Smyrna times., 1882-03-29
Tall Structures.

lall STRUCTURES,
But little more than a quarter of CEN
turg ago the Park Hotel, six stories in
height, was one of New YOrks wonders.
When it was erected on the corner of
Nassau and Beekman streets throngs of
people waited and watched to see it fall.
and the daily papers of the time spoke of
it as IA dangerous and foOl-hardy expert
ment. 1t was about 20 feet high. To-day
its site is occupied by structure that rises
| 145 feet and contains nine stories above
the sidewalk and three stories beneath it,.
This is known as the Morse building and
! contains about 50 suites Of offices for law
yers. On the next corner above it on
Nassau street is the Tribune building.
/ The edge of the roof is more than 100 feet
above the street, and between these two
points are 10 floors cut up into lawyers
offices To the top of its famous tall tow
er, measuring from the sub-cellar, is go
feet. DiagOnally across from the Morse
building is an immense structure Just
undergoing completion, which has height
of $50 feet, exclusive of the height of its
four great towers, which though low are
broad and will contain many rooms.
This is Temple Court" and is owned by
Eugene Kelly, the Irish banker 1t fills
/ the space on Beekman street, between
/ Nassua street and Theatre alley. 1t in
! Il Al
The towers add four stories and rise one
story above the three-story mansard addi.
ton which is between them. The third
corner of Beekman and Nassau streets is
occupied by the Vanderbilt building
which is eight stories in height.
The largest office building in the world
is the one that D. O. Mills is putting up
on Broad street, Wall street and Ex.
change place. 1t is 155 feet high and con
tains nine stories in some parts and ten
EstOries in others. Its Bread street front is
163 feet in length. 1t is by all odds the
handsomest of the big buildings and is
said to be going to cost a round million.
This is the building that recently caused
a great scare for fear the walls were going
O,fall. The ground on which it is erected
is marshy and had to be thoroughly piled
before the foundations were laid
But the Mills building is to be left in
the shade by the new Produce Exchange
building, now in course of construction on
Broadway, Beaver and Stone streets, will
have frontage of 3O8 feet and is to be
300 feet high. Trinity Church steeple
which ranks ninth or tenth among the
tion, is but 1877 feet in height. OF course
only the tower of the Produce Exchange
building will reach that altitude, bat the
main structure itself will he over 200 fee
in height.
Opposite, on the other side of the Bowl
ing Green, Cyrus w. Field has torn dowr
the old Washington Hotel, so called be
cause the Father of his country once so
journed there after CORVALLIS had found
it necessary to find board elsewhere. IT.
place is to be taken by pile 200 feet high,
square brick building without beauty O.
distinctive architectural style, for ofIic,
uses like the rest.
Another large building, and one tha
has been occupied for some time, is tn,
one on the corner of Wall and Broa,
streets, called by the occupants 9th,
United Bank Building" 1t is to be IA
feet high.
In West Broadway the wholesale gro
GERS are following the suit of the bankers
The Thurbers were the first to build
Their storehouse is pot very tall, but j
covers a block. Henry Welsh built
granite fortress next on Franklin street
and now opposite his massive building
Francis II. Leggett & Co., arc putting III
huge brick and granite pile that ha
} passed its eight story already, withou
showing any signs of completion.
1t is 140 feet high at this stage. EpF
the cocoa man, has completed nine-stor,
building at Duane and Hudson streets.
The ball on the tower Of the Western
Union Telegraph Company building
which drops exactly at noon each day,
240 feet above the sidewalk.
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A Milwaukee girl who was kissed with
out her permission wants five thousan,
dollars damages. The man made mis
take in not bargaining for the goods. HI
could probably have bought the right T.
kiss her when he wished for five dollars
A gentleman who took to medicine lat
in life said to friend, You know the oil
proYerb--at forty man must be fool Q
q physician "Yes," was the reply