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Died. Jacob ("Jake") Volk, 56, of Brooklyn, N. Y., potent razer, Russian-born butcher's son; of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. Razer Volk began with a horse and wagon; ended with a swift demolishing squad. He razed more than 2,500 buildings, including Delmonico's famed restaurant and the homes of Vanderbilts. He cleared the ground for the Woolworth Building, Equitable Building, N. Y. Cotton Exchange, Bankers Trust Co. When he razed the 13-story Chemical National Bank in downtown Manhattan he displayed a sign: "JACOB VOLK-THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN WALL STREET." His fondest dream...
...Wreck the steam shovels! And while you're at it, raze Hemenway and choke the subway with its bricks...
...discovery of a bomb large enough to raze a five-story building beside an elevated railway pillar...
...buyer at $1. Twelve years ago the staircase cost $150,000. Today it could hardly be duplicated for twice that sum. But because modern homes want no white marble staircases, because the labor of removing this one intact would cost thousands of dollars, the wrecking company which will raze Judge Gary's home to the ground to make way for a large co-operative apartment house, has decided to pound the marble staircase to pieces and dump the blocks into Long Island swamps. Two Tudor ceilings, a green lacquer and crystal tea room, marble and hardwood floors, will...
Bramante was the architect who persuaded the Pope to raze the old Church of St Peter, planning another which should be the greatest of the world, and it was according to his plans that the new foundations were laid. Raphael, Peruzzi, Michael Angelo and Juleano San Gallo, his successors, however, altered his plans so that little of the present edifice may be attributed...