A Monster Aerial Globe.

Southland Times, Issue 19197, 7 November 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)

A Monster Aerial Globe.

One of "the great French exhibitions gavo birth to the Eiffel Towel 1 . The St. Louis Exhibition lia.s resulted in the erection of an aerial globe. While not possessing the same olaiuiAo beauty as its French rival, this globe, is a truly wonderful affair, as may be judged from the . fpllowing : Constructed of steel and glass, it roaches an altitude of seven hundred feet, tho globe proper being &"><) feet in diameter, and the pedestal, which supports it, 250 feet. This pedestal again rests on eight great towers or legs, between which are the arches of the entrances. The aerial globe is divided into floors, which contain a restaurant, a coliseum, a circus, a music hall and a menagerie. On top is a garden, whiJo the tower is employed to throw a searchlight of such power that it lights up tho country for ft radius of thirty miles. This remarkable structure is composed entirely of steel nud glass, the former running into ''2o,ooo tons, with just enough wood- work for the interior decorations. It was dosigned br mi American architect ns the chief feature of the exhibition; but because of its size and stability wilt be retained .as a permanency. So large is it that tho floors of the globe proper alone will seat 30,000 people, « who are conveyed, as oocaslon demands, throughout the building by a series of swift running lifts. The cost of the aerisA globa was £400,000.