The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-15
BILL NYE IN CHICAGO.
The Worlds Fair Tower That
Will Guido Eiffefs.
low GENIUS is PERVERTED.
no Kind of Man a Tender. Trusting Girl
Should Ayoid-Persons of Unusual
Talent Spoiled by Flattery.

HorEE RlcHEMEU, CHICAGO, Nov. g.
krpecial Correspondence. = 1t is pretty
Isell settled now, | think that the Worlds
Mr. is to have tower which will make
& kK of Mr.. EifIel look stunted.
The tower will be over 100 feet higher
han the Paris tower, and will have flag
sf on the top, surmounting which will
ia weather vane representing a human
he pointed toward Paris, with its thumb
|pi its nose and the fingers fiuttering in the
NGk
The keystone Bridge Company is to do
Dahe Job, using the French ideas with
american improvements. 1t is said
HAT this tower will stand for years, no
ulb0bt, after the big fair has gone and the
vvopcorn and other booths have been re-
uoved. Its earning capacity will greatly
axeecd that of the French tower, which
lows how the Yankee mind has, with all
love Of art and vertu, frugal twist
III.
Remember very well spending an en-
ternoon working my way to the top
Eiffel tower, and the entire evening
letting back again. 1t was as difficult
II is to become thirty-second degree
Cason while your family is having the
easels.
The Eiffel tower was supplied with
Eeral rival elevators, and one had to
hange cars several times. AS one pro-
eeded upward he encountered the same
ise of crowd but with less rolling stock
b handle it, so that when he got up to
here the employees had to wear the
ttayiest topcoats even in the heat of
nmmer, the traveller had to stand and
hiver for hours in line with others, as he
would at the postoffice or the box office of
~ great drama.
spent an evening in the Eifiel tower
once, dining in the cafe which gave upon
the Trocadero. Mr.. Eiffel dined there that
rcning. He is a very handsome man of
~ perhaps, with wavy, silvery hair and a
Stsy elegant manner, which he has ac-
.ired by studying carefully the etiquette
81 Americans who visit Paris.
The venerable father of the Panama
canal and other works was dining there
slso. He was then eighty years of age,
but straight and strong, apparently, as a
Georgia pine.
The Paris tower was tall enough for me,
and no additional height would be neces-
bay so far as | am concerned. Imagine
yourself at a height of about two miles in
the AIR, with republic and several en-
pres at your feet, while the platform on
which you stand is swaying backward and
forward with an oscillation of seventeen
feet, and with the dull and distant roar Of
the inclined railways which ran up the
legs of the tower, and the solemn rumble
kS$the other elevators, the rush of the wind
past your face and the chill of the thin air
about you, with here and there nice cool
cloud III sight, and you may have a very
fair idea of how one felt on the tower of
80.
Chicago, however, could not calmly sit
down and say: I'VE will let it go that way.
Your hand is good. Take the ante and
Everything else" 1t would not be like her.
SO She will build tower the fiagpole of
(which will extend i,120 feet into the sky.
Elevators will run from the bottom to the
top without change of cars, and have an
immense carrying capacity, so that those
Who wish to ascend will not have to wait
ions for the opportunity.
The tower will have seating capacity of
4%,OO0 people, and there will be large
Anumber of spirited restaurants of the Eng
sh, French. German, Italian and Ameri-
Sean style. The prices have not been fixed
Yet. nor the menus printed, but they will
4probably be high enough to please those