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It is proposed to build the structure within the Exposition grounds if possible without expense to the Fair corporation, but if necessary land will be purchased outside of the Exposition limits and the tower erected thereon and operated as a separate and distinct enterprise. The design adopted presents so many new features as to make it impossible to call it an imitation of the Eiffel or any other tower ever erected. The tower as projected is to be 1,600 feet high. From a base of solid masonry 400 feet in diameter, into which the ten main trellised uprigts are imbedded, the structure rises with a gradually converging incline toward the apex, which has a diameter of 250 feet. Wire cables extend from upright to upright, and from trellis to trellis, giving on all sides a uniform support and a strength almost incalculable. It is proposed to ascend the tower in two ways. One of these is by a carriage driveway, which encircles the inner extremities of the structure, with an ascent of eight feet in each one hundred. This roadway will be seventy-five feet wide at the base and fifty wide at the top, allowing space for four carriages abreast to pass up or down or turn at any point. The driveway encircles the tower seventeen times, the distance from base to apex being 3.76 miles. The ascent is so gradual that teams can trot up or down at will. From the opposite side of the base from which the driveway starts begins a car-track which also winds around seventeen times from base to summit beneath the carriage road. Upon this track are to run at one-half minute headway cars capable of seating sixty persons each, operated by the Judson pneumatic system. This system is the ingenious invention by which cars are propelled by a "threadless screw." It is estimated that 96,400 persons can be carried daily in the cars to the top of the tower, and the revenue from carriages and bicycles would add largely to this revenue. It costs $2.50 to ascend the Eiffel Tower in an elevator, whereas it is proposed to charge only $1 to go to the top of the Judson Tower. In the case of the Eiffel Tower the passengers are crowded into an uncomfortable elevator-car, seeing nothing until the top is reached, while in the proposed tower, an ever-changing panorama is spread out before the passengers in the traction cars or the carriages. At various points on the way up it is proposed to have stations for restaurants or repose, while at the top are to be an observatory and signal station. ANOTHER LARGE TELESCOPE.-We hear that the 36-inch telescope at Lick Observatory is shortly to cease its reign as the largest telescope in the world, for Mr. Alvan G. Clark, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been commissioned by Mr. E. F. 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