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Three sides of the building will serve as three sides of the tank, and will only require a wall of brick four inches thick. The fourth side will be eight inches thick and backed up with earth. Each side is three feet high. There will still remain sufficient room for dressing and observing the men while they are rowing. The floor of the tank will be built of bricks laid in cement on sand and covered with Portland cement. It will be built as long as possible, but will be less than twenty-five feet in width. The tank will...
...Glacialis was not strong enough to bear yesterday afternoon; but after the cold of last night it will probably be thick enough today to afford safe skating. The ice towards the middle of the pond is very thin and is dangerous to venture...
LOST.- A note-book, 8 inches long, 5 1-2 inches wide, 1 inch thick. 4 Divinity Avenue...
...Cambridge, you can form no adequate idea of the extent and fierceness of the blizzard through which New York has just passed. Business was stopped and communication with the outside world shut off. The cold was intense and a coating of ice was formed on the East River thick enough to bear the weight of a large crowd who availed themselves of this opportunity of crossing the river. The drifts in the city were enormous and few cabs ventured out after "fares." The demand for conveyances was wide-spread and exorbitant prices were paid for rides. A number of Wall...
Then our correspondent informs us that "it was deemed expedient" to get an English shell, but, as it would not do to rely entirely on this innovation it was thought wise to buy another American shell. Either we are absolutely thick-headed or else there is some flaw in the reasoning of men who "deemed it expedient" to get an English shell and still found it necessary to buy a new American shell. Nothing is farther from us than to wish to have the chances of our crew in any way injured by a fear of spending the necessary money...