COTTON WAREHOUSE CONSTRUCTION. 7 
reduced to 25 cents per $100. This would represent an enormous 
annual saving. Many of the inferior buildings now in use should be 
discarded entirely, and new warehouses, located with reference to 
the probable demands for storage, should be built. It would be 
possible also to remodel many of the poorly constructed buildings 
which are well located, so as to increase their efficiency and effect a 
great saving in the cost of insurance. 
EXPLANATION OF THE TERM “STANDARD” AS APPLIED TO COTTON 
WAREHOUSES. 
An endeavor has been made to give reliable information in regard 
to types of warehouses and insurance rates. A person who is pre- 
paring to build will get better results, especially in insurance rates, 
by following the suggestions given here, but, as previously stated, 
the types of warchouses described are not to be regarded as ‘*Govern- 
ment standards” in any sense. They are the standards recommended 
by the fire insurance underwriters’ associations. Buildings erected 
in accordance ‘with these standards command a much is rate of 
insurance than those that do not conform to them. While endeavors 
have been made in this bulletin to give definite information about 
insurance rates, no responsibility is assumed by the writer as to the 
correctness of the rates quoted, or the accuracy of the descriptions 
of the different types of storage houses. Anyone planning to build 
should have specifications drawn by an architect (many earpenters 
can make satisfactory plans) and submitted for approval to the 
underwriters having jurisdiction. This plan usually will save the 
prospective builder a great deal of money, especially in insurance 
rates. 
TYPES OF STANDARD WAREHOUSES. 
STANDARD I.—CLOSED COTTON WAREHOUSE (DETACHED), COMPARTMENTS LIMITED 
TO 600 BALES’ CAPACITY. 
The standard for the closed warehouse of two or more compart- 
ments requires that it should not be exposed by other buildings 
within 100 feet, and that no compartment should have a capacity 
exceeding 600 bales. To be most effective, this warehouse should 
be a low, one-story structure. In figure 1 is shown the proper size 
and arrangement of the compartments composing such a warehouse. 
The bales of cotton should be stored on end, only one bale deep, and 
at least one passageway with a minimum width of 4 feet should 
extend through the BOPRETEN EP the longest way, leading to a door 
at each end. (See fig. 12.) Such a passageway facilitates handling 
cotton during the transaction of ordinary business and is a necessity 
m properly controlling a fire. 
