People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — A Ferris Wheel for London. [ARTICLE]

A Ferris Wheel for London.

One of the sights of the Chicago exhibition is a monster iron wheel two hundred and forty-eight feet in diameter, or a little higher than the inner dome of St. Paul’s. Balanced on the wheel are a number of cars, in which passengers are safely conveyed to the top of the wheel as it revolves and down again. The magnificent view df the surrounding country is said to repay any trouble or expense to which visitors are put In fact, so successful is the speculation that as much as ten thousand dollars has been taken in in one day. This has excited the cupidity of speculators on the other side of the water, and the London correspondent of the Sheffield Telegraph is informed that a syndicate has been formed for the purpose of erecting a similar structure just outside London. As a novelty the venture is sure to be successful