The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 20

THE DAILY OKLAHOMA SUNDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1931. TWELVE A' 0en Hotese AH Week to Mark Formal Opening of New 33-Stor Ramsey Tower MARBLEWAll Dressed for Visiting Throngs HUGE BUILDING Glair F. Drury Is Ramsey Tower Is Built by Starretts SILVER MARKS'! MAIN ARCADE Building Architect IS READY FOR fi HAVE HISTORY STARRETT IS HERETO STAY, SAYS OFFICIAL: Company Ys" Pleased With Oklahoma Pro? pec is After First Job. T7TDom TfTOTnnnrfi itelS Ornamental Entrance For! Robinson Avenue.

Old Roman Quarry Re, worked for Ramsey The Roman brcshe marble i winch the main lobby and arcade history tatI The darker hucd field of the mar. "SSi this is. which built and will operate Ramsey Tower, have implicit in the future of Oklahoma City unusual cd for by geologists with the workmen cWP finished pie. by the belief that just outside Romi first centuries ago. tossing little frag I back into the hole, Radio Program on Night From Skyline Club i Is Opening Feature.

Jj Formal opening of the Ramsey Tinuir.i: all week, affords Oklahoma i 33 tructtirr representing 'an investment of 53,000.000 in the future i of Oklahoma City. Although the public is invited to i build 52 ui pc( ties Sunca; gnt on tho roof, in the Skyline cht'o which i occupies the top floors, The Starrett Oklahoma own- ers of the buildinj. at that time will Join with the Oklahoma Gas and Elec- trie in its regular Sunday night WKY program, which for this time will be extended to occupy a full hour, Among the out-of-town StarreU of- lieials here for the celebration are I Arthur D. Walsh, vice-president. Star- rett Investing Glenn Thomas.

a.vL-uu-;: treasurer. Swrret; and i grams in this section. Paul Starrott, vicc-prosident. predicted that in the next few years Oklahoma City will see a large building program, a great period prosperity, and said that his firm hopes me succeeding geological maining matter, unusable jj Stat Hght-eoiorwl "ard" chips'-! tcrcd through it. tat of the Hnmse; 'U lleretofore ih In New torthcrn and Clair F.

Drury Arch.itects for the Ramsey Towel were Walter W. Ahlsschlager and Clair F. Drury. the latter having boor in charge of the work from his Oklahoma City office. less glow through the room Benedict the same as the ele- i vat or doors and the exit of the spira! i fire escape chute which start-; on the; CREW OF 50 USED I IN MAINTENANCE: Hrst Class Accommodations Empire State Is Warren K.

Snyder Edward C. Snyder Attorneys at Law Now Located in Suites 409 to 415 Ramsey Tower Project of Starrett; I Among the large buildings con-! strutted by one or another of the I i Starrett Corp. subsidiaries are the; Empire State and the Bank of Man- hattan in New York. The Empire pi! mmi ff nS ponulanzed bv Smith cotton with it, is the world's tallest. heard on the'o.

G. fc K. Paul Starrott at that tin Tiicie will be a stiperiniettdent, slant engineer, two day porters, igtn 24 ianitf ten tor operjfto! Model 'i Mj a Col W. A Starrett 'lop) and a on Lho mamtcnance "aul Starrett. 'rhc office, in charge of by the public, in addition to many suites already occupied by their regu- I Seven highspeed elevators will ac- commodate the visitors, nnd guides 5 will be on hand in the cailv orna- mcnted arcade on the first floor.

i The building is being opened as a i completed structure, down to the pol- that erected the building. WalllUt DOOl'S Gl-Ce David Tant Attorney and Counselor at Law Announces His New Location Suite 421 Ramsey Tower Associate Ralph J. May i'i'i i i if uu owns and operates the build: oper Offices' Appearance At! doors in the Ramsey tower are All the is that Starrett pointed out tit.it months he has been Oklf Citv he has been iremendousi; -AW 11 ii! I I Hi i i i ii I II 1 si The Ramsey Tower is open to the public just a year after the news- papers announced the story of the construction, and less than nine 1 mcntlw since XV. R. Ramsey, ownrj of iy'fis I 1 metropolitan skyscraper.

Such speed in skvseraper construction has never been equalled in Oklahoma or the even in the larger cities. The first razing work started January 5 of this -car. and before October the building" was opsn. ready for occupancv in every detail. This is a record, despite a 1 twenty-first floor.

One office is done in old English, one in Italian, and in French furnishing, complete in every detail. As you enter the building from the Robinson street entrance, you are greeted by a subdued, indirect lighting effect, with the plow on the silver leaf ceiling diffused into a shadowless light throughout the arcade. Lights This excellent photograph of the completed Toner, ready for the crouds of visitors all vcek. from the roof of the. Pcrnne building across th' First and Robin the latest method of lighting such mm.

fePiilr ill C. F. DRURY (Licensed Architect) 1 announce our new location SUITE 1601 RAMSEY TOWER one 2-263S Oklahoma re draped," a artistic designs. At the he arcade Is a battery of tors, and the elevator AS has been chosen as the fuel to fire the huge steam boilers which will keep the hundreds of tenants in the Ramsey; Tower comfortably warnr throughout the cold i months. Gas was chosen over all other fuels for several reasons.

Gas requires no storage space it's ak ways available at a moment's notice in any quantity. Gas is a dependable fuelin the coldest weather when everyone is using gas and the demand is at a peak, Oklahoma City's gas supply has never failed. Gas is economical. Gas is a CLEAN fuel. Gas gives off no soot to smudge homes and buildings inside and out.

By every test, natural gas is the superior fuel in industry and for heating usmess structures, apartments and homes and mn.f keeping the stream tinuaiiy moving from The panel 01 1931 Congratulations To you, the owners and builders of "THE RAMSEY TOWER," upon the completion of this magnificent building. Our Part was in hauling the many hundreds tons of steel, the boilers and much of the other material that went into thsi fine structure. HE ins the position of the lift. of the structures upper are finished in liftht. colored cotta, which Starrett said he BP advantage sn bulld- i vveicker larblc irough pamaaHini: care, he said.

Among the particular features to which the attention of visitors will be directed, is the concealed radiation equipped with a specially designed TRANSFER and STORAGE CO. 531 W. Main St. iBTF 'AS CORPORATION nd Harvey.