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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



October, 1905 



A SECTION AT A TIME 

 JUST AS YOU NEED THEM 



A SECTION BOUGHT TO-DAY FITS A 

 SECTION BOUGHT FIVE YEARS HENCE 



Our 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 



NEW YORK 



sosTor 



PHILADELPHIA 



;t. louk 



-Steel Supporting Bar 

 ■Malleable Iron Bridge 

 Flat Iron 

 -Felt 

 Glass 



F— Copper Sheet Cap 

 G — Coil Galv. Brass Spring 

 H — Galvanized Brass Stud 

 J — Bridge Cfor walking on 

 skylight) 



The 



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Skylight 



Absolutely and permanently impervious against 

 rain, snow, sleet or dust, without putty or 

 cement. 



Bridge arrangement for walking on the sky- 

 light without coming in contact with or danger 

 of breaking glass. 



Manufactured "fhe G. Dl*OUVe Co. 



Erected by Bridgeport, Connecticut 



Also Manufacturers and Erectors of 



tffifje lobell l^tnboto Operating debtee 



The only device on the market that will, if desired, 

 operate a line of sash 500 ft. long 



=» ARTISTIC 

 MANTELS 



•I Our line embraces 

 everything needed 

 for the fireplace, and 

 our Mantels range in 

 price from $2.65 up. 

 Catalogue free. 



AS 



THE GEO. W. CLARK CO. 



9 1 Dearborn St., Cnicago, 111. 



306 Main St., Jacksonville, Fla. 



(Factory : Knoxville, Tenn.) 



valves, and a complete line of flat band fittings. 

 In addition, the company is prepared to turn 

 out complete piping equipments for power 

 plants, and has facilities for bending and 

 threading all sizes of pipe, and screwing, weld- 

 ing or rolling flanges on these sizes. In out- 

 put entirety the company manufactures in 

 excess of ten thousand articles for use in con- 

 nection with steam, water, gas or air. About 

 twenty-six branches have been established, all 

 except New York carrying complete stocks of 

 plumbing supplies. The Chicago sales de- 

 partment, conducted in connection with the 

 general offices in that city, does not handle 

 plumbing material. The great and practical 

 genius at the head of this company lays great 

 stress on the value of manual training in the 

 grade schools. In September, 1892, Mr. 

 Crane equipped a manual training room in a 

 Chicago school, and has furnished means for 

 making possible manual training in the lower 

 grades. This year he has provided twenty- 

 four scholarships, of three hundred dollars each 

 per year, and funds for five more grade schools. 

 It is no extravagant arithmetic to claim that 

 the industrial figures shown in this notice are 

 unsurpassed in their line in the world. The 

 commanding position of the industry encour- 

 ages it to take no neutral ground. The per- 

 sistence in such legends as, " The time is not 

 ripe," or, " That trade conditions are un- 

 openable," was never a weakness with this 

 firm in its splendid run of fifty years of enter- 

 prise and thrift. 



Sheet Metal Tile 



A STUDY of the current research in the 

 field of architecture shows that there 

 is warrant and justification for the 

 stricter attention now given to roofs. That it 

 is possible in many cases to make this area the 

 shining mark of a building should not be, un- 

 less durability is made an indispensable con- 

 dition of its success. But signs are not want- 

 ing to show that fashion does not always favor 

 fine looking material at the expense of wear 

 and tear, nor is it to be lost sight of that the 

 maximum of production of poor stuff has 

 passed with the advent of recent improvements. 

 Let us take, for instance, the art and quality 

 of metal tile roofing, as demonstrated in 

 Spanish and Mission designs now adopted on 

 a wide range of structures, counting from the 

 almost unpretentious to the most important. 

 A step farther leads us to notice that an 

 enviable share of this advance is due to the 

 artistic, ornamental and stanch products of 

 a Western firm, the W. H. Muilins Company, 

 of Salem, Ohio. The designers at this extensive 

 plant, realizing that the exquisite curves and 

 lines, heights and valleys, and resultant lights 

 and shades of the ancient roofing tile give the 

 effects desired for a perfect roof through sheet 

 metal tire, have worked for the retention of 

 all the old points of beauty and made the im- 

 provements needed by overcoming its numer- 

 ous mechanical defects. Almost from the in- 

 troduction of the sloping roof in architecture 

 terra cotta roofing tile has been used, and as an 

 artistic and effective rnaterial has never been 

 surpassed, and where climatic changes are not 

 as serious as in the United States will likely 

 never be equaled. But here, where the dif- 

 ferences of temperature and moisture are so 

 extreme and sudden, and the expansion and 

 contraction of all building materials are so 

 difficult to counteract, its all-round success is, 

 and will be limited. The introduction of 

 metal into means for preserving the attractive- 

 ness of a material not quite agreeable to the 

 exposures of our weather influences is valuable 

 from the point of view that the beauty of an 



