The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-06

noNsu LOT one one side OF the building.
put IL required very stiff bracing and
hundreds OF tons of solid steel plates, and
trusseu orders were built into the walls
between the columns for this purpose.
steer was used that would sustain a
load of 5000 pounds per square inch and
stretch % or 30 per cent beyond its orfgi-
nal length before breaking, but in no
case were the accurately calculated loads
allowed TO strain il more than one-fourth
OF one-nfth part OF its ultimate strength
THE MEN AT WORK
The most noticeable feature of construc-
ton was doubtless the skill and rapidity
,w-ts which the trained erectors assem-
bled the great steel girders and columns
although there were several thousand
pieces ana hundreds of them looked very
much alike each one was taken without
hesitation. usually as soon as it arrived,
rap-di- ana silently hoisted, perhaps 20
rect nigh, and set in its place, where
half a dozen workmen would be waiting
to securely bolt it, ard another party foi-
low to drive the rivets. the men feariessiy
walking and running on narrow, springing
plank, or slender slippery beams, or
swinging heavy sledgeS from precdrlOuS
platforms as much as 900 feet high Some
tines a workman would ride up on the
Stone or iron that was being hoisted from
/ TIE end of the derrick boom, swaying
I back and forth over the crowded street.
and sometimes he would slide down a
rope or stand on a loose pulley block and
let 1t descend by ''overhauling the tackle
re. yet such was their confidence and
StSSQiieSS that no serious accluent or any
kind occurred either to the workmen or
10 the thousands of people passing be-
meath them in the streets sometimes,
however. the men grow too reckless. as
in Buffalo. not long ago, when two men
working on a narrow iron beam of an
ur- er story OF a high building, came 10
bios ana one neii Oft and was miracu-
lousy caught in the loops OF a rope many
feet below, which saved his life
Steam for heating the building and
operating its pumps is purchased from
tie New York Steam company, VINO de-
Ve-op il in great batteries OF boilers sew
eral thousand feet away, bring 1t in great
Underground mains, measure through
special meters and thus effects valuable
economy OF space in dispensing with boil
ers. coal, etc.
N eiectr-c current is taken from the
street condutts, and operates about l,ouO
lamps besides driving the motors tnat
run the passenger elevators that travel 10
stories from pavement to roof in about -
seconds at maximum speed or 4VO ieet
per minute. powerful steam pump
raises water from the cellar TO the 4,OOo-
.llcn iron storage tanks 80 Ieet above
lee street mains, whence 1t Is suppied
to toilet looms and TO the orfices, etc, al
a maximum pressure or lyO pounds per
square inch. a f0ur-inch steel nre mann
extends from cellar TO roof with branches
in every corridor, having valves, nre nose
and nOZZieS that will COMMAND every
portion of the building and deiuge it with /
water from the roof tank, WINE at the I
same time the moment the valve IS /
opened the decrease IN pressure automat-
ically turns steam into large flre pump /
and forces powerful stream up from tne 4
bottom well.
In Boston some of the tall buildings |
are provided with an outside fre system /
Also which consists of a vertical pipe /
terminating at the roof level IN a special
nozzle from which fan-shapcd sheet OF /
water can be thrown so as 10 fall in a |
th.r curtain OF water 40 feet '-.de, pro-
tecting the whole front or side o. build
ing tom an adjacent fire. I
On May l, 1885, the tenats were removed
from the building that formerly occupied
this site and few days before May l,
1897 the new Gillender building received
its tenants. The site of the building IS
valued at s750.Ug0. and the cost OF the
building Itself has been about SoOO,uv9. m
Guiding the cost of expensive machinery
and equipment remarkable ngures, con-
siderIn- the difficulties o. the work, It's
rapid execution and that me cost OF SIM
liar though larger buildings has been IN
the millions
II s no wonder that it has been pre-.
dicted that these gigantic towers VIII
eventually transform broad and AIRY
streets TO the semblance OF close, dark
CANYONS that will finally become tunnels
when the enormously concentrated tranc
IS so congested that elevated platforms
are required across the whole width OF
the street to provide Second-story side
walks for pedestrians Such fears may,
however. be treasured by the laws that
have been passed in nearly all our large
cities, regulating the maximum nelGths
of buildings.