The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-08-20
STORIES
FOR BUILDING
NOW PLANNED
NEW YORK AR
cHTTEcT THINKS A 100000
STRUCTURE FEAsIBLE-THREE
YEARS IN BUILDING-NINETY
ELEVATORS WOULD BE NEED
ED TO CARRY 25,ooo OCCUPANTS.

At the recent convention of the
National Association of Building Own
ers and Managers in Cleveland, O., the
statement was made that skyscrapers
over thirty stories in height were
monuments of uselessness. To show
the absuroity of that statement,
George T. Mortimer, vice president Of
the United States Realty and Improve
ment Company, OF New York, declared
that plans had been prepared for a
hundred story building for lower
Broadway building 1900 feet high.
the Hottest structure of any kind In
the world.
Plans 100 Story Building.
In his New York office the other
day Mr.. Mortimer, VINO has built sew
ertl of the skyscrapers In Manhattan,
admitted that plans for the hundred
story building had been submitted to
him by a well-known architect, whose
name he is unwilling to divulge at the
present time. He declared that he had
found the plans practicable from an
engineering standpoint, and that there
was no reason why New York could
not have a building more than twice
the height-of the Metropolitan tower,
providing its promoters could raise
the $4,000, 900 necessary to construct
It. That this hundreds story building
will be constructed Immediately ts
doubtful, but Mr.. Mortimer believes 1t
is bound to come in the near future.
Think what a hundred story build
ing means-an edifice twice as high as
the Singer tower, and $50 feet higher
than the new Woolworth building,
which is now rising opposite City Hall
Park, 1t viii cost in the neighborhood
of $4,000, 900, and will require three
years to build; It will have offices
for rs, 900 pesons-the population Of a
city the size Of Yonkers.
A few years ago, when 1t was be-
lieved the building code would be
amended to prevent the erection OF
buildings higher than twenty stories,
the Equitable Life Insurance Company
| filed plans for a sixty-story building,
but that was little more than dream
| of the late Paul Morton, then Pres1-
| dent of the company. When the Met
ropolitan tower was built two years
ago It was thought the limit in height
had been reached That structure OF
forty-nine stories towers 100 feet
above the ground But at the present
time a ffty-five story building Is IN
| course of construction! which, when
completed, VIII be $50 feet high.So II
will be seen that the hundred story
building, like the thousand-foot boat
i is really not q dream, but actually IN
sight as a practical realization.
Ninety Elevators Needed.
According to Mr.. Mortimer, the
erection of a hundred story building
will not offer any more serious engi-
neering problems than are to be found
| in putting up one of forty five or fifty
stories. The foundations will not have
to be any deeper, for the solid rock
below the surface of Manhattan would
support 50o-story building if 1t were
possible to build one. The problem OF
elevator equipment becomes more Sc
rious, for the space devoted to them
naturally cuts down the renting area
The plans for the hundred-story guild
| ing, which covers an area of $4,000
square feet, provide ninety elevators
to carry the $4,000 occupants and hun
dreds of thousand Of visitors to their
offices.
The building, Of course, will be OF
steel construction, more than 10000
tons being required not to mention
| %. SOC, 600 common brick, 100000 face
brick, $4,000 cubic feet Of Indiana lime
stone, 5000 cubic feet of granite and
900 tons of ornamental terra-cotta
The other materials are in equally stu
pendous quantities. For instance
| .35O, 900 square feet Of partition tile
VIII be needed, $4,000 square feet OF
sx4-inch spruce sleepers, 100000 feet
of pine boards for floor covering, $500
wineows $4,000 square feet of glass
and $4,000 pounds of window weights
The building would have rentable
area Of 100000 square feet.