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Building and (Construction Record Biggest in History ol Augusta
The Use Of Cement In
Construction Work
Grows in Popularity
Material Fifty Years Ago Re
garded As Negligible Quant
ity, Has Become Invaluable
Adjunct in Building Opera
tions.
The value of cement as a building
material was known to the ancients.
They had a limited knowledge of its
manufacture and used it, yet cement
and its transcendent worth as a build
ing material has been only used in
this country within comparatively re
cent years. Even les sthan half a
century ago it was used to such a lim
ited extent that it was referred to in
variably as a negligible quantity. 11l
1876, when there was a general at
tempt to popularize cement, it took
the form of artificial paving, as it was:
called. It in no way compared to the
present product, and consequently was
not adopted for general use.
How*ever, within the last fifteen
years the value of cement in genrai
construction work has become an In
valuable adjunct. Indeed so recent has
been the wonderful advance of the "c--
ment age" that the last federal cen
sus did not attempt to report its use
generally in connection with other ma
terial, but devoted a separate volume
entirely to its wonderful growth and
its varied uses. The value of cement
is evidenced In nearly every line of
modern structure that make for per
manency It enters largely into rail
road work, huge skyscrapers, artistic
residences, streets, culverts, sidewalks
and other construction operations that
are too numerous to mention. It is
generally agreed among architects that
its use has given the greatest de
gree of satisfaction in every class of
work in which it has been employed.
The popularity and value of cement
as a buiiding material is growing in
Augusta. In nearly every instance of
building operations it is found that
cement is a contributing factor and
Is being used in large quantities. While
the homes of Augusta are noted far
and wide for their comfort, this fact
promises to he further enhanced by
cement. Notable examples of the com
Absurd Child Labor Talk
The Woman's Journal recently asked
Its readers if they knew “that children
of three have been seen at work for six
hours at a stretch shucking oysters in
Southern Oyste*r canneries?” The New
port News Press .published in the center
of the oyster industry admits that it
did not know it. and adds that if its lady
contemporary “will bring to this com
munity some of those wonderful children
and demonstrate that they can shuck
oysters for even three hours at a stretch
we promise to vote to enfranchise their
mothers.”
The absurdity of a three-year-old child
being able to shuck oysters it all will
he apparent to anybody in the least
familiar with the industry, which our
“lady contemporary ‘ evident h is not.
The statement concerning the terrible
conditions existing in the oyster indus
try undoubtedly is on a par with other
statements made concerning cruelty to
children compelled to work in other in
dustries. h is .1 fact that the fine cru
sade inaugurated for th* purpose of ame
liorating the condition of children of poor
parents, tots who have to work to help
their parents make buckle and tongue
meet, has been hampered and hindered
almost from tlie beginning by the extra
vagant statements concerning conditions
growing out of the employment of chil
dren in certain industries.
The evils incident to the employment
of children in factories and elsewhere
should be corrected as far as it is pos
sible to correct them by legislation Hut
it is not* necessary to make ridiculously
false staements regarding conditions in
order to accomplish their reforms.—Kioh.
mond Journal.
Where Temperance Hotels Fail
In the elections held in the province of
Ontario last week the liberal party was
overwhelmingly defeated on its chosen
issue, “banish the liar.” I’rider local op
tion a large part of Ontaria is now dry.
l.iquor licenses for hotels are restricted
so rigidly in the cities of the provinces
that any one who has a hotel license in
Toronto owns a franchise of great value.
When a new hotel is to be built in that
city the promoters of the enterprise have
to find some small hotel keeper In the
municipality who is killing to retire from
business for a consideration so that his
license may be transferred to the new
establishment. ’Phis law works out pe
culiarly. Toronto has grown fast and
has outgrown its hotel accommodations.
Capitalists are willing to put up another
large hotel provided th it they can get
h license for it without paying extortion
ate “blackmail." as they call it, to some
one who now shares in tin* monopoly
which a little oligarchy of liquor deal
ers are able to maintain through the
operations of the stringent temperance
laws of the provinces. This has led cer
tain scoffers in Toronto ask why do not
the numerous wealthy temperance peo
pie who are always voting and working
for total prohibition build a large hotel
In Toronto and patronize it. There are
enough of them in the province who visit
Toronto frequently to make profitable a
first-class hotel of 5,00 ft rooms. Temper
ance hotels have been tried before in that
city and have not succeeded because
themperance people would not go near
them. If temperance people would live
up to their expressed principles the
probblems of catering to the traveling
public in places where local option is en
forced would be simpler.—New’ York
Comercial.
A Waverly Centenary
i (From the Springfield Republican.)
Eminently worthy of celebration la
the centenary, which fell during the
week just past, of the publication an
onymously in Edinburgh of Sir Wal
ter Scott's first historical novel,
[‘‘Waverly, or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since.”
[What that event meant for English
[literature everybody knows; It was
the beginning of the reign of fiction.
Before his day novels had been rela
tively few, and they were written for
special tastes. Scott wrote for every
body. Sterne, Fielding and Smollett
were not precisely authors for the
family circle; Scott brought In the
Victorian purity of thought and de
corum of expression—his novels could
be read aloud in any company with
out discomfort. Perhaps no writer has
done more to make Industrious read
ers out of women, and that should be
counted in his favor if any one finds
his view of women hopelessly old
fashioned and romantic.
fort, durability and artistic design ir
which this material is used in homes
is rapidly becoming apparent in Au
gusta and its environs.
New and Modern Store Building ol Morgan
Johnson, Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
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G. LLOYD PREACHER, ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER
W. B. TOOLE & CO.
—: Manufacturers of =•—
Metal Shingles, Cornice
Skylights, Etc.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Roll Tin and Rubber
Roofings
Warm Air Furnaces a Specialty
Electric Signs Made to Order
Tin Roofs Repaired and
Painted.
Phone or write us for esti
mates on all kinds of Metal
and Tin Work.
935 Broad St. Phone 264
A Full Treasury
(Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.)
Financially the policies of the Wil
son administration have vindicated
themselves. For the twelvemonth
ended June the 13th, treasury receipts
were $33,784,452 iri excess of ordinary
expenses.
Customs receipts amounted to more
than $292,000,000, or some twenty-twc
millions more than was estimated. As
a revenue producer, the new tariff has
far exceeded expectations. It has
woefully disappointed the apostles of
iHt AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
high protection who predicted that a
Democratic tariff would beggar the
nation's treasury and check national
development.
The treasury surplus is not merely
apparent, real, for while the pay
Hy-tex
The Standard Quality in Brick;
From cottage to mansion, in every style of architec
ture Hy-tex Brick is always the best.
Hy-tex Brick produce the largest degree of artistic
merit.
Experience everywhere proves that Hy-tex is the
most fire resistive material for facing walls.
Hytex secures beauty, permanence and fine pro
tection.
Booklets Tell Why
HYDRAULIC PRESS BRICK CO.
St. Louis Mo. Washington, D. C.
THE HENRY HUTT COMPANY
“PLUMBERS OF MERIT”
Plumbing and Heating Contractors and Supplies
Show Rooms, 611 Broad Street, AUGUSTA GA.
Activities in the heating and plumbing trade in the South are indicated in some of the con
tracts that have been awarded for work hi Augusta, Ga., recently. Our (inn was awarded plumbing
contract for work on the new Kale Hotel. -- F H
We respectfully refer you to G. Lloyd Preacher.
Plumbinq and Heating Contractors THE HENRY HUTT CO AUGUSTA. GA.
ment out of current revenues of thir
ty-five millions on Canal account will
temporarily wipe out the balance on
hand, Secretary McAdoo has bonds
on hand applicable to canal expendi
tures which may be disposed of in
Hy-tex Brick used in Empire and Chronicle Buildings
Augusta , Georgia
Scene of Employees In Front of Kale Hotel
case of need to replace the money so
taken from the general fund. The
exhibit is one which utterly refutes
the prediction of the republicans and
progressives that tariff reductions
w’ould spell ruin to the country.
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A REGULAR OCEAN.
Diver: Are you sure it’s deen
enuf?
Pond owner: Deep enuf? g ure it
is! Didn’t you jest see me pour S jv
whole buckets of water in it?