The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-28
GREAT HEIGHT OF
SKYSCRAPER RAGE
Record Established in Compile
ton OF 1hirty-fve Story
Building in New York.
RACE OF THE ToPLoFTIcALs
Trinity Annex and Realty Build
ing Ready for Tenants in
Seven Months.
RACE OF THE ToPLoFTICALs

NEW YORK. April 27.-From all ac-
scraper fever. 1t Is to be presumed
therefore, that the story of New York's
latest toploftical achievement will in
terest readers of The Times-Dispatch:
When the Trinity Annex and Realty
Building is opened, May 1st. a stnpen-
oous example of skyscraper construc-
lion Will be brought to close. From
the time the first steel columns were
set, September 18th last, to the day
when the builders turned over the fin
ished structures to the owners, is only
seven months. In that period 5000
tons of steel from Pittsburg. 100000
bricks from New Jersey and Albany,
1 100000 square feet OF hollow tile
from Raritan, 100000 cubic feet OF stone
from the quarries of New England
have been assembled and set in place
IN the two twenty -one-story skyscrap-
ers on the corner of Thames Street and
Broadway.
From the day the foundations were
begun all records in building construc-
tion went by the board. June. 90.
1906. air was let into the first caisson
Sixty days later 81 calssons had been
- aiih " Az tNtIhSc OcplIl OIL 90 IeeC.
As many as il caissons Were under
In thirty days. at maximum rate Of
two feet an hour-the greatest speed
ever known in such work
Meanwhile tho superintendent in
charge of the construction work had in
spectors stationed at the mills, shops
and quarrles. and with the contractors
by whom the various materials were to
De supplied daily reports were made to
him of the materials completed and
under way at different points. Every
thing was timed to arrive a day or two
before 1t was actually needed, as there
was no storage facilities and work had
to progress on all floors simultaneously
as fast as they were erected At one
time when the weather was particular
ly bad, tugs We're sent out which
towed the sailing vessels loaded with
the cut stone all the way from Boston
to New York.
September 18th everything was ready
and the steel work was begun on the
Trinity Annex. and November 1st on
the Realty Building.
Ten weeks later, Superintendent
Ganson's loS-book, in which 4
daily report of each days work was
kept read as follows Trinity Annex.
Derricks on nineteenth floor, setting
roof beams on twenty-irst floor; no.
low tile arches complete to fourteenth
floor; limestone men at eighth floor;
window frames in on seventh floor;
plumbers on seventeenth floor; steam
filters at ninth floor, and setting up
boiler In basement
December G2d thirteen weeks after
the work was started. steel workers
tfO~ steal tha roof of tna
Trinity Annex and erecting the tower.
AT this time the steel frame of the
Realty Building was up to the fifteenth
floor, the tile arches We're laid to the
ninth floor and the stoneworkers We're
on the third floor. Taking the two
buildings together. thirty five stories
had been erected in ninety five days.
February 1st. the steel work was
finished on tsa Realty Building and the
derricks WFre sent away The stone
masonss.aFere then at the twentieth
floor, tind the floor arches Were finish
ed two days later. The work on the
hollow tile floors was particularly
rapid. 1t was begun November lst
by an average force OF fifty men, each
of whom laid 400, or a total OF 10000
square feet of tile a day and tho work
was completed February 23d,
SIX months after the Trinity Annex
was begun the American Locomotive
Company was transactlng business In
it's new Offices on the sixteenth floor.
To-day both structures are practically
complete.
To accomplish this feat every eXpe-
| dient for saving time was adopted. In
| some cases steel beams ana bricks
We're hoisted from the delivery trucks
direct to the required POSITIONS
hOllt 2 400 men We're .WOrk on
the building at one time. 1t is esti
mated that the rapid progress made
has effected saving Of 100000,