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interim repairs be made and that the invostigation be continued and
pursued as rapidly as could be done with a minimum of inconvenience
to the President and his family. I will not dwell in detail as to
all of the phases of the investigations except to say that for once,
basic structure was looked into.
Even the reconstruction of the second floor only, was a major
operation as all of the fine ceilings of the State Rooms of the
Ground floor were suspended from this combustible floor construction.
By September, it had become very obvious thet the difficultics
were not confined to the secend floor construction, but that even nore
sarious frults requiring major operations had been unearthed in the
investigations. The conditions were of s.. serious a nature that it
was considered necessary to evacuate the building and undertake even
more heroic remedies.
When the building was provided with a new roof and third floor
in 1927, the structural design was such as to put onto minor interior
partition walls and piers, the concentrated loads of the new trusses
supporting the roof and third flcor and weighing, in themselves, much
more than the original construction. These walls and piers, without
adequate or even reasonable footings, bearing on compressible soil
have settled and cracked, and while movement has been going on for
some time, it was determined to be progressive and there was no way
in which this failure could be remedied except by removal of these
loads or by inserting adequate structure to carry them. This con-
dition is the number one reason for the necessity of reconstruction.
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