SIXTY STORIES UP
WHERE LINERS LOOK LIKE MODELS “We think it fine to see a six or seven storied building going up in Wellington,” said Mr? B. Metz, who has just completed a tour of the world, “but New York is a place where the air space seems to be just as valuable as the ground space. Being confined to Manhattan Island, the actual city cannot spread, and in that state of compression there was nothing for it but to go upwards. Hence the sky scraper. Only a few weeks ago.l went up to the top of the Woolworth building, to glimpse New York as a bird does. This wonderful building has sixty stories. We got in an elevator, and did not stop until we leached the fifty-fourth story. It was sight-seers lift. Whilst we were there either the Mauretania or Berengarla came into port, and, I give you my word, that from that elevation she looked like a model a few feet long, so diminishing is the effect of the altitude.”
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 271, 21 August 1925, Page 8
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