w a 1 + b I 1 t 8 I- I w THE SUN SUNDAY OCTOBER 2i 1904 SOME REMARKABLE NEW BUILDINGS NEW YORK L f SKYSCRAPERS GROWING BIGGER tsr fart s r r e p sr7t + lt ANEW STANDARD SET FOR THE HO MORE LUXURIOUS AND MORE y ty TELSOFTHEWORLDBYTHELATEST- r COSTLY THAN EVER BEFORE i = 3 OF THOSE BUILT IN NEW YORK fn i HOTEl ASTOR < 811ILOINv = HANOVER NATIONAL BAHH < BEAVER PfG7q IPYFfIlTIfv JH N Y 1 of i Mf5 BUIL lql aulo when It is said that each of the stones In the the Hotel Astor at Seventh avenue and There were persons In this city not many with little expression of architectural cornice at the eighteenth floor weighs Fortyfourth street and the Belmont and Ceara ago when the upward race in sky form between eighteen and twenty tons The the Brunswick in course of construction ecraper construction had hardly begun The Increased cost It is said results interior is finished in marble and bronze are factors In the change- who predicted that the excessively tall from the more elaborate and substantial It is said to beqne of tho most expensive It was not until after the WaldorfAstoria- buildings planned would not be successful finishing of the Interior and the more com ¬ office buildings in the world was opened that the builders of hotels and i either as money making properties or as plete equipment of the building with all The Blair Building which Is of white tho men who run them learned that Now i practical office structures sorts of modem Improvements For in- ¬ marble IB seventeen stories high and al- ¬ Yorkers and tho American public In gen- ¬ The lapse of time has proved that these stance many of the recent skyscrapers most equally elaborate In its interior fin- ¬ eral who come here wanted hotels whore a were mistaken Not only has the besides having all the usual sanitary s ngs they could get the best offered by the me skyscraper turned out to be a success in equipments have Installed the vacuum Tho Sixty Wall Street structure will bo- tropolis and that they were willing to pay every particular except perhaps archi- system of sweeping one of the giants of the city probably well for it They learned also from the suc¬ tecturally but it has come to be an absolute Lines of hose run from vacuum hydrants hlglier than any other office building ex- ¬ cess of tho Waldorf that tho appearance necessity in the corridors Sweepers are attached- clusive of towers Its steel frame partly of the exterior of tho hotel and the interior improved facilities er with the j to the hose and by running them over the covered looms up Impressively from the arrangements wnre much more potent for rapid transit shortly to be available office in twlnk- 1 rug the dirt is transferred a East River and the Brooklyn Bridgeand has factors in Its success than had been sup- In the lty and with the enlarging of the ling in- g from the room hundreds of feet caused a lot of wonder and comment posed before The St Regis Is eighteen i area of concentrated business activity that the air to the basement It will bo built in two sections and in stories high massive and of gray limestone should follow as a natural result the sky This is only one of the many modern Its architectural design will Illustrate the but it will be exceeded in height by the scraper will continue to be as popular and I conveniences which the business man of 1 kT Y S recent trend toward simplicity in exterior Hotel Belmont and tho Brunswick necessary is ¬ NDr WAG as it now remains to bo seen today expects to find in these great build- R GlS design The Wall street wing will be four- ¬ As Now York sets the fashion for the rest In the opinion of many indications but ings buildings that count their occupants- teen stories high and the Pine street section of the country In everything else sky- ¬ point to the conclusion that It will by the thousandthat alone constitute in twentysix Its height will be 347 feet scrapers Included so also it is predicted the buildings in two ¬ In erected the last some cases an entire route for a letter car- of the skyscraper If it really must be and But while some architects deplore the con- ¬ to he higher than the buildings constructed- the Times Building and the Park Row Build- by men competent to speak that the ad- gears or so including some of the notable ¬ rier and from which the dally mall is car- they admit that it must is a franker ex- ¬ ventional and what they cull inartistic at present It is not impossible though ing each with a tower exceeding It by vance in hotel construction and decoration 3 now in of jonia course construction there ried not by hand but by the wagon load pression of tho fact that there Is beneath trend in skyscraper architecture they ad ¬ that this objection may disappear In time several feet as typified in the St Regis and the Hotel has been a noticeable increase over tho The skyscraper has always been a thorn tho covering of stone and brick a frame mit that it U tho most notable and the The Hanover National Bank Building at The Beaver Building and the Times Build- ¬ Astor and other now hotels will shortly p In size and height- ¬ I tho in the flesh to the architect the student of steel most thoroughly American architecture of Nassau and Pine streets tho Beaver Build- ing like the Flatiron Building are notable strike a responsive chord in other large i of structures Where two years j the ago of the beaux arts and the man who wants There is ono building in the city com- ¬ the time and that it affords an opportunity- ing at Beaver and Spruce streets the Times for their striking appearance and represent cities as occurred after the erection of v was one Building now there but Flatiron frankness of expression In his design pleted only about a year ago which archi- ¬ for tho earning of the largest fees ever Building at Broadway and Fortysecond- some of tho best attainments thus far In tho Waldorf and that as a result of what two all ¬ there are or three just as remark These men complain that there is no tects agree la more successful in thi re- ¬ obtained by architects in general practice street and tho Sixty Wall Street Build getting the greatest possible amount ort has been done in New York there may In t able appearance as the one at Twenty attempt in the American skyscraper to spect than most others It Is called one So far as the height of the office building- ing now in course of construction are some floor room out of the available be expected another general upward step in third street make its appearance express its structure- of the few successful skyscrapers archi- ¬ of tho future is concerned there is it in of the most notable structures of the last spars hotel construction und equipment through- ¬ the office buildings have been It la a lie an uncouth lie from the founda- ¬ tecturally regarded In the city said practically no limit below CO or 70 year or two The changes In hotel construction an out the country growing bigger and higher they have It tion to the roof they say Seeking to It Is tho Blair Building at Brood street stories imposed by economical or structural The Hanover National Bank Building Is architecture during tho last two or three This means also these men say that VlaYeald been growing more costly the hide tho fact that It is built around a steel and Exchange place A picture of it is considerations All that will las necessary- noted for the massiveness of its structure years have been much more pronounced there will probably be a corresponding 1 Yl i cost In many instances being frame it simulates solid masonry included In the group above Its success is a FUfllcient amount of space for tho foun- ¬ tho characteristic deplored by many archi- ¬ than in tho skyscraper A distinctly new rise In the of j not a all proportionate to the Increase- Nearly all of thorn sin in tho nine wny lies chiefly In tho fact that it does not simu- ¬ dations tects in view of its steel framo and Its and higher standard of construction and In the future an the first class houses In alze This has been true too in spite these architects say buildings having solid masonry of steel The owners of the buildings havehowover costly and elaborate interior furnishings decoration been established Whether the enerall want till the late Its frame has badly enough general re- ¬ is imposed by Is high I superior accommodations of the fact that tho tendency the general appearance of n column with- is not openly disclosed but some of the found that there a limit It twentytwo stories and built This advance is represented chiefly in ¬ i to increased hill as undoubt- cently has been to minimize external art a heavy base a long central shaft and a metal columns are permitted to show in thn sentimental nature of tho office oc- ¬ mostly of granite the erection of the St Regis Hotel at Fifth edly will do in New York Is something that in the skyscraper and produce a building decorated capital What they would have tho facade cupant and that there are few who rare Some idea of Its massiveness can be got avenue and Fiftyfifth street although only will disclose BASY GRAFT OF THE MEDIUMS John In tho spirit world shows up at the Homo of Truth Circle people who have what they call the psychic and in ease the method was the I a hundred mechanical devices and secrets TilE TELLING STROKE If the owner of tho glove has a John b Mrs Koakom the second they can pick a some The cabinet is hung with black for the use of mediums Prices run from 1 i lady is told right a mile and covered in front n to 00 npxgmrs among tho departed the medium sends sight wonder the old curtain tl Point of the Tale That Won