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Show TALLEST PUBLIC BUILDING FOR GOTHAM A 4 111 I I siili t t p pi MP u x I II ill 1 I 'Will IHMI'UHHUiieiiiiii liBuMi 'il 'h yr-!-vTt-r'..uJl tt EV YORK. Blasting their way into the rock and digging down through the dirt, hundreds of workmen are busy preparing the fotin-dation fotin-dation for New York's new municipal building, which will be tha tallest public building in the world. The top of its tower will be fully 600 feet above the street level. Each of its 21 main floors will have an office area of nearly one acre, its total usable area being in excess ot 1,200,000 square feet. The contractors promise that the foundation work will be done by August 1 and that the building will be erected and ready for the decorators January 1. 1912. . |