The Washington times., 1917-04-18

on the elevator equipment, and so we should dwell
at length upon it when we have such equipment as
has been installed, which, by the way, includes an
Independent freight elevator as well, and so we
should dwell at length upon it. because the elevator
service of big office building is the very heart Of the
whole thing 1t matters not how good the building is
in other respects with Indifferent poor eeva-
tor service it is undesirable building: 1t is ex>
pensive building for tenant to comprehensive,
in his tipe and expensive to his nerves and his pa
tience, and an unpopular building with the general
public.
e AS matterof fact the building will never be
constructed that will give tenants and the public
quite all they weuld like in elevator service. Nothing
save positive instantaneous service service in
which no would ever have occasion to wait in
slant for car, and a car running without station
stops, would be perfect The next best thing to this
is an over-generous battery of swiftest smooth
moving, comInodous cars, and this is what the Mum
Sey Building has.
The original Munsey Building is still new build
ing, having been built something like ten years ago.,
but in this time there have been good many i'm
provements in building construction and building
convenences and in the niceties of things for ten
ants These went into the new addition matter
of course, and in this respect the old building
made to conform to the new. The Munsey Building
represents the highest class of construction from the
very best of material.
Corridors Superbly Finished.
The corridors throughout have mosaic floors and
are wahscoted in handsome veined statuary marble.
the office floors are of hardwood. The new system
of indirect lighting provides pleasing, satisfying,
eye-saving illumination. Outlets in the baseboards
for lighting and telephone connections make unneces
sary the usual ugly and inconvenient stringng of
electric wires over doors and picture holdings.
All details have had the most painstaking study
the part of both the owners and the architects,
with a view to an arrangement of maximum eff
cheney and maximum comfort for tenants and public
alike. With the lessons which have come by long
experience and painstaking observation have pro-
vided for rooms of all sizes in the building, to meet
the demands of all tenants fault with most office
buildings and very serious and vital fault is found
in the too great depth of offices for the small tenant
The man who wants what amounts to a little more
than deSkroom by the window finds small for
the part of an office twenty-five or thirty fees
in depth. The window space is the important space
to him.
But these deep offices have another fatal defect
To have reasonable proportions, office twenty
five thirty feet in depth must be much wider than
one Of say, half this depth. For example, an office
ten feet in depth might have greater width than
eight feet and still make perfectly good office. An
office with depth of thirty feet to have equally good
proportions, should be, perhaps twenty feet wide
and twenty by thirty feet would be six hundred
square feet, against eighty square feet for the
other.
Office rates are based on the location the number
of square feet of floor space and the quality of the
building. Obviously, an office containing eighty
square feet, ten by eight, would cost tenant very
much less than an office thirty feet by twenty six
hundred square feet
Naturally, the eighty-foot office would not rent at
precisely the same ratio per square foot
eight times large, for the reason that there is
something else a tenant gets in a well-conducted.
high-class office building beyond the space he
occupies. He gets attendance elevator service, the
of all public parts of the building, and withal
classy habtaton and smart associations; and these
enter into the question of rental well the mere
number of square feet in his office.
In the Munsey Building the tenant finds pretty
much what he wants. with offices ranging from about
eighty square feet up to a whole foor-fnds it with
out paying for good deal of space that he doesn't
want, space that is of little use to him.
Typical of the convenences and comforts pro-
vded for the tenants and typical of the careful fore
sight which has anticipated their wants, is the sys
tenn of refrigeration which, from plant in the base
ment sends wellfltered, ce-cold water coursing to
every floor of the building, where it is tap This
does away with the necessity of ugly ice arrange
ments which offices in other buildings must have to
provide paatable and refreshing water in this semi
Southern town.
Heating of Latest Type.
The plumbing and steam systems throughout the
building of the latest and very best types, with
workmanship and material of the highest order. The