The Cathedral of commerce (1918) (14598377059)

Identifier: cathedralofcomme00coch_0 (find matches)
Title: The Cathedral of commerce
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Cochran, Edward A Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC
Subjects: Woolworth Building (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: (New York) : Broadway Park Place Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization



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MR. WOOLWORTHS PRIVATE OFFICE ON THE 40TH FLOOR SIK )\VI.\(; FLEMISH RENAISSAXC F TAPESTRY(WOVEN ABOUT 1650) AND ITALIAN RENAISSANCE MANTELPIECE CARVED IN STONE and, for the convenience of tenants, four mail chutes, connected with the mailboxes mentioned, serve every floor of the Building. Thus, a tenant on any floormay place his mail in one of these chutes and have it taken to the Post Officewithin half an hour afterward. Eighteen hundred telephones are in servicethroughout the Building, a greater number than is used in a city of 30,000inhabitants. The average daily traffic is 29,000 calls, totaling 8,700,000messages per year. Frequently visitors to the Observation Gallery and others ask interestingquestions with regard to the means which have been devised to make a buildingof this height entirely safe before the elements. As a matter of general informa-tion it may be said that, regardless of its supreme height, the structure isquite as safe as the Rock of Gibraltar, and the followin