Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1891 — LET THEM WAVE. [ARTICLE]

LET THEM WAVE.

Monster World’s Fair Tower 1130 Feet High to be Built at Chicago. The Stars and Stripes are to wave 1120 feet above ,the ground—higher: than ever the flag has Waved before. It is to be done (luring the World’s FairJrom an American, tower that will dit-Eiffel Paris. The builder is to be Andrew.. Carnegie, of Pittsburg. Over twenty-five thousand people will be accommodated in the tower at one time, and two of the many elevators are to start from the grouild and run more than one thousand feet up, without change or stop, directly to the lookout landing. The width of the tower at the foundation level is 440 feet in each direction. After long continued negotiations the Keystone Bridge Company, of Pittsburg, one of Andrew Carnegie’s concerns, ha made offers in writins-that are satisfactory to the promoters. A conference was hcfd' at the Union League Club on the 15th with Mr. A. L. Giiffin, of this company, and Mr. Edward F. Cragin, representing the promoters and several capitalists. As a result, the Keystone company has agreed In writing to construct the metal portion of the tower and have it completed February 1,1893The company will have to pay heavy forfeits per day for any delay beyond that time. President .Griffin expects that the tower, however, will be built by October 12,1892, less than one year from date. In that case a bonus is exacted for the time saved. Options have been secured on the ground immediately adjoining the world’s fair site and arrangements made with the world’s fair officials, if desired, so that the tower grounds cshall be Included within their jurisdiction. After long and careful study the designs have been completed by engineer George Morrison, of the city. He estimates that the earning capacity will 1 be nearly four times that of the Eiffel tower. The cost will be about (1,500,000. The cost of the Eiffel tower was a little less than (1,700,000. The difference Is in the greater simplicity of design Of the American tower and the use of standard and merchantable sizes of steel. Tne Secretary of Agriculture is being greatly annoyed by some person in Washington, who is sending postal cards to new members of Congress, offering for sale 800 copies of the Agricultural Report and 216 copies of the special report on diseases of the horse, The number advertised of each of these reports is exactly the allotment of a member of the Fifty-first Congress, and the conclusion is irresistible that some member of that body is converting into money documents which Congress voted for the use and benefit of his constituents. Secretary Rusk, when asked about the matter, gave it as his opinion that the constituency of a member who would thus dispose of government publications should be made aware of the in order that they might elect a member who would ; faithfully carry out the intent' of the law governing these publications. He says,, however, that there is probably no way ini which the party eould be detected and exposed. ... Commodore N. D. Ingraham, the last of the.suyvivors of the war of 1812, died at Charleston, S. C., on thelTth. '? • k