The Eiffel Tower.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 367, 28 January 1890, Page 3

The Eiffel Tower.

Tlie baaine-a of the Eiffiel Tower ia immense. M. F.ifSel calculatad that when everything waa in working order the gate money would be a; 1.000 a Since the lifts here hern in operation he ia thought to have averaged more than this. It coat* a franc to enter the tower, two franca to get up in the lift to the second floor, and four franca to the top. On the ordinary full price dura more than 20.000 people have pud admission, aot, with tli* increased prices for those uaing the elevator, the entire receipt* • vceed <2.000. The original coat of the Kift el Tower was a Tittle It'* than <200.000. The proprietor has to keep it in repair, and Land over one-fourth at bu gate-money to the exhibition. It is estimated that it will be liaif paid tor when the eshibltiou closes, end then it will remain certainly three years more aud perhaps ten. TIIF. YANKEES OO ONE BETTER. A company ha* lieen formed to erect in connection with the World's Show winch it is proposed to ImlJ in New York in lhihd, a lownr winch, according to the account riven, will leave the F.iffel Tower far behind aa a world's wonder. The new project ia the design of Mr W. 1.. Judsou. aud to erect it the World's Fair Company has been formed with a capital of 2.500.000 dollar*, three fourths of which has already been subacrilied. The tower a* projected is to he 1000 feet high, or 63:l feet higher than the Pans one. It is proposed to ascend the tower in two wa v*. One of those is by a carriagednve. which encircle* the inner extremities of the structure, with an ascent of *fl in each 100 ft. This roadway will l>e 75ft wide at the base and soft at the top. allowing space for four carnages abreast to pass up or down or mm at any point. Tha drive encircles the tower seventeen times, the distance f >m 1-a-e to apex being 3*76 imloe. end the ascent iseo gradual that teams can trot up or down at will. From the opposite side of the base from winch the drive starts begins a cartrack. which also winds around seventeen times from base to summit bera aih the carnage road. Upon this are to he ruu every one-half minute cars capable of seating sixty prxnti each, operated by the Judson pi t unauc system. It is estimated t'ist !h1.4i»0 persons can be earned daily iTi the car* to the top of the I iwtr, ami the revenue from carriage* a 1 bieycloa would add largely to tin* r< venue. At vsrioue points on the wav up it is proposed to liavo stations Iji rv«i«-irants or repose.