Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-09-10
NEW WORKS. NEW SMYSCRAPFR
rs A MODERN WONDER.

Thousands OF persons pause daily in
the endless stream that flows down
lower Broadway. New York. to gaz-
skyward at the ironworkcrs poised on
The glrdcrs OF the new Singer build
ing, forty stories IN the ain From tho
street these workers look like pig.
mics
Tho girdcrs ON which they walk
back and forth. apparently rs much y,
case as thc man In the street, seem
to be mere strips OF steel. So great
Is the interest among downtown New
Workers in this new monster sky
sciapcr at Liberty street that uaT
tic is actually held up at the noon
nour by the rubbcrncCks.
Il drop around for q lool, every
day said one erayhairod broker. us
inspiring to watch tho thing GROW. and
there's something about tho daring or
those workers Uiat sends man back
TO his Office With tt fresh supply OF
nerve in his hattcrics
The picture shows what some of
these iron workers look like when YOU
see them M in their own altitude.
also what broadway ana tho rubber
nocks looli Ike when viewed from one
of the girdcrs forty stories up
The Singer building when II is com
rlotcd will be tho highest skyscrapcr
in the world. Tho height from tho
sidewalk Ia the pinnacle of the build
ing viii he bl2 feet. or forty.scvcn
stories. This exceeds in height ali
existing skyscrapcrs by from 200 to
800 feet.
Trinity stcoplc. which has been get
ting smaller to- the cyc rs the ordinary
skyscrapers sprang M about II. looks
almost like toothpick set on end
compared with This new giant. The
tower whom completed will exceed the
WASHINGTON Monument IN height by
fiityscvcn feet. ana from the top of
II would be possible to look over any
Of he old cathedral spires in Europe.
From the basement to the top Of the
fNgstaif. which will surmount tho
tower viii he 742 feet
The tower for fortyone stories viii
he siNtyiivc feet square. The ton six
stories will be taken up by the cuno-
In and lantern. Tho main body of
the building will be only fourtccnI
stories high
The tower when completed viii
W
rest on concrete cassons sunk To bed.
rock. ninety feet below the level OF
The street. The excavation about these
was filled in from bedrock up
for thirty feet with solid concrete.
Tho suhstruciurc is, ns the cngi-
nccrs say integral with The super.
structure. There are SO of these solid
caissons oncascd in steel
systematically arranged in an area
1900 square feet Upon
thcm is placed n gridiron of steel
Orders which modern engineering gen
ins has arranged in such way that
the enormous weight of the tower pro.
per. having IL ground area Of 1900
square feet, is distributed with mctho-
deal cvenness over bea,ing suf-
face so large that tho rock To- nda-
tinn carries only the weight OF TWEEN.
ty story building.
Tho building itself is of the modern
French school of architecture. Tho
of the facados arc pressed
brick and Indiana Limestone
The roof of the tower will he OF
curved mansard type and will 'akc IN
tnrcc storiesc. Tho tower will show
on each sidc an immense bay window
extending from the fourteenth to me
story. Each window will
be capped with an arch supporting a
balcony The big lantern
which will surmount the roof will be
Of conner.
One of the main features Of tile
building will ho its hallway. II will
be three stories high ana will be done
In Pavanat2a marble. combined with