AMERICAN VENTURE.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN VENTURE.

WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDING

ESTATE OPERATOR’S GRATITUDE

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

NEW YORK, January 19. Work has begun on the tallest building in the world, sixty-five stories. This will he the Christian Missionary building on Broadway, which will he eight hundred feet high, being eight feet higher than the Woolworth Building. The new structure, which will contain an hotel, a church, hospital and a hank, is being built by Oscar Conkle, a wealthy real estate operator, in gratitude for the recovery of his son Howard from illness. Howard is now studying to become a medical missionary. Ten per cent of the earnings of the structure will he utilised to found and maintain a medical missionary base on the shores of Lake Victoria, Nynnza in Africa. The building, exclusive of land value, will cost fourteen million dollars. A special station on the newly constructed underground railway will he erected nearby to fill the transportation needs of the occupants.

The Undenominational Church will occupy the main floor which will also have a dining room with a capacity of two thousand persons. The hotel will have four thousand five hundred rooms, wherein drinking, smoking and Sunday neswpapers will he prohibited. Twelve roof gardens and a large hospital on the top floor, capable of handling all surgery cases, will he other features of the building.