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...structure is absolutely fireproof, and represents the latest ideas in current construction. The floors, roof and stairways are built of reinforced concrete, while the outer walls are of brick and the inner walls of hollow tile blocks. The roof is slated, and has, on the top, a flat runway, on each end of which a steel lattice-work tower for supporting wireless antenna is to be erected. These have not yet been erected, but will be in place in a few weeks. The building contains 25 rooms, for research and instruction work. Five of these rooms are under ground...
...shooting, or else find our sport in shooting beach birds over our decoys, and it is for the benefit of such that I would propose a club in which men could not only get that training which will be of use to them in shooting deer on an Adriondack runway, or moose in the Maine woods, but in which they can also get a sufficient amount of glass-ball or clay-pigeon practice to bring them into good form for their summer's field work among the birds...