NEW YORK'S FIRST SKYSCRAPER TO BE DEMOLISHED

NEW YORK, January 17 (special dispatch). New York's first skyscraper, which caused general amazement when it was built forty years ago, the famous "Mills Building" on Wall Street, is to fall under the demolitionists' pickaxe. It seems very modest today with its ten stories. but it was considered at the time to be an architectural feat. It was first founded on wooden piles, but it was found that they were insufficient, and it was necessary, when the building was completed, to reinforce them with additional supports.
The Mills Building was long occupied by the J. P. Morgan bank, then by the Equitable Trust Company. which proposes to build in its place a thirty-four-story building at a cost of $10,000,000.