. The railroad and engineering journal . resent rate of prog-ress is at the rate of 36 ft. per week. If this be maintained,the whole of the principal parts of this immense structurewill be erected by the end of January, 1889. Meanwhilethe decorative and accessory parts of the work are notneglected, and there is every prospect that the tower willbe completed in all its details at the opening of the Exhibi-tion. We give in the accompanying illustration a view of there are now in course of erection various buildings,which will also form exhibits, the intention being to bringbefore the visitor a c
. The railroad and engineering journal . resent rate of prog-ress is at the rate of 36 ft. per week. If this be maintained,the whole of the principal parts of this immense structurewill be erected by the end of January, 1889. Meanwhilethe decorative and accessory parts of the work are notneglected, and there is every prospect that the tower willbe completed in all its details at the opening of the Exhibi-tion. We give in the accompanying illustration a view of there are now in course of erection various buildings,which will also form exhibits, the intention being to bringbefore the visitor a comprehensive collection of humandwellings, and in that way illustrate the development andhistory of domestic architecture. • ♦ — THE ABT RACK-RAIL SYSTEM. In a recent number of the Journal (October, 1888, ) the rack-rail system for mountain railroads devisedby Herr Roman Abt, the best system of the kind yet intro-duced, was illustrated and described. In an article re-cently published in the Vienna Zeitschrift Jiir Risen-. THE EIFFEL TOWER AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION. the tower as it appeared when seen from the opposite sideof the river at the beginning of November. The illustra-tion also shows some of the principal buildings now incourse of construction on the grounds of the erection appearing like a tower in the background,within the center arch of the Eiffel Tower, is the lowerportion of the large dome which rises above the main en-trance to the Exhibition ; the long building at the back isthe large machinery hall, extending right across theChamp dc Mars ; the building on the right of the tower,with a cupola, is intended for the exhibition of liberal arts ;;ind the corresponding building, on the left, for that of thefine arts. At the foot of the tower, and along the quay, bahncn und Dampfschiffahrt, Herr Abt gives an elabo-rate argument in favor of his system, which lack of spaceprevents us from reproducing, and adds the following ac-count of recent
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