The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-20
SaviK1gS-LOa11 Notes
Bv NJ. G.. Willard


of dollars, and now exceed billio
. and three hundred millions, whic
huge sum, the combined funds O
some sixty-six hundred societies
scattered across the face of the Ian
from the Atlantic to the Pacific an
from the Great Lakes to the Cult
and which is chiefly invested il
American homes, has been practical
ly handled without loss or scandal
and at a cost of slightly less thai
one per cent of our annual receipts
to the honor of our cause, as W,
have endeavored to create bette
conditions and lift earth TOWARD
heaven.
las President of the United State
League, I take pleasure in makins
public acknowledgement of the
courteous treatment and genera
publicity accorded our work by the
lpress of the country, and especially
| by the Sunday Call, of Newark, N
j., and the Times-Picayune of New
Orleans, and the unflagging support
of our official organ, The American
building Association News, of Gin
cinnati, and of its able and courteous
editor, the Hon. Henry s. Rosen-
than, who has ever been our unfail-
ing. valued friend -
Mr.. M. G.. Willard, who had
heard of somewhat of disaster at
the brick and tile plant ofh is son,
c. X, at Heron Lake, Mimi, has
al last some of the particulars of a
tornado that recently disturbed some
of his sons plans. That Lakelanders
may better appreciate their freedom
from such a storm, he gives us the
|, following from G. ks recent let
ter, telling of the tornado's work
that has made him so much extra
work and expense.
Our large order goes to Fair
mont. Mimi for a large school
house. We managed to hang onto
this order. We have had an immense
amount of extra work to do, and !
have not had time to figure up to
learn how much our tornado has
cost us.
The building we put up last win
ter, fOxS0 with 20 inch walls, 40
to the ridge, was total loss We
will do nothing with this till next
winter. The tornado came the af-
ternoon of the 18th of July, and at
7 O'Clock Thursday morning the
18th we started up again, though
many people that saw our plant the
day of the storm or the next thought
we would do no more business this
fall. All wires out of town were
cut OF commission for about "a
hours, but I had all the material or
dered that we needed, by mail, al
most before it quit blowing.
1--WE have IA kiln stacks ABOUT
SO feet high, IL of these had to be
built from the ground up. One of
them went through our dryer roof,
and another injured the roof and
wall. The main stack( all were
brick) was Is to 80 feet high, and
this in its fall completely ruined the
boiler room roof and all steam and
water pipes, and did considerable
injury to our water softener. Very
hard water up there). vt also took
down the heavy partition wall be-
tween the boiler and machine room,
and between the machine room and
dryer, spoiled about 40 by 16 feet of
roof over the machine room and
about 35 by Is feet of room over
the dryer. Besides this, in the ma
chine room, it pounded two steel
dryer cars through several inches of
packed hard clay and through an
eight-inch arched over six foot un-
WI SiouhN luHhVis anu tuCh
the cars all to pieces on the floor
of the tunnel. After going through
the roof of the dryer. it went
through the reinforced concrete and
tile ceiling of the dryer tunnels and
smashed six partition walls in
there. Also ruined about 8 or 10
dryer cars, although they were
padded with ~ inches of medium
soft and new brick, breaking boxes
on the cars and bending 1 1-2 inch
aXles and various other things.
1.-THE wind also blew in 12x20
feet of wall in the second story of
our drum room. also started l2x25
foot wall on the ground in our fan
room and many other minor losses.