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The Rorists' Review 



SEPTCMBEa 3, 1014. 



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The entile truss ai d rafters from eave to eave were all tact riveted tugether at our Irvingtoi 

 factory and shipped in a big automobile car. With the posts in position, thinli of the erec- 

 tion time it i^aved to be able, with on* ooaratlon, to lift the combined rafters and truss in 

 place and bolt the rafters to the irusset plate at the eave. 



Climbing on top of a high hill a quartergj 







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The double angle iron arch of the truss starts at the eave on one side and continues over to 

 the eave on the other side. 



With the legs of the camera astride Uk 



The P. S. Ram 



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WHILE talking to a friend in the Hotel 

 Pittsburgh, a couple of weeks ago, 

 come in but one of "the Randolph l" 

 fore I knew it, all three of us were skimm 

 a jolly rate toward Verona, in a fine big Bm 

 seemed only a jiflFy before, with a warning* 

 Klaxon, we were swinging off the main r« 

 the drive to the Randolph range, where 

 greeted by P. S. Randolph, Sr.-"tlie man 

 gun." 



I had always been desirous of seeing 

 because it standi for a splendid examplB o 

 greenhouse buikkers call "a grow-vip." 

 let me explain. 



The range was started with six '■' 

 houses, each 18x100. and one Iroi Ffa"" 

 Then came another Pipe Frame hou^e, 30>: 



Then came the "grow-up" iato I Iro" 

 struction, with a house 30 ft. wide and 1'' 



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The post is auarant««d Wroucht Bar 



Iran— the same hind that has bt-en for over 

 t' irty y ors, and still is. in several if F. R. 

 & P. M- Pii^rson's L. & B. houses at Scar- 

 boro. N. Y. 



Looking "t the po^t endwise, you plainly 

 see the doub'e gusset r la^ps which ho t the 

 rafters to the post, as wpII as the angle irons 

 of I he truss curve riveted on each of the 

 rafters. 



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