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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



August, 1905 



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A SECTION AT A TIME 

 JUST AS YOU NEED THEM 



A SECTION BOUGHT TO-DAY FITS A 

 SECTION BOUGHT FIVE YEARS HENCE 



Oui Steelsects, or sectional cases, are interchangeable. You 

 can have them every section complete or in combination. Check 

 files, letter files, document files, safety deposit boxes, roller 

 shelving, blank files, etc. 



Write for our Catalogue 30 S 



Steel Sectional Cabinets 



are adapted to every kind of office, the lawyer, the doctor, the 

 manufacturer, the business man, and all professional use. We 

 also make special equipment to order. Ask for our steel equip- 

 ment catalogue. We also make steel ceilings and other sheet 

 metal architectural work. 



THE BERGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY 



CANTON, O. 



A H. G. 6-5 



N EW YORK 



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PHI LADeURH I A 



The LOVELL 



Window and Shutter Device 



For Factories, Mills, 

 Foundries, Etc. 



A line of sash five 

 hundred feet in length 

 can be operated from 

 one station if desired. 

 Adapted to any kind 

 of sash, hinged or pivoted. 



MANUFACTURED ONLY BY 



THE C. DROUVE COMPANY, 



BRIDGEPORT, CONN. 



Manufacturers and Erectors of Cornices, Ventilators, and Sheet 

 Metal Jirchitectural Work of Every Description. 



WE INVITE CORRESPONDENCE AND GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. 



ARTISTIC 

 MANTELS 



•I Our line embraces 

 everything needed 

 for the fireplace, and 

 our Mantels range in 

 price from $2.65 up. 

 Catalogue free. 



THE CEO. W. CLARK CO. 



91 Dearborn St., Cnicago, 111. 



306 Main St., Jacksonville, Fla. 



(Factory : Knoxville, Tenn.) 



of the marring imperfections that regularly 

 appear in handwork. Wax or other polishing 

 material can be readily applied and brought 

 to a high polish by covering the revolving 

 disk with an ordinary cloth. Mounted as it is 

 Oil wheels, and light in design, the machine 

 can be wheeled as readily as a carpet sweeper. 

 It does not require skilled labor to run it, and 

 being a perfect dust collector it is possible for 

 stores, offices and many areas to be polished 

 during business hours. Probably there is no 

 form of indoor hand labor more monotonous 

 and exhausting than polishing Hoors, and as 

 many indications point to the time being near 

 at hand when contracts will specify machine- 

 surfaced floors, that kind of hard work of the 

 old style would have to be employed if it 

 were not for the fine apparatus under notice. 

 The new power being perfect in its adapta- 

 tion to attend to all sorts of floors will never 

 be counted on to " decline the toil." Espe- 

 cially will this amelioration of labor be ap- 

 preciated in the case of floors just completed, 

 where there is always an extra annoying 

 amount of work necessary to effect the proper 

 polish after scrubbing. By the use of the 

 machine the scrubbing is done away with, 

 thereby saving the quality of the floor and the 

 expense of the cleaning, which is fifty per cent, 

 of the cost of machine surfacing. By the new 

 method the floor is in the best attainable con- 

 dition to receive the painter's finish. In private 

 dwelling houses, hotels and all places where 

 carpet and linoleum are used, surfaced floors 

 are a matter of sanitation, economy and, when 

 partly exposed, of appearance. Sanitary, for 

 the reason that the friction caused by the 

 rollers with the wood fills in the cracks, so 

 that dust and other germ-bearing substances 

 can not collect. Surfaced floors are economical, 

 for the reason that carpet laid over a smooth 

 floor will last much longer than over a rough 

 one. Walking on a carpet causes friction, but 

 if the contact be with a smooth, polished floor 

 the friction is minimized. If a portion of the 

 surfaced floor be exposed — for instance, if rugs 

 are used — the base portion may be stained to 

 represent hardwood, and only the closest 

 scrutiny will reveal the difference. The fric- 

 tion caused by the operation of the machine 

 draws the sap to the surface and leaves the 

 floor in the right condition to be stained. 

 When plasterers and painters are through 

 with their work, there is a vast and stubborn 

 amount of lime and paint stains scattered 

 about. Scrubbing will not take these out, since 

 they have entered into the wood fiber in liquid 

 form. The machine removes this coating and 

 makes the floor as slick and clean as the sur- 

 face of an oak table. Another favorable point 

 for the device is in the fact that it is not nec- 

 essary to remove furniture from a room in 

 which the machine is working. In hospitals 

 absolute cleanliness is essential, and there must 

 be no cracks nor crevices in which dust and 

 dirt may collect. The machine will render the 

 floor superficies of these institutions as smooth 

 as glass, and, consequently, as sanitary as me- 

 chanical treatment can make them. The ma- 

 chine started its career of dressing, truing and 

 brightening floors in the extreme West, and 

 is now beginning to be of service in the rest 

 of the country. Any information beyond the 

 scope of this notice will be gladly given by 

 The Rapid Floor Surfacing Machine Com- 

 pany, Room No. 608, Flatiron Building, 

 New York, N. Y. 



Mantels and Grilles to Beautify the Home 



MANTELS and grilles form an important 

 part of the interior finish of the mod- 

 ern home. Reception-halls, parlors, 

 dining-rooms, living-rooms and libraries are 

 made more beautiful by artistic mantels. They 



