Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1911 — Aero Landing and Lake on Roof [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Aero Landing and Lake on Roof

NEW YORK.—New York within a year is to have one of the most remarkable buildings on earth. It la designed to replace Madison Square Garden, and not the least of its features will be a landing stage for flying machines. A $2,000,000 structure is to be reared on the site of tbe old Brewster carriage factory on tbe west side of Broadway between Forty-sev-enth nnd Forty-Eighth streets. It will be used mainly for exhibition purposes and various trades in tbe sporting line. The Broadway project Is backed by interests identified With the Schlits Brewing oompanr of Milwaukee, represented in New York by John Ohmels, restauranteur, and Oscar Schmidt The building will be erected by the Atlas Development company, which in January of last year took a long lease on the Brewster site from the Sutphln estate. The new building Is to be adapted particularly to the needs of tbe automobile, motor boat and aviation industries and their allied trades. With

this end in view, certain unusual structural features have been planned, such as s starting and landing track on the roof for flying machines, a lake 60 by 126 feet, also on tbe roof, for the display of motor boats, sad an enormous freight and passenger -elevator, 26 by s|, capable of carrying an aeroplane, a 60-foot motor boat or about 400 persona at one trip. ~ The basement, which will have a very high celling, will contain a restaurant seating 6,000 or 7,000 persons and run on the plan of the famous rathskellers of Berlin and Munich. Tbe roof will be used as an open sir garden in the summer. The lake is to be utilised as a skajtlng rink in tbe winter. 4