The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-06-22
MORE BAD BUILDINGS.
The Recent Disaster Has Sst People to
Talking Danger.

Talking Danger.
WAspINGTON, June I5.-The recent
disaster in this city has caused an inves
tigation of the government buildings and
il Is said many Of them are unsafe
Among them may be classed the print
| ing office, which is rambling series of
brick structures covering an area OF
about 30ON20O feet. 1t was constructed
| in 1851 and was then occupied by less
than 400 employees. From time TO
time additions have been made, but the
number OF employees and the amount
OF machinery have increased far more
rapidly than the accommodations. The
| li"st floor is used as Il paper warehouse
and press room, in which arc l25 large
! presses, many OF them running night
and day. The second floor is used rs a
composing room, and there hundreds
OF tons OF types IN Cha,cs and on heavy
marble inn Osing stones are kept staud-
inG all the year rOand. The third door
Is used rs Il bindcry and is loaded with
heavy hydraulic presses, ruling ma
chimes, numbering machines and tons
! ct books III various stages of binding and
Is loaded with scores OF iron folding ma.
rnlncS, hydraulic presses and enormous
/ quantities Of printed matter. The brick
walls OF the building arc all more OF
less OUT OF plum. and IN the attempts to
strengthen the building forests of iron
aud wo"dru pillars, stanchions aud
TlldcrS have been built INTO each floor.
! In the mann composing room alone no
rcSs than three hundred pillars are used
60 support the floor OF the binding de-
lartmcni. Every man and woman who
went to work in the government prin'
ln~ Once Saturday did so with fear aud
I trembling. Congress- in 1890 apprOprl-
aiGd 800, 600 tor the purchase of Il new
site, but Il question having been raised
rs To certain connecting claims or own
crshlp IN the property selected, the
tlltY.llrsL congress suspended the APP
preparation iudciinlt tlv. In the last
congress ano>h.r iucha ctull attempt
was made 10 secure tho much needed re-
! lci.
Nnr THE "NI.N PLACES.
The Government Printnx office IL
nui the Only dcalhlrap in w ashington.
! The Wlndcr building at the corner OF
Seventh and Gs streets, used by the
treasury and waNllc nartnlCntS - hardly
more suitable Il occupancy hy govern
mcnt clerks than therold Fords thcatcr
building. Is wallis are cracked and out
. oi punh It's II 'orS are slightly construct
pd aI'i It's upper stories rH packed with
; cnOrmOnS quantities ul files and heavy
docrmcnts. Ii The building should fall
every employee would BE- carried down
} under the weight oi the Documents in
: the upper stories.
: The old Bush building, now used by
the poStolh &c department, !s menace
| ~ I, ,I NO ,.l
employed in it. 1t is located on the
south side OF T.. street, opposite the
postollicG building, and is crowded from
top to bottom with files heavy Office
furniture and the weight of the employ
ccs coopcd up in Il space adcIut tie for
| only halt their number.
Even the interior department. build
! lng, mASSlyCly constructed ct marble
and ron, Is now IN such condition tnat
| ScCrC larV llOl;C Smith has issued an or
| der That the galleries on the Ninth and
& street sides ct the building be at once
rcllcvcd oi their contents which WI
| hereafter be stored IN the basement. A
| recent nspcCt' IN Of the building showed
that 1t has settled more than TWO inches
| cracking the ceiling and archways. and
rendering the supporting walls insecure.
Commissioner Seymour has OrdcrcI
coo tons Of the records removed to 9TH
cr parts OF the building, and an c.lort
will be made To induce congress TO pro-
vide Il, least an adequate storchousc for
the records of the office.
seven MurdoroH
tnAEIENTpN. =. G., Juue l3.-The
business Of the Bcrkeley Court Of Gen
cal Session was concluded yeStarday
morning with the sentencing Of the
prisoners convict of capital crimes.
Jesse Johnson, cOlOrcd, convicted of
manSIaughlrr, viz, killing Frank
Wilson at the Ten mile IIlll on the 7th
day OF May last. Sentenced to seven
years at hard labor IN the penitentiary.
Jerry llOrlbrCk and Robert Scott.
cOlOTcd, cnVIclrh Of the murder of Rob
crt lIa/rlI COlOrrd on tho 10Th of Feb.