Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1908 — WILL OVERTOP 'EM ALL [ARTICLE]

WILL OVERTOP 'EM ALL

Gotham’s Latest Skyscraper is To Be •OS Feet High to the Tower’s TopNew York, June 30. —Plans for a new skyscraper which will overtop all New York’s lofty buildings, and the flagpole of which will pierce the sky at a greater height than the Eiffel tower in Paris, the highest structure in the world, have been filed by architects foe the Equitable Life Assurance society with the building department The projected building for the Equitable will be a sixty-two-story structure, 909 feet from the curb to the top of the tower upon which will be stepped a flagpole 150 feet in length. The ball on the flagpole will be sevenfour feet higher than the 985-foot Eiffel tower. The main building, which will occupy the site of the present structure of the company on Broadway, covering an entire block, will be thirty-four stories, above which will rise a square tower of twenty-eight stories, capped with a cupola. The facades are to be of brick and granite. The structure is to cost $10,000,000.