Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — Building to Be 750 Feet High [ARTICLE]

Building to Be 750 Feet High

World’s Tallest Bkyscraper, Going Up In Gotham, to Cost tt&SMMXtt.

New York.—The tallest habitable building in the world is going up on Broadway, between Barclay street and Park r ayr. It will weigh 250,000,000 tons. It rests on sixty-sane pillars of cement, reaching down to solid rock from the street level.

TMa bnildimg, the tower- light of which, 760 feet in the air, will be seen ninety-six miles out at sea, has In it 20,000 tons of structural steel. Forty-five thousand dollars’ worth of glass has been ordered for windows and doors and skylights. 'ln the walls and floors are to be more than 80,000 square feet of hollow tiling and terra cotta. The cement order will run into the tens of thousands of bags. weekly pay roll ia a regimen of men from mere lifting and carrying laborers to the iron workers who play around at 700 feet in the air on slender steel beams like orioles on an elm bough. Their wages run from 21.60 a day, for the laborers to |4.60 and upward, and the pay roll is |6,000 a day. This has been going on for two" years. The 30,000 square feet of land on which toe building stands cost about 24,600,000. It cost, 11,000,000 to dig the basement and sub-basements. The cost of construction will be nearly 29,000*00, making the whole pile an Investment of approximately fll,-; SUCH p. OUllQlUg w

on the property to be raised from $2,250,000 to $3,200,000. There will be a floor space of twen-ty-three acres and 2,000 offices, and it Is figured that the daily population of the building will be 10,000 and the transient population about as many more.