XVI 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GA 



R D E N S 



August, 1907 



This Catalog — 



I nil niilt ' " *^ " Help 

 1 You 



Solve Your Water 

 Supply Problem 



If you have a water problem to solve, 

 then you should write for our catalog. It 

 will help you solve that problem to your 

 entire satisfaction, as well as economically 

 and permanently. 



No matter whether your requirements 

 are moderate or extensive ; whether you 

 have but one building or a hundred 

 buildings, this catalog will help you out 

 of your difficulties. 



hydraulic engineers. It includes pumping 

 and storage facilities to meet the indi- 

 vidual needs of each purchaser. 



If you install a Kewanee System, your 

 plant will first be designed to meet your 

 exact conditions by our engineering 

 department. Then, you will be protected 

 by a guarantee of satisfactory service. 



Any Kewanee System of Water Supply 

 which does not do everything we claim 



The Kewanee System of Water Supply 



If you li\'e in the city and the pressure 

 is not strong enough, or the water is 

 impure, or the water rental is exorbitant, 

 you will get some valuable suggestions 

 from our catalog. 



If you want information on the water 

 supply subject as it relates to country and 

 suburban homes, public institutions, ho- 

 tels, neighborhood water works, small towns 

 and cities, then j ou should get this catalog. 



The Kewanee System combines over 

 ten years practical experience in the 

 water supply line, together with the tech- 

 nical knowledge of trained experts and 



for it, ma\' be returned at our expense 

 and its purchase price will be refunded. 



With the Kewanee System, there are 

 no attic and elevated tank troubles, be- 

 cause attic and elevated tanks are entirely 

 disposed of. Old fashioned methods are 

 discarded and modern, scientific princi- 

 ples are utilized. 



The Kewanee System is not an exper- 

 iment. There are over seven thousand 

 of our water supply plants in successful 

 operation. Perhaps there are .some in 

 your immediate neighborhood — our cat- 

 alog tells. 



If you are in the market for a water supply 

 system of any description and for any purpose, 

 write to us. Tell us what you want supplied with 

 water and we will send you our complete gen- 

 eral catalog by return mail. Ask for Catalog 

 No. 36. 



Kewanee Water Supply Co. 

 Kewanee, III. 



32 Broadway, New York 820 Marquelle Bld^., Chicaio 



iFloor«5idewalk Lights, 



F EVERY DESCRIPTfON. 



SENDf^PCATALOGUE. 



■Philosophy of Protective Paint- 



A practical treatise on the subject of protective paint by a practical 

 paint man of long experience. Write for free copy No. 106 B. 



Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, N. J. 



in advance. Dryness of wood and weather are 

 essential for painting either a new or old house. 

 Even damp, foggy days will sometimes prevent 

 paint from soaking properly in the wood and 

 thus anchoring the whole coat. In repaint- 

 ing an old house all loose paint must first be 

 removed. 



We have a great variety of pleasing colors 

 to select from to-day, but of the list of natural 

 and artificial pigments comparatively few col- 

 ors are really durable. It is not a satisfactory 

 work to select a pleasing combination of tints, 

 and then find after a few months that the col- 

 ors have faded, leaving a decidedly blotched 

 appearance. Permanence of colors as well as 

 durability uf the coat of paint are desirable. A 

 color scheme, no matter how beautiful, if it 

 quickly fades, must only serve to exasperate. 

 The analine lakes furnish the most brilliant 

 and most delicate shades and colors, but they 

 vanish when exposed to the sunlight almost as 

 soon as the paint has dried. Few conscientious 

 architects specify these for good work. They 

 are used in some cheap paints intended to 

 catch the eye, but in a very short time the 

 light tints have darkened and the darker shades 

 have faded or altered. The only durable, un- 

 fading dark pigments are the several lamp, gas 

 and bone blacks, and the only suitable white 

 pigments are white lead and oxide of zinc. 

 With these latter marble dust, whiting, silica 

 and other adulterants are often mixed in con- 

 siderable proportions, thus destroying the 

 quality of the paint. The iron oxides form 

 the most durable of red pigments, but beautiful 

 aniline dyes are often mixed with them. The 

 dyes fade quickly and the color scheme is lost. 

 Of the yellow pigments the ochers are more 

 durable than the chromes, but the latter are 

 brighter. The Prussian blues and ultrama- 

 rines are not very permanent unless combined 

 with oxide of zinc. The green shades are 

 generally produced by combinations of Prus- 

 sian blue and chrome yellow mixed with such 

 inert pigments as barytes, and they hold their 

 colors moderately well when mixed with suf- 

 ficient oxide of zinc. The mineral browns of 

 umber and sienna are very durable. 



It is possible to secure a good color scheme 

 with these durable pigments, but brilliancy of 

 effect generally means quick fading. Our 

 natural love for rich, delicate tints deceives us 

 into accepting a color scheme which can have 

 no permanency. The new house built for 

 speculative purposes to catch the unwary is fre- 

 quently bedecked with rich colors that fascinate 

 the eye, but like many other features of such 

 cheap houses the outside appearance of beauty 

 is barely skin-deep. Paint can cover a multi- 

 tude of sins. 



The cost of painting is always a question 

 which seriously concerns the householder. It 

 is a charge against the property, which, like 

 insurance, taxes and general repairs, should be 

 apportioned in advance over a series of years. 

 The real estate agent never calls attention to 

 this charge when he tries so hard to show a 

 possible client how little it will cost to main- 

 tain a modest little wooden home in the coun- 

 try. Taxes are easily apportioned, interest on 

 the investment is a fixed quantity, street, side- 

 walk and water improvements can all be an- 

 ticipated, and general repairs figured down to 

 a nicety. But painting! — that is so far in the 

 future that it is rarely considered by the novice 

 eager to own his home. But at the end of the 

 second 3'ear the freshness of the paint is a little 

 dimmed by exposure to wind and storms, and 

 by the third season the house begins to look 

 "genteelly shabb3^" The house is crying 

 aloud for a new suit of clothes. It needs paint 

 to retain its self-respect, but more than that it 

 demands paint to prevent "dry rot" in the 

 very bones of its structure. The insidious 

 work of decomposition attacks pillar and post, 

 and finds its way among the large timbers 



