Show BUILDINGS IN THE CLOUDS We thought the skyscraping architecture architec-ture of Cbicago would at some period roach its limit and now i seems the time has about cerise The real estate board at its last mooting recommended that the city council be urged to pass an ordinance restricting re-stricting the height of office buildings to ISO feet of mercantile buildings to ten stories and of family hotelsand apartment houses to 100 feet Not long since TUE HERALD referred to the discovery that at the depth of sixteen feet it wfcs ascertained the upper crust of tho soil of Chicago rested on an unstable and mushy substance extending downward a considerable depth Whether this fact has had anything to do in arrest of the towerlike building movement wo cannot nay but it seems certain that almost the universal voice of the country will approve of the proposed limitation since however erroneous the idea may bo people cannot dissociate such dizzy structures from the thought of danger M human life |