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EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY, JANUARY, 1915
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left end. 3. Buildings of Edison Storage Battery Company, in which the office force and many of the factory . 5. The Film Plant. 6. About where the fire started. 7. Printed Matter Stock Room of the Advertising lich master molds were stored; saved by heroic effort.
solid concrete dividing walls on various floors. In no instance was this more obvious than in the Administration Building. The solid walls which enclosed the large vault on each floor acted as a barrier to the progress of the flames. To an observer, intently watching this building during the fire, it was evident that the flames for a long time with difficulty got beyond these solid walls, and then only in an indirect way. The vaults proved their worth, for contents stored in them came through the fire unharmed. But the ordinary six inch thick "plaster block" partitions between office rooms were of little value as a fire precaution. They easily succumbed to the intense heat and rush of fire draft. Still another instance of the value of solid concrete transverse walls, was that of the Advertising Printed Matter Store Room, located on the ground floor of one of the huge con
crete buildings. In this room was kept the printed matter, catalogs, envelopes and stationery. Although the entire structure, five stories high and several hundred feet in extent, was completely burned out, this room suffered no harm by fire or water. Fire raged fiercely on three sides and yet the room was found intact and contents uninjured. The one weak point apparently in the construction of the Edison plant was the wooden windowsash and the ordinary window-glass. Had these frames been of steel and the glass of the "wire" kind there would have been little chance for one building to take fire from an adjoining one. But once the fire had destroyed the frames, snapped the glass and broken inside, there was little chance of successfully fighting the flames. Mr. Edison fully realizes this defect in construction and ha3 given orders that every building of concrete con