A Warning Against the Skyscraper.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 7, 1 May 1907, Page 266

A Warning Against the Skyscraper.

A citizen of Wellington, just returned from his travels abroad, discourses about many things he has seen. Inter alia here is a word of a certain experience in New York :—: — " In stormy weather so great is the velocity of the wind, which eddies always curving upwards, which beat around the base, that experienced pedestrians avoid the skyscrapers as much as possible. During a gale it is one of the most pathetic spectacles of this city to see inexperienced ladies from the country captured by the eddying winds which sweep around the base of the skyscrapers, blowing their skirts over their heads and hurling them pell-mell down the street, until they reach a less disturbed region."