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

tsen-story Buildings to Bear
It, Weight.
New York.-From q 325-ton steel
bridge suspended ESQ feet above Fit.
teenth street and Irving place the en-,
"4lneers of tho Consolidated Gas com
pany are preparing to hang 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
'ol It's kind in the world. Although
similar operations have been per-
formed once or twice on much small
er 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
Hof Fifteenth street and Irving place
and just behind it, in the center of
the 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
twelve-story skyscraper, they woald
nave one completed structure ample
enough for all their needs.
but they were wrong. Before the
'nnal specifications were drawn II was
pain that II 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 Fiji
teenth street and "a feet on Irving
place. Sixty feet Of it's holdings were
occupied by the new building. the 9TH
or liz by the ruins of the old. Alto
setner IT did not have anything like al
much ground as 1t wanted.
Some hasty financial operations
TOOK place. They ended in the acauir-
ing by the gas company Of more land
on the east side of the building. This
.4eft 1t with twelve-story building In
the center of the block and two
lengthy stretches of vacant land on
each side. Altogether, this gave It
-SS7 feet inches-a good frontage. bnt
not enough to make advisable a
twelve-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.
put mere, In the center of the plot
was brand new twelve-story build.
Ing, erected in accordance with nravi
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
sng. The additional seven, though
presented problem.
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. 1t needed those additional
seven stories for floor space. It could
throw bridge across at the twelfth
moor, but that would mean the sacri.
lice Of 5,O40 feet Of office room. The
Drldge itself would take up couple
of floors That wouldn't do The en-
glneers deliberated for weeks over the
problem. Finally they arrived at a
solution
Ihey would throw the bridge across
the gap at the top of the nineteen.
story buildings and hang the seven
stories from 1t.
4 That Is exactly what is being done.
The bridge is composed of eight grid
ers OF structural steel, each weighing
forty tens 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
5pleted. they each stand eight feet
nigh and are sixty feet long AS spec
linens of structural steel their pro-
portions are extraordinary It 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 frarse work stretching two floors
shove 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-
ions-foundations this time which
are strong enough to hold forty sto-
ries.
When the bridge Is complete work
on the seven-story building will begin
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