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Show FIREPROOF MATERIAL IS GIVEN THOROUGH TEST For the purpose of demonstrating the non-conductibility of heat, of the Sack-ctt Sack-ctt plaster board and jjypsinitc studding, stud-ding, a remarkable experiment was conducted con-ducted Friday afternoon before a crowd of interested onlookers on State street alongside the Tndcpendont Telephone building. Building Inspector Jlirth, Chief Barlow of the police department. Chief Gore of the tiro department, W. .7. Burton of the Burton Coal and Lumber Lum-ber company and many other spectators specta-tors interested in the building line gathered about Charles W. Young of Omaha, who conducted the experiment A section of the fireproof partition wall, built to represent a room, wns set up on tho ground and a brick wall built completely around it. The inner section, sec-tion, representing tho fireproof room, was four inches in width, one foot in length and one foot high. The center of this was Oiled with newspapers saturated with kerosene and the top covered with fire brick. Tho outsido space, measuring nbout four feet in the clear, was filled with pine blocks saturated satu-rated with kerosene. Mr.-Young then set fire to the wood, and, after a raging fire of twenty-fivo minutes' duration, water was thrown upon the fireproof wnll. When the bricks covering its top wore removed, the paper which had been surrounded with tho heat was found only sliuhtlv scorched. . . . . |