The Home Office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. is in the "Metropolitan Life Building." It covers the whole block between Madison and Fourth Avenues and from Twenty-third to Twenty-fourth streets: some twenty-five acres. Its forty-odd-story tower dominates the whole of Madison Square and dwarfs its neighbors of a meagre twenty stories. Above the level of their roofs the face of a giant clock covers three stories of its front and stares unwinking at the thousands in the park. To old women and to newsboys, to strong men and to wasters, to honest and to sick, to those who read the columns under "Help Wanted — Male," and to those who have gone far beyond doing so, to the restless and the lonely among the crowds, waiting for that thing to "turn up" that never, never does; to all these this ponderous clock points the passing of the minutes, hours, days, — of life itself: this clock, relentless as the sun, upon the Life Insurance tower.