The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-07-13

is estimated that this platform will
hold 1920 persons! There are four
large restaurants-a Flemish beer
halle, Louis xiv cabaret, Rus
sian restaurant, and, last but not
least, an American bar. This will
certainly be the spot for the morn
ing cocktail!! The famous Brebaut
runs the restaurant, and this plat
form will certainly be charming
place to dine; on one side the win
dows of the restaurants look out
over Paris, and on the other side on
the hollow square formed by the
four pillars of the tower. One can
look directly into the fountains be-
neath-a sheer drop of $50 feet.
The view over Paris is grand.
The height is so great that the city
has the immobility of a panorama,
except the crowd in the gardens be-
low and the cabs and people in the
streets, who appear like little ami
mated ink spots against the white
pavements. One sees the whole of
Parasitic houses and streets decor
ated with futtering flags; the Arc
de Triomphe, with its twelve radi-
ating avenues; the hill of Mont
martre, the Pantheon, and on the
other side Passy, the Bots de Bou-
logne, and the Park of st. Cloud
beyond.
The stairs leading from this plat
form to the one above are much
sleeper and narrower than thuse I
have just left. It is a "cork-screw"
stairway, running parallel to the
shaft of the elevator, and with such
steep rise that it is necessary to
close ones eyes to escape from the
dizziness occasioned by the rapid
rise of the line of the horizon. The
buildings seem to descend and the
hills to sink into the ground as the
horizon rises; the Trocadero towers
-226 feet high-seem already to
have sunk into the earth, and the
trees Of the park are mixed in with
the grass.
THE SECOND STAGE.
Suddenly the stairway abruptly
stops, and L find that have reached
the second platform, height of $50
feet. On this platform there is
large shed-one can almost call it
house-where the printing machines
of the Figaro strike off a daily copy
of the paper. Each copy contains
heading" certifying to the fact that
the paper has been printed and pur-
chased on the second platform of the
Eifel Tower-a cheap souvenir of the
ascension, three cents.
The view of the Exhibition is
superb-the roofs look like great
seas of molten lead, and the domes
and cupolas form little islands.
When cloud casts it's shadow and
dulls the glitter of the roofs then the
Exhibition looks like the nave of
monster cathedral, of which the
tower is the steeple.
[ can see on the left of the Champ
de Mars the narrow line of buildings
following the quays-the agricul-
tural section-for nearly mile until
they join the second corps of the
Exhibition-the Exposition Colon
iale," on the Esplanade DIES Inval-
ides. The Algerian, Tunisian and
Hindo palaces of this section seem
to lie almost at my feet, and I mag
inc I can hear the copper-colored
natives banging like devils on gongs
in the 'Kampong," or Javanese vii
lage. Another spiral stairway! I
climb and climb, until every muscle
aches; always keeping my eyes fixed
on the stairs, in order to prevent
dizziness.
SEVEN HUNDRED FEET UP.
After, what seems to me, hours of
exertion, I reach the intermediate
platform, as it is called, 700 feet from
the ground. Here I commence to
have peculiar "gone" feeling in the
legs and stomach-can it be hunger,
weakness, or is it fatigue? I take
bite of sandwich-the last one, alas!
but strange to say it gives me no
pleasure. l find that I am tired, and
that [ also have that peculiar dizzi-
ness or sickness of which aeronauts
tell us--the feeling brought on by
space. One seems entirely in space,
as if in the car of a balloon. There
are no screens or buildings here to
hide the awful precipice on either
side.
On looking down everything below
seem to have fattened out, and the
country looks like a relief map.
Mont Valerian has sunk beneath the
horizon, the Trocadero beneath the
Bots de Boulogne; there is st. Denis
in the distance! There is the Seine
in and out between the hills
until it reaches st. German. I can
count the number of turns one
two three four. Paris
looks like vast game of dice. The
height is so great that one can see
5he four sides of the houses and the
little black window-holes look like
oips on the dice.
AT LAST AT THE SUMMIT.
I rather felt as if [ should like to
top here, but as [ have come this
ar l may as we'll push on to the
op. | rush at the narrow stairs.
md go twisting giddily upward for
mother 200 feet when / reach-ex-
elsior!-the top platform, $40 feet
rom the ground. The view is I'M
It is said that one can
ee distance of sixty miles in fine
7eather-I look down and seem to
ave the map of France at my feet.