Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1929 — Page 9

IBtr 31.1929.

HIGHEST TOWER 1 IN WORLD NOW 40 YEARS OLD French to Honor Memory of Eiffel, Builder of First Skyscraper. BY \. REYNOLDS PACKARD. t'nitd Prm Stiff Correspondent PARIS. May 31—The Eiffel i toer has reached middle age but 1* still holds itself proudly erect as the highest structure in the world despite the ever-increasing height of sky-scrapers in America. Parisians are planning to cpmmemorate its fortieth anniversary this year by placing a memorial to Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, its constructor, under the north side of this straddling four-legged colossus of steel. This memorial will be a bust executed by the famous French sculptor, Emile Antoine Bourdelle, and will be unveiled in the course of the t ear with impressive ceremonies, , the exact date not yet having been fixed. 25,000.000 Rivets in Building Eiffel built his imposing monumen* with its 25.000,000 rivets holding together 1,500,000 pieces of mental m fourteen months, driving rivet even days beopening of* the Universal Exposition of 1889. Despite the protests against the construction of { w hat was then termed by many writers a useless and ugly metal j tower, he started the work in 1887 and finished on March 30, 1889, Two days later, in the presence rs several hundred French officials] and their wives, M. Eiffel hoisted! ne French flag over his newly com- ; pleted masterpiece. Twenty-one guns i " ere fired and fireworks w ere set off from the top. The tower continues to be one of the most interesting features of j Paris and attracts American tour- ! lets by the thousands every week enuring the summer months. For the prince of a few francs one of the most beautiful panoramas of Paris can be seen from any of its landings. Tower 981 Feet High Although the world knows Eiffel by this work alone, it is not the only monument which he has left j to his memory. Born in Dijon in 1832, he gained wide reputation as the constructor of metal bridges. He then designed the immense sluice gates for the Panama canal while the construction was under j French supervision. He was also j connected with a large number of; engineering works made in France | during his life. He died in 1923. The Eiffel Tower is 984 feet in height, exceeding the Woolworth , building by more than 234 feet. The Washington Monument is 555 feet j high, the Great Pyramid 450 feet and St. Paul's Cathedral in London 305 feet. One of the interesting facts about ♦be tower is that it has a swing of, five feet, bowing ever so arrogantly before a heavy wind. DA VINCI’S SCIENTIFIC MODELS TO BE SHOWN Great Italian Artist Built Canals, Studied Aviation. c , r n.red Prena FLORENCE. Italy. May 31—The scientific and practical side of j Leonardo da Vinci’s genius is to be illustrated at the forthcoming na- j tional exhibition of the history of science to be held here shortly. The numerous models designed by Da Vinci for working out his scientific ideas are to be reconstructed and exhibited at the forthcoming exhibition. It is not too commonly known * that Leonardo da Vinci, in addition to being a painter of the first grade, built canals, studied the possibilities ! of flight and displayde amazing! prevision of many scientific phenomena which are now common- j places of every-day existence.

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THIRTIES ARE DANGER PERIOD FOR WOMEN Female Sex Apt to Be Nervous in This Age, Tests Show. B’J \ LA sn ' ice WASHINGTON. May 31.—Young women in their thirties sigh more frequently than men and women of any other age, Dr. P. D. White of the Massachusetts General hospital and Dr. R. G. Hahn found in a recent study. The greatest degree of nervous instability is also shown by •his sex at this age. The discovery about the frequency of sighing among young ladies of thirty odd summers was made in the course of investigations on the occurrence of sighing as a symptom of heart disease. Four hundred normal persons were examined as controls. Among these sighing was a common condition, but occurred frequently in only about one-fifth of them. Frequent sighing was found to be rather rare in heart disease, unless marked nervousness or symptoms of exertion were present. Analysis of various cases indicated that sighing is associated with the nervousness rather than with the heart affection. Several Shot in Labor Clash Bn l I'itrit Press WARSAW, May 31— Several persons were wounded by a fusillade of shots, exchanged at the opening of the Polish Trades union convention here today. The disturbance came when 100 communists, previously ousted from the unions, attempted to force their way into the convention hall.

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BY ARCH STEINEL Genie! rub the lamp. One hundred years years roll back 5 to a dank mine tunnel in Germany. ] On hands and knees a miner crawls in the muggy gloom with only an i , antiquated lard lamp swinging on a hook from his cap to light his way. i j There’s a cave-in and the lard lamp i lights his way to safety, j Genie rub the lamp again! ! It is 1844. Wallowing in the | troughs of heavy seas a staunch i little sail-boat the “Hoa Dansce ! Lombardeni” battles in the deep’s | hands. In a rough cabin lighted by I the same lard lamp the man who was a miner watches at a bedside of a woman. Seas beat at the vessel as : a heart beats in the woman for re- : lease on the world. The lard lamp ! stays lit through the storm. The j i waves droop and a babe is born. Gives Cheer to Bride ! Genie! rub the lamp rudely this; ! time. War snaps at families—both north | and south —and in a room ip Boston, 0.. a girl—the babe of the ship —sews by'the lard lamp on her wed- | ding dress There's a knock. Her betrothed greets her, whispers of war between kisses—and promises to come back. “I may wait,” 1 she replied. The lard lamp flickers. “We ll marry tomorrow.” He leaves. She sews on the wedding dress under the benign lard lamp—and on the morrow they marry. Genie! rub the lamp once more. A year of the Civil war slips by. In an Indianapolis home the same lard lamp lights a window waiting for a Union soldier’s return. The soldier is a color-bearer with Sherman on his march to the sea and the husband of the bride, who sewed under the lard lamp's smoky flame. A skirmish ensues and minnie ; balls and shrapnel whine, tear at ! the colors he carries, and a bit of | steel clips shreds from his hat and i the lard lamp's luck carries him I back to the bride that waits by the j | window. Still Hangs in Home Enough Genie! for you've told of i the lucky lard lamp of Jhe miner Earnhardt Dintch, and how he sailed the Atlantic to make his | home in America and how the lard ! lamp brought him through the storm and gave him the baby who is now Mrs. Elizabeth A. South, 84, of 328 Bright street, and who was the bride who waited by the same lard lamp to see the return of her husband from the Civil war and his death later as owner of the old Brunswick hotel on Monument Circle. But you haven’t told Genie that the 100-year-old lard lamp still hangs by a window in the living room in Mrs. South's home on ‘ Bright street. !

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