The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

grain which was then plentiful in the
land of Egypt and hold 1t against times
of want; he did this and after the seven
years of plenty came seven years of
famine and the world came to Egypt to
buy corn and pay homage to its wise
ruler. Is there at this time anything
striking in this little piece of history?
Are we not possibly now seei1s in our
own times the high tides of prosperity
and the years of plenty that may soon
be followed by the ebb tide, leaving huIls
on the beach of the bad financial years
Is it necessary to enlarge upon the fact
that if in these years of plenty, which
we are having, our methods are such that
we are wasting millions of dollars that
might be saved, that the time Will come
when times are not so prosperous, and
the failure to have saved in the past and
be prepared to save in the tight times
will cause untold suffering and back
set to our Industrial and commercial
progress, from which it Will be hard to
recover These troubles, with the lights
before u.s. seem entirely useless?
The building and successfully operat-
ing of a warehouse is simple, provided
two fundamental ideas are taken care of;
the first is the physical construction of
the warehouses and is embodied in the
word Protection. The second is in the gen.
era management of the warehouse, in
its methods of accounting, receiving and
delivering and Is complete If the result
is Confidence.
Building the Warehouse.
ITO discuss briefly the question of pro-
lection and the building of the warehouse.
The first feature to be considered is
what is to be done in order to get the
lowest possible insurance. This is accomp-
lished by introducing into the insurance
the element of competition. AT present
the warehouse of ordinary construction
| can secure insurance only from what are
called Old Line Companies, and these,
through concert of action, make their own
rules and rates and are careful to charge
a plenty. On the contents of warehouses
protected by a sprinkler system and reas-
onably we'll built. the Mill Mutual COM
panies will take insurance. This fact in
PRODUCES competition and makes 1t posi-
BILE to secure either nom them or the
old line companies a rate of insurance
which is about one-thirtieth of the rate
paid on unprotected risks into which the
element of competition and sprinklers do
no enter. After the question of sprinklers
comes the question of dividing your
houses into compartments, each entirely
separate from the other by walls of re-
sistng quality. These compartments
should not contain exceeding ten thou
sand 100000 square feet. The partition
walls, in case of using any but a concrete
roof, should be extended two feet above
the roof and two feet beyond the line
of the end walls; the floor should be
either ciuder, hard clay, or concrete, while
the roof can be metal composition, or in
heavy buildings, couorete; but should be
so constructed as not to have its weight
rest on beams set in the PARTON walls.
| Constructed thus, in case the roof in one
compartment burns or fall it does not
| crack or break the wall protecting the
adjacent compartment. There should be
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windows and sky-lights are dangerous,
costly and unnecessary. The only open
ings should be for doors not over thirty
| feet apart in the ends of compartments.
These openings are made as high as pos
sibe, opening well up to the ceiling With
doors of this character in both ends of
! compartments, not over 125 feet deep, all
the light necessary for reading marks and
handling bales is secured The warehouse,
| in order to make handling rapid and easy
| from one compartment to another, should
have a platform not less than twelve feet
wide, along at least one end, and better
both ends of the compartments.
Material Used.
1.-THE material used for construction can
be very much varied according to what
Is cheapest in the locality When crushed
stone, clean gravel, sand and cement
are cheap, concrete construction is reason
able at other points brick walls are
cheaper and thoroughly satisfactory. Fire
tile makes good partition wall in
heavy construction and offers fine fire
resisting qualities.
Insurance companies have made a close
J study of the warehouse from the fire
standpoint and will furnish data and gem
! eral rules of construction on application.
| The old line companies, through what is
known as the Factory Association, with
an office in Atlanta, and the Senior and
Junior Mill Mutuals. through their Boston
offices. one of which, No. 81 Milk street.
has Mr. Benjamin Taft in charge, will
| be glad to give suggestions to any one
/ wishing TO build. Take their suggestions
| and see that the fire protection is INSTALL
| ed for only thus can the low insurance
rates be secured. Do not let them other
wise plan your warehouse, however, but
have an experienced warehouseman, who
has worked in a warehouse and seen
/ some of the best types, suggest other
points for 1t is only thus you can get a
nlant that is practical and not too costly
| to operate.
"When it comes to the operating of the
! cotton warehouses, where cotton con-
! stantlv moves in and out and is stored
for very indefinite lengths of time it
paws best to handle 1t on the head with
| ont Milling and no machinery has yet been
! installed, except in very large plants,
| that beats the niger and the truck for
moving 1t.
I'm the question Of reasonable and
practical operation the form and charac-
| ter of the warehouse receipt is very i'm
| portant It's value as a collateral is de-
| pendent upon three things. its form, the
surety behind it. and the law of the state
| In which the warehouse operates and un-
der whose law it has its charter. The
| form of the receipt Is simple matter.
It being made negotiable or non-negotia-
Bile as Is stated on its face. Under the
negotiable receipt goods are to be deliv-
cred only upon return of the receipt; I'M
der the non-negotlable receipt its return
! is not required, but goods are delivered