THE BUILDING OF THE EIFFEL TOWER.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2177, 24 June 1890, Page 4

THE BUILDING OF THE EIFFEL TOWER.

The great monsters of mechanical skill and genius cdl for the sacrifice of a great deal of life and limb in their cotihtniction. The greater the engine* •ring fe-it 'he more extensive is the loss of life. In the construction of th^ Eiffel tower, for instance, twenty-six lives were lost, according to the cfficial returns of the French G -vernuoent ; t>ut it is sad th it this ii timber »<m d be largely augmented if tbe names were given of m«u who died from it juries received dm ing the construction of tfait)wer, and vi otl ers who were killed and whose death.i were not. repurred ow ing to the hue and cry which wasraixed afte- the first two dozen lives had b en sacrificed on the great Htructiire. The num 1 erof men who were injured during the constiuction <>f the Eiffel tower ha« been placed at 6,000. This enormous showing is accounted for by the fact thit every injury whs reported and 'eg'H'er d wliich reoeivod treatment from official surgeons. When a man

bruised his finger he went to a govern- 1 meut surgeon to have it drensod, and a clumsy workman thus got on the list a dozen or two times a year. Serious iujuries were a very small proportion of the whole. On the great Forth bridge in Scotland a list of forty lives has been published ; but there is< uo (ecord of injuries.— ' Ne-v York Sun.'