Show UNIQUE WATER TOWER BUILT OF CONCRETE T HERE Is now nearinG completion THERE 1 1 in Uccle a n suburb of oC Brussels Bel glum a concrete water tower of or striking strIkIng striking ing and graceful proportions and of oC Interesting construction As an nn ox ample of at tho the artistic In concrete block construction It probably has no equal eIther cither In this country or in any other part of at Europe The tower and tank have havo a height of or feet and the latter has a n capacity of 01 gallons Callons The Tho structure Is cir clr circular circular cular oular and Is built entirely of oC concrete blocks and without molding of at any kind excepting that used in tho the build building buildIng buildIng ing of or the tho concrete reinforcing struts surrounding the base baso of tho the tank prop proper or er The Tho Inside of oC the tower Is built up In practically six stories connected by bya a winding stairway These different floors are aro divided Into rooms Tho The stairways are placed along alon the outer walls and the water mains In tho the center are arc enclosed by a concrete cov coy covering coverinG ering of or square cross section The tank will have hao a concrete can creta top tho center of oC which will ihl rest on a continuation ot of the tho water mains or pipes Excel Excellent Excellent lent light Is afforded ed the apartments by largo large windows The most Interesting feature of oC tho the structure aside from tram its artistic merit Is the manner In III which it Is built up by the tho aid of concrete blocks says sars Cement Age Ago These blocks block aro of a now and peculiar design and amid arc aro made mado In a n small steel form usually on em tho time ground round they the aro are to be employed Tue blocks were placed pieced in horizontal courses and were welo handled from the In Inside InsIde inside side where a light scaffolding was necessary They were reinforced with three small round rods rod not so flO much for their permanent reinforcement as ns asto asto to prevent breaking In handling Tho The number of In n each ench course al ai always ways remain the same samo but they arc are placed In tho the opposite direction In each fach succeeding succeed In course That Is to say sa saho the tho blocks of the tho oven even courses will take one direction around tho the tower and those thoe of or tho the odd courses will have havo the opposite direction In this maner maneI tho the Joining of or the blocks of one ono course courso where they do not meet perfectly will willbe willbe willbe be covered by b the tho blocks above and below Each block has as ps one ono of or Its extremities a hook similar to the letter U This hook forms torms a Il hollow I space which extends the ill full length of or ortho tho the structure and of course there thero will willbe willbe be Just BO so many of these hollow spaces as q there thero are sides to the tho tower or 32 I Through these vertical hollow spaces aro placed steel s reinforcing rods rode of at circular cross section and varying In diameter according to their location In Inthe Inthe Inthe the This Tills Is not net tho the only rein reinforcing reinforcing forcing which tho the blocks have how however however ever eer as there Is a series of small rods placed on top of oC each course and ex cx extending extending tending round around the entire 32 blocks In Inthe inthe the tho course A very er clever clover Idea Irlea In connection with tho the design of ot the tho blocks Is that there thero Is need of or only two or three sizes of or blocks for tho the entire structure al ni although though It has hoa a considerable taper In other words the taper of or tho the tower Is taken up In an Ingenious manner by b utilizing the hook In tho the blocks The ends of the long hong arms of oC the blocks of oC tho the first course aro are placed Just to tho the Inside tho the hook In the block next Jo o ot oit It t and then In the next course tho the arms ore are placed a little farther Into tho the hooks and so on until the tho top Is reach reached ed Thus each succeeding succeed Ins course has hasa a slightly smaller diameter than the theono theono theone ono one preceding It The same form torm of or construction has hns been used In Europe In connection with chimneys and lies has boon been found well adapted to them |