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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 283, 24 August 1908, Page 2

Next January the IJiffel Tower will ,bocome tho property of Paris, in sccoi'daildu with an agreement entered into in .18S9. with its contractor and architect, H. Eiffel, .that tho big steel structure should belong to the city after twenty years. What Paris will do with the tower- is a problem. 'Admission fees and tho sub-let contracts to' the restaurant hardly pay 1 per cent, of the capital invested. It took eleven yoars for il, Eiffel to recoup his expenses, notwithstanding the great Exhibition of 1889, which brought thousands of visitors to the tower. Tho ontranco fee nor is only a franc (10d.), hardly enough to corer the cost, of running the huge lifts, and the city rill have to devise somo scheme to make the tower pay. There is now a subsidy paid yearly to ttui French Government on account- of the wireless connections established there, hut this is so' small that it is lint worth considering.