The Singer Building at the corner of Broadway and Liberty Street, New
York City, has a total height from the basement floor to the top of
the flagstaff of 742 feet; the height from street to roof is 612 feet,
1 inch. There are 41 stories. The weight of the steel in the entire
building is 9,200 tons. It has 16 elevators, 5 steam engines, 5 dynamos,
5 boilers and 28 steam pumps. The length of the steam and water piping
is 5 miles. The cubical contents of the building comprise 66,950,000
cubic feet, there are 411,000 square feet of floor area or about 9-1/2
acres. The weight of the tower is 18,300 tons. Little danger from a
collapse will be apprehended when it is learned that the columns are
securely bolted and caissons which have been sunk to rock-bed 80 feet
below the curb.

The other campanile which has excited the wonder and admiration of the
world is the colossal pile known as the Metropolitan Building. This
occupies the entire square or block as we call it from 23rd St. to
24th St. and from Madison to Fourth Avenue. It is 700 feet and 3 inches
above the sidewalk and has 50 stories. The main building which has a
frontage of 200 feet by 425 feet is ten stories in height. It is built
in the early Italian renaissance style the materials being steel and
marble. The Campanile is carried up in the same style and is also of
marble. It stands on a base measuring 75 by 83 feet and the
architectural treatment is chaste, though severe, but eminently
agreeable to the stupendous proportions of the structure. The tower
is quite different from that of the Singer Building. It has twelve
wall and eight interior columns connected at every fourth floor by
diagonal braces; these columns carry 1,800 pounds to the linear foot.
The wind pressure calculated at the rate of 30 lbs. to the square foot
is enormous and is provided for by deep wall girders and knee braces
which transfer the strain to the columns and to the foundation. The