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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



August, 1905 



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STRUCTURAL IRON. 



ORNAMENTAL 



CAST AND WROUGHT IRON. 



JAIL CELL WORK. 



FENCES and RAILINGS. 



Catalogue of above furnished, and Prices 

 quoted on application. 



(^Absolutely safe and reliable. o4sk your friends. 



Red Gulf Cypress 



yields its mystery slowly. 



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We know it 

 outlasts all 

 other timber for 

 tank use, but we 

 don't know 

 exactly why. 



Our Catalogue 

 gives more information 



27 ft. Tower, 3,000 gal. Tank furnished Mr, ] F. Perkins Portland, Maine 



W. E. CALDWELL COMPANY, LOUISVILLE, KY. 



iShQ Davis (Si RoescK 



Water Thermostat 



A DRAFT CONTROLLER FOR 

 HOT WATER HEATERS 



Simple, 

 Durable, 



Accurate, 

 Inexpensive. 



"Will save 25 per cent, of 

 your coal bill. 



Will regulate the tempera- 

 ture of your whole House. 



Catalogue free upon request. 



Davis & Roesch Temperature Controlling Co. 



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a few minutes ten various patterns are pro- 

 duced at once. The brick, being pressed face 

 up, the cement box can be filled nearly full of 

 natural colored mixture, and then colored 

 mixture of richer material added insures a well 

 tinted face brick impervious to moisture. The 

 method of operation is simple and convenient. 

 Two pallets are placed within the cement box 

 shown in the engraving. The box is then 

 filled with material, passing along the track 

 to the machine and then into it. The front 

 and side levers are then operated, and the 

 bricks are ready to remove. By working the 

 small lever at the left end of the machine, the 

 cement box, which has been forced down over 

 the table in operation, raises to position for 

 removal and return for refilling. The above 

 firm in its catalogue compares the product of 

 this machine with common clay pressed brick 

 and block construction in very surprising state- 

 ments, but the successive observations are so 

 carefully made that no exaggeration can be 

 implied. Its literature also gives numerous 

 advantages of this contrivance, which is recog- 

 nized by engineers, machinists and contractors 

 as an unsurpassed factor in revolutionizing the 

 brick industry. It is easily transported. Take 

 it to the sand bank, deliver cement to it and 

 one has a brick yard that will produce plain 

 pressed bricks or those most highly ornamental 

 to rear the finest structure. Or the little 

 plant can be established on the building site 

 and bricks made there. It is plainly a boon 

 to the utility of cement and cement construc- 

 tion. It enables the builder to make the brick 

 for his own structures, the contractor to save 

 the brick maker's profit, the clay brick maker 

 to produce a pressed facing brick in connec- 

 tion with his common clay product, thus 

 widening his field, and concrete block makers 

 to complete their plants so as to produce ce- 

 ment brick as well as blocks. Concrete has 

 been tested for years, and is recognized as un- 

 surpassed in strength needed for construction 

 purposes. The mixture used in the machine is 

 much the same as for other forms of concrete 

 work, requiring Portland cement and clean, 

 sharp sand free from clay and foreign matter. 

 The apparatus is manufactured under the 

 F. Helm patents, all territories east of the 

 Mississippi River being exclusively controlled 

 and machines manufactured therefor by the 

 Queen City Brick Machine Company, of 

 Traverse City; while the country west of that 

 river is held under like conditions by the 

 Helm Brick Machine Company of the same 

 place. 



Metal Spanish Tile 



IF ANY one claims that metal roofing has 

 no noteworthy or vital advantages, a study 

 of the various points and qualities of the 

 styles made by the Berger Manufacturing 

 Company should be an excellent means for 

 artistic and practical instruction on the sub- 

 ject. This is easily done by procuring the 

 latest illustrated catalogue, sent free on re- 

 quest. If there is any proof in half-tone 

 accuracy (and the art is very successful in 

 reproducing buildings), the test pictures shown 

 in the issue No. 2 are indeed conclusive. The 

 accommodation between the metal roofings 

 and the many and various examples of really 

 pretentious structures is there perfectly shown, 

 and the color, texture and relief effects give 

 that desired artistic capping to high class 

 architecture as gratifying as that reached in 

 Spanish clay tiling. All the modes of group- 

 ing and massing of tile which render the 

 Spanish so beautiful may be followed in cor- 

 rect fashion by the employment of the patterns 

 made by this company. Being absolutely ac- 

 curate and invariable in construction, their 

 application makes it easy to establish any di- 

 rection of line, straight, curved or radiating, 



