flowed with water and thousands and thousands of acres of which are almost impassable swamp, are to be brought under cultivation. Florida is to become a much more wonderful State even than it has been heretofore and that means a good deal. The Technical World Magazine has an article by A. B. Clark on the work and the country, the difficulties in the way of saving this great acreage and the benefits which will accrue to the State from the carrying out of the enterprise.
“The importance of this immense undertaking can with difficulty be comprehended, ” says the writer. “It is estimated in figures which can scarcely be understood by the ordinary mind. The reclamation of this land means the addition to Florida of nearly as much cultivated land as she now has. It will mean the throwing open to cultivation of an area twice as large as the State of Connecticut. It means that Florida will become the sugar-producing State of the Union, and that for her sugar products the $150, 000, 000 will be paid which is now annually sent abroad for imported sugar, an amount expended for an import which exceeds by several million dollars the value of our united exports of corn, wheat, flour, beef and naval stores. It means that Florida will in a few years become one of the richest and most important States in the Union. ”
Rotunda of the New York Customhouse. — In the new Custom-house in New York City the large dome surmounting the interior rotunda is constructed entirely of
fireproof flat terra-cotta tiles, and the total absence of. any metal for supporting this elliptical dome shows the great cohesive power of flat tiles when laid in cement mortar. The dome is So feet by 135 feet in size, and supports on its summit a skylight of glass and metal whose total weight is 140 tons. The tiles used for this purpose are 12 inches in length, 6 inches in width, and about 1 inch in thickness. They are laid on edge, and form a perfect curve. The supporting walls of this rotunda are built of brick up to the lower part of the dome. A massive flat ring of steel is fitted on the top of this brick-work and imbedded in it, and from this the dome springs. The foundations of the dome are of solid, flat tiles cemented together on their edges, but after a few courses an outer and inner shell is formed. Nine layers of I-inch flat tiles form the lower courses; but as the curvature of the dome is reached, one course after another is omitted until near the middle there are only three layers of tiles for each shell, leaving an open space between them. —The Building News.
Tree-Planting by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. — It was learned yesterday that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, impressed with the necessity of providing a future source of supply for the five million railroad ties used annually on its system, was about to undertake what is said to be the most extensive private forest planting on record, and that altogether 2, 250, 000 red oak, Scotch pine, chest
nut, locust and catalpa trees would be set out by the company’s agents this spring. The total area to be planted, it was said, was about a thousand acres at Mount Union, Altoona and Holidaysburg, Pa. In explanation it was said that ties had been getting scarcer and more expensive every year, and that the company thought it best to insure itself a proper supply, say, in twenty years, when it was expected that some of the trees would be large enough to cut for ties. The Scotch pine and red oak trees will not be suitable for cutting for about thirty or forty years, but they are said to make the best ties. — New York Tribune.
The Parliament House at Edinburgh. — Parliament House, Edinburgh, in which the convention of Royal Burghs is now sitting, is one of the cheapest houses of Parliament ever built. Begun in the middle of the seventeenth century, it took nearly ten years to construct, at a cost of under £12, 000. For seventy years, up till 1707, the Scottish Parliament made the building its meeting place. In that year came the “end o’ the auld sang, ” and the Scots Parliament handed over its rights to the Court of Session, which has since administered justice within its walls. It is fitting that in the bi-centenary years of the Union the immemorial convention of Royal Burghs should meet within the historic walls. Vastly different, however, is the building in its modern character of a court of justice from the old “talking shop. ” Practically the only part that has remained
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of every other standard make, we have just shipped forty=six 30-inch Burt Ventilators to the Warwick
Mills, Centerville, R. I., one of the largest textile mills in the East. Besides perfect and satisfactory
operation at all times, Burt Ventilators, in the opinion of the actual user, possesses the advantages of having every necessary and advance feature. (See engravings. )
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after proving their superiority in the above case, were selected by the mill architects, to be used on the large plant of the Grinnel Mfg. Corporation, New Bedford, Mass., for which we have just received an order for thirty=three 30-inch Burt Ventilators. “The best advertisement is the satisfied customer. ”
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“The importance of this immense undertaking can with difficulty be comprehended, ” says the writer. “It is estimated in figures which can scarcely be understood by the ordinary mind. The reclamation of this land means the addition to Florida of nearly as much cultivated land as she now has. It will mean the throwing open to cultivation of an area twice as large as the State of Connecticut. It means that Florida will become the sugar-producing State of the Union, and that for her sugar products the $150, 000, 000 will be paid which is now annually sent abroad for imported sugar, an amount expended for an import which exceeds by several million dollars the value of our united exports of corn, wheat, flour, beef and naval stores. It means that Florida will in a few years become one of the richest and most important States in the Union. ”
Rotunda of the New York Customhouse. — In the new Custom-house in New York City the large dome surmounting the interior rotunda is constructed entirely of
fireproof flat terra-cotta tiles, and the total absence of. any metal for supporting this elliptical dome shows the great cohesive power of flat tiles when laid in cement mortar. The dome is So feet by 135 feet in size, and supports on its summit a skylight of glass and metal whose total weight is 140 tons. The tiles used for this purpose are 12 inches in length, 6 inches in width, and about 1 inch in thickness. They are laid on edge, and form a perfect curve. The supporting walls of this rotunda are built of brick up to the lower part of the dome. A massive flat ring of steel is fitted on the top of this brick-work and imbedded in it, and from this the dome springs. The foundations of the dome are of solid, flat tiles cemented together on their edges, but after a few courses an outer and inner shell is formed. Nine layers of I-inch flat tiles form the lower courses; but as the curvature of the dome is reached, one course after another is omitted until near the middle there are only three layers of tiles for each shell, leaving an open space between them. —The Building News.
Tree-Planting by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. — It was learned yesterday that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, impressed with the necessity of providing a future source of supply for the five million railroad ties used annually on its system, was about to undertake what is said to be the most extensive private forest planting on record, and that altogether 2, 250, 000 red oak, Scotch pine, chest
nut, locust and catalpa trees would be set out by the company’s agents this spring. The total area to be planted, it was said, was about a thousand acres at Mount Union, Altoona and Holidaysburg, Pa. In explanation it was said that ties had been getting scarcer and more expensive every year, and that the company thought it best to insure itself a proper supply, say, in twenty years, when it was expected that some of the trees would be large enough to cut for ties. The Scotch pine and red oak trees will not be suitable for cutting for about thirty or forty years, but they are said to make the best ties. — New York Tribune.
The Parliament House at Edinburgh. — Parliament House, Edinburgh, in which the convention of Royal Burghs is now sitting, is one of the cheapest houses of Parliament ever built. Begun in the middle of the seventeenth century, it took nearly ten years to construct, at a cost of under £12, 000. For seventy years, up till 1707, the Scottish Parliament made the building its meeting place. In that year came the “end o’ the auld sang, ” and the Scots Parliament handed over its rights to the Court of Session, which has since administered justice within its walls. It is fitting that in the bi-centenary years of the Union the immemorial convention of Royal Burghs should meet within the historic walls. Vastly different, however, is the building in its modern character of a court of justice from the old “talking shop. ” Practically the only part that has remained
With the Competition
of every other standard make, we have just shipped forty=six 30-inch Burt Ventilators to the Warwick
Mills, Centerville, R. I., one of the largest textile mills in the East. Besides perfect and satisfactory
operation at all times, Burt Ventilators, in the opinion of the actual user, possesses the advantages of having every necessary and advance feature. (See engravings. )
Burt Ventilators
after proving their superiority in the above case, were selected by the mill architects, to be used on the large plant of the Grinnel Mfg. Corporation, New Bedford, Mass., for which we have just received an order for thirty=three 30-inch Burt Ventilators. “The best advertisement is the satisfied customer. ”
Send today for our handsome 64-page general catalogue — it is free.
The Burt Mfg. Co., 550 Main St., Akron, 0.
Largest Manufacturers of Oil Filters and Exhaust Heads in the World. Notice Sliding Sleeve Damper. Patented.
Notice Sliding Sleeve Damper. Patented.