THE STEEL SQUARE AND ITS USES. 



DIVISION C. 



Introductory. 



During my long experience as Editor of 

 several of the leading building journals in the 

 United States and Canada, I have been asked 

 and have answered thousands of questions re- 

 garding matters concerning building construc- 

 tion, builders' materials, tools and processes, and 

 particularly regarding the "Steel Square and 

 its Uses," and I have concluded that the publica- 

 tion of a few of these questions and answers, 

 along with other matter, in this division will be 

 appreciated by my readers, and to this end I 

 insert a number of the most useful items in this 

 manual. 



Besides these questions and answers, I also 

 publish other up to date matter, all of which 

 will make this volume one of the most useful 

 little works to the American carpenter and wood- 

 worker ever published. 



I open this division with a few hints regard- 

 ing the construction, or rather the laying out of 

 a Hip-Roof where the design has been furnished 

 by an architect, and which, of Bourse, shows 

 the pitch and the lay of the timbers. We sup- 

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