Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1911 — SKYSCRAPER TO HAVE AEROPLANE WHARF [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SKYSCRAPER TO HAVE AEROPLANE WHARF

NEW YORK. —The Woolworth building at Park place, Broadway, now In process of erection, will be famous not only by reason of Its being the tallest building in the world, but also from the fact that it is to have a wharf or landing place on Its roof for aeroplanes or dirigibles, at a height of 375 feet above the street. Above the roof will rise the tower to the giddy elevatiqn of 750 feet, on the apex of which is to be a huge electric light that, in addition to all else, will act as a landing signal for belated air-travelers. Mr. Woolworth, the owner of the building, is having the wharf constructed on the score of his belief in the future popularity of aviation not only for pleasure, but for commercial purposes, also.