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Show i F1RB PROOF BUILDINGS. Tho lire has demonstrated that no I huildiug can bo called lire-proof which 1 has any woodwork in its composition, or which has iron columns supporting either the walls or the floors, or which t6 not provided with out.-idc or inside ! iron shutters. An ordinary fire-proof buildiDg may resist ordinary Ores, especially if it have some assistance) from the lire department, but if it bo left to take care of iUclf while the whole cily is burning, it will bo ruiued . Lf '113 floors consist of wood, even 1 though they be laid in cement. It will be more completely ruined if its doors and windows and roof are of wood, 'even though they bo encased with 1 metal. Notwithstanding tho prccau-' prccau-' tions taken in the construction of the . Tribune building there was heat enough generated in it to melt glass j two inches in thickness. This heat was 1 produced by the sudden combustion of 1 all the wood-work iu it, aided by the fierce draft caused by the hurricano of I wind which prevailed at the time. Cliicago Trilim. |
