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Show ROCKEFELLER AND HIS REDHOT COALS Tarrytown, N Y., Feb. 27 The contractors con-tractors who have begun the Job of lalsing the roof of John D. Rockefeller's Rockefel-ler's npw house at Pocantlco Hills, are puzzled by the problem of removing remov-ing a three-ton concrotc mass from the top of the massive chimney in the center of tho house. t This chimney is so large, that when ii wns first put in use, it sucked tho redhot coals out of the furnace and shot them up Into the air like a volcano. vol-cano. Mr. Rockefeller's home stands on a hill and the chimney has an exceptionally ex-ceptionally strong draught Besides being impossible to keep a fire under the boiler, there was danger of the roof catching fire. The architects decided to put fire-prool( fire-prool( lining In the flue to reduce its size, nnd then a three-ton cement cap was placed on lop of iL This solved the coal problem. Now the contract-o-s are puzzled as to the best way of getting the "concrete top down. It Is almost Impossible to use a derrick nnd blasting Is, of course, out of the question. |