Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1906 — MOODY TO THE SUPREME COURT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MOODY TO THE SUPREME COURT

Preaident Names Attorney General to Succeed Henry Ti. Brown. The President has announced the appointment of Attorney General William Henrv M'xwiv of Massachusetts as justice

of the Supreme Court of the United States, to succeed Justice Henry Billings Brown, who retired some time ago. Mr. Moody has filled the office of Attorney General since July 1, 19(M. Previous to that time be had served for more than two years ns Secretary of the Navy. He

was in Congress eight years. TALLEST BUILDING WINDPROOF. New Tork'i llißh Structure Anchored by InircnlouN Method. The Singer building, now building on Breadway, near Liberty street. New York, which will he 625 feet high, the tallest skyscraper in the city, is to have wind anchors so that it may be firmly braced against every gale. The wind pressure, on account of the structure's great altitude, will be tremendous. and for that reason the building is to be literally tied to its foundations by an ingenious arrangement of steel rods. They will be three and a half inches in diameter and descend for nearly fifty feet into the concrete which forms the caissons resting on solid rook eighty-five feet below the curb. The lowest rod has on the end of it a great enchor plate to which it is secured.

W. H. MOODY.