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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



August, 1905 



This Label is 

 on Genuine 

 Pantasote 

 Furniture 



Accept no 

 Substitute 

 Insist upon 

 Pantasote 



FAC=SirtlLB TRADE-I1ARK LABEL 



Leather 



IS BEST FOR UPHOLSTERY 



YOU CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE 



between Pantasote Leather and real leather. Pantasote Leather can be used for every 

 purpose for which real leather isadapted. Pantasote is durable, bright, odorless, easily cleaned, 

 does not crack, is fireproof, waterproof, and wears and looks like leather in every respect. 



PANTASOTE Costs One-Third as much as Real Leather 



The great demand for Pantasote has led to the substitution of many inferior imitations. 

 To protect you against fraud accept no furniture as covered with Pantasote from your dealer or 

 upholsterer unless it bears our trade-mark label as shown above. Do not accept his "Just as 

 good" theory; insist upon Pantasote. 



See that the word "PANTASOTE" is embossed on celvage edge of all piece goods. 



Pantasote was awarded the Grand Prize and two Gold Medals at St. Louis. 



FOR TRIAL PURPOSES we have for sale four sizes of chair seats, which give you 

 the amount of upholstery material you want, making the cost very small for new seats for 

 chairs you may have that need reupholstering. We will send, on receipt of price and name 

 of upholsterer, chair seat size 18 x 18 inch, 25c; 25 x 25 inch, 50c; 27 x 27 inch, 70c; 

 36 x 36 inch, $1.00. 



Upon application, will send our catalogue showing 

 material in the different colors in which it is made. 



THE, PANTASOTE COMPANY 



Dept. Six, 11 Broadway, New York 



CARPENTERS 



in these days of close competition need the best 

 possible equipment, and this they can have in 



Barnes , 

 Hand CS> Foot Power Machinery 



(")UR new Foot and Hand Power Circular Saw 

 ^ No. 4 — the strongest, most powerful, and in 

 every way the best machine of its kind ever made. 

 For ripping, cross cutting, boring and grooving. 



SEND FOR OUR NEW CATALOGUE 



W. F. & JOHN BARNES CO. TMSF ROCKFORD, ILL. 



time and time again. The point has been 

 reached when further object lessons will not 

 be required. The time has surely come when 

 efficient remedies must be applied and will be 

 cordially welcomed. 



There are obviously but two ways In which 

 fire losses, both of life and property, can oc 

 remedied. One is so completely to arouse pub- 

 lic opinion as to the necessity of greater care 

 in construction and of greater care in the 

 handling of fires within and without the build- 

 ing; the other is to provide remedies by law, 

 through the enactment of a building law which 

 shall provide for proper construction, and 

 which will make buildings of all kinds better 

 adapted to resist fires of ary sort. 



It is apparent that the first of these remedies 

 will fail in the future, as it has failed in the 

 past, in accomplishing anything like the work 

 desired. The very diversity of our popula- 

 tion, the diversity of cur building materials, 

 the diversity of the conditions under which 

 buildings are erected and used, render any 

 educational campaign doomed to failure at 

 the outset. Certain classes of people, certain 

 grades of buildings, can always be reached by 

 such means; but the positive results obtained 

 are small and inconsequential. The educa- 

 tional campaign is valuable, of course, because 

 everything that tends to educate the people 

 as a mass is helpful ; but it is much too costly 

 of time and much too indefinite in its results 

 to be permanently valuable. 



The law, and the building law. is the single 

 efficient remedy. The law can permit certain 

 kinds of construction and forbid others. It 

 imposes penalties; it provides for the punish- 

 ment of offenders. Even if ineffectively ap- 

 plied, it is a great step and a good step in 

 advance. For many years our larger cities 

 have permitted the construction of buildings 

 only under the limitations of a building code. 

 In some instances, as in that of the city of 

 New York, this code is a highly specialized 

 law, dealing with great minuteness with every 

 possible requirement and condition. The build- 

 ing conditions in New York are, perhaps, 

 more exacting than in other cities, and its 

 law has, in a sense, come to be regarded as the 

 model for building codes elsewhere. 



The relationship between a building code 

 and the safeguarding of property against loss 

 by fire is very close, and the remedy is quite 

 as obvious. If a fire loss means the destruc- 

 tion of a building, it is obvious that if the 

 building has been constructed so that it will 

 not burn, if the rapidity of the destroying 

 element is checked, if apparatus and devices 

 are supplied that will hinder a fire, there 

 must be less loss than if no preventive con- 

 struction steps had been taken. By requir- 

 ing care in construction, therefore, the build- 

 ing code becomes a medium for the lessening 

 of fire losses. It is concerned, of course, with 

 other subjects, as, for example, the many 

 questions relating to the stability of struc- 

 tures, but its value as a fire lessener is very 

 great. 



The National Board of Fire Underwriters 

 has performed much valuable work in dis- 

 seminating literature relating to protection 

 against fire losses. It has realized, for some 

 time past, that a general building law would 

 be the most effective agent that could be ap- 

 plied toward diminishing the losses by fire. 

 The subject does not appear to be one that 

 can be reached by national laws, and the dif- 

 ficulties of securing general legislation by 

 States is very great. It has, however, now 

 taken a very long step forward in this most 

 important work by drafting a general or 

 model building code, which has been prepared 

 to meet general conditions, and which has been 

 submitted to the authorities of the leading 



