The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-02-27
REACHING TO 9HE SKYS
Aladdin'S Palace OutdOne By Modern
Business Structures.
A MAMMOTH CITY UNDER ONE ROOF
A New York Block That Will he
Three Times she Hight ot she Eff
fei Tower-Forty million Dollar
Palace 60 span Niagara Pals.

The world is being revolutionized in
more ways than one just at present but
in no respect is the change more notice
able than in the character OF urban build
ings. The sky scraping twenty story
structures of Chicago, we're the wonder OF
all nations but they will be as mere pig
mics to some OF the cities under one roof
that are now projected. The least OF the
three mighty structures, which 1t is pro-
work will at once be started, is the Hav-
ermeyer beilding, on the site OF the old
Herald block, corner OF Broadway and
Ann street, New York. This will be %
stories in height and is fitting monu-
ment to the wealth Of the sugar king.
The next building is one in which
Aladdin will be quite outdone. 1t will
be giant palace, costing 10000, 600,
which is to span the mighty Niagara cat
aract. The building is to be called "The
Great Dynamic Palace and International
Hail." The architect is Leonard Henkle,
of Rochester, and New York and Toronto
capitalists have become interested in the
project and propose starting the work in
July.
This palace, located about fifty feet
above the brink OF the Horseshoe Falls,
will be at least half mile long, and in
width l 900 IT, the height will be COG f.,
the centre, however, rising to about l 900
feet above the river. The lower part of
the building will average forty stories,
and in the centre something more than
fifty stories. The structure will be sup
ported and anchored by two massive
stone towers, fixed with heavy steel grid
ers, each placed 300 feet from the bank
These towers will be forty-eight feet
in thickness, 1000 feet wide, 420 feet high
and will weigh nearly 600 900 tons apiece.
The materials OF construction provided
in the specifications are stone, granite,
Mexican onyx, black and white marble,
aluminium, copper, steel, iron and glass.
The exterior will consist of block stone
fretted and ornamented, while the inter
Tor will be chiefly of carved stone and
Mexican ONYX. The building will be
supported by 40 huge columns, which it
is hoped to secure as presents from the
/ various nations of the earth, and prom
Uses for some OF which have already been
obtained. They are to be richly sculpt.
ured and the motto Of the nation pre-
senting each will be inscribed at its base,
and the name in gold, silver or alumi-
mum letters at the tip. Eight hundred
smaller columns, composed of Mexican
onyx and aluminium, will also be used.
Inside the building steel Orders will be
used for the purpose Of support, and iron
columns placed between the floors. Over
AZ million feet Of fire proof flooring will
be required, and there will be II 1872 win.
dows and correspondingly large num-
Der OF doors. Underneath the building
will be an immense arcade which will
furnish railway passage between the
United States and Canada. The first ten
stories are designed Tor dynamos and
other apparatus for generating electricity,
as it ia calculated that $500, 900 horse
power a minute will be developed, which
will be sold to operate the machinery Of
the Eastern and New England states.
Above the tenth story and up to the for
ty-tifth, the building will be used for
commercial purposes, among the most
important OF which will be the grinding
of the wheat of the middle west, to be
brought down the river from the lakes.
| The forty sixth story will be an enor-
nous hall, extending the length of the
building. with seating capacity OF TO-
000, who may be addressed by one speak.
er by the use OF electrical intonators.
| This ball will be the most beautiful in
the world, and will be DEVOTED exclusive
| ly to international, religious and social
meetings aud conventions. II is expect
ed that each Of the nations OF the world
| will furnish design for q window, and
it is estimated that the furnishings Of the
ball will cost 100000. Mr.. Hinkle,
the architect of this giant undertaking,
has won much fame as an inventor. He
has been working on this project since
1881 and believes that II will be the
greatest money maker Of the age as 2O0,-
600 horsepower disposed OF at the falls at
$40 per horsepower per annum would
Jay the interest on the entire investment
and wo8ld leave 81 600 900 horsepower
A. pare velvet"
While this would be brobdingn agian
Undertaking the third building is none
the Tess 10 az il 10 to be two hundred
stories high and accommodate 400, 900
people under one roof. This structure is
to he known IS the King building and is
to occupy an entire square of New York
city. Harding 4 GOoch, the architects
Of the Postal Telegraph building, have
drawn the plans. which somewhat re.
sembles the Eiffel Tower, the wonder oil
the last Paris exposition, only il will be
three times as high. The framework of
the building will, Of course be OF steel, on
the principle OF bridge placed on end
surrounded by an outer wall of granite
or stone l6 feet through at the base and
gradually diminishing towards the upper
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