Show WOULD LIMIT HEIGHT OF THE HE SKYSCRAPERS ERS NEW EW YORK March 7 A A plan to limit the hei height ht of buildings s which which- would do away entirely with skyscrapers sky sky- I scrapers is being considered by a special committee of tho the new building I code commission of New York At a meeting of the committee yesterday Ernest FIa Flagg architect of the Singer building the hj highest bet in New ew York advocated advocated advocated ad ad- a law preventing the erection of buildings 8 more than one ont and a half times higher than the width of the street on which the the the- face no build build- in ing irig to be more than feet in height beight u Geor George o Babb representing the tho board of fire firo un underwriters advocated a maximum height of sixty feet for buildings s not fireproof an and a maximum bei height bt of feet fee about fifteen stories for fireproof buildings s. s Mr Babb said said saia that thero there was no such thin thing as an absolutely fireproof building and that thata a fire firo sufficiently hot would brin bring any building to the ground |