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Show TALLEST THERMOMETER. Twenty-Foot Heat Indicator Attracts Hundreds of People to Store in Boston. Boston. Thoro nro thermometers and thermometers, but the largest ono in tho world nttracts hundreds of people peo-ple to Jnynes & Co.'e storo at Summer nnd South strotts. It Is not wholly n show thcrmo jietor, howover, for It works perfectly and marks tho variations varia-tions in tcmpordturo Just nbout as accurately ac-curately as ono of tho pretty nll-glnss Indicators. From top to bottom this gigantic thcrmoiMcr measures 20 feet The morcury tuao is a llttlo moro than 1G feet In length and VA Inches in diameter. di-ameter. Ton tubes wero broken by tho mnk-ers, mnk-ers, a Rochester, N. Y., concern, bo-fore bo-fore they succcoded In producing this ono nnd tlw tnsk Involved great difficulties. diffi-culties. It was packed with caro and every precaution to guard against hrcakago was taken when it was un-iiackod un-iiackod and set up. When It was finally final-ly In placo on tho building tho men In eharge breathed a sigh of relief. Tho graduated scalu over which tie tube Is conducted In tho work of somo ol the experts sent hero from Rochester, tho homo of thermometers of all styles and classes. Tho manufacturers of tho big thermometer ther-mometer say thoy know of no othor anywhoro that approaches it in bIzo with tho slnglo exception ot ono nt , '.ho World building, New York, and 'hat Is much smaller, In fact, Is only about half tho slzo of tho Summer street temperuturo recorder. |
