The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-25
w YALL STREET has seen many
w strange happenings in its day.
Those who have been in 1t

may think that nothing could happen
there in future which has not happened
In past years. But they are mistaken.
Wall Street Is due to have n new page
In its history, commenced early in Feb
ruary. II weather conditions are propi-
tious. Months will elapse, eight or ten
Of them probably. before the ordinary
citizen realizes that the new page Is a
completed fact and an important one at
that; yet before wintry weather passes
which can see and, seeing. understand.
The first evidence Of something new
under Wall Streets sun will be the
sight OF huge truck hauled by a dozen
perched the Boss of the Job, looking
this way and that, keeping watchful
eye on the driver close by. as well as
on men equally watchful, who are strid-
ing along close to the huge wheels.
Also will the Boss of the job pay con-
slant and particular attention to that
which Is undressing from. the great
truck-a block of marble three feet
wide, three feet thick. measuring in
length up to twenty-five feet and
weighing in some cases thirty tons or
more.
From a lighter at the foot of Wall
street this enormous block of marble has
been swung to its temporary resting
place in chains below the truck frame
Up Wall street it will be slowly hauled
by those powerful horses, past banks
and office buildings, until it halts near
the curb opposite the Sub-Treasury.
And there it will be taken in the ire
sistible grip of Il derrick, lifted far up
in air, swung inward over the sidewalk
then gently deposited with mathemati-
cal eNactness in its final resting place
component part of the new business
home of j. L. Morgan n Co
Again and again will this process be
repeated. Marble blocks by tens, by
scores, by hundreds, will be hauled from
the foot of Wall street to the corner
of Broad many of them of extraordinary
size, others as small as seven feet in
length. Day after day will the trucks
roll along behind straining horses. Week
after week Will the tireless, Unsuitable
derrick grip one after another and hour
after hour will the structure grow
For a while Wall Street will stop and
stare at these activities. Then Wall
Street will hurry along as usual, on
the lookout for something new. And
early next autumn it will suddenly wake
up to the fact that right here. close
at hand. is a structure commanding the
attention of the world.
The Parthenon at Athens Is regarded
as being the most perfect building in
construction and material that has ever
been erected; and none is prophet
enough to think that it ever will be
surpassed. Since that great temple was
erected on the Acropois. $50 years
before Christ, no other building has
appeared to rival it in such great blocks
of perfect marble, cut with such mathe-
NAUTICAL precision and fitted together
with such accuracy and skill-until to-
day.
THE Morgan Building" say those
who are creating it. will rival the
Parthenon in beauty of material, in
accuracy Of workmanship and in the
size of its component parts.
Like the Parthenon, its walls are
to be built Of solid marble blocks three
feet high, three feet thick and varying,
according to the location, from seven
feet to twenty-five feet in length. Like
the Parthenon, Furthermore, the courses
are so accurately shaped and cut that
the joints as practically invisible"
The statement is made by the ar
chitects, Trowbridge 4 Livingston, who
drew the plans during long periods of
consultation with the late j. L. Morgan.
The quarries at Knoxville, Tenn. they
add have been torn to pieces In order
to produce blocks which are not only
colossal in size but flawless in texture.
Some OF the rough blocks weigh as much
as thirty-eight tons, and the mere hand
ling Of such masses Is in Itself a matter
Of extreme difficulty.
From the Tennessee Quarries where
they have rested for ages the marble
blocks in the rough are shipped on fiat
cars to the seaboard. then they are
taken on lighters around the lower
end OF the city and up the East River
to the yards Of the knickerbocker Mar
BILE Company.
1T Is there. in the yards" added Mr..
Trowbridge. that the rough blocks are
cut and finally finished. The design
OF the building, as we'll as the proper
ton OF the stones, received the parti-
cular, personal attention and care OF
the late Mr.. Morgan, whose solicitude
for the success Of the building was
evidenced by his almost daily confer
ences during his last three months in
this country.
1.-THE cutting and preparing Of the
stones has taxed the skill and knowl-
edge of stereOtomy Of the stone men
to their utmost. and has required the
very latest and best machinery known