TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD TOWER.
The Eiffei Tower hss just celebrated its twenty A...A birtluhy. The great iron structure, which ,s over nine hundred feet hlTj, tie j;;ow become qu■ ie a part of Paris but when i k was first u?cl thtuwas a Torui of protests, ana such well-known names in the world ot art Gounod, Leconte da Lisle, Coppee, Bonuat, stud Maupassant s’gred a pe! lion against, it. The. tower is exrraordrnarily light for its size, ana lor many years the bellcl wat. p ■ 'istent that one fin ; morning it alti be ionna levelled to the ground. The result is that (ne Champ de Mars district of Paris has on 1 -'just been really laid out and bo ' on. l-voole have forgotten Lheu ;earc . , c,nd are to live in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1257, 11 June 1914, Page 4
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134TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD TOWER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1257, 11 June 1914, Page 4
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