Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-07
Vast Revenues From Rentals.

Sixty per cent of the space has already
been rented and the revenues from con-
tracts already signed will approximate
S9OOOO a year.
The highest rental ever paid for BUSH
ness purposes in the world. will be re-
ceived from the cigar trust for room
nineteen by twenty-five feet in size at the
corner of Church and Cortlandt streets
on the ground floor adjoining the main
entrance to the building. This room
brings the company revenue of $4,000
a year, or $40 per square foot per annum
The only rental that compares with this
is paid for room on the street moor at
the corner of Wall street and Broadway.
The price is the same, but the latter room
s considerably the larger of the two. 1t
has nearly 80 per cent more space.
There are 1900 rooms In the Terminals
building. with more than 1900 windows
and 300 doors. of which 5000 have
panels of ground glass.
Sixteen million bricks, 1J.OVD.OCO pounds
of concrete. 5000 tons of steel have been
consumed in construction One hundred
and sixteen miles of picture rail have al
ready been tackled on the walls of the
rooms; 113 miles of electric wiring have
been laid; $1,000 electric light bulbs have
been placed upon 5000 chandeliers and
electroliers. and 1900 brackets. There are
sixteen miles of plumbing. twenty nine
miles of steam heating pipe and ninety
five niles of conduit.
There are thirty mine elevators and one
round-trip by all of them from the lowest
basement to the top story represents a
journey of three and half miles.
A special feature of the building is the
largest electric storage battery in the
world, which is intended to reinforce and
supplement the generating plant in the
basement in case of an accident.
Over 5000 Population.
1t is impossible to say how large a
population will be housed under the roof
when all the offices are rented. But.
counting two persons to every Office,
which is a low average. the total will be
5000, and a force of 80 employes-engi-
neers. firemen, electricians. elevator boys.
janitors, etc. will be required.
The twenty-first and tWenty-second
floors of the Cortlandt street half of the
building have been leased by the Railway
Club. a new organization of 800 resident
| members of which Judge E. H. Gary.
This is intended as a daytime Club. with
lunching accommodations for Its members
and their friends. The initiation fee is
500 and the dues are 500 year.
The twenty-first and twenty-secono
| floors of the Fulton street half of the
building will be occupied by The Ma
chinery Club" for similar purposes. with
1000 members. an initiation fee of $50
and $50 dues. Both clubs will have roof
gardens for the hot days Of summer.
Aside from the regular receipts from
rentals the company which owns the
| building will derive an enormous revenue
from special privileges. It has leased
the advertising space in the building and
the cars for $20O,OoO a year: it has leased
| the cigar privilege for $33 600 year. the
bar for $4,000 a year. the soda water
privilege for $4,000 a year and the boot
| black privilege for $1,000 year.
Card Index Of Inhabitants.
In the main hallway on the ground floor
will be an information bureau, where a
card index will be kept of every person
in the building. Already that catalogue
contains the names of tenants pursuing
the following vacations: Telephone op-