. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . s go beyond this. The two buildingsstand linked together by a bridge like Siamese twinsand are twenty-one stories in height. Their foundationsare seventy-five feet below the curb, and in this deep ex-cavation are placed the terminal stations of the Hudsonand Manhattan Railroad, which operates the Hudsontunnels in connection with a subway on the west sideof New York. The superstructure required twenty-six thousand tons of steel and provides eighteen acres offloor space, four thousand offices, thirty-nine passengerelevators (twenty-
. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . s go beyond this. The two buildingsstand linked together by a bridge like Siamese twinsand are twenty-one stories in height. Their foundationsare seventy-five feet below the curb, and in this deep ex-cavation are placed the terminal stations of the Hudsonand Manhattan Railroad, which operates the Hudsontunnels in connection with a subway on the west sideof New York. The superstructure required twenty-six thousand tons of steel and provides eighteen acres offloor space, four thousand offices, thirty-nine passengerelevators (twenty-two of them express cars), five thousandwindows, thirty thousand electric lights; and no oneknows how many janitors, engineers, firemen, locksmiths, ^ There has been a proposal recently made by the Building Code Re-vision Commission that a limitation of 300 feet for a sixty-foot streetand 135 feet for a forty-five-foot street be imposed upon the high build-ings; but this, if adopted, will not check the sky-scraper, except on thealleys and very narrow Pl. 23. — Among the Tall Buildings SKY-SCRAPERS 107 glaziers, painters, plumbers, to keep it running called in all the trades to build it and needs a great manyof them to continue its existence. It might be added inparenthesis that the services of a financier are also neededto look after the items of rents and repairs — especiallythe latter. The wear and tear upon a sky-scraper arequite as astonishing as the other things in connectionwith it. Almost all of these high buildings are supplied with theconveniences of a city, and one can live in them indefi-nitely without going out for food, clothing, or offices, they contain stores, clubs, restaurants,bachelor apartments, barber shops, cigar and news stands,boot-cleaning establishments, baths, safe-deposit vaults,roof gardens — everything except vaudeville, and eventhat is a possibility of the near future. Moreover, eachone of them contains t
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