Business: Tallest

Once again New York counts on a new “world’s tallest building,” this time the Christian-Missionary Building, on Broadway between 122nd and 123rd St. Contracts for its foundation excavations were let last week. It will spire upward for 800 ft—”8 ft. more than the Woolworth Building”; will contain on the ground floor an undenominational church and a dining room seating 2,000, above 4,500 hotel rooms which will rent for not more than $21 weekly, and on its top (65th) story a hospital. Within it drinking and smoking, and possibly Sunday journals, will be forbidden. Ten percent of its earnings will go to support a medical mission at Lake Victoria Nyanza, in Africa. The builder is a realtor named Oscar E. Konkle. The site is close to those of the Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, International House and the site of the proposed Park Avenue Baptist Church.