A NEW YORK HOTEL

Evening Star, Issue 20388, 21 January 1930, Page 2

A NEW YORK HOTEL

27,000 TONS OF STEEL USED An order for over 27.000 tons of steel for the New Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York was placed with an American steel firm. This is one of the largest orders for structural steel to he placed in America in recent years, exceeding the tonnage used in the Woolworth Building by 4,750 tons. Tho steel alone will cost 2,250,000d01. Construction will start next January. The main ballroom of tho note!, located on the third floor, will bo 441 t high from floor to ceiling, and over this will be five trusses 90ft long, carrying the loads above. The truss over the prescenium arch of tho main ballroom will be ,‘Joft high and 90ft long, and will weigh about 265 tons. It will be tho largest and heaviest truss ever used in the erection of a building. It will be necessary to erect tins truss at a height of 75ft above the street. The bottom chord is approximately at the level of the sixth 1100- and the lop chord at the level of the ninth llor. The New Waldorf will he forty-six stories in eight, and the. steel will rise to tho topmost pinnacles of the tower, 600 ft above the sidewalk level.