Show awty beighl florl I 1 architect Oa of this city his received from L 1 the designer copies of the of the wonderful twenty story building which is to be erecter at bl iIII the maryel ous edifice will be eighty feet square and will have a courtyard fit the center none of the offices which abi structure will contain will front on his url yI the intention is to have all the rooms front on the four bides of the balding bul ding tax building proper IS IL skeleton of broo sit the footings made of that m aderial and continuing of iron and steel to its the framework of a series of laminated rivet icon posts dimini bing in size as they braced diagonally Jy after the kanuer of lattice bridge ir derd rhey are horizontally braced by the be ama f each 9 jor which furm an integral portion of the building the whole frame is covered on the exterior by a substance rho exterior is of stone and coper p the stone is covered at each by means of horizontal shelves ad of iron these shelves are c by the stone and are handsomely calved on the outside the roof is to be of iron except the speir which is to he made of glass it is shaped exactly like the roof of the court house in this city the glass portion of it ivill be used as a lookout tower from which the surrounding country may be viewed the grand rotunda located on a first floor will have twelve elevators and two of stairs the latter must certainly be fo ornament the elevators are isu arranged that each one does lee fur only two floors the pits who lucenda going to the twenty fifth or twenty sixth floor may b a able to make the trip with aping thus expediting the elevator service great lyl there will be no in the enild ing axce t the doors and windows the will be so erected that when compete no portion odthe structural iron will be visible bach office nill have its own safe built on the outer arall and forming part of the structure iture the r educe thickness of the walls is another feature of the building the exterior do not exceed twenty two incho the structure will not weigh as much as an ordinary masonry one and is much ch aper and more quickly built it will be feet high and will contain rooms all of abich as stated above frent on the street |