A HUGE TOWER
FOR PARIS 1937 EXHIBITION.
TO COST OVER HALF MILLION,
'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
PARIS, March 15
Freysinnet, 'a well-known engineer, has prepared the plans of a tower , of reinforced concrete, twice the height of the Eiffel Tower, or 2300 feet high, to be ready for the Paris exhibition in 1937, thus hoping to repeat the sensations that the Eiffel Tower caused at the Paris Exhibition in 1899. It is estimated it will cost from £440,000 to £550,000. The first platform is 1640 feet high. It will be reached by motor cars and charabancs by means of. inclined ways. The second platform will be IS6B feet high, and it will be reached by special cars. At the very summit there will be a sclariuin, where the sun cure will be possible. "There also will be a gigantic beacon.
M. Freysinnet proposes to have it erected 0 n Mount Vallerian. He suggests that the new “Tower of Babel” should be called the “Lighthouse of the World.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1933, Page 5
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