Show HIGH CITY BUILDINGS Limit of Twenty-Eight Twenty Stories Soon to Be Raised to Forty Forty- Forty One I The clue limit In lii the lie height of or loC lofty buildings In this lila cf city hiss has by hy no means been reached says tas ta's th tho i New York Tribune Tri Tn- hune bune although one omme practical difficulty l has as been heon encountered The development develop develop- co uncut ment of or was wa coincident with wih the thc development de of oC the Hie modern pa passenger en er elevator a elevator a section of or tho the elevated road set SOt up on oui end But Dut tho the limit In economy of at operation and amid safeguarding has been found to beabout bo be about twenty stories and anti If Ir the height is greater a second battery halery of or elevators cle atol is almost a nece necessity siy an and In tho the projected projected pro pro- thirty and fort forty story toO structures tures tunes will wi be bc Installed tie de- the he space needed to bo be devoted to the tho machinery for their thel operation The Thc application of oC electricity and pneumatic power to elevators has changed change the conditions regarding their thel operation much from Crom what they were In the eln days s 's when tall tal buildings s began to bo be le erected In the great cities of the world In Chicago the lie pioneer In iii lofty lofy edifices sonic some of or whIch were a revelation to visitors to the tho great reat Columbus Columbus Co Co- Co- Co lumbus exposition tho the limit has ha been practically sot SQL by the tho nature of tho the soil sol on which the lie foundations rest which h Is part of or the tue alluvial prairie and not fitted to sustain ustain enormous superincumbent weights But Dut in iii this lila city the lie rock underlying the time greater part of oC Manhattan Island can hold holdup holdup holdup up arm any mass mas that can cami be bo piled pled upon it i it and the only limits arc tho those e set act b by engineering 81 skill 1 anti and economical us use o of space When brick anti and stone had hail to ho bo employed to sustain floors anti and roofs the limit was ivas set h by the lie thickness of or orthe the walls valls wals required In the basement cellar an and amid sub sub But ut with wih the tho Introduction of steel for COl the frames CIamp of sJ skyscrapers there thero was ivas no iso 10 diminution bum tion lon of oC room b by reason of the time loftiness of oC cornice and ane fInIal At the present time the tallest bul building building build build- ing under construction in tho the et city is Js the tho ono one at nt Cedar and West est st streets l which will ll rise rife e twenty to a total height of or 10 10 I foot feet The Tho Park Row building opposite tho the has ha twenty three floors noor In n the mania structure and anel three more In tho- tho twin v towers the extreme height ht of tho ho tops of the lie erS to heln being feet feel while time the roof Is f fet feet et from the sidewalk sidewall The St St. 81 Paul building at Broadway va and Ann street treet has ha twenty six looms floors and rises feet In the lie al air Tho The American Surety building Ins at nt Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way and amid Pino Iino street has twenty-three twenty floors and amid a total height of feet feel 1 inch These hese n figures ures are ae duplicated tho at Nassau Nassau Nas Nas- by tho ho Tract Society building sau sail and Spruce street save savo 0 that tho time one ono inch I Is lacking The new Trinity building at No Ill 11 Broadway has twenty one stories an and Its Is height is feet C G Inches Inches Its Is neighbor at Trinity place an and Rector street will willbe willbe wi be twenty three stories anti and feet tall Tho rho Commercial Cable building taJI at Nos 20 and 22 Broad Broa street has twenty one floors and Is 2 5 feet tall tal the dome dommi t. t The went twenty story structures In iii this city Include tho time Bank lank of oC Commerce building at Nassau and Cedar streets feet high the Broad Exchange o building at the junction of or th the tho streets from which It I takes Its Is name namo 2 I 6 feet 6 6 J. J Inches high tho the Empire building at Broadway and amid Rector Hector street feet high ati and the lie Flatiron building at Broadway Fifth avenue and Twenty third street feet Ceet hl high h. h Only ono one story stan less Is tho lie Washington Life lIC Insurance company's a hul building at Broadway way and amid Liberty street 27 feet feel high and amid the tho Bowling Green Gleen hulking building hulk build huld- huld ing also has nineteen stories antI and ane a ahel hel height ht of 2 feet Ceet G C Inches The Manhattan Manhattan Man Man- hattan hatan Lifes Life's building at No G Cl CI t lloa Broadway way has seventeen stories an ana and anda a height heIgh t of or feet to roof top an and to top tOil of towel tower feet The roof garden sarden of or the Mutual Life LIe Insurance compans company's com coin pany's pans building at Broadway antI and ant Liberty street Is feet Ceet from tho the J street but the tho structure has only 1 fifteen stories and Is ig surpassed sed In this i in n respect by a dozen or 01 more moro well wel known olce and anti business buildings In itt the financial district distrIct But all al these will wi be he dwarfed Into practical In hel height b h by bythe bytho tho the completion of the lie new building at Liberty Libert and Broadway to oc occupy oc- oc cupy cumpy the site alto sie of oC the Singer er and amid Bourne buildings for which the tue foundations are being laid Tho The plans call cal for a IL tower toLer to rise ise to the time height of oC forty fort one stories or 01 a a. n total of or feet which is ts 70 71 feet higher than the thc Washington mil Wash ington monument and foot le lethan less than the tIme Eiffel tower tho time tallest I Jel nl I t. t 5 h. h n UJ HUH UI- UI I less tho the famous Tower sc TOWO of or Babel with Its Is dispersion of or tongues planned to Lo b be he as high as heaven but never completed com corn surpassed It I. I The Time main structure ture from which the tower of oC the tho new Broadway skyscraper k will rise wi will wi have havo Its Us roof roar 18 feet above tho the street level level The tower towel will wil bo ho 60 feet Ceet square giving ample olce room In each of or the one forty-one floors noor A some seine what similar tower structure to rise over GOO fee foot Is projected In j lion ion with vili the new building to stand i on Oh the he site Ue of the Madison 4 Avenue Presbyterian church which Is now tf being demolished It will Diana on thu Madison Square s dwarf var tower and he fat above the Flatiron the square f |