The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-07-05
ERECT BUILDING IN THE
FACE OF DIFFICULTIES
international News Service

NEW YORK, July 3-Dr. Charles v.
P~aternO's fight to rush to completion
in a little Over twO-thirds of a year
the worlds largest apartment house
is a remarkable romance OF industry.
The giant structure will be bound
ed by Madison and Park avenues. For
t~y-seventh n F'orty-eighth streets,
while Vanderbilt avenue will run
through it. 1t is built over the tracks
of the New York Central, Just north Of
the great terminal.
The building will contain 1886 liv-
ing rooms, every one of which will
bring between 5000 and 500 a year
rent. o of the apartments are al
ready leased from the plans.
1t is an awful ask to hustle pri-
vate building in war time. The phys
i~cian-builder was to have his steel,
10000 tons of it last January, but none
was forthcoming, and even promises
from the mills we're hay. War or
ders," We're the explanations.
DR.. Palermo was faced with a con-
tract to pay $4,000 a year, rental for
the site, the responsibility for inter
est on a mortgage of millions and the
loss of an entire years rental of his
house. There seemed nothing to do
but postpone this vast project, which
represents an Investment Of S12,5OO,-
900.
But instead of giving up DIR. Palermo
went to Pittsburg and fought. His
determined arguments prevailed and
the making of war weapO halted
while his thousands of Orders were
fabricated. (Of course. the United
States was not yet at war;
To make sure there would be no
slip-up, DR.. Palermo had two of his
superintendent live in the mill and
report progress to him here every
evening by telephone.
Then came the question of shipment
on overcrOwded railroads. BY hercu-
lean efforts he got 500 flat cars. To
see these cars did not get off the line
he stationed a man in the freight
yards at Youngstown, Ohio. another
at Buffalo, another midway between
Buffalo and Albany, and one at Al
bany.
AS a train left the mill, the number
of the a and the engine. the name
of the engineer, the brakeman and
every other member of the crew was
telegraphed to all the Palermo way
agents. Every evening each of these
agents telephone progress here.
Usually steel is fed from the mill to
a big building as used. But to make
sure of his material, DR.. Palermo got
it into this city as close to his site
ard as early as possible.
Then there were other battles 70
get on time. 100000 bricks, $4,000
barrels of cement, sixty-five carloads
Of limestone from Bedford. Ind. and
100000 square feet of terra Gotta.
But today DR.. Palermo was able TO
that the great campaign
had been won-that the west hall of
the house will be ready for occupancy
September Is and the other half two
months later.
Apartments in the building will
rent for from $500 to $4,000 a year.
All the 1000 windows in the building
face either on the street or an a great
interior court laid out as a garden.
The house will have a restaurant
accommodating $50. DwelIers may
have their meals served in the apart
ments and may hire servants for any
length of time wanted.
Perhaps the most novel feature is a
series of twenty-five four-story stores
with ore story on the ground level and
three stories below ground, reached
by elevatori