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son views were taken from a pamphlet issued by the Continental 

 Insurance Co. of New York on The Conflagration at Paterson N. J. 

 The Baltimore views were taken from the report of the committee 

 on fire resistive construction of the National Fire Protection Associ- 

 ation of Chicago, issued in 1904, and from a pamphlet of the 

 Mississippi Wire Glass Co. of New York entitled A Reconnaissance 

 of the Baltimore and Rochester Fire Districts. The Rochester view 

 was also taken from this last source. 



TESTS MADE ON NEW YORK BUILDING STONES 



Eighteen samples of New York building stones were selected for 

 testing. The list of these is given below. 



