New-York tribune., 1907-04-28

IL has also been fitted out with metal cases. bur
the rooms are small. the cases are so thin thsv
would not resist hot fire and enough cases cannot
be put IN TO contain the thousands OF contracts
Standing beside the cases on the floor and risins
20 ones shoulder are stacks OF typewriter doc,l-
ments. In the piles are contracts for buildings
contracts fo- bridges, contracts for sewers, con-
tracts for almost everything under the sun Should
they be burned the city would be wound up IN
tangle OF litigation involving millions OF dollars
So e IS with the books and papers IN the other
Offices, Some are stored IN safes. and some are in
the Hall oc Records. but books whose loss would
be felt for many years in the transaction Of ths
city's business are stacked IN wooden cases.
While. or course. no expects that The Stewart
Building is going 70 be burned. yet IT IS possible
70 provide FOR the city's archives a safer place
than they now occupy.
CITY PAYS BIG RENT.
AZ the present time the departments located be-
low 14th street are paving approximately $4,000
a year IN rent for Office space. Upward oe
$4,000 goes for oslces in the Park Row Build
irg More than s125.eOO is paid BY the city for
quarters IN the Stewart Building The Barclay
Building. almost directly across the way. receives
a number o. thousands Of dollars in revenue from
the city's Golfers This is true also OF the Ge-ksn
Building A. { per cent this money would
procure S5.2SJ0oO. a sum sufficient It is said. 70
pay for site and erect a freproof Office building
Of ample proportions
The space required for the departments. as
worked out by Mr.. Lewis. Is 1850 square feet
He estimated that If a building Of the ground area
OF the Barclay. at Chambers street and Broadway,
were planned II would require a structure twenty
nine stories high. or nearly as high as the Park
Row Building 70 accommodate the scattered NUM-
cipal Offices. II building were TO be placed on
the ToulDkirs Market site. opposite Cooper Instt-
tuto it would need 10 be only seventeen stories
high. II the irregular block bounded by Worth
street Mission Place and Park, Pearl and Centre
streets which was recommended last year as q
site were used the structure would need TO be no
higher than the Stewart Building. or about six
stories
II The city should acquire the property on the
north side of Chambers street. between Broadway
and the Hail Of Records. and building nine stories
high with cellar and sUb-cellar. were erected.
Il would contain two and One-half times the space
which Is required The land would cost about
coo. and the building slightly less than 81
Row and Centre, Reade and Duane streets.
through which passes City Han Place that IS al
ready OwEed by the city and is occupied by the
Stats Leitrns and minor oIiid19ss mas ,tI 1seI
suggested as the most suitable site Tor muncIpat
building IL Is LGr the srSStton 90 OF oGlgis Hisn %
building six stories hlsh on thlS piot Woula SI-
COmmOdate the departments for which space u
-Four wears ago in The Low aininistra ton Gus
tav Lindenthal. Bridge Commissioner, assisted BY
+ HS T ~ E.stiTIstef sni Snr-ti,rr r,enr an
ambitious scheme for the CONSTRUCTION OF civic
centre around city Hall Park II proposed tho
removal Of the POstoffce and the Courthouse.
the latter 10 be replaced by Jnc erected on the
site Of the Stewart Building. and % harmonize
in architecture with the Hail OF Records Between
them was to be a municipal building and on the
site OF the Stats Zeitung Building and the lana
behind II a terminal for the Brooklyn Bridge
and a department Office building. The latter was
To hs a campanile about 700 feet high. The ter
rnlnal building which to occupy the ground
on which the Stats Zeitung Building now
stands was 70 be slightly lower than the Hail or
Records and about half the height OF the new
Tribune Building. Behind IL % stand the
office campanile 1t was estimcted four years a59
that the bridge terminal and Campanne WCulN
cost about S. $4,000. exclusive of the land