The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-10-11
OUR HIGHEST
SKY SCRAPER
Looking Down Upon Street
Men Resemble Ants.
Ten thousand People Will Be
Housed ID This Modern
Monster.

Ahe SliScr ouliutdiS WIS FeIdrudu IT,
Gently as the last height in archi-
tscture, but 1t is dwarfed by the Wool
worth building, which is ias feet loft
Ter. When you get up in the air $40
feet LIS feet more means al very large
addition.
To celebrate a victory a Fhpdian
sculptor created s.a,aue which the
ancients called the Colossus of Rhodes.
1t represented 1.-The Rhodian sun god.
Helips, was a little more than los fest
high and was considered one of the
high and was cpnsidered one of the
seven wonders of the world.
Place seven of such STATUES one on
top of the other, and the head of tho
topmost one would be fifteen fe,t
lower than the woolworth building,
which will be a wonder for many days
or until someone rucs up "a TAILOR
structure.
From the top Of the Waolworth
building the city hal, that fine exc
ample of archieecture, looks like a
toy house with which very k1oung
child plays; the city hall foundpticn
looks like a little girls tea cup; the
postoffice across Broadway seems as
big. or little, as the SMALLEST Swiss
chalet, and man however important
he is, looks like a very small anJ.
Two nervy phOtographers took pic
lures from the fifty-fifuh s.pry OF the
building. They climbed dhe last eyf,t
stories ON ladders, which were no.
tended or gurded in any way and
were none too steady. The floors Of
the very top story was at the moment
composed of boards laid ON ssrders,
but not fastened. Any man treading
that floor must follow aa,e IL" guards
advice. Watch your STEP To take
the pictures, Photographer Payne sat
on the floor and held fast to Pho
tognapher Palumbo while he photo-
graphed roofs of houses hundreds of
feet below.
The city a,all from that height -
as flat as a founder" said Palumiyo
asterward. "I'n think twice before I
climb 50 high again. First I 6et CHAT
I wanted to Jump over. Then i fearsd
my hat would 10 and jammed DIT down.
After ,shat lit seemed as though t,ne
inevitable was the downfall OF my
camera. But none of These things hap
pened." T.
Whom completed the building will
weigh about $4,000 tons4 Tenants
are to be admitted into it about the
last of October, though It Is not ax-
pscted that the building will be CONF
pleted much before February /
Mr.. Woodwork expects the rent roll
to amount to about E.5ooJpoO ANNUAL
w.. When completed the monster
structure will have cost aproximaa>ly
$lsbOO.W for land. 100000; for
foundation digging, y, 100000. Work
"oS pcS"H 3NuNcuiucr u WV " NFAtlS
ON 2Oo-foot plot, at Broadway, Bar
clay Street and Park Place, directly
opposite the postoffioe- Cadkspns wsre
sent DOWN Lis feet before solid ro,k
WAS found. The foundations are sixty
six pliers of re-mforced concrete.
cass Gilbert Is the archltect- ABBOTT
5000 900 of the money requnad WAS
ohtained in France. so ut@t the French
people may claim an dphapast i'm tho
worlds two tailest haildfmas = the
Eiffal tower and the Wuolwpnuh build
ing. 49,
More than $4,000 worth of glass
will he required to fiji in rihe windows
of about 1900 offices The daily pom
ulatlon of the building Should be
about 1000. h go
The man Tor whom the building is
being erected Is +. w. Woolwtnrai,
who WAS horn poor in WatIerJpwn,
n. Y; soarted a and lo-cspt store
in the middle 7os and spread his we'll
turc over the country upIil-nhe WOOL
worth building in Nov York!
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