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Second Avenue and the 42. story L..C. Smith Bldg.The highest and finest and most representative Office Building in the world outside of new York City. The massive fireproff structure weighs 72,650 tons, resting on 1,276 concrete Piler driven 30 feet into the earth. Adjoining the observatory in the Tower is the famous Chines Room finished in hardCaryed teak by native workmen and contianing hundreds of tablets replicats of those in historic Chines temples, bronze lanterns and gorgeous, carved Cristal furniture. Thousands of sightseers, vist the Chinese Room and Observtory, form which a wonderful view in qatained of Snow clad mountains the Sound lakes and green Forest. At might 42 grant searchlights flood the entire peak with a blaze of silver white light, and surmounting all is the great electrically lighted ball. ten feet in diameter, serving as a bencon for all the ships entering the Seattle harbor. |
