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building and Construction Activity Unsurpassed
WRICK USED BY
| ANCIENT PEOPLE
■ne of the Oldest Building Ma
terials Known to Civilized
Mian; Its Use Dates Back to
■4009 B. C.
■ Hrick is one of the oldest building
Baterials known to civilized man
■hey have been found as old as 4,000
B C., so that their use i 3 coeval
Bith the birth of history, in the
Biddle /.ges, with the rise of Gothic
Behitecture, the use of brick greatly
Bclined. It was not until the reign
B Queen Elizabeth the manufacture
Brain flourished in England, and it
■as not until 1025 that b.ick again
Began to be made uniform size
I The earliest record of a patent is-
Bied by the United States patent of
■ce for brick-making is dated May
B). 1800, and was for a brick and tile
Biachine invented by G. Hadfield,
■esidence not recorded. Other pat
ents issued about that time were,
Ins to E. Miller. January 5, 1804, for
I brick and tile machine; one to W.
lodgson. Richmond. Va.. May 22,
805, for an apparatus for making
lies, brick, etc., and one to ,1. F.
lould, Newburyport, Mass., March 1,
|BOO, for a brick machine.
I The first patent granted for a brick
liln was issued to H. Read, of Ken
lingston. Pa., June 17. 1840. and the
Irst for a brick dryer to S. M. Parish,
If Balwinsville, N. Y., August 16, 1864.
Character Changes.
9 Although the same process for mak
■ig brick and tile has been used for
■ges, toe evolution of the industry
■trough the use of improved methods
■nd machinery has brought about a
■ rent change in the character of the
■roduct. It is a long stride from the
■se of hand pick and shovel to steam
■hovel and uncovering the clay bed;
Bom the old-fahioned ring tpit to the
■lachine that grinds, tempers and
■loulds; from the use of a hand mould
■o the machine with a capacity of
■OO,OOO bncks per day; from the open
■ir system, or a weather-beaten dry
■ng shed, to the utilization of artificial
■eat for drying; from the temporary
■o the patented continuous kilns, and
Irom the poorly made product of
■ears ago to the firm, straightedged
■nd otherwise well finished product
■f today.
if! With the settlement of any region
■he first type of clay product usually
■ emended is bricks, for structural
Bvork. These have been ' made in
■early all of the southern states since
■n early date, and there has been a
■onsiderable increase in production
Bince 1865.
A Greater Center.
I Augusta as a brick center ranks
Basily among the best. Few cities
Bave better advantages. Within a ra-
Bius of fifty miles of the city are to
Be fQtmd as rich a variety of shales.
GEORGIA-CAROLINA BRICK COMPANY
Howard H. Stafford, President.
clays and kaolins as exist anywhere
in the South, which are suitable for
the manufacture of architectural terra
cotta, electric and telephone conduits,
tooling tiles and high clacs pottery.
It is only a matter of time when
such industries will be located in the
Augusta district, which in addition to
the raw' materials, can suuplv the fac
tories with cheap fuel and electric
? ower. Aded to these are transporta
tion facilities equal to any in the
country.
At present the district has several
of the largest brick plants in the
South, and there has never been a
time when it was not possible to se
cure the best grade of brick, get them
promptly and at reasonable
When the city was founded only corn
man hand-made brick were produced,
and Augusta even then was cous,iic
uous as a distributing point, supply
ing distant points and many large un
dertakings with their brick and build
ing materials.
PLEASANTRIES OF PRISONS
A Swiss prison appears to be the
very place in which to spend a cheap
holiday, as you have practically all
you want —a comfortable cell, central
heating, electricity, good food, a fair
quantity of wine or beer and tobacco,
and a library, says a Geneva corres
pondent of the Philadelphia Record.
You can learn a trade, have plenty of
exercise and there is little work to do
in return for all these advantages.
Until a year ago at the Thorberg
prison good conduct prisoners were
even allowed out once a week on pa
role, hut though no prisoners escaped
this custom has been suppressed.
Of all the Swiss prisons perhaps the
jolliest is that of Kreuziingen, in the
Canton of Thurgan. The inmates
have weekly smoking concerts when
the latest music hall songs can be
heard and good music, with the result
that at eveningsf the townspeople—
Kreuziingen has nearly 6,000 inhabi
tants—gather enviously under the
prison walls and promenade in the
street enjoying the free entertainment,
espcially as some of the convicts have
good voices. On these occasions there
is no warden to prevent a conversa
tion between the prisoners and their
visitors across the wall, and thus the
former learn the latest news.
It is noticed that the prisoners are
very polite when young women are
present. Packets of cigarettes and
other small uxuries—not on the regu
lar menu—find their way over the,
walls ,and this custom, though strict
ly forbidden, is winked at. These
These pleasant little soiree musicales
are now threatend with extinction.
It is only fair to the authorities to
say that crime is decreasing, as the
pop nation -increases in the country.
BUILD WITH BRICK
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Good from an investment standpoint.
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Makes a cool house in Summer and a warm one in Winter.
Cuts out the paint bills.
Makes low insurance rates.
Beautiful in appearance.
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Costs only a little more than frame.
We manufacture both high grade common building brick; and
red and buff dry pressed brick.
THE HARDNESS OF WATER
(From the American Magazine.)
Here is a fact which is probably
novel to the average man who has
not spent much of his life thinking
about motor speed boats. This is what
we may call the hardness of the wa
ter. AVhen a boat is running at speed.
Water at fifty miles an hour is not
the limpid liquid we are accustomed
to bathe in. If you put your arm
overboard from a hydroplane running
at fifty miles an hour and strike a
wave crest the probability is that you
will break your arm or wrist, because
at that speed the water has not time
to give, not time even to change snapu
and striking it is like striking so
much metal.
In the great hydraulic mining noz
zles. where a stream of water under
enormous head is used to wash down
hill side, a swordsman in attempting
to cut into one of these streams, will
shatter the sword without being aide
to penetrate the water. The stream
is like a bar of iron. The fact that
water at relative speed is so hard—-
or that its intertia is so great, to he
a little more accurate—is the reason
why a skipping stone travels over the
surface, and is the reason why a hy
droplane boat slides over the surface
instead of plowing its way through.
The picture we must have in our
minds, then, of a speed boat is that it
is traveling not in water, as water, as
we ordinarily understand it, but over
th : surface of semi-solid, very much
as a sled travels over snow. The hard
ness of water at 50 miles an hour we
might compare with the hardness of
cheese—at rest.
b IVE THE SUIL
If you knew that it takes Nature ten
thousand years to form a foot of soil,
maybe you would have a higher opinion
of Mother Earth and be more careful
how you dvain your garden or field.
If you saw a granary full of rat holes
you would suspect a careless farmer.
Rut a field left to wash away by the
unchecked rush of surface water after a
downpour Is fully as wasteful. The only
difference is that here the waste is of
plant food before it gets into the grain.
If your gaVden or field is on a siope,
terrace it; if on a level, plant it not in
straight row’s but in circles. And in
both cases tile drain it. Eor the stuff
that washes away is precisely the stuff
the your crops most need in order to
astonish the natives by their tiniflinoss.
Once gone it is expensive to replace.
When you stop to think that every
thing depends on the soil, clearly the
soil is worth saving.—Seattle Star.
SOME DETECTIVE.
'Phe constable in a small town received
by post six “Rogues’ Gallery’’ photo
graphs, taken in different positions, of
an old offender wanted for burglary in
a neighboring city. A fortnight iater
the constable sent this messtage to :he
city chief of police:
“I have arrested five of the men, and
am going after the sixth tonight.”—
Exchange.
TOO LATE.
Are you prepared to put up that thou
sand dollars into my proposition now?
No. 1 gave it to my wife to go to the
seashore with.
Write Us for Prices. Capacity 75,000,000 Annually.
FHE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
T. J. DALY
Contractor and Builder
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The above are some of the residences built by me recently, and are acknowledged by all who have
inspected them as being three of the handsomest and best built homes in this city.
No contract too large for me to handle. Can refer to many of the leading business men and archi
tects of the city.
ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED,
604 13th Street. = * Rhone 2588**J
Augusta, Georgia, U. S. A.
. “AUGUSTA IN 1914"