The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 24, 1926, Page 14

OMORROW * ACALL TOYoUTH »° BRA]NS \\\ HAT does the ? A dozen roads to fortune branch out whict pare myself to iich one shall I choose? t a time when thousands of young graduating from school are asking themselves such ques head of an insti engage and other es designed to solve the prob ruction and and col these, the in research ering youth's nat and worthwhi satisfy fame 1o part man rican Institute of s8¢ he fact th tructures of the heavier demands icularly Steel fature and far kill of the While structures on a than any we now practicable so far as erials are concerned, tention be pald to ment of men who can han- aterials, © A Notable Record miracles of f hitecture, the wonder must America’s structural says tury with g unprece frozen rive vphoon-awept s Our skyserapers, with skelotons of steel, and parapets that of the stars, are and admiration of Enropean hoswe only fust en I upon the of building will be dwarfed by our f f tomorrow. We shall avon rictures of an entirely new kind ed to meet the new requirements of a steadily progr civilization.” A Vision The crossin %% th of Great Bridges of the Delaware River which unites Philadel Cam marks the erce tion of the world's ut, wecording to plans are eady being pr ed for bridges | will surpa The New York and New Hudson River Advisory Comm has approved plans for a bridge Fort Lee with a span 3,300 feet j long as the span River bridge. ive hundred feet,” Mr. ‘does not mark the limit » possible by re. spments in the manufac ture of the cables upon which the iways of such structures are s of 4000 fent and more now considered practical, and dis heen re ross the mighty cent devele Span ssion has vived concerning h Channel ACTO + Atlantic no soiced upon as a wild dream Jarics, Gustav designer of the Man. 1shoro bridges, and hand in the : ridge in the r the last thirty that the building of is entirely possible principle of a trans-At bridge would be huge masses of solid masonry built up from the bed and supporting the mas teel towers from which would d the cahles f mpractical visi Lindenthal, the hattan and Que a man who ha erection ¢ such a bridge The basic ocean's Skyscrapers of the Future When the Woolworth Building was d in the second decade of sent century it was generally that we had achieved the ul- high buildings. That build- has the distinction of heing d's tallest inhabited struc but last fall came the announce. of plans for two new buildings New York City, one five stories r. the other seven stories higher Woolworth Bullding. we have gone, there is, in t's opinfon, no chance that we will stop with buildings of sixty- three or sixty-five stories. The steady increase in the value of land in our great cities makes it necessary to build higher and higher in order that the buildings may have sufficient table space to bring in a fair re- n on the investment. Already ar- ts and engineers are discussing plans for buildings 1,500 feet in height, or about twice as high as the building erected by the dimes. “Such buildings, even greater height,” Mr. Abbott says, “are well within the realm of possibility so far as the strength of steel, which alone makes high build: ings = possible, is congerned. The crushing point of steel is reached only at the base of a dolumn 20,000 feet, or almost four miled, high. The Paramount Trusses Some i{dea of the additional de mands upon the technical skill of our architects and engineers that will be | made by the structures whose helghts will be measured in fractions of a mile may be gained from a consid an the High a Mr. Abbot future hold for and | Waoolworth | or buildings of an | THE DAILY ALASKA TMPIRE, 2 ”fl ~—’i ity \v\\\\\}‘\\ \\“‘Unfl.’w My '/« ’ engineer and | | | CHARLES ¥, ABBOTT Fxe ve Dire | ican 1 TWICH ITED STRUCTURE men who are designing and supe tending the erection of the la buildings now under construction The new Paramount Bui ew York will be building with a tower abo and w an auditorium to the t of main building to house a Ly | picture theatre. Here the i of the engin tested to most, for had to under greatest lifting feat ever inv building construction Since there were to be no colun in the auditorium, the gal y had be hung from 120-foot beams ov head. The beams and trusses, the | fore, had to be strong enough to s | the 120 feet while supporting the r and upholding the galle A [mecessitated the use of « ! trusses wej 1t heaviest t s Ived ever made for v 'S CONCEPTION Or / AS HIGH AS THE a 32 story ofiic o moti mns each ty 1 tons ca th A SKYSC SO FAR BUILT BY M;\l\ [ed to a he thousand rivets an inc were r red for each trus A Herculean Heave Ten years a ith | to the od hei W to hit hoist it as high iie 1 reach, ten he | while the ! (he been necessary ecach er t and then ctructure under derricks were m process was repeated have t The to in much the same way re- | no time f rium W “travel 1 into [ 15 o 1 gLt of eight storics b thick or ch a derr n a mouth or more A 1.600.C00 & OVER A CITY'S DOCKS TO 1| can best onsider pened had | | over 1,500 FEET Four more onld have ck to s the der build =« e truss wed and It would there its frame. ploasir: nd con | within the ing place: | expe to lift | pyramids were built 1 of risk to h ing the Air Tra is by no v ly to now abou voni won us mercin The tand cities when bus men from the - office lay, wh « +, and handled by ighters Landin vised near th al centers of t depend upon th 1 hav ablo, H columns ¢ abhout 400 f. hou The Landing “The stri provided with g ing tha land height to whi to be built, locati railroad yards will ¥ . supported .pration of the prodlems fs faced by, pu-Am a bund(ug—aud each had to be lift- xlt carried two demck;’m teet high | capa affic FRIDAY, DEC. 24, AMMOTH STRUCTU: mads s 1926. ED FOR PASSENGER AND FR omi me t be concentrate ler at the captain of in it with banker, > to both ythe and th v trucks and tr ground. drivers provide unting, d within a easy reac! f wre o!l will be space for acroplan ind O S10%Y STREET OF rs and tru ern ath th THE CITY OF g | therefore, be § | future. To m rtain | the use and capabili the bas hitects and en es of steel will, ¢ essential for neers who will the al structures of the that the young men no acquire that knowledge, g rican Insti- tute of Steel Construetic planning co-operation with the faculties of e leading colleges and universities. anization of a stafe and a bureau of ar- ons, the results of tions will lable to the students in ering and architectural de- Already there has been . data on stresses, de- wnd kindred subjects. Re- along 4 3 proofing may still i > of the riv- s now scheduled. | the a build colos | partm | co t much ctric nachine machine An Opén Road to Fame ion of a building large » the inhabitants of a nt second to painter knows a than comes to the men > cons tion of a wers scrape the ng the rivers of the elements of worth- which can be found con while adv in few professi “The fu in [t eigh ture buili- almost in- he present time > huilt with spans far Tvpes store ywn today TOMORROY? of structures néw o'y dim!