The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-17

building, have to be made and burned
in several parts and Afterwards ard? fitted fi,S
together: The designs for or thus h,oa oglla, d
Lincoln, California. Tho burning is
done in muffle kilns. The success of
terra Gotta for exterior decoration has
met with remarkable success. Archi-
tectural tileing consisting of terra
Gotta body covered with a bright glaze
or matte surface, the kind used on tho
Kearns building, is now being pro.
duced by several potteries. Much of
the Della Robbia work, made in the
fifteenth century, is of this type. Much
Of the terra Gotta is covered with
slip-a mixture Of kaolin, ball-clay,
quartz and feldspar with ooloring mat.
ter added is sprayed onto the unburned
ware.
About the Kearns Building.
Now to 90 back to tho Kearns build
in~ Parkinson g. Berkstrom are the
architects, as they are also for the
Utah hotel, while George Curley OF Salt
Eo o Is the ghs of this
great structure, this steel doll as 1T
were, required 1850 tons OF steel, three
million seven hundred thousand pounds,
| sc carloads or four train loads Were
these steel beams placed end to end
they would reach twelve miles. 10
fasten these beams and columns 70.
gether necessitated the use OF 10000
rivets and were these rivets placed
end to end they would extend a dis"
tance of six miles. In other words
there are eighteen miles Of steel in the
building. We're ali this steel piled up
in, heap so that it could easily be
, carried away, there would be so pounds
Of steel for every man, woman and
child in Salt Lake City and there would
still be left a big pile not touched.
| This is what the framework of this
big steel doll Is composed of.
Dressing Steel Doll
Now it must be dressed The outer
covering, the skin of terra Gotta and
brick must be put on. Each piece of
terra Gotta which makes the front skin
of the building has been made by
hand. Each piece was made in spe-
cial mould and is numbered for its
particular place. Every scroll, every
bracket, every ornament was especially
designed for this building hence it
sets a fashion of its own that cannot
be duplicated. This is the front.
On the side and end walls, brick will
made and burned in the largest brick
kiln in the world. One million six hun
dred thousand brick will be used-this
is 1000 wagon loads. Were these wagons
started from the lSilns Of the Salt Lake
Pressed Brick company, who furnish
tho brick, there would be procession
of wagons and horses SIX miles IN
length and were the bricks placed end
to end they would reach over 200 miles
The partition walls are made Of
hollow tile which tile is also Utah
made and every beam and column is
fire proofed with this tile which is 12x
II inches and four inches thick. This
tile, Of course, will not only not burn,
but it protects the steel beams and
columns from warping in case of fire
Were these pieces of tile placed end
TO end they would extend a distance
Of ten miles. 1t might be mentioned
here that in the Baltimore, Boston and
San Francisco fires no material proved
so near fireproof rs clay products. al
though concrete likewise made good
when secured to steel beams and col
umns in substantial way.
Add to all this the miles Of tele-
graph. telephone and electric wires and