The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-17
WHOLE CITIES
UNDER ONE ROOF

continued From First Pace
> y. NJ. TO l.. NJ. every day whilo
tho small army OF people who have
business with the bank have no use
for the elevator. Altogether the mum.
Der who ente: and leave the build.
Ing each day is easily i0.oO"
The Travellers Building. on Main
street between Eleventh AND Twelfth
* thirteen stories high, with Il bank
ana the Western Union Telegraph Of
flee ON tho otrect floor and the Wcs-
tern Union operating rooms liz tho
SKY par'"r" Ola TIA. thirteenth floor.
Offices arc on all Of the Intermediate
noors Six hundred and ninety six
people live and move and have thcir
bonn; in this buildinG during the
business hours OF the day. Something
less than half of the Western Unioi!
contingent, play the part OF night;
hawks and keep at least Il part OF
tile building pretty 1.-Two during All the
night hours
FEW TENANTS. BUT TWO
LITTLE ARMIES or EMPLOYEES
The First National Bank building.
with It's twenty stories. has compare
lively faw tenants. Lut these tenants
h;.v. large families, SO 70 speak The
Chesapeake ana OHIO hallway general
offices. etc. arc in this skyscrapcr. ;tnd
this One tenant. occupying numerous
floors. has III people AT work. Tho
Hichin"nd. Fredericksburg AND Poto-
mae Railway, which also occupies
more than one floor. has ll6 men and
women 1T wori.. There are eighty
four people working In the bank on
the street floor. and IN. barber shop IN
the basement Aecpa seven folks busy
all the time. Tho huusc corps. con
sistiug Of ianitV-s, elevator men. ca
sine !nrn. etc. Is composed OF forty
eight people. ana TIL !ew tenants
other than the railways and ;he bank
number twelve. Til. total numncr Of
people earning their living In this
skyscraper is 9si Tho building has
IS3 rooms. besides eighteen toilet
rooms. The house runs its own wa
ter-tanl; on the root. and II has been
found by accurate measurement that
il takes J5l,spJ gallons of water per
month TO furnish the population Of
this one building.
TIL: ART PREsERNATINE
AND WHERE TT FLOURISHES
Tic rimcs-Dispatch Building. where
III Is published $50 days in the
yea the original and only great
religious daily. stands ten stories
high. ard was 80 built rs e"
mako il eas% 70 add two more stories
at the proper time. Tie first three
noors are sacred 10 the work of pub
fishing Tho Times- Dispatch. and OF
these noors 13l men are engaged in
chat glorious and happy work, som" In
the daytime, but q majority Of them
ga those hours when. according TO VIII
liam Shakes pcace, sraNcyards lawn
ana ghosts troop forth. Tho other
lioors. from the fourth 70 the t"nth.
inclusive, are offices al variCPIs kinds.
Southern hallway offices and others.
These are larger rooms than ara 10 he
found IN the average tall Office build
ineS. There are employed in one way
and another on these floors %. pco-
-, ~,
shop force makes the population Of the
building 376.
The twelve-atcry building OF the
Virginia Railway and Power Company,
1T the corner OF Seventh ana Franklin
streets, is pretty ;hickly populated
with the full Office force Of the COM
PAM and numerous tenants In the
smaller Offices on various floors. There
arc in all. great ana small. 144 rooms
In the building, some OF them being