The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-23
Dizzying Eiffel Tower
Beckons Many Tourists
on the Leap to Death
ON . scnffold In q STORM.


You haven't any idea W the
actual terror that job puts in YOU"
one grizzlcd veteran Of many re-
paintings said. High winds Lluw up
there-so fast that they're hard TO
Imagine The shaft sways two
yards on a calm dav and four yards
In the winds Visitors do not feci
Il. a. they move about the plat
forms, but. straddlcd on a beam
painting some Of the two and half
million major rivcts, one gets the
gone feeling"
what was the worst experience
you ever hado' ne was asked.
guess 1t was in The storm Of
1919 he reflected Three or us
we're marooncd out In space on
board and the two men who were
with me went down Hail and big
drops blinded me and an | could
hear was each mans last desparing
shrt"k, Eyetything went black and
the thunder and lightning were aw-
ful. / Just ciung-thats all"
What are the requisites % man
must have for Job like that2" an
other Of tho painters was asked.
"He ought 10 do just two things
beforehand. came the Laughing
answer. "Fast and pray The stom-
ach has To- be In good order while
man IL working at great heights.
otherwise vertigo comes"
4 PrivaE, parlor on ToD.
Aren't the wireless operators al
most Ia the same sort Of boat ?"
Not by any means. They live In
a regular house, even IL It Is some
distance above the ground. Why
they have stuffed chairs and SOFAS
furniture and wooden walls, and
can't see outside
what does Gustave Eiffel think
about it. EIffol, who built the tower
and still is one OF tho great mon Of
France? The towcr brought him
any amount Of Censure at first. The
people called It ugly and dangerous
Now, however. things are very diff
fcrcnt because the tower helped
save Paris and France I'm the war.
Eiffel spends most OF his time In
the heights which ne built. lie
keeps private parlor there,
reached by "rescrved' elevator,
and in II he received the other day
visiting delegation from the Amef.
ican Engineering societies.
THE height gives me no qualms,' "
he explained, smiling quietly. !
slept up here through bombing
Gotha raids during the war. have
TtAu poetry uFl' huNthH Ntl ~
thunder storms when lightning
touched tho tower once a minute
and the shaft was swinging four
yards in the wind"
Can Accommodate Thousands.
Some relative distances and
heights were brought to mention to
show Just how far the tower stretch
es above the other wonders OF the
world" Niagara Falls are high.
They could fall from the towers
first platform. Americas skyscrap-
ers could not reach even the inter-
mediate platform, half way up tn"
shaft. 647 feet above the level OF the
ground. The third platform IKE
the brim Of a hat, is 9ll feet high,
and the towers top l. ~ feet hig her.
The ground inclosed by the four
legs Of the tower is three acres, and
the various attractions the tower Of
fers have long proved "a drawing
card for French people and visitors
to their land There is a theater,
for instance. on the first platform,
which combined with "a restaurant
and various small cafes, manages TO
hold / 800 persons. -Four hundred
more can be accommodated on the
platforms exterior galleries"
The second platform can hold
1000 persons and the third 1000
more. Add to this the 5000 adults
who can range themselves up and
down the tower stairs and In the
elevators and one has a total Of 49,
200 persons who actually could be
on the tower at the same time.
Thirteen thousand two hundred per