30,000 PERSONS IN TWO BUILDINGS.
Within a short time two of New York's office buildings will have a combined norm, lalion of 00.000. These are the .Sin Lor building, forty-one storeys, and tin- Citv Investing building, thirty-five storeys high It has been pointed out that unless more ™ lUor } .*f,. 6ho ' s '' n in tf io construction of office buildings ni Now York, tho dnvnr of a conflagration will increase T|,.. fi r/ , underwriters, as a result, have made a formal request that the Building Code Revision Commission should li.mit tiie height of fireproof buildings to 125 f- or devcu storeys. H j K estimator! that New hSlin Ji? S eom noro th;ill 2.000.000.000<)oi (£400,000,000] invested in its tall office buildmgs and contents. Tho majority of th<se are in the congested financial district of the city. Another danger died in the increasing number of skyscrapers is that if this condition is allowed to prevail, iho streets will not accommodate the great concourse of people who flock to the buildings in tho morning and out of (hem in tho afternoon. —‘ Tribune's ’ correspondent.
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Evening Star, Issue 12819, 9 December 1907, Page 1
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18030,000 PERSONS IN TWO BUILDINGS. Evening Star, Issue 12819, 9 December 1907, Page 1
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