Inspection of Old Buildings.
A word to the readers of FIRE AND WATER as to the inspection of structural timbers of the old buildings with which our cities are more or less sptinkled.
The character of construction of these old buildings, together with the severe action of our climate on them, renders these structures prematurely old in all respects before time has aged them. Duplicate any one of them in Italy or Spain and in fifty years it will not show as much decay as it does here in twenty.
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