New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-28
READY FOR GIANT
FRAME OF STEEL
Million Rivets Will Bind
Enormous Skeleton OF
Equitable Building.
$4,000 TONS OF IRON
FOR SUPERSTRUCTURE
Army Of Skilled Men Soon to
Begin Task. Requiring Seven
Months TO Complete.

with the coming o. the new year tie
second step In the erection Of the world 1
largest office building. New Yorks new
est city within the city," viii be taken.
with suitable ceremony the iirst OF the
million or more rivcts which will bind to-
getner the $500 tons OF steel forming the
framework Of the new Equitable Building
will bc driven home, and then for more
than hall a year an army Of 100 highly
skilled workmen, under the direction OF
expert captains. will push the giant wei
OF steel. ETC. steadily upward until II
towers nearly $50 feet in the air TIL,
giant frame will be beautifully clothed
with its outer garments Of granite. DITCH
and terra Gotta and the new city vii
soon be- ready for its 1890 or more citi-
zcrs. all workers.
The great Golfer dam. extending s. feet
below the curb line. to the solid rock,
with its many caissons and $500 cubic
Yards OF cement reinforced by tons of
steel bars has been practically completed
by another army OF eXpertly skilled
workmen, only tho cleaning away of the
debris and making ready FOR the laying
of the first OF the giant steel beams oil
tie framework remaining 20 be done.
Since Nav this army has been at work,
and the completion Of the foundation
marks tho halfway point In the opening
of the new city" TO settlement
There Is ample reason for nkeninS the
great Equitable Building to a city within
a city. I'm the number OF active workers.
i'm tho volume OF business done, In
wealth In variety OF occupations and in
dustrics represented. in actual space de-
voted to business. there are few cities Of
100000 inhabitants that can match IL.
while i'm facilities for doing business. the
care taken for the comfort. convenience
and safety OF it's workers. no city in the
world, no matter what It's population. can
compare with II.
Above the curb line At Pine street ana
Broadway. the great building. covering an
entire block from Pine To Cedar streets
and from Broadway To Nassau street
will tower 81 feet inches. and below the
curb line there will he another nfty feet
to he devoted To the purposes Of the
building. There will he thirty eight sto-
rirs above ground and three below. These
viii give "A floor space Of nearly forty-iive
acres. Few cities of $500 can boast OF SO
great an area devoted to business pur
poses When the building Is fully occu-
pied there will be at least fifteen thousand
workers. men and women, who Will earn
their livings within its walls They will
represent very stop in the scale OF wage
earners, from the unskllled women work
crs. young boys and girls TO whom a dot
lar day seems big wages, to the great
corporation official whose salary OF SO. 900
o. more is none too iaige for The services
he gives. and every intermediate grade Is
Ia he represented
Where else on the face OF the earth than
I'm New York below Chambers street
would IL be possible to bring into being
within the space Of city block, and com
paratvely a small one, city OF fifteen
thousand workers who In the morning
come to work and In the evening go to
their homes. practically unnotced in the
great stream OF humanity which Gibbs and
flows through the greatest business artery
in the world? Yet that is Just what will
happen before the year 1915 has passed
into history and the Equitable Building
has assumed its functions as part OF the
business life OF the metropolis There are
few lines of business which will not be
represented In this wonderful work OF in
dustry. Banks. the Equitable Assurance
Society's offices. railroads. manufacturers,
professional men OF all callings, mer-
chants I'm various lnes-all will be doing
business I'm this new citV