LATEST SKY SCRAPERS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 March 1907, Page 1

LATEST SKY SCRAPERS.

, SIX HUNDRED AND TWELVE I FEET HIGH. 1 A great offico building which will cutsoar anything existing in the Baby lon of the West is now rising in New York. When the tall oflico building "in the course of its rapid evolution had attained the height of 300 ft it was freely predicted that the limit had been reached, and that future structures would be of more reasonable vertical dimensions. That prediction was made not more than a decade ago. and yet to-day there is in course of construction in Lower Now York a building whose summit will reach he'aven ward for over 300 feet. The new buildinsr. which will be in | the form of a tower and will constitute part of an extension of the present Singer building at the corner of Liberty and Broadway Streets, will contain forty one stories and the top of its cupula will be 612 feet above Hie street level. The Stringer tower will be the loftiest inhabited building in the world. In order to resist the pressure of the wind it will consist, of four corner towers of steel with a central tower for lifts. These towel's will be knit together with a cross tiirdcring, a method which will allow ii large unbroken window space between the two towers of each face. A very striking summary of New York lias appeared in the "Saturday I Evening Post" the journal founded j by Benjamin Franklin, and still pub- | lished iir Philadelphia : —"New York j in a unique fact in American civilisat ion. It is not merely the biggest ! city in the country—a'city that absorbs nearly 300,000 additional people each year besides its own product of births—is fast becoming, if it is not already the largest centre of shift nig nopulation in the world—the foal of immigrants, pleasure seekers, fortune hunters, and all restless ambitious souls. The heart of New York is one glorified hotel where humanity houses itself on the way to somewhere else. To provide for the circulation of this immense horde there have been undertaken vast engineering feats, and the rock foundation of liie city is daily disappearing before the steam drill. The face of New York changes more rapidly than that of any other city. Moreover, New York runs the most gigantic faro game that the world has ever seen. On the green tables of Wall Street larger sums of money change hands than in any of the groat markets. And the spirit of Wall Street provades New York as no other city in America. New York, with. i<s dilapidated pavements and dirty harbour fronts, with its mountainous hotels and dirty office buildings, with its daily stream of millions, its unutterable poverty and its gross display—is just New YorK."