| Show skyscraping SKY SCRAPING BUILDINGS the tall building mania gros gro s by what it feeds on and it is always being fed it used to be the oese me in ilk this country and not so very many years yearn ago either that an eight story structure ure was considered a monster and as big as we would ever have then with the in condition of things following the war ground in some places became 0 so o high and room so much in ia demand mand that one story after an other was added until a ten or a dozen story building in some places would look quite squatty now while in some cities notably now new york and chicago there are some that are twice that height all of which merely illustrates again the ater utter reck leenes which seems to have become an inseparable phase of A ann me rican enterprise A hotel is now bring being erected in new york city that will be when completed the tallest structure of the kind in the world the t excavation for the foundation is in from twenty two to forty feet deep and will be solidly lined with rock above this the build ing will rlee rise to a height of feet there being seventeen kt fc torlef oriet it 11 will have feet front on one street and feet on another so that it will be more than twice as long as it is in thick it will take two years and a million dollars to I 1 build bild it I 1 every city should have an ordinance on this subject skyscraping sky scraping structures should be prohibited as contributing greatly to the dangers and inconveniences of modern life it is in very true that if a man falls from a ten story buil building dingI or even one of six stories lories it means death just as surely as am though he be fell from the tallest house in th the world it should also be remembered th that t the tendency to fall is increased with the height thousands of men ana ADO any number of women who could view the landscape from the top of ROY any building in salt bait lake city with the utmost composure would shrivel up and become helpless on the last landing of the eiffel tower besides this consideration is the cor responding rg and attendant one of the deadly elevator not only in the upward and downward movements ol of the cage but the long and unrelieved baft as well also the greater difficulty the ratio of which increases with the height in effe effecting eting escapes in case of fire are or other calamity and the largely enhanced dangers to the workmen who put up such structures all abi and perhaps other considerations place he matter ot of the height of buildings within the control of the lawmaking law making department and it ought to act upon its privilege at rn an early day eight stories orlee Bt or ton ten at the most moat of a reason able number of feet are all that ought to be allowed in any community here or elie elsewhere where not to assume the character of alarmists alarmiste alar mists without sufficient cause and thus placing stumbling blocks within the way of progress we take occasion to say that this subject iskot original with ut UP that it was begun in the very place where the mania rages the most moat violently chicago som time ago and is occasionally berred to by the press preas there now it is a proper sub eject for agitation |
