HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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May, 1911 
Asbestos Shingles 
infringement Suit 1W“ Injunction ‘TKI 
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 
TO 
H. W. JOHNS-MANVILLE COMPANY, and its associates, directors, officers, 
servants, agents, workmen and employees, GREETING, 
WHEREAS, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the 
United States for the Southern District of New York, that Reissue Letters Patent 
of the United States No. 12,594, were issued to Ludwig Hatschek in due form of 
law on the 15th day of January, 1907, and that the Asbestos Shingle, Slate and 
Sheathing Company is the sole and exclusive owner of the rights to make, use and 
sell the inventions and improvements or discoveries of said Reissue Letters Patent 
No. 12,594, and that you, said H. W. Johns-Manville Company have infringed upon 
said Letters Patent, and upon claims 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 thereof, which read as follows: 
“2. The herein-described process of producing artificial stone plates, consisting of first 
mixing fibrous material and hydraulic cement in the presence of a great bulk of water, then 
forming therefrom a series of thin layers of the mixed cement and fibrous material superposed 
on each other until the required thickness is secured, then pressing the same and allowing the 
material to set or harden.” 
“3. The herein-described process of producing artificial stone plates, consisting of first 
mixing asbestos fibres and hydraulic cement in the presence of a great bulk of water, then 
forming therefrom a series of thin layers of the mixed cement and asbestos superposed on 
each other until the required thickness is secured, then pressing the same and allowing the 
material to set or harden, substantially as set forth.” 
“4. The herein-described process of producing artificial stone plates, consisting in mixing 
fibrous material and hydraulic cement in a bulk of water sufficient to render the cement col¬ 
loidal, then forming therefrom a series of thin layers of the mixed cement and fibrous material 
superposed on each other until the required thickness is secured, then pressing the same and 
allowing the material to set or harden.” 
“5. The herein-described process of producing artificial plates, consisting of first mixing 
fibrous material and hydraulic cement in the presence of a great bulk of water, to render 
the cement colloidal, then forming therefrom a series of thin layers of the mixed cement and 
fibrous material superposed on each other until the required thickness is secured, then pressing 
the same and allowing the material to set or harden.” 
“7. A product of the invention herein-before set forth, being a composition containing 
hydraulic cement which has been rendered colloidal.” 
and upon the exclusive rights of the Asbestos Shingle, Slate and Sheathing Com¬ 
pany thereunder. 
NOW, THEREFORE, we do strictly command and enjoin you, the said H. W. 
JOHNS-MANVILLE COMPANY, your associates, directors, officers, servants, 
agents, workmen and employees, and each of them, from either directly or indirectly 
making or causing to be made, using or causing to be used, selling or causing to 
be sold, or disposing of in any way, or advertising for sale any Imitation Stone 
Plates, Slabs or Tiles containing or embodying the invention covered by said Re¬ 
issue Letters Patent of the United States No. 12,594, issued to Ludwig Hatschek, and 
particularly specified in claims 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 thereof. 
WITNESS THE HONORABLE EDWARD D. WHITE, Chief Justice of 
the Supreme Court of the United States, at the City of New York, on the 18th day 
of February, 1911, and in the hundred and thirty-fifth year of the Independence of 
the United States. JOHN A. SHIELDS, 
[Seal] Clerk of the Circuit Court. 
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Building Brick Houses ot Character 
( Continued, from page 342) 
tions of architectural propriety. Many of 
us are such creatures of habit, and so 
blindly convention-ridden in our circum¬ 
scribed horizon, that we look askance at 
any departure from sober precedent as we 
know it, and are apt to feel that any¬ 
thing else than sad-colored exteriors would 
not be quite respectable. In other words, 
we are still laboring under the bondage of 
a kind of architectural Puritanism, at least 
so far as most of our houses are concerned. 
It is high time we had a rebellion against 
this dull, depressing sombreness, this false 
notion from a false period of Anglo-Saxon 
propriety in taste. 
In the last few years there has been a 
notable change in the character of our 
public buildings, indicative of the change 
in our broadened moral, artistic and tem¬ 
peramental outlook, and it is eminently fit¬ 
ting that architecture should thus reflect 
and express the life of the people. This 
change should next make itself felt in our 
domestic architecture, and to this end we 
cannot do better than study Continental 
models. For country and suburban houses 
the Colonial style is too firmly entrenched 
ever to be supplanted, and it is not desir¬ 
able that it should be, but there is room 
enough for all styles, and we might copy 
to advantage, in some of our city houses 
and country estates, some of the devices of 
wall ornamentation to be found abroad. 
There is no reason why ornamentation 
should not be in perfect accord with robust 
and virile architectural expression. To be 
convinced of this, one need but look at 
some of the French renaissance farm 
buildings, which were quite as fully orna¬ 
mented as the chateaux to which they be¬ 
longed. The pictures showing a tower of 
the Chateau de St. Agil, and the hunting 
lodge at Moulemont give some idea of the 
richness of ornamentation to be gained by 
the colored diapering. Instances might be 
indefinitely multiplied, some of them of 
great interest. 
Americans have always displayed a re¬ 
markable aptitude for appropriating what 
it good and adapting it to their needs. We 
may confidently expect a bright future for 
brick ornamentation in America, for, as 
the resources and possibilities of the older 
work are more fully realized, popular de¬ 
mand will ensure the perpetuation of 
forms of decoration of which we have 
been neglectful too long. 
Some Edging Plants Worth Trying 
(Continued from page 353) 
of the easiest culture and if the flowers are 
picked as they fade so as to prevent the 
formation of seed the flowers will be finer 
and the succession of bloom more continu¬ 
ous and extended. 
The violas or tufted pansies make ad¬ 
mirable border or edging plants and when 
planted in a somewhat shaded position will 
give a continuous bloom for several 
months. The tufted pansies do not show 
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