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The Rorists^ Review 



NOVEUBBB 16, 1920 



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Gable Bracings in the Joseph Heacock Big Rose House, at Roelofs, Pa. 



More Gabble About Gables 



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Why all this gable" i^abble? 



For exactly the same reason as why all this talk 



about loosened {jlass. 



On one depends much of the other. 



SfJ If a fjable gives, the glass goes. 



^ It tioes, because the uiving of a gable means a give to 



SR the entire frame. 



5® It's the give that loosens the glass. 



M Take a tree. 



a( A pine for example. 



SBj There it stands, strong and sturdy. 



^ Winds blow against it, and it never breaks. 



But it gives. 



iJecause of the give, it doesn't break. 



Stiffen that same tree, if it were possible to do such 

 a thing, by putting another one beside it, and clamp- 

 ing tliem together. 

 Still they would give and sway. 



\ow suppose you had braced that tree by running 

 braces against it from the ground up, what would 

 have happened? 



There would have been no give below the braces, 

 and a lot less above them. 



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It would seem, therefore, that with present day big 

 houses, having such tall gable rafters; that stiffen- 

 ing them is not enough. 

 That's why we brace ours. 



It's one of the big reasons why our houses have so 

 little loosening or breakage of glass. 



Braces run from the gable rafters direct into the 

 ground, where they are securely anchored in concrete. 



Other braces go direct to the ridge. 



To further take the wind's thrust off the frame, we 

 tie brace the first three columns, running the tie from 

 the bottom of the first one, to the middle of the sec- 

 ond, and up to the top of the third. 



We have in mind a big house, near the gable of which 

 was built a high board fence to break the terrific 

 force of the wind against that big fiat gable. 

 That board fence was braced against the wind, the 

 way we brace our gables. 



It has always been our contention, that if the green- 

 house gable had been similarly braced; there would 

 Uave been no necessity for the fence. 



What do you think about it? 



Vou know we go anywhere for business, or to talk 

 business. 



General Offices and Factory, ELIZABETH, N. J. 



NEW YORK 

 1170 Broadway 



BOSTON-9 

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