Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-21
ABOVE E|FFEL TOWER.
Ebert Huhbard's Interesting
Experience.
PARIS FROM THE CLOUDS.
The Famous Author of "Little Jour-
neys" Goes Up in Balloon.
THE VIEW FROM A DIZZY HEIGHT.
s~me Facts About the Fnmous Einel
Tower-It Is 1000 Feet
High.
THE VIEW FROM A DIZZY HEIGHT.

The Eiffei Tower is pie thousand feet
high: It is the hight structure In the
world. Next to this comes the Wash
ington Monument Ave hundred and
fifty-nve feet. The Great Pyramid Is
/, four hundred and eighty feet; the spire
Of st. Peters at Rome is four hundred
and thirty-two feet. There are four
elevators that run to the second land
2 ing of the tower-two ascending and
two descending. From this point there
is ons running up and one running
down. In order to lessen vibration to
the structure and to the vertobrae OF
passengers the elevators move at the
rate OF only one hundred feet II minute;
thus it takes ten minutes to make the
ascent.
The second landing place is three
hundred and seyenty-seyen feet from
the ground, and this Is about rs far
from mother earth as most people care
20 go. The highest buildings in Chicago
ore about one hundred and ffty feet.
From the roofs OF these ediices the
people below look like pigInies; the
rattle Of traffic Is heard as faint hum.
But from the top OF the Elffel Tower
the men and women on the ground all
look alike; they are mere dots. without
height or individuality.
The Eiffel Tower Is the greatest
scheme for clevutinE the race ever con-
ceived. 1t costs uve francs TO make
tho ascent. but It o. worth the money.
II VIII try your nerves. and possibly
make you seaslck but the Joy you feel
on getting back 90 the ground Is COM
peusation for all discomfort
Besides this change In hygiene, FOR
deal
views, are -url.7- l- i4Ht. @ Fp-ttallHt
IN neuroiiCs at Paris takes certain of
his patients % the top OF the Einel
Tower ll order 20 arouse them out OF
their dependency. 60 animate and
compel them 90 think OF new things.
We have all heard Of the chronic In
valid who was not cured until the
house caught fire. but who wants to
start q c1nfagrltiou as treatment FOR
m-iaunhnl. But the elevators nt the
Einel Tower run every day and II has
happened that when patients who have
tried 20 commit suicide are taken up
IN the nicely-cushiuned cage. they have
become frightened and begged to be
taken down mt once
Let me frankly confess that was
first attracted to the Eiffel Tower
through the advice Of physician. !
had overworked Mt my editors desk
until nervous pTOstration had taken a
firm hold upon me, and II my actions
at this time were slightly peculiar, the
gentle reader must be charitable and
attribute any ccCentricity Rolely to my
physical condition.
L made the ascent Of the tower by
stages; the first time was fully salts
ned on going TO the second landing.
The next time TO the third and on the
third ascent / reached the sumit.
Had | gone but once, II would hive
been an experience never to be forgot
1a.. u I..I naW
BILE that l wished FOR double dose,
aud on the second trip the tower was
only half as high. 1 was quite blase.
The work of the great ougineer2
What of III He has the earth to build
upon; the corners OF the world from
which to draw material, and books
that tell him the crushing resistance
of his haac and the breaking tension OF
his beams. He digs Tor his CaissOns
lays his foundation. places his steel
upright counts on the force of the
mind, computes the exact weight Of
each piece h. viii use; bolts ana rivets
part to part carrying up columns and
girded by elevator, and like the build
ing of n railroad, lays the track for
his carriages as he goes 4 railway
ext ads iron after iron on the ground:
this extends iron after iron into the
air. But IL Is all according to well
digested physical laws; It Is all geomet-
ric. The tower has four immense cor
ners three hundred feet apart that are
Inortised into the very crust OF the
MiOcene period. The pressure ON each
square centimctre at the base is nine
pounds that At the Washington monu-
ment Is 5S Wounds. The difference is
IN the material used Who's afraid?
Ihcre 1t rises, tail, straight, correct
cold-lcvelled with plumb-ine and
squire. II Is all mathematlcally adj
justcd, clamped, implicated, rivetted;
IL
Sl.a0J,000.
on my third passage in the elevator
OF the Eluel Tower the novelty OF the
thing had quite Worn away. | jolSen
with the ticket seller, slapped the
guard on the back. entered the ear and
pacified several ladies' who were bit
nervous and threatening to scream
then gave the order to ascend. My
Jaunty manner quite put the passen-
gers at their case, In pigeon French
explained the working OF the eleva-
tors, the cost Of the structure, the
time required TO build It. the Difficult
ties encountered,
~ tie .Hi trln ono ot the ladies'
s-e4. Vine W-s II bullt THIS tower,
.nywayg' Il am the man who built
It," was my unblushlng answer
but l thought from your accent
that you were an Americana
Madam, you evidently forget Tint
In building towers the vocabulary all
ways gets triile mixed"
The next day, aa / Viewed the Eiffel
Tower from my hotel window, smiled
In dersion.
on nrst approaching the tower a
week before / had been overawed.
then 1 admired. then endured, then
pitied. then embraced-an opportunity
TO scorn Il.
And this Is how It happened: In the
Paris edition OF the Herald / read an
advertisement worded as follows,
"Prof. lie G0lllgar, the celegrated
aeronaught, Will make an ascension
for scientific purposes tomorrow, from
the Champ de Mars. Three passengers
will be taken. at fifty franco each
Apply early at II, Rue St Denis"
An Overwhelming desire had come
over me to spit down upon the pride
OF NJ. Elffel, and here was the chance
/ hastened 20 the Hue st. Denis, found
Prof. lie Galligar, bright youth OF
about twenty-five, at a little wine shop
He was too young to be celebrated
and did not look scientific, yet / paid
him my passage money and took re.
ceipt. He could not understand my
English. and to me his French was
incomprehensiblc; but by means OF
much pantomime II was agreed that
should be on hand ar two o'clock tht
following day.
1 slept little that night, and was NJ
early the next morning. When ap,
preached the Champ de Mars In til,
afternoon could see The great mud.
coiored balloon awaying b.lck and forll