Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-11-15
on TIE EIFFEL EoWER.

+ The Eiifel tower was supplied with
several rival elevators, and one had TO
change cars several times. As one pro-
ceeded upward he encountered the same
size Of crowd, but with less rolling stock
TO handle it, so that when he got up to
where the employees had 10 wear the
heaviest topcoats even in the heat Of
summer, the traveller had 10 stand and
shiver for hours in line with others, as
he would at the postotiice or the box
Office Of my great drama.
spent an evening In the Elffel tower
once. dining in the cafe which gave
upon the Trocadero. Mr.. Effel dined
there that evening. He Is a very hand
some man of fifty, perhaps, with wavy,
silvery hair and very elegant manner,
which he has acquired by studying care
fully the etiquette Of Americans who
visit Paris.
The venerable father OF the Panama
canal and other works was dining there
also. 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 necessary so far as / am concerned.
Imagine yourself at height OF about
two miles in the air, with republic and
several empires at your feet, while the
platform on which you stand is swaying
backward and forward with an oscilla-
ton 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 OF the
other elevators, the rush Of the wind
past your face and the chill OF the thin
air about you, with here and there a
nice cool cloud In sight, and you may
have very fair idea OF how one felt on
the tower OF 80.
Chicago, however, could not calmly
sit down and say: 1--WE 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 flagpole OF which will extend
1, 100 feet into the sky. Elevators will
run from the bottom TO the top without
change OF cars, and have al immense
carrying capacity, so that those who
wish to ascend will not have TO walt
long for the opportunity.
The tower will have seating capaci-
ty of %, 900 people, and there will be
large lumber of spirited restaurants OF
English, French, German, Italian and
American style. The price have not
been fixed yet, nor the menus printed.
but they will probably be high enough
TO please those who have been living at
Delmonico's for the past few years.
The extreme top platform VIII be &C.
cupied by well known speakers from
abroad. who will make few remarks
Mr.. Sam Jones has been spoken 10 re-
garding this matter. He will be fol-
lowed by several potentates, who Will
speak on important questions, inter
spersed by music. brief addresses by the
President of the United States and Mar
shall z. Wilder.
Each elevator will be able to carry
fifty people at high rate OF speed, en-
sbling the tourist to feel that delightful
sensation at thepit OF the stomach which
he does when his ocean steamer falls out
from beneath his feet for moment and
he is temporarily deprived OF the use OF
his two dollar luncheon, while his stoEl-
ach feels as IL it might have suddenly,
resigned.
II is singular how selfshness and job
berry will stick out at times even In Q
big. patriotic undertaking like the
Worlds Fair. The other day / visited
the grounds where crew OF men were
working on q sort OF grade or embark
ment or something OF that kind. Evil
IDENTIFY they had decided to make
present Of a new shovel to one OF their
number, and so "a they steadily threw
the soil up on the bank, carefully LOOK
ing the other way, they were covering
up by degrees handsome new shovel
owned by the contractor. At eyentide
I suppose they went and got it out.
We are all prone TO consider the enecs
OF all our moves upon our own future,
even while looking for light and trying
10 be governed oy the purest motives.
a little boy whose papa was clergy
man was asked by neizhbor once II
his father had decided 20 accept call
TO preach at Minneapolis at an advance
of $500 per year salary. The lad said
he did not know. His father vas pray
| ing for light, but most OF the things
were packed. nv
lis 80 too often with all Of u. We
try to be governed by the puresi