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EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY, JANUARY, 19 IS
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PROGRESS ALREADY MADE IN REBUILDING
THE work of reconstruction goes steadily on day and night with a large force of men. Many of the burned buildings, windowless, are brilliantly illuminated at night, while the area burned is made light as day by several searchlights perched high on the burned structures. A wrecking train with huge steam derrick is constantly on hand and trains of loaded cars containing scrap iron are made up at frequent intervals. A couple of score or more of teams are also at work carting away the debris.
Although at this writing barely ten days have elapsed since the fire, an enormous amount of work has been done and the debris is nine-tenths removed. Reconstruction in all the burned buildings is under full swing. In some instances it was necessary to shore up from the outside the concrete pillars, particularly of the building used for manufacturing the motors and mechanism used in both disc and cylinder phonographs.
In the Administration Building many of the steel window frames are already in place, and this work is being pushed with all speed. It is altogether likely that in a month's time all the office force will be back again in their accustomed quarters in this building.
Thus far the weather, with the exception of few inclement nights, has been very favorable to the work in progress, and the absence of snow has
north end of Building No. 24, top floor.
been a great relief to those having the outside work in hand.
Every day photographs are taken of various locations showing the progress made in reconstruction, and these are submitted to the various heads as well as to Mr. Edison, that all may be fully appraised of the progress made.
Draftsmen are actively at work in the Laboratory drawing plans of new construction and interior plans for the various structures under repair. The facilities right at hand to aid in all these particulars makes short work of getting right down to the needs of the hour, and the rapidity with which each task is undertaken and finished is, in itself, one of the most encouraging features in the work of up-building.
By working day and night in the unused floor space of the Edison Storage Battery Building, which was not touched by the flames, much. work is being done in cleaning up and repairing the vast quantity of machinery saved. In a very short space of time this machinery will be in operation, and then the work of manufacturing will go forward with energy.
Much of the manufactured parts used in Edison Phonographs, but not "assembled'' into complete machines, was also saved, and this is being rapidly assorted and cleaned. Again the value of solid concrete walls as evidenced for these "parts" were readily found in the places assigned them in the various stock rooms in the burned buildings.
The excellent facilities afforded by the Storage