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Floor Tests
The following floor test was made in an end of "24" building which many engineers said would have to be torn down : The floors in this end of the building had not been strengthened in any way since the fire, so that the figures obtained from this test would be low in comparison with tests made where the damage was not so great. Although the columns and beams were badly cracked, a test load of 200 pounds per square foot was placed upon them for several days. The floors, columns and beams all held under this great strain, which totaled 135,000 pounds on an area 45'xi5' or 675 square feet. This test load was more than twice the weight of any machinery used on that floor, but notwithstanding this even where the building was not nearly so badly damaged, the old construction is being reenforced with new. In many cases the old construction which has been reenforced is stronger than it ordinarily was. This is especially true of the floors under the ovens and presses. It is there that the floors undergo their greatest strain of ninety pounds per square foot. It is interesting to note that although all this heavy machinery went through the fire it did not break through the floor in a single case, and most of it could be easily repaired.
Another floor test was conducted in building No. 11 with practically the same result. The load in this case was 300 pounds per square foot.
A remarkable instance of the great strength of concrete was when in the course of the fire, from a cause as yet not definitely established, a portion of the two top floors of building
No. II, with all their machinery, collapsed and fell three floors. Although this great weight fell about thirty feet, the columns, beams and floor of the third floor withstood the impact. Engineers cannot understand the cause of the collapse any more than they understand how the fireswept second floor withstood the tremendous strain to which it was subjected. It is remarkable that this small portion was the only concrete construction which collapsed, while brick, corrugated iron and other types of buildings were reduced to piles of wreckage.
Stolen from the Edison Club Banquet Program
Take it from one who knows — the night of the fire was the first time the fourth floor of the office building was ever heated.
(Jake Unger done this.)
Honest, did you ever believe that there was the capacity in us for hustling that the fire brought out?
Or, rather, that the fire made necessary — and ''The Old Man" brought out?
Bill Cheshire weighed himself the day he returned from the "Lab" to his regular job and got the scare of his young life.
The scale didn't register !
Al Wttrth is smoking mighty fine cigars lately.
There's a reason.
Ask Chief Hayes which commercial was manufactured first — Disc or Amberol —
And zi'ho paid the Dollar ?
Q. Is it possible to work the farm papers