ANCIENT AND MODERN WORKS. 1 7 



the butt-straps were of poor and brittle steel, while the tower 

 metal as far as examined was of inferior quality, the fractures 



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FIG- 3. VIE\V OF WATER-TANK AT FAIRHAVEN, MASS. 



(Redrawn from a photograph taken just after the tank was completed. Practically 

 the same view appeared in Engineering News for Sept. 5, 1895.) 



being " as short as they would be in cast iron, and had a granular 

 appearance." 



The temperature at the time of the accident was about freezing, 

 with no wind. 



