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4 THE SINGER BUILDING TOWER. ft will be thirty-six stories high. The highest office building in the world. It will cost $1,500,000. V.tST SIMS, VAST PILES.

Sex cnty-five Millions for New Buildings on Manhattan, n- llurwKuL Plans are drawn and contracts signed for the trectioi of over $75,001 000 worth of buildings Manhattan Island in the next twelve months. This is a huge figure, and the only way to realize tta magnitude is by comparison. The assessed realty values of the whole of the states of Arizona, Nevada and Wyoming aggregate about $5,000,000 short of what New York Will spend for new buildings in one year. The area of Manhattan Island is 21.95 square miles; Chat of the three states above named Is 321,610 square miles, or 14,652 times as large; yet in the area there will be erected in one year buildings of greater value than now stand Id those three states. For skyscrapers alone there will be spent about including those already partly constructed.

Excluding all except those to be begun in the immediate future, the sum will be $30,000,000. This is represented in nineteen buildings, whese total number of stories Will be 401 whose total height will be approximately 6.000 feet, or Just about as high as Mount Washington. They will have a total floor of 3,000,000 square feet, or acres; this Is equivalent to the floor space of 800 three story houses. The Trinity Addition and the United States Jtenlty Building will, from an artistic point of View, be among the finest office buildings not ejnly in the city but in the world. The Trinity Addition is to be erected on the land which Shames street used to occupy; the street has been north about twenty-five feet, and the TTnit'-d States Realty Building, formerly known the Boreel, will be erected from the new thames street to Cedar street.

Generally, the buildings are spoken of together, as the same architect, F. H. Kimball, designed them, and they are to be harmonious in style. They will cost respectively $1,000,000 for the Trinity and tJ.000.000 for the United States Realty, and they Will be twenty-one stories high and run from Broadway to Trinity Place. The City Investing Company's Building will be the largest and most Imposing of the new buildings.

It will have a Broadway frontage of ffpt between Cortlandt nnd streets and Brtrnd through to Church street and take in fhe corner of Church and Cortlandt the Cbnensions Wins 315 feet on Cortlandt street and 105 feet on Churcb The floor space Which will be devoted to offices will be 500.000 square feet. It is to be twenty-live stories hitjh the Broadway sido, and a tower In the centre Will bring it to thirty An arcade will tun from the entrance through to Church street; it will be three stories and lined with mnrMe, having booths alons its whole length. With its 37 feet width at the narrowest point, 52 at its widest and its 315 feet In length II will make one of the most beautiful arcades Of the kind in the world. The cost of the will be about $7,000,000, and, including tha NEW-YORK DAILY TIUIUNK. SINDAY.

i-J. IWW. cost of the land and an eighty-eight years on the building at Broadway and Church street, held so as to Insure light, the cost will come to $12,000,000. The Singer Building Is to be the one that tl visitor to New York will go to see on his first day In town. The Flatlron Building will, if present plans are carried out.

cease to be the most talked of oddity in an odd city. The Singer Building will be thirty-six stories high, but what will make It yet more remarkable is the fact that twenty-five of these stories will rise up like a tower, almost as high in itself as the Washington Monument, from a fundamental building of eleven stories in height. It is to be connected with the present Singer Building, which is at the corner of Liberty street and Broadway. The architect, Ernest says that there will be no exposed woodwork throughout the building. Its cost will be $1,500,000.

One of the sights of Broadway next year will be the tall and narrow No. 1 Wall Street Build- Ing. Built upon the most costly ground in New York, it will, by its height and position, continue to make the corner of Broadway and Wall street one of the celebrated comers of the city. It is to be nineteen stories high, but as the dimensions of the building are only 30x39 feet there win be only one ofllce on a floor. The ground floor and basement have been rented for $40,000 a year, and the owner, which Is the Mercantile Trust Company of St.

Louis, asks $5,000 a year for the other offices. This equals $5 a square foot, or about $20 a year for the space an office chair takes up. The West Street Building, of which Cass Gilbert Is the architect, and which is owned by the West Street Improvement Company, General Howard Carroll, president, will be erected in West street, from Albany street to Cedar street. It Is to be twenty-three stories high and finished on the uppermost stories in beautiful colored terra cotta, harmonizing with the copper sheathed mansard roof. Its unobstructed frontage on the river will make It one of the landmarks to those who use the North River ferrits.

Among other great buildings are the proposed Hudson Tunnel buildings In Church street, one between Dey street and Cortlandt street and the other between Dey street and Fulton street. These, It Is said, will be thirty stories high, but the plans are not yet fully completed. The United States Express Company Building, now In course of erection. In Rector street, will be twenty-three stories high and cost $1,600,003. The Royal Queen Insurance Building will be CITY INVESTING COMPANY'S NEW BUILDING IN BROADWAY, NEAR CORTLANDT STREET.

11 will eighteen stories high and cost about Evening Post," Cockroft. Sellgmann. Tabernacle and the probable Whitehall extension will be notable buildings, as well as those as yet undeslgnated by title at Nos. 341-347 Fifth avenue, fifteen stories: Nos. Stone street.

nineteen stories, and Nos. Wall street. The building improvements mentioned do not represent an abnormal year; it Is only the steady growth of the city. But figures such as those tempt the Imagination to think of the city ten or fifty years hen. c.

If all the buildings In the city were to bo sold the sum realized would off thp national debts of England. Italy an.l the I'nited States. The increased realty value that is ad.led to the city every year would pay the Interest on the national debts of the Staffs. Canada. Portugal and Holland.

To put it a little differently. If England wanted to buy the buildings on the Island of Manhattan and devoted aD her revenue receipts for the purpose It would tike her five years to complete the purchase, and in fifty years from now it would take twieo as long. Every year New York erects buildings equal to the whole realty valuation of Albany or Atlanta or Columbus. Ohio. Figures on population are yet more Interesting.

In the population of New York City was estimated to be 4.014 304; there Is to be $40,000,000 spent in tenements and apartment houses this year, which at a fair average of apiece would mean 800 houses; the average height will be six stories, or in all 4.800 floors. As they are built nowadays, taking Into consideration that the totals include crowd-d tenements as well as more roomy buildings and that they are usually of double width, there will be at least four families on a finer, which will mean that 19.200 families can be housed. The houses that are being torn down to make mom for these flats were dwelling houses where there were only from five to fifteen persons in the so if each family consists of six persons there will be room for not less than 115.000 additional inhabitants In one year's time. If this rate goes on for ten years there will be. by this means alone, 5.166.304 population, which mears that unless London grows at a faster rate than it does at present New York may be the largest city in the world by 1916.

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