The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1905-06-03

opposite the post Office, which has thirty
one stories, including the towers, whose
crests are 800 feet from the ground
Without the towers, "under the roof, >
as the architects say, which is 1886 feet
from the ground, are twenty-eight sto-
ries with $50 office rooms. The building
cost 81, 900.
A new building, so far without a
name, just being finished, and known
as "Sixty Wall Street., rises without a
tower twenty-eight stories, with unu-
sually high ceilings for skyscraper. 1t
is 344 feet from pavement to cornice,
and, therefore, as the clerks of the
building department say, is the tallest
building in New York under flat roof.
1t extends through from Wall street to
Pine, but for some reason or another
the Wall street front is only seventeen
stories high The Pine street section
rises above it like a monument. The
ground floor is to be occupied as a
branch pOstoffice.
The next tallest building is that OF the
Commercial Gable Company. The roof
is 3l7 feet from the ground, with twenty
one stories. The building of the Matte
nal Bank Of New York is 3l2 feet high,
with twenty-five stories; the New
York Times 30 feet, with twenty-five o
stories; the American Surety Company
Building, 30S feet, with twenty one
mi,
800 feet high, with twenty three storie S,
and d II. Burnham's s'Flatiron" Build
ing is 300 feet high, with twenty-One
stories.
The largest office building in New
York is the Broad Exchange. at the cCr-
ner of Broad street and Exchange place.
1t is 2S6 feet nigh, has twenty stories,
- 900 square feet Of floor space in each
story, or a total of $4,000 square feet,
more than twelve acres of space. There
are 800 suites Of from two to FIVE offices,
and it cost $7,500,00o.
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The highest price ever paid for land
in this country was 81 10000 for lot
eighty-fve feet square, now occupied by
the American Surety Company's build
ing, at the corner of Broadway and Pine
streets. The corner lot cost S267.67 a
square foot, which is at the rate OF
81 100000 an acre. An even higheI
price, $400 square foot, is asked for the
southeast corner of Broadway and Wall
street, the most valuable piece Of ground
in America, which is at the rate Of S17,-
4OS. 700 acre. There have been two or
three sales of property in London at
higher price, but under peculiar circum-
stances. Therefore it may be consld-
cred the most costly section OF Gods
footstool.
The New York Club recently sold its
building at the corner of thirty-htth
street and Fifth avenue for 5000, 200, and
will build new, modern house on the
north side of forty-third street, between
Fifth and Madison avenues. The cluo
paid $4,000 for the property in 1884,
am told that this is the highest price
ever paid for uptown property, although
the point of land between Broadway and
Fifth avenue at Twenty street,
now occupied by a drug store, Is held at
a higher figure. The New York CLUB
lot is 80 by 100 feet, with surface OF
5000 square feet, which is about S3O a
square foot.
The An-Night Bank paid $50, 900 for
about 4, 800 square feet on Fifth avenue
at the corner of Forty fourth street,
where it is preparing to erect costly
home for unique institution-the only
one of its kind in the world. The archl-
tecture is to be similar to that OF III
fanv's new store, at the corner OF Fifth
avenue and Thirty -eigth street, when
the highest authorities consider the
finest piece of business architecture III
the United States, If not IN the world
1t is severely classic, of white marble,
four stories high, with wide windows
ana heavy cornice.
The All-Night Bank has capital o.
s25ONro and was organized by Thomas
B. Clark. hsrry Payne Whitney, Clar-
ence H. Mackey, w. K. Vanderbilt
Oakleigh Thorne, and other gentlemen
of large means for the convenience o.
people who cannot do all their banki2g
in the dav time. 1t will have Literally
san omen door,. It's business will con
tinue from u o'clock Sunday night un-
I'll II O'Clock Saturday night, with three
RELAYS of tellerS, clerks and bookkeepefs
working eight hours at a shift. 1t vii
do regular banking business, receiving
deposits, paying checks, discountlns
notes at any hour OF the day or night a.
NAV suit its customers. Mr.. Clark, th'
originator of the scheme, is bette
known as picture dealer than imam
cier. and he seems to have a penchen
for late hours, He originated the Brool
Club, which is an ali-night affair, wher'
a hungry or thirsty gentleman fsay OBJ
tain drink or supper at any time dur
ing the twenty-four hours. The ordl
nary clubs close down at O'Clock a. m
and some of them at twelve.
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