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Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1930, Page 3

m imm *<>■:> m iZ'SSI mm ■m :>>:■ : h• M XW m i </X xox<<x THE, CHRYSLER, BUILDING. The pi a-mg of concrete anil steel foundations for the 68 story Chrysler : Building «t, Forty-second Street and Lexington Avenue, in New, York City, : l,as b-uen folio-wed by the steady advance of the steel structure bringing itito being a colossal black lace network Which will dominate the mid-town skyline until 1930. By that date the granite, marble and brick, which comprises the face of the bin ding will have covered it entirely. The face of the t ilding will he made of blocks of Sim stone granite, Georgia marble will be used as high as the fiuh .door, nnd from that point to the sixteenth floor and its cornice, there will be a basket weave pattern of Georgia marble aind : white faced brick. From Fiat point to the top of the building the construction w'Hl be brick of a special do ,ign, in grays and blacks, the black being used to accentuate the verti al lines-of the structure. An interesting departure in skyscraper construction will be the copings and iinials of cast aluminiums. Spandrels betiyeen windows from the nineteenth to tlie twenty-second floor will also be in this material. Under the New York zoning laws the setback of the building was fixed, at one to four. Sixteen stories measuring 182 feet are without setback. The first setback is 18 feet on the next seventeen stories. The main volume o| the building is 66 stories, including the tower, while the dome is 12 storey^ A utilisation of the automobile itself as a motif in the design of the : Chrysler Building in a frieze at the 30th. story marks a departure in nwkL era ardU'i lecture, In eonventionaliz ed design the whole profile of a limousine showing body lines, fenders and wheels, will be depicted in sharply contrasting white, gray and black brick. The hub caps on the wheels will.be of aluminiinuin, 14 inches in diameter. The frieze wiTl terminate in a finial at file four corners, where 10 foot long Chrysler wings will stand out against the skies of Manhattan. • The dome of the building starts in octagonal form, finally receding to the summit in proper, dome formation. It will be easily distinguished on the sky line, being the only, object of its particular size and shape. The Spjre at the top of the dome is in the form of a great star with thirty pointy. ' Flood lights, cleverly arranged behind the ray-like -decorations which spread out from the dome at regular intervals, will play brilliant lights dpi the shining aluminium. The spring of 1930 will see the Chrysler Building completed—a new' business mecca iii tlie heart of the business world. MOSLEM WEDDING ADDRESS AIX-LES-BAINS, Dec. 14. The tall, graceful Savoy woman who yesterday morning was Mile. Andree Canon is to-day her Highness the Begum_A,ga Khan. Mile. Ca rival, who was born 31 years ago at Ohambory, her parents being of relatively hum We station, was married yesterday to the Aga Khan, the spiritual ruler of 1,500,000 .Moslems in India, 'Persia, and Africa, and one of the wealthiest of India’s chiefs. The civil ceremony in the town hall was presided over by M. Clerc, the Mayor of Aix-les-Bains, and was followed by a simple but impressive Moslem wedding performed by two Imams from the new mosque in Paris. THE WEDDING ADDRESS. The Chief Imam, Si Mahomed hen Hahsen, read to the newly married couple the wedding address, in Ara-' bic. “God made man that lie should m rry,” said the address, “and man and wife owe to one another tenderness and love. God loves the men who are kindest to their wives.” The marriage documents were signed with a gold fountain pen presented by the municipality, and M. Clerc thanked the Aga Khan for his gift of £2,000 to local charities to mark the occasion. 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BLACK. • -OTOR CARRIER * OGNTRACTOB, lU.M.FDEN ST,; HQKITIKA ’Phone 190. JS PREPARED TO SUPPLY Firewood iu any quantity, and cany out general carrying wo’k. Sawn and dressed timber delivered to any part of the district. PUBLIC NOTICE. H. A. THOMPSON JNDERTAKER & MONUMENTAL MASON. GIBSON QUAY, HOKITIKA. ryiHE BUSINESS of the late H. AThompson will be continued under the same name with MR ARNOLD THOMPSON in charge as Managar*