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Updated: May 24, 2025
The offices in the up-town sky-scraper were not exclusively a railroad social centre where the disinterested voter could come and have the facts ladled out to him without fear or favor on the part of the ladler. They had come to be also a rallying-point for a heterogeneous crowd of ward-workers, wire-pullers, and small politicians, most of whom were anxious to be employed or retained as henchmen.
If he had but stayed at home he would have anticipated the inventor of the sky-scraper. If he had but stayed at home he would have discovered his genius in time really to start some new variety of awful architectural hare and run it till it burrowed in a gold mine.
Of course it was only by virtue of the possession of a fixed idea a purpose as rigid in its outlines as the steel frame of a sky-scraper that she had been able to force herself to leave Rodney and set out in pursuit of a job that would make a life of her own a possible thing. You are already acquainted with the outlines of that purpose.
The offices of Sylvester, Kuhn, and Graves, were on the sixteenth floor of a new and gorgeously appointed sky-scraper. When Captain Elisha entered the firm's reception room, he was accosted by a wide-awake and extremely self-possessed office boy. "Who'd you want to see?" asked the boy, briskly. The captain removed his hat and wiped his forehead with his handkerchief.
The heating arrangement of such a vast area as is covered by the floor space of a sky-scraper has been a very difficult problem but it has been solved so that the occupant of the twentieth story can receive an equal degree of heat with the one on the ground floor. Both hot water and steam are utilized. Hot water heating, however, is preferable to steam, as it gives a much steadier heat.
The electric light plants were beating their lives out in laborious heart-throbs, giving forth such power that the streets and shop windows had the appearance of the phantom scene of a fairy stage-play rather than a grim reality; they were lighter than day. There was magic illumination from the sidewalk to the very apex of the tallest sky-scraper.
She had barely time to remark the towering white facade of upper Broadway's tallest sky-scraper ere she was half led, half dragged into the entrance of the building. The marble slabs of the vestibule echoed strangely to their footsteps those slabs that shake from dawn to dark with the tread of countless feet.
Here shall follow didactically the cause why the good ship Samarang is not by this time in the Docks. 'Idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. "The sails were hanging loosely in the shrouds: every one set, from sky-scraper to stud-sail, in hopes to catch a breath of wind.
But if you want sublimity, the distinguishing quality of New York, as I feel it more and more, while I talk of it, you must take that stretch of Fifth Avenue from a motor-bus top." "But that stretch of Fifth Avenue abounds in sky-scrapers!" we lamented the man's inconsistency. "Sky-scrapers in subordination, yes. There is one to every other block. There is that supreme sky-scraper, the Flatiron.
"Somebody in a book called the oriole Orestes, because that means dweller in the woods," Tom ventured. "He dwells in a sky-scraper, that's what I say," Hervey commented. "In a hall bedroom upside down, twenty floors up." Tom tried again. "What do you mean to do with her now that you've got her?" he asked. "I'm going to turn her over to you, Slady.
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