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concern a wrecking job. But when tbat wrecking is the demolition of the farnous Sky Ride Towers at A Century of Progress exposition ail is understood. [n bs office Frank A. Randali hais .a huge roil of blueprints. For the reporter he pulls out sheet after sheet,. aiimatedly. pointing out this and that fcature of the wrecking process. "You see, we. are tackling thé two ýtowers in -e ntirelv different ways. We bad the lwest tower fail east, and it followed ourý calculationsý alinost 'xcl.We cut away the cables on the west side and the ýpull wàs east, toward the lagoon. "The west tower took-five inhuteq to fait afteù al preparations. were made, about 6 o'clock one morning. We estitnate that the east tower will go ini tess than a minute. It will fait to the. north."> The iower feu *,ac- cordingý to schedule Friday afternoon, August 30. Mr. Randa - Ilsmiled andi said lie ex- pecteti to burni the east tower down, "Burn steel-in one inuite ?" I gasped. Then hé explaineil, and really it's very sinvine. It sêems that there is a 1)roduct on the market, well known toiindustrialists and engineers, called the rmit which is comiposed of alumi- numn and iron dioxide and burns at the terriflc teniperature of 5,000 de- egrecs. 'Mr. Rýanda1I buit two retorts at the base of the east tower. of the cago river bridges. State street, Dear - S "'e unetinwith the- Americasr bon~, et cetera. And 'was cosltn Specification.s institute-and four off- engfieer for the bridge at Woiilttég spring, ranging frorn 16 to 26 years. harbor, which bas a three-foot head Th wo oungest, niow in -New Trier tdivert theflow from the lake. high school, intend to be engincers, he admitted.i. The oldest attendeti M1fr. Randal bas been, in business LaceS Forest collee and the Cbicagc' for tbe beneAit of- those M who were amay. n fur and fur trlimed coats, M aiso, on remodeting. M. B. KEANFurriers, ]WC. 116Limeo«ln Ave. WIa. 2 ~..- c ~ ~- -.~ fuse was connected.with the thermit. "We want a wcak- fuse," explaitied Y rr. Randali, "sù that it will 1)10W ont anld set. the thermit on fire." Then the thermit mielted th.e nortli suppiorts of the tower, and presto the tower melteti at the base an1d'toppILi<1 over gently. Mr. Randali bas always been a structural engineer, handling the steel and reenforced concrete work for cvery type of building or bridge. He SEPTEMDER'ONLYI I T Frank A. Randail RYTEX. ED -WEAVE headlines. inemuer ~.4wIIV II4 Bridges were, the early love of the courts during Frank A. Randail. Immediately 1)oui1ces that this after graduatincý fr6m the University players than Iast s Of Illilnois il, 1915, he took a job for been encouragingi the American bridge cmpa -.A flouflcs. cn i l urge oni montth. le summer, an-, Lloyd Hollilster lac. r brought more Davidi Burnhant and brother, Philip,122CnrlAeu D. Business bas of New York arrived Eriday to visit 22.na1Aeu brisk, he an- their mother, Mrs. Claude Burnham, Wl.t 536 Roslyn road, Kenilworth._________________