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Show "SKYSCRAPER KING" DYING AT THE TOP j Old and Broken in Health, Trancis P. Owings of Chicago Awaits Sanity Hearing. CHICAGO, Jan. 3. The sanity of Francis P. Owings was questioned today, but not for t3i first time. Back in the early 'SO's Owings, an engineer en-gineer of somewhat during proclivities, capped the cli max of h Is re vol utionary architectural ideas by proposing to build a twelve-story building. Engineers laughed and' his friends tapped their foreheads fore-heads significantly, but he persevered and in time attained financial backing. The Bedford building, an altitudinous marvel for that period, was the result. By 1893, the year of the world's fair, the Masonic temple, with its nineteen stories, was a marvel to visitors, and Owings was pointed out as the "skyscraper "sky-scraper king." But subsequent years dealt harshly with : him and today, broken in health and , purse, he was taken to the psycopathic ; hospital. Tomorrow he will have a hear- , ing. A reporter making the rounds asked an attendant if there was "anything new." : "Nothing worth while," replied the attendant, at-tendant, "unless you can dig something ; out of an old codger named Owings. He j thinks he built the first skyscraper in Chicago." |