The sun., 1901-12-19
Established 1929.
WILSON
WHISKEY
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THE WILSON DIsTrL1lNo 90.
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STEEL SNOkESTtCkS.
Many Of Them IN tse-Sta cks OF Any Size
Supplied In Short Order.

steel smokes,acks," said man who
| builds them, -are not quite 80 common as
stovepipes, but there are many thousands
OF them ranging in size mp to lofty stacks
ten and twelve feet in diameter, standing
in this country, and thousands of new ones
are built and set up every year.
'There are hundreds OF steel smokcstacks
! TO one OF bricks. The life Of a brick stack
\ is twenty times that of one Of steel, but the
steel stack costs far less TO begin with IL
can he far more easily transported, II
can be put up in practically no time at all.
and. for that matter, If II should be desirable,
II can be as readily taken down.
.Chimneys of the smaller diametcrs are
! kept in stock. like merchandise, and tn"
material for the larger chimneys IL kept on
! hand in such forward state Of preparation
that chimneys Of these sizes may be sup
Piled in very short order.
"For instance we keep smokes acks up
TO at least two feet in diameter al
ways on hand completed and ready for
delivery. II We could personally handle
them and il Were possible for the purchaser
10 carry one away, We could hand nm ont
a steel smokestack of that diameter and of
any length required, just a. promptly as
We could hand over n hammer or wrench.
Larger sizes can be supplied with almost
equal prompness. For the sizes most III
demand we keep at the mill. stacked up
in great timber racks, plates Of the various
sizes required already bent and with the
rivet holes punched, ready TO put together
We can put chimney Of any size, two feet
in diameter or ten feet, on the cars in very
short order.
.In shipping them steel smokestacks, in
sizes up TO twenty-four inches diameter,
and frequently in various larger sizes, too.
are sent complete. except that they are
divided in lengths to go In car; but when
YOU get up to chimneys Of four feet and
over in diameter they are more commonly
shipped knocked down, TO save freight.
Thus a four-foot steel smokestack
would ordinarily be shipped in sections
the length of a car. These sections divided
longitudinally into halves. like great steel
troughs Those OF course are nested To-
gether. and two lengths thus nested will
be side 10y side on a freight car. Sik-foot
or eight-foot or bigger chimneys would be
divided longitudinally into thirds. and
likewise nested In this way you can carry
what will be when set up oig and tall
steel chimneys that have got to be
packed or wagon-hauled before reaching
their final destination, ar over mountains,
are made up in parts OF such sizes as "a
mule can carry or mule team can maui
-Smokestacks for export, Of whatever
sizes. are all shipped knocked down; meas
urement and not weight counting on ocean
freights. II il Is desired We send men TO
erect stacks anywhere.
Probably the steel smokestack is most
familiar TO the eye when seen. az II " In
many situations. supported by guy wires,
but there are now erected many big steel
chimneys that are self-supporting. Some Of
these big steel chimneys are built straight
sided They are big cylinders OF uniform
diameter, set on end, and Others have a
slight taper. Such steel chimneys as these
stand upon solid masonry foundations,
and the chimneys themselves are lined
with firebrick.
1T s. a curious and interesting fact that
while the modern big steel chimney il
lined with iirebrick there are now some
times built. in modern city buildings. brick
fues lined with steel, the object being to
make fiue that shall be- safe while occupy
ing the least possible space.
The life Of steel snokestack depends
on many things. leaving out of consid-
Grafton the big hrebrick lined stacks which
will stand many years, II may be said that
II a stack Of one-siNteenth Of an inch thick
ness Of material will last in a given locality
and use two years one OF material OF an
eighth Of an inch in thickness would stand
In the same place ten or twelve years A
as long al a dry inland point ~ II would II
subjected 20 the corrodng Influences OF
salt air
The agency most destructive 10 the
chimney, however II found In the pho--
phonls and sulphur fumes from the burn
ing coal II the fire. are run Ia such "A
way a. 10 make II possible TO apply II there
l. nothing that viii help more 10 proloEg
the .tcel sn'oker,ack's life than paint
applied ~ the proI='r intervals and la good
solid coats inside and ou'