Show t M Ol 1 U i ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD I r 4 I I pilI huh t r r r C Cl r H l I t fl P Pe 1 J t e So far tar as ns Its foundations go It ls Is said cald that the building recently erected bythe by bytho the tho Mutual Life LIte Insurance In company at the tho corner of ot Liberty Nassau and Ce Ceo Cedar Cedar dar streets New York Is ono one of ot tho the most moll remarkable In the world worM The Tho structure structure w ture tune shown In the accompanying Illustration Is II tight stories In height on Ce Cedar Cear Cedar dar ar street and sixteen stories on omi liberty street But hut It In Is not ho so much as a skyscraper that It Is worthy of ot attention as for fot th the great engineering skill ex exhibited in overcoming the structural connected with Its foundation This foundation rest rests on bedrock feet teet below belol the tho street treet level leel while the cellar floor Is 36 5 feet below the average level leel of ot standing water Vater and 61 66 6 feet beneath the sidewalk In order to prevent till the adjoining buildings from falling during con construction 81 steel caissons were sunk Runk for tor their support and In the permanent inundations for the structure itself there were used 2000 tons of ot steel cubic cubio yards of ot stone atone of ot sand land and barrels of ot cement rho The total cost of this addition It Is estimated will wilt foot toot up Ip not low less than |