Woolworth, F: Dinner Given to Cass Gilbert, Architect (Class -

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Excerpt from Dinner Given to Cass Gilbert, Architect In the banqueting-hall the eight hundred guests leaped to their feet with an irrepressible cheer. Outside, in Broadway and historic City Hall Park, the thousands who had been patiently awaiting this mo ment, first gasped, then shouted their admiration, as the wonderful Woolworth Building sprang into full view against the blackness of the night. Standing there, gazing up, up, up to the summit of the sixty storied edifice, towering in silent majesty and en thralling beauty over the lesser, but still impressive, piles of lower Manhattan Island, not one among the multitude of fascinated onlookers failed in that awe inspiring instant to understand why the President of the United Sates had consented to participate in the opening ceremonies. It was, after all, something far more than a mere office-building at which they were gazing. It was the highest and one of the most beautiful structures ever erected for the daily occupancy of man - the highest structure of any sort in the world, excepting only the Eiffel Tower in Paris - and it was a structure erected on American soil, in accordance with thefiashmi to President Wilson in Washington a tele graphic message, announcing that everything was in readiness for him to open the building. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.