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Show LONDON TO HAVE I0E1JFFICES Thames Building Will Cost $10,000,000 1.0MK!C. Oct 14-N,Hir;ng com-1 pie tlon on tho crest of Tower hill. Its own tower rivaling In height the tloirte of ISI. Pauls, is ihe most Im-1 press; vo, tho moot palatial, the best1 lighted and prnhably tho must con- venlently arranged group of business buildings ever erected In Iondon. It a the new pal.ico of the port of j London atithorlt. the future homo of tho administration and staff that control con-trol .11 tho docks, the wharves and tho commercial life of the Thames Tho buildings coat ll0.vOv.000. and aro acclaimed by architects as one of the structural treasures of .London. In tho Knaliah Kenatence at vie. and rich In actrlpturat rellefa. ft Is a building of five stories. Each of the four slflcs faces directly cardinal point of tho compass. There la g frontal portlcaJ au poor ted by ro-rlnthian ro-rlnthian col urns earned np through three stories. Surrounding tho portico is a sub- f atantu.1 pyramidal tower. In the front' niche, of which Is a great f'gure of Father Thames, and at the sides are emblem t ica I figures of Commerce and Navigation. . Perhaps the moot striking Internal feature la a central rotunda -lit foot In sUameier, wlih a glass dome. |