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COTTON WAREHOUSE CONSTRUCTION, 11 
line” companies. When a person is building a warehouse for private 
use in which his own cotton will be stored largely, he can often 
cut the public rate materially by having his storage house conform 
very closely to the standard as outlined. It will be seen that this 
particular type of warehouse will save much in insurance rates, 
especially when it 1s used for private purposes, and it has many 
advantages as a public storage house. 
STANDARD I—COTTON WAREHOUSE OF FRAME @ONSTRUCTION (DETACHED). 
In capacity, arrangement of doors, and general construction, 
Standard IT is exactly the same as Standard I. However, in Stand- 
ard Il each compartment is a separate warehouse. These houses 
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Fic. 2.—Cotton warehouse of frame construction—detached. 
must be placed at least 100 feet apart, and must be no nearer other 
. buildings than that distance. This avoids the use of brick division 
walls. The ends, roof, floor, etc., are exactly the same as i Stand- 
ard I, but the side walls are of wood. In this type, two board walls 
and a space of 100 feet are substituted for the standard fire wall 
separating the compartments in Standard I. The diagram (fig. 2) 
shows three of these compartments properly arranged. The require- 
ments for private fire protection are the same as in Standard I. 
