What to see in America . reen and pulled down the kings statue, which waslater made into bullets for their use. In front of the City Hall is a tablet sunk into the pave-ment inscribed with the fact that there, March 24, 1900, themayor made the first excavation for the underground rail-way. Most of the city business is transacted in the neighboringMunicipal Building, which ranks among the noblest of NewYorks skyscrapers. The Woolworth Building, fronting on the western sideof the park, is the tallest office building in the world. Indeed,no structure built by man is higher except the Eiffel Tower
What to see in America . reen and pulled down the kings statue, which waslater made into bullets for their use. In front of the City Hall is a tablet sunk into the pave-ment inscribed with the fact that there, March 24, 1900, themayor made the first excavation for the underground rail-way. Most of the city business is transacted in the neighboringMunicipal Building, which ranks among the noblest of NewYorks skyscrapers. The Woolworth Building, fronting on the western sideof the park, is the tallest office building in the world. Indeed,no structure built by man is higher except the Eiffel Towerin Paris. Its height above the sidewalk is 785 feet, and its lowest foundation onthe solid rock of theisland is 120 feet be-low the sidewalk. Itscost was $12,000, man whose nameit bears started a five-cent store in Utica,New York, in he died in 1919he had thousands offive and ten centstores and employedmore people than anyother one man in theworld. As we go north from Madison Square the City Hall we COme. New York City 71
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