The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-02-14
The Structure Will be SIS
Stories High and Cost :
$13,OOO,OO0
The Thirteen Tallest Structures
Man Has Raised Are:

Cologne Cathedral ----------516
Washington Monument -----555
Singer Building
Metropolitan Tower -7OO
Woolworth Building -------750
Eiffel Tower Ga steel skeleton) 1884
New York, Feb. 6.-Two thousand
workmen are engaged day and night
in putting the finishing touches upon
the Woolworth Building, which is to
completed within week or two and
the completion of which is to be ce1-
ebrated at a big banquet to be given
next month. The building, now az
most completed, holds the record for
height among all buildings ever
erected by man. 1t is true, the Elf
fel Tower in Paris is 234 feet higher.
but it is a mere steel skeleton and
cannot be classed as building in
the sense accepted for that term. The
building proper which occupies an
area of 10000 square feet, is 8S4
feet high and is surmounted by a
tower sc by 81 feet, rising 366 feet
above the main part of the building.
The work of excavating for the
foundations was begun on Novem-
ber a, 1910. Sixty-six caissons were
sunk to depth of lis feet until
they reached solid rock and the six
concrete piers, resting upon the
rock, constitute the foundation or
the structure. The foundation was
completed in the fall of 1911, when
the erection of the steel frame was
begun. The latter was completed in
stone work was completed at the be-
ginning of the present year. Twenty
four thousand tons of steel went
into the making of the building and
the total weight of the structure is
estimated at 250,0o0 tons.
Fifty-fve Stories High.
The building has fifty-five floors,
twenty-five of which are in the
tower, and the aggregate floor spac5
is about thirty-three acres. The
h"'ldine and tower together contain
about 1000 Offices, with 5000 win
dows and as many doors. To enable
the occupants of the building to
zach their respective floors there
are thirty-four passenger elevators,
of which twenty-four are grouped
near the Broadway entrance, while
the others are near the entrances
from Barclay street and Park Place.
The equipment of the building, when
fully completed, will be thoroughly
modern and as nearly perfect as it is
Nossible to make it. The fifty
fourth floor will be used as an obses-
vatory and on top of the structure,
beneath the gigantic flag, will be
placed a powerful search light. The
twenty eighth floor will be occupied
by luncheon club and in the base
ment there will be a swimming pool,
restaurant and Rathskeller.
Cost $13,5OO,OOO
The total cost of the building is
estimated at about $13.5O0.O0O, of
which amount $4,500,O0 were paid
for the ground. The building was
erected for F. w. Woolworth, who
was born poor at Rodman, N. Y,
April 13, 1852, went through public
school and business college and in
1879 opened the first "Five-Cent
Store" as Utica, N. Y. The venture
prospered, he extended his business
to other cities and now has a chain
of more than 500 such stores
throughout the country, from which
ne derives an enormous income.
More than one-half of the capital re-
r"irod for the erectionof the Wool
worth building was contributed by
capitalists in France. The rent roll
of the building is expected to be
about $2,5OO,000 a year.