Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1891 — The Shaky Eiffel Tower. [ARTICLE]

The Shaky Eiffel Tower.

Brooklyn Times. One of the most serious things that has agitated this city for some time was the commotion that has been raised this week over the instability of the Eiffel Tower. The residents of the Champ de Mars, anywhere within reason of where the tower would be likely to fall when it comes over, have been in a panicky state, owing to the report of an eminent engineer, who recently made some profound and careful calculations that demonstrated beyound question that the tower was tottering and is bound to fall. Like the encroachments of the sea on the continents, this process of destruction will be a slow one; but nevertheless, the engineer claims, the supports are gradually sinking, and trouble is lurking around that vicinity. This fright has worked so strongly on the minds of the female residents that scenes of domestic strife are being daily reported in the papers as havirig occurred in this quarter. One woman went so far as to give up her apartments; and, when the landlord had her brought into court fob the fulfillment of her lease, she declared that her husband is absolutely indifferent to the fate of of his wife and children, and as he spends most of his time at a club or something worse, he was quitq willing to take the chances the few* hours he was in the house, while she and the young ones had no chance of escape, for they were there all the time. This indicates how an inanimate object can often bring about the most disastrous misunderstanding in family circles, even in the face of the report of the scientific men appointed to investigate the matter, which says that there is not the slightest danger. Two thinkers, one of them evidently an American,write to the papers today on the subject. The American says that the base is as large as Union Square and nothing could stir if but an earthquake, while the other writer quotes the ac

cident to the Tay bridge and otbei big engineering accomplishments which have been wrecked. •—r'Perhaps the whole bluff may bt _one of those foreignattamptstodis courage Chicago’s emulation.