Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-08-01
BIGGEST OFFICE
BUILDING WILL HOUSE
CITY Of 10000

New York special: Suppose the entire
population OF the city of Geneva. y. v.
or Adrian. Mich. or Naugatuck. Conn, OF
Bath. Me, should pack up. bag and bag.
sage-every, man, woman and child oil
them-and descend upon New York in y
body. any time next year-,he whole pop.
uiatfon, from the mayor down 10 the new.
est-5orn babe, could be housed in one
building soon to be completed.
Or, just imagine that every soul of Bal.
timore's half million of population. or Bos.
tons or ST. Louis's somewhat more. sud.
denly decided to pay "A visit to New York.
The entire horde of them-every single sou,
could pass through :ha, building or ride
up and down In the many elevators, walk
through the corridors. do their business.
and so away again. without crowding thi.
mighty pile.
Within a year the biggest building in the
world will be completed. 1t is the Ter.
m!nal building-that gigantic structure in
the underground maZeS OF which will rur
'he great system of subway lines which
VIII connect New Jersey and uptown by
means of tunnels under the Hudson.
1T will face on Church street, towering
twenty-five stories IN the air. with a front.
acg of two city blocks. from Fulton to
Cortlandt street. and Dey street running
straight through its center. go huge i.
this great building that it will have room
Tor 10000 tenants. or about the population
OF Geneva. Adrian. Naugatuck or Bath
And it is estimated that LEGO a minute. OF
more than 10000 persons a day, will ente,
and leave the building-about the popula.
tion OF such great cities as Baltimore.
Boston or ST. Louis.
1t is hard for the human mind to con.
ceive such Il structure as the architects.
have dared to plan. The structural steei
necessary weighs 24,NCO tons. When com.
Dletpu tho hVinp ar1 .Cnnl ,t.o;rb 8 ~
building will be a0.O0 tons or 400, 900. OH
pounds. 1t will take IL. 800. 900 bricks to
pulld the structurc-enough to reach 2,ON
miles. or from New York 10 Denver. il
placed end to end.
The 100000 pounds OF concrete ncces4
sary will take up ], 100 Coo cubic feet. The
amount of concrete for the floor arches
alone would pave Broadway from the Bat
terry to Forty-second street. 1t will take
1850 tons of terra Gotta for the ornamen.
tation of the facades of the building. Some
$1,000 square yards of plasterine will be
needed. enough for forty ordinary Broad.
way buildings.
OF plumbing pipe there will be 5000 feet,
or sixteen miles; of steam pipe. la, 00O feet.
or about ~twenty-nine miles. and of con.
duits, 50o,COO feet, or nearly ninety-fve
miles.
To light such a mastodonic hive of bust.
ness VIII require 5,0O windows. which viii
Nv Sid.'t "Iti I-u.VtV ~. rect OF Sl.SSs
or enough to cover three city blocks. II
will take 13 miles Of wiring for the electric
lighting erVicc-enouE to run a wire
from Yonkers TO Philadelphia. This wir.
ing will feed $4,000 lamps iii 1900 fixtures.
And $500 doors will bc necessary for the
rooms and halls.
To accommodate the ihrorss of tenants
and those having business with them will
require thirty-nine elevators. The lineai
foot run of these will be altogether more
than two miles. SO that If they all made a
complete round trip at the same time the
total distance Travelled would be more than
four miles. These elevators are capable of
going at the rate of eco feet a minute, OPP
Grated electrically. OF these twenty-five
Will be express cars rising without a stop
to the eleventh floor, the remaining seven
teen will be local cars. stopping 1T every
stop up to the eleventh. a force of at
least $50 employees will be needed to care
for and operate the building.
The structure will occupy 10000 square
feet of ground area, and tower 275 feet
above the curb.
The Church street terminal station will
be built upon the largest cofferdam in the
world. This gigantic cup or box, made of
concrete, is 400 feet long. and at it's broad
est part is IFS feet wide. The walls of the
,offcrdam are eight feet thick and they ex-
tend down to solid rock. which. in the
average of seventy-tive feet below the
ne.ghborhood of the building. is on an
surface. However, in one spot it was found
necessary. because of u depression in the
rock, to go down ninety-e.ght feet. The
previous record was ninety feet.
The railroad tracks will be about thirty
feet below the surface of the street. Pas
sengers will pass down from the street
10 d station or concourse floor and thence
downward through stairways to the sta
lion platforms.
Tho building will be a flnc xamp,e of
italian Renaissance architecture. Up to
he fourth story it VIII b. Of polished gran
lite md Indiana limestone. Above tina it
vii! be of brick and terra Gotta. The pub
lie halls will be Of marble, handsomely
decorated, and the building will be fin
ished IN hardwood throughout.
There will be a complete conduit system
within the building 10 provide for the teie-
graph. telephone and stock ticker systems.
compressed air and vacuum cleaning an
%.arltus.
y special feature Of the BUILDING will be
the largest electric storage battery in the
world, composed of thousands of cells.
TAis is to be held as a reserve. in tho
event Of any accident to the electric gen.
Grating plant. AS the building is almost
entirely surrounded by wide streets. such
as Sortiaildt. Church and Fulton, with
pey street between. it will be one of the
li2htes; office buildings in New York. On
The western side are some low office build
irss controlled by the owners OF the ter
!nisal station. but the terminal building,
for the most part, rises far above these,
so that the view towards the river will
remain urimpeded.
Nearly every office in the building, If
rot every one. will have an opening on
the outside.
The first floor below the sidewalk will
be known as the "Concoursc Floor Here
VII be the waiting rooms. in which will
be found benches. retiring rooms, tcle-
graph stands, telephone booths, flower
bcoths ana wspape Kiosks, restaurants,
lunch counters. bootblack stands and