Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1911 — ALBANY’S WRECKED CAPITOL [ARTICLE]

ALBANY’S WRECKED CAPITOL

Employes in Unburned Portions Work in Overcoats and Rubber Boots. Albany, N. Y„ March 31. While firemen were still pouring water into the ruinb of the western end of the state capitol, employes in departments at the east end, which were not touched by the fire, were working with their overcoats and rubber boots on. The capitol building was like an ice box The whole building is so thoroughly soaked with water that it will take a week’s hard work by about 300 men to dry it up and the unburned part of the building comfortably habitable. A dozen important state departments are scattered in private apartments around Washington avenue and State street, while others that bore the brunt of the fire, like the state library, have rot been able to resume business. Bills have been introduced in the legislature for an appropriation of SIOO,OOO to make immediate repairs to the building- and for the tearing down of walls thought to be in danger of falling