YANKEE SKY-SCRAPER

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 21 January 1926, Page 7

YANKEE SKY-SCRAPER

MONUMENT TO MILLIONAIRE’S GRATITUDE. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, January 19. Work has begun on tlie tallest building in tho world—6s storeys. This will be the Christian Missionary Building, on Broadway, and will be 800 feet high, 8 feet higher than the Woolwortli Building. The new structure, which will contain a hotel, church, hospital and bank, is being built by Mr Oscar Conkle, a wealthy real estate operator, in gratitude for the recovery of his son Howard from an illness. Howard is now studying to become a medical missionary. Ten per cent, of the earnings of the structure will be devoted to a fund to maintain a medical missionary base on the shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza, Africa. The building, exclusive of the land value, will cost 14,000,000 dollars, and a special station on the newly constructed underground railway, will he erected merely to fill the transportation needs of the occupants. An undenominational church will occupy a floor, which also will have a dining room capacity of 2000 persons. The hotel will have 4500 rooms, wherein drinking, smoking and Sunday newspapers will be prohibited. Twelve roof gardens and a large hospital on the top floors, capable of handling all surgery cases, will bo other features of the building.