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Updated: May 16, 2025
So!" said von Hindenburg, and he glanced at a gun crew who were loading a half-ton projectile into an 11.1-inch siege-gun that stood on the pavement. "Which is the Woolworth Building?" he asked, pointing across the river. "The tallest one, Excellency the one with the Gothic lines and gilded cornices," replied one of his officers. "Ah, yes, of course. I recognise it from the pictures.
In Madison Square the people waited in silence as we approached the great white tower from which the Commander of the Army of the East, unmindful of the fate of the Woolworth and the Singer buildings, watched for further moves from the fortified shores of Brooklyn.
If in those first days the girl had been called upon to do the seven bendings and the nine knockings before the one New York institution which impressed her most profoundly, she undoubtedly would have singled out one of those mastodons a-bossing everything and everybody, with a prize-ham paw. She was cold to the Woolworth Building, as indifferent to the Sherman monument as Mr.
The Woolworth building is a notable example of the complete co-ordination between the structural framework and its envelope, and falls short of ideal success only in the employment of an archaic and alien ornamental language, used, however, let it be said, with a fine understanding of the function of ornament.
As it happened, there was not a very large crowd visiting the monument the day the Bobbseys were there, so they did not have long to wait for their turn in the elevator. "This isn't fast like the Woolworth Building elevators were," remarked Bert as they felt themselves being hoisted up. "No," agreed his father. "But this does very well.
The impression is, rather, of long, low buildings stretching down to the water's edge on every side, and innumerable low black wharves and jetties and piers. And at one point, the lower end of the island on which the city proper stands, rose that higher clump of the great buildings, the Singer, the Woolworth, and the rest.
"He stands a tall chance," I heard a fellow say. "About as tall as Pee-wee," another fellow said. He was trying to be smart. "Maybe he'll have a tall chance, as tall as the Woolworth Building," I said; "you'd better keep still. I want to ask Mr. Ellsworth if I can say something while I'm still Silver Fox leader, that's all." "Surely you may, Roy," he said, kind of pleasant.
Perhaps some day there will be a system of camouflage by which no matter where we are in desert or mountain, we can open our windows to the Woolworth Building on the skyline or the Metropolitan Tower, or to Diana shooting at the stars, and have some little cars in tunnels to run us around your estate."
The pressure became so strong that all Chinese merchants from the lowest shopkeeper up to the owner of the great chain stores, like our Woolworth institutions, put away Japanese-made goods and refused to sell them. I took dinner in Shanghai with one of the foremost merchant princes of China and said, "Are you selling any Japanese-made goods?" "I certainly am not.
With crushing and destructive force that mighty volume plunges downward into a great stone bowl which it has carved out for itself, so deep that if the Woolworth Building were set down in it not more than half of it would show above the top of the Falls. Engineers have estimated the total energy of Niagara Falls at sixteen million horse-power!
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