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Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 17, 24 February 1894, Page 3

Verily the Yanks aro tho most enterprising of novelty hunters —and finders. There is to be an exhibition at San Francisco next winter, and an engineering novolty is announced to be one of the attractions which will, it is stated, knock into a cocked hat the Eiffel Tower of Paris, tho Ferris Wheel of Chicago, and the “Castle in tho Air ’’ (supported by balloon) of the coming Antwerp exhibition. The novolty is to bo a “ Mammoth Figure of Justice." Tho figure of justico is to bo 150 ft. high, and the scale beam in her band 300 ft. long, each pan of the scale will seat 50 people, who will swing to a height of 288 feet.

The framework of tho structure is to be of steel, tho scale will be moved by machinery, and there will bo telephone cpmmunication between the pans and the engine room. If wc don’t have any more libel actions, we may do a Pacific slopo of an honest and legitimate kind next winter. ‘ Fair Play ’is specially interested in anything that has to do with justice. Latterly it has had a bitter experience of what it considers gross injustice 1