The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-07


achieves his goal. Some OF the best
hotel men in the country have served
their time behind the desk and spent
many a year in singing the constant
hotel chorus. 'FRONT.',
WHERE WILL TALL BUILDINGS
STOPf
AS they race through lower Broad
way. even the unsentimcntal Knicker
bockers pause for a moment to watch
tho wrcckers tear down the Tower"
TO New York, that building at so
Broadway, marked as much of an era
as our Capitol or our Mutual Build
ing did for us. The Tower" was tho
first of the Gotham skyscrapers and
was Tor TWO years the tallest structure
on the continent. Erected In 1888, its
roof stood 12e feet above the pave
ment, and its height was the wonder
ment of all New York Who would
care 10 live that high above the
ground, and where could fools be found
TO venture their funds in a structure
sure TO collapse from Its very size
such were the questions that the city
asked Now the owners have decided
that the site is too valuable TO be used
for such n low building, and they are
tearing II down TO give place to n more
profitable skyscraper.
Along with the news of tho doom
OF the Tower comes tho report that
ambitious investors plan TO Guido tho
Singer, the Metropolitan and the Wool
worth buildings. The Pan-American is
TO be the name of the new monster
they are to erect on the block bounded
BY Broadway. Eighth Avenue and
Fifty-seventh and FIFTY eighth Streets.
1t is to have but f6rty-four stories.
but. with It's ornamental lantern and
colossal final. it will soar to sol feet,
Compared with this, the Park Row
building. erected In 1898. with height
OF 9S6 feet. Will seom howell. while
even the Woolworth Building Will he
overtopped by Hfty feet
With eleven-story structures turned
into scrap iron and with 75o-foot build
ings yielding supremacy, where Will
American tall buildings stop? The
architects and engineers Will probably
answer that there is no theoretical
limit, save that OF the resources OF
those who build. II property-ownera
are willing to pay the added cost OF
construction, the engineers can design
and the stceimakers can cast girdors
for building which architects might
plan to be 100 stories high.
But there is another element in
volved which is already making itself
felt. This is human nature II mat
ters not how safe and secure n build
Ing may be. men do not care to hazard
themselves beyond certain height
Twenty stories above ground they viii
labor and thrive: even thirty stories
they will go; but beyond that is the
dead line for tenants. This is proved
by the fact that the upper stories OF
all the very high buildings In New
York are vacant and cannot be let even
at reduced rental
Mans instincts and his love Of
Mother Earth win curb both the am
bition Of architects and the advertis-
ing mania of building promoters
I
NO hpSloH tTiODe mas from the con-
, sus that the following number Of wo-
men had unusual vocations: ..l54 were
boatmen and sailors, SO watchme n,
policemen and detectives, So boot
/ blacks. 1920 hunters motormen. "a
street car conductors, roofers, l26
plumbers a. plastcrers. i67 brick and
stone masons. 24l paperhangers 1883
painters, 5i5 carpenters. Al mechanics
1913 blacksnliths, 57l machinists. 1870
workers In iron and steel. lI3 wood
choppers. 313 sawmill employees. 44C
oartendcrs. 324 under,akers. III sta.
uonary engineers, l047 stock raisers
400 electricians, 50 civil engineers. 24s
chemists. 2l stevedores. and 5.5sa bar
bcrs"
But the Globe declines to ATTEMPT
me enumeration OF those in the talk.
Ing machine business.
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we are pleased to announce tina
several well-known popular novelist:
announced the publication OF theiI
second 1914 book about tho end O
next week.
The King-elcct of Albania is to re
coivc a salary OF $4,000 n year. and. 1.
.s nm Il