Show big Twelve Story concrete building casting a twelve story offee bu ding A large office building which is said by its builders to be the first of its kind in new york city and which has attracted the attention of the thou sands who pass dally in its neighbor hood because of its novelty is being erected in the rear of the site of the old broadway tabernacle in thirty fourth and thirty fifth streets near sixth avenue it is to be a concrete structure in one piece and therefore will contain no steel girders says the new lork tribune when completed it will be a monolith that is one piece of concrete almost as bard as gran tte beams walls and floors being all one it will be 12 stories high feet long and have a frontage of 50 feet in thirty fourth street and 30 feet in thirty fifth street the work of construction suggests solomon s temple in one respect there Is no sound of hammer about it no pneumatic hammer pounding riv ets splits the eardrums of the pass arsby ersby its appearance is odd it looks as if it were in swaddling clothes the building Is literally cast just as a plas ter cast or a bianze statue Is formed the boards form the moulds in which the concrete is poured they must be left in position until the concrete Is fann the hardening requires several weeks time the result Is that the walls are hidden at present and look as it they were carefully boxed up in boards to keep them warm the oddity of its appearance Is in creased by the presence of two slender skeleton towers of wood and the ab sence of derricks there is no hoist ing of heavy steel girders over the heads of pedestrians to their alarm the square vertical frames rising so high above the battlements that one wonders that they do not fall down before the slightest wind are the shafts tor hoisting the concrete to the top of the walls the taller of the two has been built to the height of the completed build ing around it will be fastened the moulds tor the openings tor one of the elevator shafts in the finished build ing |