Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-06-08
GOSSIP OF GAY GOTHAM
To Build Slsyscrapers in New
York with Rapid Fire Guns.
Tnthcr I<niclScrboclScr Squeezing Build
ings ToEether--New Workers Busy
Learning New Library--Va lue
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tho past to such an extent that a sixteen
story building has been erected in forty
eight working days, they will instead Of
shooting UP be shot UP in the future. IL
q recent inven ton makes good. This does
not mean. however, that wild west scenes
will be enacted in the tall buildings here
hut merely that a new rapid fire method
Of construction has appeared which may
smash all building records existing at
present. SO great is the demand for
quick work that 1t is actually proposed
to shoot walls into place with a rapid
fire gun. The present cement mixer. II is
claimed, is to give way to the cement
gun which will shoot liquid cement into
place by means OF compressed air twenty
four times rs rapidly as IS possible under
the present system. The gun itself con-
ssts OF a long tube OF great strength.
Into this are admitted compressed air
through valve near the breech and
water through another valve near the
muzzle. Al about the point OF the vent
in the ordinary breachloadng cannon a
tube like connection is established with
hopper. Dry cement an sand are
thrown into this hopper by two men.
and here, aside from valve manipulation
human element ends. The hopper vi
brates mixing its contents before It drops
down through the tube connection. Once
in the gun barre! Tho mixture is shot for
ward by the compressed air fed through
the valve. At the muzsle a stream Of
water g encountered that mixes with
the sand and cement. the whole driving
cut the gun with sufficient force to carry
it to the desired point AS a result Of
this rapid fire method of construction
building records never before dreamed Of
may soon be established here.
Aerial fishing is New Yorls newest
pastimo. This does not mean angling for
flying fish or from acropianes. OF course
piscatoral yarns of varying dimensions
and credibility are plentiful at this time
Of year. but n new record has Just been
established here which far exceeds the
feat OF Simple Simon Of Mother Goose
fame in attempting to catch whale in
his mothers pail. As a result city en-
ployes are now making good catches on
dry land a hundred feet or more above
the street level, and are claiming the
title of aerial anglers. The man to sur
pass Simple Smons record is the Gus
Of his catches of trout and bass on the
roof of this building has undoubtedly
achieved a life membership in the Isaac
Walton society. For a fishing ground the
roof of a business building offers few at
fractions. but it is In just such place
that the city hall custodian has been
making famous catches. The new form
CT fishing might still remain to be dis
something recently went wrong with the
supply pipe of large tank on the roof
of the city hall building. Investigation
showed that a lake trout had tried to and
its way through the pipe, and dying in
the attempt had stopped it. Further
search revealed the fact that the tank
was full of Very hungry fish. With a
hook and line the custodian ca ptured one
trout ana eight bass IN short time all
Of which had come through the pipes
from the Central park reservoir some five
miles distant Investigation showed a
plentiful supply Of fish In other tanks,
and as n result city employees are now
making aerial catches daily which far
surpass those Of the ANGLERS who seek
their game under ordinary conditions.
Whether New York will eventually be
all streets or all buildings served by sub
terranoan thoroushfares Is daily becom-
ing more momentous question. The
fact is plain, however, that this city Is
shrinking visiby. that is, 80 far as the
area Of It's buildings is concerned and
as a result it is probable that the city
edifices may eventually become merely
long lines of fiat surfaced structures UNI