The Unbuilt Imperial Skyscraper

A committee of Tacoma business men this afternoon started securing subscriptions for the Imperial building site for the skyscraper projected by A. P. Gillies. They declare the property will be secured in less than a week. Mr. Gillies has been assured by New York financiers that if the Tacoma people will put a certain amount of money in the site they will furnish the rest to build the building. Prominent business men of the Chamber of Commerce and Commercial club have taken hold of the proposition. Subscriptions are conditional; the subscriber will take stock and put up the money for the site when the New Yorkers put up the $6,000,000 for the building. Wednesday night, a franchise will be asked from the city council for the subway system of tunnels for making a great depot of the building with a railway extension. The tunnel will start at Day street and come in on East Twenty-Sixth to Pacific avenue, up under Pacific avenue to Ninth street, then will fork—one line crossing under private property to C street and the other going out through the bluff to the east side of the building in the half moon yards. They will proceed up to Division avenue and out Division in a straight line to Regents Park lake.