Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-03-20
TYPICAL NEW YORK PLACES.
A Monster Buiiding that Il Q Village
La Itself.

A Monster Building that Il village
la ITSELF
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, con.
tributes to the Century q paper on
"Places In New York." In the course Of
which she says: II you enter one Of
the largest ONCE buildings and 30 up
and down and around In II, you will zee
that It u not mere house, but almost
town in itself. It nearly covers the
space Of an entire city block. Thirty.
two elevators serve the persons and the
wants OF its denisens and their visitors,
and they carry some forty thousand
passenger each day. The great bust.
mess concern which owns II hlls o whole
door, with halls a. big a. churches, and
regimnets Of clerks. On the other
floors 1.-Two many another big company.
and many an individual doing . big
business Of this sort or Of that; and
their number win not amase you ~
much a. the luxury with which prosaic
tasks Of money.making now surround
themselves. ! wonder sometimes what
my grandfather would have thought Of
it. No one In New York did business In
. bigger way than he. sending his IA.
nous clipper ships to encircle the
world and traffic In q score Of ports.
Yet when my father began to "clerk"
for him. the hrst Of his duties was to
aand his ONCE door; and ! can remem.
Der how small and plain was this ONCE.
even at Q much later day, with the bow.
spirits Of vessels almost poking them.
selves N at the window - they lay
along tAe border Of South st1est.
The people who dwell In the typical
once bullding Of to-day walk about on
polished marble aoors; the Government
has given them . postoface Just for
themselves; . BIG library and . restau.
rant exclusively servo the lawyers
among them; another ro01AnGAnt gener.
0usly serves whomsoevoe - U1nh 70
eat: there are rows Of GnGoe iA ~
huge. barrel.vaultsd malA Ill; tAQGD
are barber3 rooms ana oeotbloG
rooms; and % esgth and % >A You "a
almost bs1lsvs tha& . uAn mAGht live n
this building. - Spgle oaal TO slssp.
and being q oresH much
evegything h0{ y. except the
AeQnn10D a@sGD1u& 3 Ghufch and
theaase. 1t s1ono sa1hes susprising,
indeed. TIT . u111eaAsy chapel has
not hsao starteo = one Of its corners,
and . SseeEaroeo for daytime perform
auco - - Ailltop called its roof.
III 00DD1nsf Jon may find the
bann6nM - 11Ds6s our weather for
q. - - = its underground sto-
~, n ths very entrails Of earth. you
may confidently leave It your wealth to
guard.
Truly. the steel-clad burrows Of q
great safe deposit company look capa.
cious enough to contain all the wealth
OF New York. and whether your share
OF II be large or small your needs can
be exactly met. You may hire safe 80
little that diamond necklace would al.
most fill It. or 70 big that 1t Ia good.
sized room. and Its rent means the In.
come OF a good-sized fortune-seveu
thousand dollars or 10 per annum. Mar
row lane after lane Ii walled by tiers Of
these safes. as streets are walled by
house-fronts; there u second story be-
low the first, and there are other places
where other things than gold and sil-
yer. precious papers and jewels may be
stored. There are rooms full Of trunks,
and ] remember big one with the
sweat OF steam glistening ON it, walls
and ceilings, which was flled full; and
heaped and piled with bales Of q shin.
ing cream-colored stun-raw silk, cost
Iy and also perishable. needing to be
kept perpetually moist lest 1t lose Its
pliabllity.
When In this treasure-house Of un-
countable riches we see marble floors
which can be lifted BY levers 20 that
they lie against the bases Of doors i'm.
pregnable without them and vents