Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — PLAN HUGE OFFICE BUILDING [ARTICLE]

PLAN HUGE OFFICE BUILDING

New York Skycraper In Park Row Rises 750 Feet In Air Will Cost $13,500,000. New York. The tallest habitable building ’ln the world is going up on Broadway, between Barclay street and Park row. It will weigh 250,000,000 tons. It rests on sixty-nine pillars of cement, reaching down to solid rock from the street level. This building, the tower light of which, 750 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 already been ordered for windows and doors and skylights. In the walls and floors are to be more than 30,000 square' feet of hollow tiling and terracotta. The cement order will run into the tens of thousands of bags. Oil the weekly pay roll is a regiment of men from mere lifting and carrying laborers to the circus performing 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 $1.50 a day for the to $4.50 and upward, and r the pay roll Is $5,000 a day. This has been going on fqr two years. The 30,000 square feet of land on which the building stands cost about $4,500,000. It cost $1,000,000 to dig out the foundations and the basement and sub-basements. The cost of construction will be nearly $9,000,000. making the whole pile an investment of approximately $13,600,000. The mere knowledge that such a building was to be erected on the spot caused.