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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3315, 6 September 1911, Page 8

Mr George Morton, vice-president of the United' States Realty Company, of New York, addressing the Technical Convention at Cleveland, Ohio (says the New York correspondent of tho “Daily Telegraph”), said he had! recently inspected the plans drawn for a 100-storey skyscraper in New York and expressed the belief that scone day such a 'building would be erected. At present there is not a building in New York over 44 stories high, but there is one being constructed within a. stone’s throw of the mighty Singer tower, which will shortly attain the record of 50 stories. Magnificent foundations are afforded by the volcanic rock, so American architects and-.build©: s say, that to make, a 100-storey building-in New York is perfectly possible, but it is: questionable whether the city wi l permit it. , Sau Francisco experience proves that skyscrapers are the safest form of buildings in case of earthquake, and because skyscrapers are usually built entirely of steel and concrete, even the doors and windows, fittings and headings, , being all metal, the buildings are practically immune from fire. Seeing that plenty of Suites in the New York skyscrapers still remain runlet, the. necessity of building nr ore is .not obvious. .