WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16871, 28 October 1925, Page 4

WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDING.

A “MISSIONARY” HOTEL. NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—ln gratutude for his son's recovery from a. serious illness, Mr. Oscar Konklc, president of a wealthy real estate company, announces to-day that he will construct in New York”the tallest building in the world, containing 65 stories, and towering 800 ft above the street.—Bft. higher then the beautiful Wooolworth Building—for the purpose of a modern hotel containing 45C0 rooms. The premises will provide for an inter-denominational church, a hospital, and 12 roof gardens, a bank for missioonaries, a' diningroom seating 2000 persons, and 10 per cent, of the profits will be devoted 1 to missionary purposes. A suitable site has been secured between 122nd and 123rd streets, and the cost of the project, exclusive of the land, which is very costly in New York, will be about £3jCOO,OOO. Mr, Konkle plans to generate on the premises power for electric light and refrigerating, and 30 lifts. Heat will be provided by fuel supplied from huge, tanks in the sub-bahA-inent, two stories below the street level. Mr. Kipklc’s son, when six years old, was stricken with lockjaw after vaccination. Ilis condition was pronounced hopclcsss, but bis father clung 16 the belief that the boy would live, and vowed that if his hopes came true lie would devote his efforts lo financing missionary work at home and abroad. The. hoy lived and is now at Colgate University, studying to become a medical missionary at the base hospital on the shore of Iho Victoria Nyanza. One provision for tlie proposed hotel is that, every occupant must he a stock-holder, smoking and drinking of intoxicants will be eliminated. Missionaries are to have the first claim upon the accommodation, and Hie maximum charge, includitigv room, hath, two meals daily, radio service, hospital, and gymnasium privilege, will be 4gn« a week—apparently Hie very cheapest hotel in the American metropolis.