The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-17
LARGEST
SKYSCRAPER'
Ten Thousand People Under
One Roof
TWO WORLDS RECO R D
Will be Held by the Building
when Completed.
Over twenty-five Acres of Floor
Space Will be Found Above the
Curb Line.

New Yorks latest skyscraper will
hold two worlds records, combining
the largest office building with the
railroad passenger terminal.
This City under one Roof will have
(39) avenues in the shape
of elevators, intersecting twenty-five
(22) streets in the shape of floors.
The number of business persons
who are to occupy offices and shops
in the Hudson Company's Terminal
will equal the total population of
either Portsmouth, N. H., Helena,
Mont, or Middletown, Conn, and
will he greater than the population
of the largest town In four states,
namely: Arizona, Idaho, New Mex
leo and Nevada.
1t is estimated that $4,000, 900 per-
sons per year will pass through the
station in entering and leaving trains
The new Grand Central Station is
designed for a capacity of 100000
600 passengers per year, the new
Pennsylvania station for 1i6,O00,00O
while the great South Station in
Boston only handles 3O,000,OO0, and
the Broad Street Station in Phil
adelphia 2O,OOO,OOO people per year.
From this terminal man can go
to any corner of the country through
direct connection by subways with the
Pennsylvania, New York Central,
Lackawanna and Erie Railroads. or
he can reach almost any part of
Greater New York by the INTERIOR
ough subways, the Sixth and Ninth
Avenue Elevated roads and numer-
GUS surface lines.
The vast army of persons going to
and from the trains and, even the
trains themselves, do not interfere
with perfect quiet and order in the
portions of the buildings occupied by
loffices Thirty feet below the street
electric trains enter and leave the
building every instant, and five
loading tracks with six platforms
furnish ample facilities to avoid
crowding in loading the trains.
Safety has been a prime consldera-
tion in designing the terminal and
every effort has been made to elm
mate the possibility of tie-up for
its effect on such a large number
would be incalculable.
The possibility of fire has been
very carefully considered, for with
so much electrical power available
immense damage could be done in
n very short time with almost no
chance of preventing a spread of the
trouble. Cars which enter the sta.
tion will be built entirely OF steel
and the building itself has been 50
designed that even II a fire should
start in one room it could not be
Ispread.
The buildings gigantic steel frame
(which in itself weighs more than "a
900 tons and rests on foundations
extending to bed rock, 80 feet below
the street, is nowhere left exposed
Every inch of II is covered with one
or more courses of hollow terra Gotta
blocks, which form enclosed air spaces
about the various members of the
structure. San Franciscos fire taught
the folly of exposing steel to flames
for although they could not burn
the heaviest columns buckled anC
wrecked buildings which otherwise
might have been but little injured
To be sure of the fire resisting
properties of the hollow blocks useC
In protecting the steel work, they ar,
heated to temperature of 1000 de
grees before being used. This higl
Temperature leaves the terra Gotta II
a porous state, capable of resistin,
. any heat without danger of disinteg
ration.
inside partitions are made of tn
same material, and even the outsid
walls have one course of porous terri
Gotta blocks, laid up inside If al
OF these hollow terra Gotta block
were built into wall ten feet high
1t would be 2S miles long.
Above the curb line there will b
used 16,3O0,000 bricks and $4,000
square yards OF plastering, enough Il
cover the. outside of forty blocks O
broadway buildings.
over 16 miles of plumbing pine. 2
miles OF steam pipe and 95 miles O
electrical conduit will enter into tn
constructon of the building.
Each floor Offers an available are
OF about one acre for offices and tn
entire building will total at over Q
l""res OF useful space above the curl
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