Arizona republican., 1911-03-25
SECOND FLOOR WILL
 BE POURED THURSDAY
Forms For Mezzaime Floor of Hotel Adams Soon Ready For Concrete. Contractor Gallagher Pushing
 the Construction.

On next Thursday the contractor l new Hotel Adams will begin to pour the concrete for the mezzanine floor of the building The forms for the second floor are going up with sur prising rapidity, and last night Geo. H. Gallagher, of the Gallagher Con struction company. awarded the con- tract for the structure, stated to a reporter of The Republican that he expected to finish the contract and turn the hotel over to its owners be- fore the time allowed for its erection has expired
 The basement columns, retaining 30, 900 cubic feet of concrete were put in in six days, and the mezzanine floor. which will require a great deal less concrete for its construction. will be poured in two days time, oc- cording to Mir Gallagher's present es- inmates. The construction of the wooden forms takes more time iR the erection of reinforced concrete building than the pouring of the con crete, but if the carpenters now working on the Adams hotel can continue to work at the speed they have maintained during the last two weeks. the concrete mixer will not be idle a great while between the pouring of the various floors.
 Up to this time the contractor has employed from 100 to 125 men on the work. but in all probability this mum Der will have to be increased as the work goes on, and the building mounts higher. as the removal of the forms from the concrete after it has set-called stripping" by concrete men, will necessitate a great deal of careful labor. It is the intention of MT. Gallagher to have his forms talk en down with the utmost care in or der to leave the edges of the con crete unbroken. and the lines straight. Some of the forms put up for the concrete are very complicated. and it will be a delicate matter to remove them without damaging the green stone. However. it can be done, and MT. Gallagher is intending to have it done according to his own ideas.
 There will be in the neighborhood of l20,000 cubic feet of concrete in 
 30.00D feet already poured. It is ex- peeted that the work will go without stop, as the iron for the building is all on the ground. The Colorado Fuel and Iron company of Denver has fur nished the steel for the reinforce ment, and according to the specified tions of the building. 390 tons of steel will be used to strengthen the concrete.
 remarkable thing about the con- strucuon as 1t has progressed to this point is the fact that there has not been a single accident of any kind. either insignificant or serious during the work. Mir Gallagher hopes to complete the building without having a single accident. and by~building his scaffoldings carefully. and seeing to 1t that his men incur as little dan ger as possible. he is taking every preeaution to prevent mishap Last night he stated that he has been in the contracting building business for the last 21 years. during that time erecting many large and high build ings, but that he has never had a single death occur among his men as a result of accident on any work he has ever undertaken. His method was explained last night in a single state ment He said: II believe in build ing as rapidly as I can,-in safety"