| Show av t t I lr 1 lc i if t ll 4 r 5 ME t lr l I 1 n IIII li i In p t i I a 1 1 o tr r III q l r I I I I t t r t tm sk III nn an ero CO and n a very re rei i II N cent ono aile from the are I Ii mod st 6 h r structures or of nn eor I I l lIer Ile period it II le Is only fifteen years since mince the thet 1 I 1 t first of the tho typo type was find and It Minted In which city claims the bulling building completed In 1657 all as the tho fIrst American I skyscraper Lt n till ull our lar large o cities I t where toot front values are enormous rund lInd constantly enhancing the Chicago o construction Idea or the tho modern I built sll skyscraper with Its skale skeleton if ton or of steel and outer covering of stony I brIck anti and land which Is riveted together so firmly that the tho Cyclops I might roll It down hill hili like a bIrd cage JC It they otiose without Injury to its lis structural at once leaped Into favor Other cities notably New ew York seised upon the Idea expanded und elaborated It and then began n I rare ralP i i ito I i ito to which build the lur turey e s the t over r and IntI with III as the motto i Without any intended P ment ot of other othor dill cities It may be surely assert elf eff that now moro more i 4 and larger than any other othAr city ft In tho rho world A decade or so ago go I Chicago was vas In the 1110 lead but now it 11 is hI the thu 6 rent of at the tho lun Stale with Its ItH ot of tow low lowerIng towering erIng skyward by bi the It hue hall hallion ion gone HO 0 far In hr respect rO Jelt that may one I Iwho who kne knew the city years ago would hardly It 11 now f I I iy its lis lower portion train the Battery f va t m I It If he 1 were u rl u rn l In g to t lj IJ r i alter n n n n nt ere ot of that te n or of im t The he sky line IIno or of Sew pw York In tad fart hll has changed moat won In the paRt pant decade anti and hD bus nS aa famous ns al althe the Serrate outline of oC till the or the And the wonderful work Is still aUlI going on as shown lIy by the bI I oo 4 t I M j t a I k kII II lei r rr r to rj t t s sF III t G I tG F fly I Af I ii J I E 0 lh i I 9 l 7 t tr c 1 t z t t 9 9 I rt I de p IP I P s fG y i j t p r i r p rI rr I tl I IP 8 l A h I I t I A IP P il 1 I ff I A Z p e II L Q lit 0 o 1 0 i it t GG LC C 1 ir Q n II c G o Vr tj p g 17 1 0 TS El ElI 1 P w I 1 9 0 0 S 0 t P 0 1 0 eft NI tL r I R l lf f p P A l 0 M r h ell i 1 1 T 0 I 8 gilr pir d 34 t 1 I R N 1 I I I I I F B l 1 a I 1 e 1 r Par a a Ware The Flatiron Fetch York Building Chicago New York Pittsburg ii oa we e ai statistics for this year ear The total cost as I or of new s erected and In III con can tiled filed wIth the bureau or of con construction construction In NOW New York und and the major majol majority Ity to consist con or of amounts to more than rue fhe tallest buildings In the tho world are to hu he found In this city or of Sk nail here are arc the tho heights of Q a dozen doen In the order of altitudes Stories I Feet ett The Tho Park Raw Ho building 20 Manhattan Life 22 J St Ht Paul JS Amerlean Surety 3 iJ American Tract tI 2 building at 20 1 llama Life Itte I 10 0 Wa Lire Life I I 3 howling Green 18 10 r Hank of Yin 2111 11 10 23 Cable Calile 21 1 It thought the limit had been J en reached in III the How flow or building though nominally feel Ceet In height to III ti feet from the Iho street to the Ihl tope tOIlS of the on Its twin twIll towers and Got from the tho base hIe of Its It Is called the tallest or of fico building In the worM its buln feet higher thun the or of ortho the tho capitol nt at and almost ns high as the apex of oC the tho great p pyra ra mid And nd yet ct this great with Ns DO 90 rooms and for nearly 40 00 occupants r u u a foundation of at sand Its total estl mated matell weight or of tons Is supported upon ulon a 0 forest ot of piles driven Into th the sand II by tho blows of u a twenty tun II delver U 11 cost and Is suld to tobe ho be a In fart there thereto to III hardly II a skyscraper In New ow YOlk Turk Chicago a or other city whore where are vastly valuable that Is tint not Ie ter turning n good rate of Interest from Its rentals If It Is 19 not then there is III some something thing the matter the tho experts say with Its The Park Hol building Is probably the tho largest structure that hu has been lIeen t f erected with an eye eo to its rentals hut but a atel afew tel few years II ago If 0 It was proposed to build u a skyscraper to cost at leant II a city elty within a residence hate II a church theater art gal gallery ler lery etc and antl to combine utility with structural beauty In It a lorge degree Thle scheme lots hila not but another buildIng to exceed the cate structure has been brell proposed by the mUll Idia Heal Iteal to stand nt at atthe the corner ot of and third street on n a lot about feet This structure to tn be I the tho Obelisk Is I tn in every f more I In n a monumental than nil nn anti 1101 building anti and Is III projected 11 to j contain thirty stories and to tj he 55 feet In height fu total cost of am and Is placed at al The Tho lat hat I col CHt In re Ie plantS It vater service from welly II etc ara t to II lie be Inco por rated In this up to date structure or tM the k period 1110 ot of the most ot of er era almost abnormal In It its tiles tlell I is the so II culled lIlIed flatiron structure ut tit the tho intersection of all and street Now Nol York front tiro tho front It ap appears pears peRla lute the th bow of nr nn immense slip hell being just wide enough nl at It edge e for a narrow yet It IR high bight 6 11 6 2 5 feet above the sll street el each u loor at 0 f this stone aril steel stoll strUcture contains quire A feet of apace It cost t One or of latest and finest structures Is IA Montgomery Fard Cos COH building It II atones ores ures 3 0 feet reet to the top lop of the weather weathervane vane lIne and was built not only with on 1111 me ee to Its II till W but as u n Ornament to the tho city t tOne One aile or of the InO most t sumptuously fitted of buildings I is said to be the tho skyscraper III recently erect erected e ed which is IR stories rovers an 1111 entire block tins hns a 11 flour area lIea ot of O ii ij iH square feet teet and aud cost Olt with the lath It stands on 4 2 A At t the tune It was going up not lout lone ago the New ew York Mutual Life w as alluded to as ono one ot of the must t r structures In the ol 01 though only sixteen stories hIgh tn It the tha skill I overcoming the various tn eo countered Its rests upon bedrock feet teet below the Ihl street and belo below till the sn ani In Its eon alone 2000 t tr t Mt steel el cable yards ot of of sand and or of mi were wern used Tiro rho erection or of it live I t sJ Holn lel presents fie 1111 grater 11 tits to lu hI be overcome than that or of n 1 1 for the considered generically If Is n cum Clint lr 1 growth to which t the he genius of er ar has hns steadily contributed The IJ Ii IIII Ilot ot of skyscrapers is hI now all an exact s II 1 r nail doubtless a structure could b IJ r ned by our OUI architect that could t I rt x tended upward as tar nil as desire desir p II han hua required u a rapid nt It r M the point or of view to keep up wen 1 II iii the growth or of I nail th the I r unIque features hOe have become Ii IY thA h I Its by the ourt aur t n N r u too numerous to mention t n rl A INOCULATION nON The Jho 1 iet IL or py It v lace Ince or of In l In undu Sir az i K e C S H J 1 just jUlit undertake m hat mn may hI be as I the ho biggest lIt I t I the world Ii 11 y Scott l tI that ino only means S of tha plague It hns dent ken the HI ot a f inoculating D or of th pee pit pie during durin the next flue icon tIts Surgeon Major su In of the government labor at tine received Ie to 10 lie be ready to supply plague serum at the rate rato of doses IL a day ll o |
