Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1931, Page 83

ON, D. C, JANUARY 11, 1931 ers of the Worl s of Today Have lendor, Size and hich the Ancients he Greatest Things Achieve. | Klein. E &.prcbmcm'fiwuhfigeaqwmlm Golden Gate. When compleced‘ it will sur New : York’s tremendous span over the Hudson. P.“ SIDE ELEVATION 200-INCH TELESCOPE ) ION — 7 T i metropolis has to offer. It, too, like the Empire State Building, is the latest step in construction that makes New York such a world’s wonder. largest telescope, the 100-inch instru- varfed by the 200-inch atus s o e A nation’s pm astempt to curb Old Man River. The map shows the huge z‘uwhich ins into the Mississippi, giving some hint of the immensity of towers, than the Hudson River and its towers will reach over 100 feet higher. It will cost omly $35,000,000 as compared with the powerful oil-electric locomotive in the worl§y and the renowned “Hush Hush” steam loco= ground, where the famous Waldorf-Astoria stood, this steel and concrete structure will rise 1,248 feet high, or 204 feet higher than the next tallest building, the Chrysler tower. It will cost $50,000,000. More than 3,000 men were daily at work on it, placing steel columns, some weighing well over a ton to each foot of their length, laying immense stones and otherwise rushing the topped it by 161 feet. Yet what miniature ef- forts these are as compared with any of a score A tunnel driven straight through the hackbone of a mountain-runge; fromaphich * Il!“l * l Iy . emerges one of & motive of the London & North-Eastern Raile way, running between London and Edinburghs, No. 9000 is a self-sufficient tractive unit, drawa ing pdwer from its own Diesel motors and come verting this into electric pulling power. It weighs more than 330 toms, develops 2,600 horsepower and can pull a passenger train