From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9855 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Saturday, October 8 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9855 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Morning Member Twist Helps You Gain 6 Inches ["Harold" Subject: Morning Member Twist Helps You Gain 6 Inches Morning Member Twist Helps You Gain 6 Inches http://savagegrowpluszy.today/oUW1KYfoVq5tdACWQJ06miS3VjbX5dTPA6SctQHPMaoKzcurig http://savagegrowpluszy.today/JUIbvx3ghACv3O6mZgihxmw7Awg8TzhZ4q-ZfQKdnFaHqgyASA ials wished to have complete control over spending for the new custom house building. Originally, the Chamber of Commerce and many business interests advocated for erecting a new custom house on the Wall Street site, even though it was less than half the size of the proposed Bowling Green site. In 1897, Senator Thomas C. Platt and Representative Lemuel E. Quigg, both Republicans, proposed bills in the United States Senate and House of Representatives for building a new custom house at Wall Street, with Platt's bill calling for a five-person commission to oversee the process. The bills died at the end of the 54th United States Congress in March 1897. During the 55th Congress in February 1898, legislation for the acquisition of the Bowling Green site was again proposed in the U.S. House and Senate, providing $5 million (about $136 million in 2020) for land acquisition and construction. The U.S. House and Senate passed the Bowling Green bills the next year. At the time, most of the structures on the site were three-story houses used by steamship offices; by April, agreements had been made with most of the sixteen landowners. The federal government disbursed $2.2 million (about $59 million in 2020) to landowners at the Bowling Green site that June. Two months later, the old Custom House was sold for $3.21 million (about $87 million in 2020). Twenty firms were invited in May 1899 to submit designs to the competition under the terms of the Tarsney Act. The government stipulated that any plan include a ground-level basement and up to six stories, as well as a southward-facing light court above the third story. A committee of three men was appointed to look over the submissions. By September 1899, there were two finalists: architecture firm Carrere & Hastings and architect Cass Gilbert. After a plan for the two finalists to collaborate failed, Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor picke ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9855 **********************************************