Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1890 — London’s New Tower. [ARTICLE]

London’s New Tower.

London Court Circular. t The Watkin tower is so far on the way to become an accomplished fact that a site of 300 acres has been purchased.' Of this ground one-half will be laid out as a pleasure garden. The promoters have not been starved in the matter of designs. They have had plans sent from the continent and from America, as well as from ail parts of Some of the competing engineers have branched into remarkable designs. One, for example, has provided for a steam tramway from the base to the summit of the tower, and another has given his structure an initial in the form of a dome large enough to contain the whole of the houses of parliament. The steam [tramway, however, is not likely to be constructed. The promoters have decided that the transport within the tower shall be effected entirely by hydraulic machinery.