Show NO N MORE SKYSCRAPERS The New York building commission has hns recommended to the board of al at aldermen dermen an ordinance limiting the height of ot buildings to feet or about twenty stories It will wil not be surprising surprisIng surprising ing if it the ordinance is adopted for the insurance people are are making a vigorous fight for it Although the owners of the tall all buildings insist always that the structures are absolutely a fireproof it is a notable fat fact that they do not neglect to take lake out insurance on them And it is a fact just as notable that there thee is no such thing as a building that cannot be damaged by fire This was demonstrated at the Balti Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore more fire it was w was s demonstrated in the San Francisco disaster In has in indeed Indeed indeed deed been proven many times The in insurance Insurance know inow now that it Is true They object to the tall buildings There are structures in New York that are well over oer thirty stories tall A recent newspaper report told of a projected of ot stories The new pew Singer building is only a few tew sto stories stories stories ries less And other skyscrapers have hare been projected That the tendency in New York has been to run buildings up to what seems I to be an au unreasonable height is not surprising Real estate in the metropolis lis his s most precious Instances in which it has sold for many dollars per square foot toot are on record When V en a purchaser pas pays a large sum of money for ground he naturally wants to re receive receive receive a reasonable interest on his money mone To get the money it has been necessary necessary In the past to run the build ings up into the air that being the only expansion possible p The higher the building the greater the revenue If 1 the office and hotel buildings of New ew York City were of what would be regarded as a reasonable height in other cities they would be spread out over a 8 far greater area than could be found in the borough of Manhattan and the Bronx The people would have a ahard a ahard ahard hard time finding accommodations for And nd to restrict the height of buildings is necessarily to compel a spreading out in the nations greatest gr city The people there will wilt find that they can get along with lower build buildings buildings buildings ings even een though it takes them a min minute minute mm ute or two longer to reach them The fire tIre hazard is so great that the erection of buildings above twenty sto stories stories stories ries becomes a menace It is impossible ble to afford such buildings proper pro protection protect n from fires p In the event of ot a ablaze ablaze ablaze blaze OP 01 o the topmost stories the stand standpipes standpipes standpipes pipes would burst before water could be forced through them and no steamer that has yet been b en Invented would avail anything Fire depart departments monte ments would be obliged to wait walt until the blaze burned down to toa a point with within in their reach If It th flit New York aldermen are wise they will wll pass the ordinance restricting I the leight of ot the t e buildings I |