Yet in the American sense they ave not skyscrapers at all, Nor are many of the high buildings in New York which only a few years ago used to hold their heads proudly up above their neighbours down in the financial districts Nowadays, unless a building. has three score or so of storeys it is Just a new building—never referred to as a skyscraper, the result being that wherever.one goes in Greater New York to-day he encounters high buildings which, twenty years ago, would "have caused considerable comment in the downtown section where the skyscraper first appeared t6 take care of the multitudes who come and go to buy and sell in the greatest city in the world, but which are only ordinary to-day. Five hundred" fect of perpendicular masonry used to be given the nam skyscraper, but during the last decade we, have seen buildings gradually grow in height until today we find that the Empire State building, to take the place of the Waldorf-Astoria, is to be no less than exactly double that height.
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