. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast. rooms in addition to the gallery and court. Noneof the rooms will be papered; the hollow tile walls have a sand finish, sothat they can be painted in any color. The cost of a fire-proof home is estimated as only 10 per cent greaterthan the cost of a frame building of the same size and style. The savingcomes in the form of lower insurance rates and fewer repairs. The tilewalls being non-conductors of heat, make the house warmer in winter andcooler in summer than a frame house. This is responsible for a consid-erable savins; in fuel
. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast. rooms in addition to the gallery and court. Noneof the rooms will be papered; the hollow tile walls have a sand finish, sothat they can be painted in any color. The cost of a fire-proof home is estimated as only 10 per cent greaterthan the cost of a frame building of the same size and style. The savingcomes in the form of lower insurance rates and fewer repairs. The tilewalls being non-conductors of heat, make the house warmer in winter andcooler in summer than a frame house. This is responsible for a consid-erable savins; in fuel bills. How We Forget Experiments have proved that the average forgettery works veryfast. Within twenty minutes we forget -!0 per cent of our present experi-ence; after thirty minutes. 50 per cent: after two days, 72 per cent: afterthirty days, 80 per cent. No wonder it is necessary to keep at it. and keep at it. in order to makeadvertising a success: that is. in order to remind the public that you wantthem to buy your goods. I he . Irchitect and Engineer 65. Shelving i False Wort for New St Rapid Bridge Construction Under AdverseConditions By O. J. CROSSFIELD.* THE cuts shown herewith represent a 200-foot combination span, erectedby the Thomson Bridge Company for the Hume-Bennett LumberCompany of Sanger, California, across the Kings river, about thirty-five miles above Sanger. The contract for this bridge was taken on June 6, lMO. with the under-standing that the structure sin mid be finished within twenty days, or byJune 26, 1910. At the time of taking this contract the plans for the structure had notbeen made. John B. Leonard, the consulting engineer, was the designer of thestructure, while the Pacific Rolling Mill Company furnished all the steel,castings and bolts. The Hume-Bennett Lumber Company furnished allthe material for the false work. The lumber for the false work was brought down the broken-off flume,which is represented above the new structure, and was handled from
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