The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-11-22
FLOOD TIDE OF PROSPERITY
Question Raised Whether Now 9ky
sorapera viii Withstand tho 80.
vere Gales With Tremendous
Weight on Foundation.
NE wYonK. Nov. sl-rhe tamllla,

will no longer necessarily mean 10
The New Yorker Took out for your
life" II may mean simply that The"
hank is coming. for the very latest
thing here In the auto bank when
certain financial institution an
nounced its intention to keep open
day and night In order that patrons
who wanted TO make deposit or cash
check somewhere along IN the wee
ama hours might DO no. old fashioned
and conservative residents were con.
ftdent that the Tint, had been reached
nut they did not reckon on the auto
bank II In not nH might be thought
from It's name hank where things
are done automatically but nm auto.
mobile bank on wheels which viii call
NJ the residence or Office ~ custom.
nr 10 receive deposits or cash checks.
the presumption being that New
Workers. In the food tide of pros
rerity nre too busy making money 10
tor who desires to pa,ronize this gas
oiinc bank II provided with metal
dispatch box 10 which there nrc only
two keys one IN hia possession and
one with the receiving teller Of tho
hank from which the auto ~ sent out
When the auto hnnk calls the cua-
TONER simply hands over HIS dispatch
box. receives receipt for II and HeeH
II placed In tho safe IN the nuto bank
ono tho next trip the box IL returned
10 him Likewise II he Wishes 10
draw money for nay roll or person.
Al needs all he has 10 do In to tele-
phone for tho auto bnnk to roma
around hIa way. Collections and dis
hufaemcnta are 10 be- made IN the tor
rltory from Fourteenth street 10 i2bth
street so that large amount Of
ground win he covered Doubtless the
next hest thing To owning nm auto viii
he nhtronizc mn auto bnnk. IN or
der that m imposing machine may be
seen occasionally standing In front of
o0e's door Patrons. however nrc
not allowed 10 ride the only occu-
rnnt of tho car being tho armed drIv.
ar and mcssengcrs
n has come to the point where II
IN necessary to tie down New Yorka
sky scrapcrs to keep them from
blowing AWAY or nj least blowing
Over In the past with the ordinary
building of merely twenty or twenty-
nvr stories Ita weight Of several
thousand tons on each square yard
of ground under II was thought to be
sufficient TO hold II steady against
NIL the winds OF heaven. and consc-
quently no provision was made 10
withstand an urllfhtng strain, since
II was figured that nothing would
come along To lift them. anyhow. Bu,
with the coming Of the new sky
acrapcr matters are changed, Already
two buildings nrc under way which
3, will tower into the smoky atmosphere
$50 and G26 feet respectively some
thing over forty stories In each case.
on building Of this sort the wind
pressure will be enormous, especially
on the upper hair, which viii stand
out naked and unprotected by the
surrounding buildings, Therefore II |
has been deemed necessary to liter
ally tie them down by means Of a |
new device employed for the first time
In the history Of construction In this
city An ingenious arrangement of
to be employed which will be en-
bcdded to n depth Of nearly fifty feet |
In the concrete which forms the cals-
sons resting on the solid rock eigh- |
ty-nve feet below the curb, The rods,
four In number, are made up Of ten
foot sections each with n giant an |
chor on the bottom, convcrgcd at the |
street level and running up into the
columns of the building for II distance
of five hundred feet where they are |
boted into position. The strength Of
lIltht FDuS IL uIIlUlt lO ttunltIhNl
the effect of the most severe storms,
But II the buildings cannot move,
some people are wondering whether
the day will come when the island |
will move instead and cruise out into
the bay using its sky scrapers for
sails.
one third of all the passengers on
steamships in the United States are
carried on ferry boats across the
North River No less than 107 1000, 900
people cross from shore to shore of
this busy stream every twelve months
u number greater than the total
population of the United States by Mt |
least twenty-five per cent. During
the most Of the time 1914 ferryboats
are busy carrying back and forth
100000 passengers day, which Is
equivalent to saying that about so
boats are always crossing this stream