Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-02

libraries. and schoolhouses; to these
may be added churches, hotels, and
theaters. In the year 1887, according
to the tables compiled by the 'Chroni.
Gle of New York, there was burned
within the limits of the United States
-45 hospitals, asylums, almshouses,
or jails, being nearly four per month,
in many cases accompanied by the loss
of large number of lives; 126 college
buildings and libraries, being ten and
half per month; LAG churches, being
two and eight-tenths per week. 50
theaters and opera-houses, being only
one per week; o15 hotels, being one
and four-tenths per day.
1.-The bad construction of these build
ings is due mainly to habit, to fear of
innovation, and to distrust of theory.
These inherited faults in construction
may be readily traced to their origin.
In order to make this matter plain,
the evolution of the modern factory.
will be fully described in this article,
illustrated by examples of the several
types of buildings which have been
from time to time constructed. When
the textile factory system was first
established, water power only was APP
piled to the movement of machinery.
The larger factories were thus custom
arily placed in narrow valleys or upon
very limited areas of land, below the
falls of rivers and alongside the
streams; it therefore became necessary
to economic the area of ground COW
evered by the factories and to build
them many stories in height. When
other arts began to be conducted upon
the factory system the buildings were
apt to be in cities or towns where the
price of land forbade large areas being
devoted to the purpose, and, again,
were constructed. AS time went on,
however, steam took the place of
water power, while cheap railway SER
vice or rapid transit made it possible
to scatter the factories over a wider
area.
Factory buildings then began to be
constructed in the open country, but
apparently it did not occur either to
the owners, the managers, the archi-
tects, or the builders that the reasons
for constructing a building many
stories in height did notapply to places
where land could be had at a very low
price; therefore the customary bad and
unsuitable form of construction was
adopted and is still practiced where it
is not only useless and unsafe, but less
adapted to the purpose to which the
building is to be put than one-story
building would be. Moreover, the
whole method of cutting timber having
been developed with view to the sup
ply of material required in the ordin-
airy unsafe and unsuitable method of
construction, it was for many years
difficult to obtain material cut in a
proper way for what has been called
the slow-burning use of timber. Hence
this name. If she did not know the
sopra1anonae of any one she saw, she in
vented one on the spur of the moment.
a dapper little gentleman who called
often she dubbed I'll Frustino," the
little whip; and a young lady who
walked rather gingerlY on her toes re-
ceived the SobrTquet of "Signorina
Tippi-Tappi;" but the climax was
reached when one day, a neighbours
daughter coming to call, whose red
hair did not suit the cooks taste, she
announced her quite audibly as LA
Brutta,;' the ugly woman.-AtJafatic.