A MYTH DISPROVED

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 20, 23 July 1924, Page 8

A MYTH DISPROVED

OLD CHIMNEY STACK TO GO

LIME, NOT CEMENT, MORTAR,

. The man who'is of an inquiring trame of mind us an asset to. the community; he iiiids out things .When the small city destructor, built' in 1888, went out of business before a more up-to-date plant at Clyde quay about eighteen years ago, the old brick chimney stack likewise was spelled off,' and there it has stood ever since, neither use nor ornament, but very much in the way of several passible depot improvements So congested were the depot buildings that it was not'possible to fall it, and, be-* cause it was believed that the mortal used was cement mortar, su^estions that it should be pulled down, Trick by bricks, were never very seriously enter-

Lach time the suggestion was madt. the answer was given : "It can't be donecement mortar." A week or two a-o however, an inquiring mind tested oui t.iat mortar with a blunt pocket knife or an old nail or something of the kind, and found that the cement mortar ston was largely a myth, for the mortar is lme mortar, not'unduly difficult o> breaking up or cleaning from the brickr when taken, down. The order has now definitely gone forth that the stack ia to come down and scaffoldings have already been built inside the chimney te its top. J Just how many bricks there are in tin stack is a matter for nice calculation.-. At the base the, stack, which is shVhtlv conical, has an over-all diameter of 13 ieet, the core, or bore, being 5 feet in' diameter; at, the top, roughly, 120 feet from the ground, the stack, ne-lectin. work,-fa perhans 9 feet "i »in diameter the core befog tl ie le s ft ""t;iS rai toeestAter te' int : hie d h -dof -^r^ ts pl£|-^^

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