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...which is already open for use by members of the House during the day, will consist of about 5000 volumes at first, with provision for growth to an ultimate size of over 20,000 volumes. Besides the main room, which has shelves for about 5000 books, there is a stack room large enough to hold 4000 more. Each department of study is provided with a library of works which cover practically all of the reading which will be required during the year in College courses...
...Stack privileges will be more carefully regulated although an attempt will be made not to limit them unduly. Methods for examining departing members of the library have been in effect during the Summer School session and are still being experimented with before settling on a final solution...
Inside, offices for Justices and Court officials are grouped around garden courtyards. The Supreme Courtroom at the extremity is 64 ft. square, 30 ft. high, 60% bigger than the Court's present quarters. In the library stack rooms and two open shelf rooms, space is provided for 526,760 volumes. But the building will be plain. Said Mr. Gilbert: "There has been no intention of finishing the interior . . . with elaborate and expensive marble-work and excessive decoration, the design rather relying upon fine proportions and simplicity for the monumental effect desired...
...disclosed yesterday by the American Wreeking Company. Another method which the company may use to topic the pile is known as "burning under". Five wooden blocks, soaked with gasoline, are inserted in the base, the surrounding bricks being removed. Two of the blocks are then ignited, and the stack falls...
...bell-like top the stack measures twenty feet in diameter. From the top is suspended on a beam a circular platform on which the two workers stand. As the chimney walls are six feet thick, the platform has been made slightly less than eight feet in diameter too narrow to permit a fatal stop on the part of the worker, but with enough room to let the loosened bricks fall through...