The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-18
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During storms.
Those up~-to-date people in Chicago
VINO inhabit the tip-top OF the highest
OF h many skyscrapers profess to be
contented with their lot to
I'VE 30 nigh IT was whispered about
snat some OF them were on the alert
thursday evening when the storm
swept over the city. but not one OF
them would confess. They all avowed
feeling safer on the 18th floor or there
aoouts than on the first. second or third
moor al nome on the same night
But a dh.gent search revealed con-
vincing proof that the s~kyscrapers
trembied as usual in the teeth OF the
gale. and even that some of the tip
top tenants" were so Interested in the
vibrations as to confde their roubles
to the elevator boys.
In addition to the personal exper-
fences there were several results of the
storm which showed how much the high
buildings vibrated.
One result the public already knows
that the governments official clock In
the Chicago branch Of the photographic
once on the 18th floor OF the Masonic
Temple was stopped by the m
sent along the steel nerves of the mon
ster structure by the gale. Speaking of
MS incident, Lieutenant w. j. Wilson
said:
During hard storms the clock that
wal stopped by Tuesdays storm is al
ways considerably affected by the vi
brations of the building. The clock ticks
north and south. II the gale strikes the
building from the west. northwest.
northeast or east. II so shakes the big
structure as to throw the pendulum OF
the clock as to give IL a circular motion.
In the case of a very strong gale like
that OF Tuesday and OF May. 1894. which
also stopped this clock. the vibrating
building cnmnolS tho nandultfnn In CuCh
a large circle as to stop the clock.
II have always noticed that the Tenn
pie viorates when a very high wind Is
blowing. But I think the effect is a
most natural consequence, and i should
be more afraid. ! think. II the Temple
did not shake at all in a storm. 1 am
sure the trembling Indicates no struc-
tural weakness at ALL"
An equally remarkable proof of the
vibration of the tall temple In a storm
was discovered in another room. No.
1913. on the 18th floor. This proof is in
the form of an old cicck. about six feet
high. which hangs on the wall. All the
works of this clock except the long
pendulum w been removed.
When the wind blows a gale against
the Masonic Temple his solitary old
pendulum Is set s%waying as II the clock
the wind is high and not blowing a gale
this old clock faithfully tells of the
trembling of the great building by the
gentle swaying of the pendulum.
Tuesday the pendulum went back
and forth for six inches or more" said
Emil n. Lutz. an eneraver. who uses
part Of the office. and even the next
day after the wind had one Town a
good deal the pendulum still swung n
showed that the building vlbrated."
In a towering building at the corner
of State n Washington streets it was
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sometimes seriously interferes with the
business of chemists, apothecaries and
others who use extremely sensitive
scales.
In the course OF a call upon a doctor
who Is a tenant on the top floor of this
steel-and-glass towerlike building an
apothecary whose rooms were several
floors below aid that his scales during
Tuesdays storm bobbed up n down
as II spooks were playing with them.
He attributed this entirely to the vibra-
ton of the building. The Information
also was given that certain chemists
had removed from high buildings be-
cause of the effect of their vibration
upon their sensitive scales.
Away up in the ornamental tower
which is called the tr'h floor of tho CO.
lumbus Memorial building. across State
street from the Reliance. sit -four dia-
mond cutters at work day after day.
,ht' thtI NiBAbp obliit tits near Nbt
winds wild roar. but the noise of the
great thoroughfare comes up to them
only as the still. sad music of human
ity." the far hum Of city life.
On the 14th floor of the same build
ing a young man in an architects Of
fee said hat smoke, combined with
low-hanging clouds. sometimes envel-
oped the top of the building and caused
fear of a cyclone.
Occasionally" said the young man,
at happens that men who are up here
on business during n of those dark
moments become pretty thoroughly
frightened"
A lawyer who has an office on the
18th floor of a Dearborn street building
declared that he never noticed hat a
storm shook the building. He said he
could feel the structure tremble when
a heavy object fell to the floor. but
never the effect of an assault by the
elements.
II did not know how hard the wind
was blowing Tuesday evening until I
left the building to go home" he said.
"And as for my experience up here in
general, I like II. ] am on the 18th floor
now and " the building was 20 stories
high / should nov up to the goth