Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1902 — A Tall Chimney. [ARTICLE]

A Tall Chimney.

The tallest smokestack on record is what is known as St. Itollox chimney at the Teunaut chemical works, Glasgow. It Is 43514 feet. It was originally 400 feet, but the management, learning that another stack was to be built equaling it, added the fifty-five aud onehalf feet to hold the record. The original height was rendered necessary by the law against chemical works within the city nnd the necessity for carrying the fumes clear of the district It is built of brick nnd supported by heavy lrou bands. Once it swayed out of the •perpendicular, but by means of a kite and the sawing of the mortar upon one aide It was swayed hack. Germany has a stack 300 feet high.