, but expressed the opinion
that. should such building be consid-
cred desirable for the Worlds fair of
1892, the American people would expert
ence no difficulty in excelling it In the
language of Wall street, he is bull on
American genius, and feels certain that
no other people equals the American.
When questioned as 10 his impressions
of the tower, he said:
1T surpasses my expectations.
never before saw the exquisite and ma
lestic so effectively combined. The way
to look at it is TO let your eye start at the
base and very slowly ascend, and by the
time your sight has travelled to the top
you will find yourself out of breath with
tower could build a world if he had the
materials and machinery requisite. Moth
ing that will ever be built on either con-
tinent can take anything from the ori-
ginality and splendor Of the intellect
that planned that marvel before vet its
two first bars OF iron were interlaced.
But the idea / have seen in some news
papers that we cannot equal that struct-
ure for our American exposition of 1892
is an absurdity as high as Eiffel tower
| Our American architects and engineers
are as talented, our building materials
as strong, our foundations as solid,
our skies as lofty. Surely the lines
of beauty are not all exhausted. warrant
| you there are already dozen American
/ artists who have a tower more graceful
than this, either in their brain or actually
put in diagram. Give our American
/ genius a chance for such a structure.
The history of this Eiffel tower proves
/ not only that the thing can be done, but
that it will be financially remunerative.
As sure as we live, we shall see in Ameri-
| ca, in 1892, tower higher, stronger,
more delicately graceful and with larger
/ financial income. If the Eiffel tower is
/ 900 feet high, we can have a tower
1900 feet high; if that weighs 150, 900. 900
/ pounds, we can have one weighing 200. :
/ coo, 900 pounds; if 10000 persons can
stand in it at one time, we can have l5.-
900 in ours. As America has the great
est cataract coming down. she might as
well have the greatest tower going up. -
/ LOFTS KIOPSCH