Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
A HANGING BUILDING.
viii Be Built Downward, Sus-
pended From a Bridge.
New York Structure Will Have ctrd
srs Of Steel Resting Upon Nine
tsen-story Buildings to Bear
lts Weight.

i
lts Weight.
New YOrk.-From a 325-ton steel
bridge suspended ESQ feet above Fiji.
teenth street and Irving place the en-
~gineers of tho Consolidated Gas com
pany are preparing to nang a seven.
story building The bridge may be
considered as gingantic trapeze,
sixty feet long. from which the build
ing will hang by it's teeth.
extraordinary engineering feats are
common in New York, but there are
Jew to equal this When the building
Is completed it will be the only one
'of It's kind in the world Although
similar operations have been per-
formed once or twice on a much small.
GER scale, this is the first time any at
tempt has ever been made to use them
"on large structure.
Two years ago the gas company
tore down it's old home on the corner
"of Fifteenth street and Irving place.
and just behind it. in the center OF
tne block, erected q new fireproof
structure, twelve stories high.
AT that time the officers of the com
pany thought that with a new build.
Ing on the old site, added to the new
t"elVe-story skyscraper, they woald
nave one completed structure ample
enough for all their needs.
But they were wrong. Before the
'hnal specifications were drawn it was
plain that If the gas company was
really to have all the room it needs
demanded the building must be
spread out much more.
1T found itself with 17S feet on Fit.
teenth street and 81 feet on Irving
place. Sixty feet of it's holdings were
occupied by the new building, the 9th
er liz by the ruins of the old. Alto
gether 1t did not have anything like al
much ground as 1T wanted. s'-s",
Some hasty financial operations
TOOK place. They ended in the acuuir.
Ing by the gas company of more land
on the east side of the building. This
lett 1t with a twelve-story building in
the center of the block and two
lengthy stretches of vacant land on
each side. Altogether, this gave it
,z9l feet inches-a good frontage, but
not enough to make advisable a
t~elVe-story building. The new home
was not sufficiently wide. so it would
nave to be higher 1t was finally de-
clded to make it nineteen stories,
but mere, in the center of the plot,
was a brand new twelve-story build
ing, erected in accordance with prevt
GUS plans and entirely unadapted to
the new. The first twelve stories OF
course, could easily be joined to the
hrst twelve of the nineteen-story build
ing The additional seven, though.
presented a problem. ...... .-.sD-
Inc foundations of the twelye-storv
building were not strong enough to
support seven stories more, What
was to be done? Naturally, the gas
company didn't like the idea of two
Dig buildings with little one in the
middle.
Besides. it needed those additional
seven stories for floor space. 1t could
throw bridge across at the twelfth
moor, but that would mean the sacri
nee OF 5,O40 feet Of office room, The
prldge itself would take up a couple
'o1 noors That wouldn't do. The en-
glneers deliberated for weeks over the
problem. Finally they arrived at
solution o, ,f ... J..
They would throw the bridge across
the gap at the top of the nineteen.
story buildings and hang the seven
stories from It,
That Is exactly what is being done
Inc bridge is composed of eight GRID.
ers OF structural steel, each weighing
forty tons They were made in the
SHOPS OF Miliken C Co., on Staten
Island, the firm which has charge of
all the iron work In the building. Com.
'pleted, they each stand eight feet
Nigh and are sixty feet long. AS spec
linens Of structural steel their pro-
portions are extraordinary 1t will re-
'quire special hosting arrangements
to get them into place. -
They are to be anchored not to the
body of the building, but to special
steel franse work stretching two floors
above the nineteenth story. This
frame work consists of 16 extra heavy
steel columns, eight on each side of
the big gap. The columns draw their
support partly from the building, but
IN the main straight from the founda-
transformations this time which
are strong enough to hold forty sto-
ries .a
When the bridge is complete work
D.. on the SeVen-StOry huildinp will haoin
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