EQUITABLE ASSURANCE SOCIETY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 22 January 1912, Page 3

EQUITABLE ASSURANCE SOCIETY

TALLEST BUILDING* IN THE ' WORLD. V -, . •^■j ~ NEW YORK, Jan. 15. If the Equitable Assurance Society adheres to its present plans, the building that will replace the: niarble structure now in ruins, as a result of Tuesday's big fire will be the tallest in the world. , ' -f . It will be a great towering edifice of 62- stories, and will cost something-like £5,000,000. ■ % - X Upwards of fIOjOOO^OOO^ worth of stocks and bonds has been\taken out of the vaults, all of which,'i liave been, found intact. • . , \ Although warned that their jives will be endangered, 250 men have started on the work of shoring the walls, as a preliminary to getting at the larger vaults,! with which it would be extremely risky' to interfere until the' tott&ring walls' halve been secured against stsoliapse. It is estimated that the disaster has, already cost the fire brigade department j £20,000 in wages for extra, labor.