Pulp and paper magazine of Canada . W. .loues, of Milton, New Hampshire being the engineer. The building isof reinforced concrete excepting for awooden roof carried on trusses of the samematerial. The window frames and sashesare also of wood. The blaze started below the machineroom floor in the main building and setfire to the wooden paneling between thepiers forming the outside wall of the lowerstorey of the building. The burning panels hirly interesting test of the effect of fireon reinforced concrete work. On May 26th, Norton C. Tuttle, secre-tary of the Aberthaw Construction Co., ex-amined
Pulp and paper magazine of Canada . W. .loues, of Milton, New Hampshire being the engineer. The building isof reinforced concrete excepting for awooden roof carried on trusses of the samematerial. The window frames and sashesare also of wood. The blaze started below the machineroom floor in the main building and setfire to the wooden paneling between thepiers forming the outside wall of the lowerstorey of the building. The burning panels hirly interesting test of the effect of fireon reinforced concrete work. On May 26th, Norton C. Tuttle, secre-tary of the Aberthaw Construction Co., ex-amined the building with Seth A. Moul-ton, of Portland, Maine, the engineer incharge of the rebuilding, and tne lattermade many shrewd suggestions as to thecause of some of the results observed. Afew days later the engineer and superin-tendent of the Aberthaw Construction a careful investigation and reportwhich is embodied herewith. The fire started under the first floorin the middle of the building (Fig. 1). 4. /2r 15 Cracks m. Fronf Ekvafion Front Elevation SideEk/ation Pief a7 P ? e r a 3 Front ElevationPier a6 Em© HvJ^ set fire to the wooden sash of the windowof the second storey and from there setfire to the roof and to a wood and plastergallery which was located along the sideof the mill. The fire was extremely hot, there beinga large quantity of dry pulp board piledinside the building and which burned atthe same time. The intenseness of heat wasso great that it bent and partly meltedcast iron. Stream of water were partly meltedat the hot surface wth considerable forceand altogether the fire offered a particu- As far as could be observed the principaleffect of the heat was to expand the floorcausing a movement of the column. Itwas reported that on the morning of the26th the end wall of the mill was ob-servably out of plumb. At that time theconcrete was generally so hot that onecould not stand putting his hand on it out-side of the building. Later on, this par-ticular w
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