... around retorts for coal and oil, and the products of combustion are passed through a fixing-chamber containing refractory brick-work, thereby heating it. Steam is decomposed in the bed of incandescent fuel, bituminous is distilled in one or more of the ...

... Unioutown. The conneetions with the. Camden coke lines ace now all completed and in operation. Over 2,000 of the 6,000 feet of brickwork in the Baltimore and Ohio tunnel in course cf construction under the City of Baltimore have been completed. The St. Paul ...

... mixed. They were flat, Out of such durability that they resist to-day the blows of the crowbar. The builders understood brickwork. Each dwelling contained from six to twelve rooms, quadrangular and rectangular in form. The roof rested upon six pilasters ...

... 855 in the same period of 1887, and 812 in 1886. Lumber mills, mining enterprises, canning factories, machine shops and brickworks form the largest number of new enterprises, and the enlargement of old plants, for the first six months of 1888 were: Alabama ...

... having exp:oded with such force that the edifice was dashe I to the ground, and immediately was in flames. The masses of brickwork imprisoned many who otherwise might have escaped from the wreck, and the heartrending scenes that followed were attended ...

... afar to see it. The peculiar consequence of this breaking up the faces of the little cubes of clay is that the effect of brickwork is lost, and the building presents the appearance of a stone structure. There is an old oak, says the Atlanta, (Georgia) ...

... their habitual rag.. bondage. Some of the dwelling houses recently erected are re building now. The wood work, plastering, brick-work and everything else is so poor as to 'oe rapidly coming to pieces, and to demand therefore immediate reconstruction. It ...