The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1913-01-27
WORLDS TALLESI BUILDING
IS ON THE PACIFIC COAST

comprise an observatory and balcony
for sightseers.
From this balcony will be unfolded
10 the eyes one OF the most wonder.
full panoramas II will be possible to
find in the world, taking in as it will
the beautiful Puget Sound country
for hundreds of miles.
The interior finish while il will be
absolutely tireproof. will be soft ton
ed and exquisitely beautiful Bronze
and mahogany will be the finish and
trim for the offices. while the hall.
ways will be paneled 10 the roof with
Alaska marble of the costly white
veined variety
The lower hall entrance and foyer
will be finished in Mexican onyx.
bronze and gold leaf The courts Will
be of white terra Gotta. as will be
outside walls Each office will be
equipped with lavatory. and each
floor will have two toilets in which
will be incorporated some of the la:
est plumbing conveniences. which up
20 this time have not made their ap-
pearance west of the Rocky Noun
tains.
The work is in charge of J. p
Marshall. agent for the Whitney Com.
pany for Seattle
The entire building over all will
have a height of 465 feet. 236 feet of
which will be the main roof or build
ing, and the tower will rise 239 feet
above the main building The lowest
part of the steel in the construction
is about twenty-three feet below the
curb.
II will have basement over the
entire area. including the width of
the sidewalk which is sixteen feet
on Second Avenue and twelve feet
on Yesler Way.
Above the main floor there will be
twenty-one stories to the main roof
and rising above this the tower will
have an additional twenty stories.
This tower will be located in the mid
die of Second Avenue side. From
the third floor up there will be two
open court for light and ventilation
There will be eight passenger ele-
vators. Two OF the passenger ele-
vators will extend up to the thirty
fifth story. The first two floors o.
the building will be used for stores
md the rest for offices. The con
struction Will be fircproof throughout
concrete being used for the floors
and sashes will all be of metal con
struction.
The floor construction throughout
will be composed of finch gravel con-
crete slabs reinforced with wire mesh
These concrete slabs vary from five
to eight feet in span.
The foundation rests on 1876 con
crete piles of an average length of
twenty feet. driven through a soil
composed of gravel. sand and clay
in strata OF varying thickness Bor
ings made indicate that this alternate
qualification extends to an indefinite
distance below the street The foun
cations have been proportional for
load of $500 pounds square foot
The retaining walls are of rein
forced concrete, waterproofed on the
outside, and this protected by four
inches of brick
In all buildings the height OF the
Smith Building wind is as much and
more factor than any other, and in
the Smith Building provision has been
made for the enormous pressure OF
thirty pounds to the square foot. Rig
idity against wind stress is given to
the building by means of continuous
belt of 30-inch wall Orders running
around the entire building and around
the courts from the first to the tenth
floor inclusive From the tenth t. the
twentysecond floor this belt Of wind
Pirders is used around the area bound
ed by the tower above From the
Nv cnty-second to the forty-seconG this
girder construction is used around all