The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-22


 Wall Street Learns Something New. New York. Dec. 21.-when the man. moth Hudson Terminal is ready for use next spring, New York will possess what is at once the most gigantic structure of it's kind and by far the largest offlce building in the world.
 The grand center or terminal of all the city's sub surface transportation lines and tunnels. connecting by them with every railroad entering the city, it will cover two solid blocks with four stories below the street level and twenty-one above. Besides its termi- nal facilities 1t will have in its twen- ty-seven acres of floor space more than 1000 offices and accommodate more than 10000 workers. The 1S.0o0,oo0 cubic feet of this enormous structure makes it two and a half times as large as the largest existing office building, that is the Broad Exchange, which has only mere 100000 cubic feet
 Into the construction of the terminal will enter 113 miles of electric wiring. sixteen miles of plumbing pipe. twen- ty miles of steam pipe. ninety-five miles of conduits. 100000 feet Of tile partitions 5.200 doors. 5000 windows. 12o,000 square feet of glass, ffty-six miles of wood base, sixty-five miles of picture moulding, and So,ooo electric lights.
 For the construction of the building above the street level alone ls.300.000 bricks are necessary, which if laid end to end would stretch across the continent 2,000 miles. or say from New York to Denver. More than 75,e00.000 pounds of concrete will be used in the completed building or enough to pave Broadway one foot thick from curb to curb from the Battery to Forty-second Street. Of structural steel. 24.oo0 tons will be used and the whole mass when completed will have an estimated dead and live load of 100000 tons.
 once space in this colossal structure has been taken on the same expansive scale. several single offices covering more than two acres of floor space each having been already engaged. For its up and down travel the new terminal will have thirty-nine elevators. the lineaI foot run of which will be alto gether more than two miles, so that if they all made a complete round trip at the same time the total distance covered would be more than four miles. With her title to the largest as well as the tallest buildings in the world so firmly established, New York sees lit- tie danger of losing her supremacy in the field of modern construction.
 The hullabaloo, which was raised over the recent discovery of a hitn- nrto unknown Standard oil pipe line under Central Park promises to pale Into insignificance in the light Of the startling discovery of secret or at least unrecorded water main in one Of New York's hotels, which for years has been pouring the city's water into The hostelry all untaxed at the rate of 75,000 gallons daily.
 Water is a mighty precious article
 aw.1 Is preparing to spend nearly quarter pf a billion dollars to secure an ade- Huate supply. When 1t was discovered that it had been furnishing 75,00O gal Ions a day free something unexpected ly dropped. The whole affair is shroud- ed in deepest mystery and nobody seems 10 know how the pipe got there.
 It was discovered by accident by some of the employees of the Water Registers office who were inspecting the water main in Twenty-fourth Street when they chanced upon 1t. Hav- ing no record, of it, they followed it up and found that 1t led into the old Fifth Avenue Hotel. soon to be de- molished, where it supplied the tanks on the roof. The owners of the hotel were as much surprised at the discoV- cry as the water department ofhcials all of them having been in total ig- norance of the existence of this leak : in the citys income.
 It Is the general conclusion that the pipe. which does not show anywhere In the building. and must. therefore, be buried .n one of the walls. was put in when the hotel was constructed forty seven years ago. If such Is the case the city has furnished the hotel free of charge with more than billion and quarter gallons of water, which or dinarily would have increased its tn- . come to the tune of $1SS, 900.
 Under the statute of limitations the city even if it should decide to att tempt to recover, can only sue for the amount coverering the last six years. or about $24,000. The other SlS4,oO0 is gone forever.
 Father Knickerbocker is about to take down his sign and discontinue the thriving semi-Gretna Green business which he has done at the old stand Tor years.
 Likewise a certain kind of so-called romance has received a death blow, for, after January 1st, when the new marriage license law goes into effect, there will be no more secret mar riages.
 Heretofore in New York two hearts desiring to beat as one have not had to have a single thought. so far as the tying of the connubial knot Is
  Any two persons desiring to get mar ried had only to find a minister will ing to perform the ceremony. provided the ages were within the statutory re- quirement.
 Matrimony could be and was taken ,at a jump and the number of secret marriages constantly bobbing up in the papers indicated the large extent to which this opportunity was taken advantage of.
 Now all this is to be changed and two persons who have come to the conclusion that they want to be spliced will have to procure license in regular form from the city clerk. This individual indeed aside from couples who may find the new law an impeachment to quick matrim onial happiness is about the only person who VIII have any cause to look on it with any dubiety. For him it will mean the onerous job of signing all the licenses.
 Just how much of job this Is may