. The Cathedral of commerce. EDWIN A. COCHRAN. N the night of April 24, 1913, President Wilson pressed a tinybutton in the White House and 80,000 brilliant lights instantlyflashed throughout the Woolworth Building. The event markedthe completion, the dedication and the formal opening of thatregal edifice, the tallest and most beautiful building in all theworld erected to commerce, so judged by the ofhcials of the Panama-PacificExposition when they placed their seal of approval upon it and awarded ita gold medal. 11 was a memorable night. A profusion of light filled the twenty-seventh floor, wh
. The Cathedral of commerce. EDWIN A. COCHRAN. N the night of April 24, 1913, President Wilson pressed a tinybutton in the White House and 80,000 brilliant lights instantlyflashed throughout the Woolworth Building. The event markedthe completion, the dedication and the formal opening of thatregal edifice, the tallest and most beautiful building in all theworld erected to commerce, so judged by the ofhcials of the Panama-PacificExposition when they placed their seal of approval upon it and awarded ita gold medal. 11 was a memorable night. A profusion of light filled the twenty-seventh floor, which had been arranged for a superb banquet. And assembledthere, was a great host of statesmen, captains of industry, merchants, journal-ists, scholars, poets—all representative Americans, proud to break bread with,and honor the man who had realized his dream and the gallant aides whotirelessly had labored with him to accomplish the stupendous task, the up-building of a monument to small things. Yes, as a commercial institution the Woolworth
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