The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1903-12-25

Twelve Tons Of Nails Consumed,
One Hundred and Forty.five Thou,
sand Panes Of Glass and Ten Tons
Of Putty Used In the Glazing.
The usual description of the Palace
OF Agriculture at the Worlds Fair,
which has just been completed, fails
to convey an adequate idea of its
magnitude. The fact that II Is 1860
feet long and $40 feet wide. covers 23
acres, cost $4,000 and is the larg.
est exhibit building ever constructed
TO contain single department, has
been told. When one is informed that
over 100000 feet of lumber were
uscl in the construction Of the build.
Ing he may yet have an indistinct
conception of its magnitude. The
amount grows on one when he is told
thai GOO cars were fully loaded with
this lumber Thirty cars. thus loaded.
makes a heavy train, so II will be
seen that twenty full trains were re-
quired to transport the lumber for
this one building to the Worlds Fair
grounds.
Vas, forests were denuded that this
building might rise. In the Southern
| pineries one acre Of forest will. on
an average. yield 5000 feet of lumber
A httle calculating will show that
1896 acres. or nearly two and one.half
square miles. were required to fur
nish this lumber.
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sents only one OF the many exhibit
palaces of the Worlds Fair, or about
one twentieth of the total building
construction. It will be seen that 49,.
800 acres, or over 80 square miles OF
forest were cut for the erection OF the
Worlds Fair buildings.
The nails that were used In Join.
ing the timber for this one building,
when one pauses TO think. speak
startling facts. Five cars were re-
quired to haul the nails. In each car
were $50 kegs. In each keg we're 100
pounds. The FIVE cars OF nails
weighed 225.000 pounds. or 112 and
half tons. The 1O-penny nail was the
average size used. II requires a strip
of steel wire four inches long 10 make
one nail. one hundred and six 10.
penny nails weigh one pound. and in
the 225000 pounds used there were
% $50 900 nails. The total length of
the wire from which these nails were
made was 94.i00.Oo0 inches. Reduced
these figures read 7,95O,OOO feet, or
1906 miles. Then II the wires we're
uncut and strung in the form of
cable 1t would reach from Kansas
City to New York.
Eight cars of sand were consumed
in the plastering Of this building.
Figures on the painting reveal
something of the enormity of the
structure. On the inside alone eight
cars OF sanito were sprayed on the
walls and timbers. And the exterior
consumed an equally large amount
The roofing of the Palace of Agri-
culture gives one with penchant for
freakish figures a rare opportunity.
There are 1902. 400 square feet in the
roof. The roofing paper. which was
first put on, weighs so pounds TO a
square. A square is 10 feet square OF
100 square feet. Thus the paper
weighs 100000 pounds. The paper is
covered with pitch. 60 pounds to the
square. Here is another weight of
100000 pounds added. Then comes
the gravel One yard of gravel
weighing 200 pounds. will cover s
squares of roofing. There were 1850
yards of gravel used on the roof and
this weighed $4,000 pounds. The
combined weight of the paper, pitch
and gravel is 4.475,OOO pounds. Should
snow fall on the roof to a depth Of one
foot another weight of 5,1S2,000 |
pounds would be added and the pill |
lars would have to bear total weight
Of 9657,00O pounds.
The bolts and rods used in joining
the heavy timbers weighed $4,000
pounds.
One hundred and forty-five thou /.
sand, six hundred ad forty nine
panes of translucent glass, each 1Sx23 .
inches, were placed in the sash In the :
Palace of Agriculture. 1t required /
ten tons OF putty to do this. Were all .
OF the glasses made into one piece II |
would cover a surface of 1S5,439 .
square feet, or over four acres.
In erecting the building there were |
796 posts, 60 to CT feet tall. and /
made by joining and boiling four
10x12 timbers. There were 80 trusses
106 feet long. each weighing twelve
tons. There were $50 smaller trusses
that weighed seven tons each.
Caldwell & Drake. the contractors
who built the Palace of Agriculture,
with a force of $50 men, completed.
the frame work of the great structure
in forty-six working days. Mr.. Cald.
well says that If the occasion had
demanded faster work ne could have
done 1t in thirty days.
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