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IMPROVED BATH HEATER.
The Folding Bath Tub Co. of Marshall, Mich., who do a very
extensive business in the manufacture and sale of their cele-
brated Folding and Sanitary Baths, have recently made a great
improvement in their Bath Heater consisting of an Elliptic Coil
constructed of five-eighths Cop-
per Tubing attached to the bot-
tom of the Heater in such a way
as to cause the water to circulate
as soon as the burners under-
neath are lighted.
The advantage this Heater has
over any other now on the
market, is the water is heated
both by radiation and circulation
at the same time.
The Company are using this
Heater on all their Folding
Baths, and as it is proving itself
to be such a success, they have
decided to put it on t' e market, and are prepared to furnish any
or all dealers on short
notice, as there is a demand for a cheaper
as well as less complicated Stationary Bath Heater.
We are confident that this Heater will soon find its way into
many homes, and become a great favorite.—For further informa-
tion, address
Folding Bath Tub Co.
Marshal], Mich.
An Improved Revolving Chimney Top.
To create a better draught in low and poor chimneys, and
to stop the stove and grate from smoking on account of wind
blowing dorvn the chimney, is the object of the improved
revolving chimney top shown in the accompanying illustration.
The improvement is designed to be attached to a low sheet iron
smoke stack put on the chimney. The device has been on the
market for several years and is covered by various patents. It
has proved admirably adapted for the purpose designed, and has
the warm indorsement of architects and builders generally.
Powers Brothers, Streator, 111., are the sole manufacturers.
In connection with the coil, we
have invented a Three Way Bibb
that is so arranged that by rais-
ing a lever the circulation through
the Heater can be shut off and
the water drawn through the coil
into the Bath; by so doing the
temperature can be raised
twenty degrees while
running
into the Tub.
We are having a large demand for not only the Aldine Fire
Place but our mantels. We started in to manufacture superior
mantels and to place them on the market at lowest possible price
and have thus quickly found that people appreciate well made
and finished goods of this character. Our trade in the Aldine
Fire Place is large, especially throughout New England and the
northwest. We were recently called upon to fill an order for a
dozen grates for government use. Were notified at the same time
that sixteen more would be required for the new quarters soon
to be completed. Jackson grates and Baltimore heaters were
formerly used. Being enabled, however, to
produce the required
agreeableness of heat and sanitary conditions with cleanliness
and economy the Aldine was given the preference. We also re-
ceived a large order during the past week from Switzerland.
After thorough trial and investigation of the first grate shipped
there, we have the assurance of the parties of a large trade from
that country as soon as its practical merits have become known.
Many people in our own country have an idea that the Aldine is a
new and untried thing. On the contrary it is in extensive use in
every state in the union and in many foreign countries. We de-
sire our patrons to be made familiar with the fact that we ship
our mantels under positive guarantee of their
being superior
both as regards workmanship and finish. The finish given even
the lower
priced is equal to that given the finest furniture, and
we ship them with the understanding that if they are not found
fully up to our representation they be returned to
us at our own
expense.
In relation to the Aldine Fire Places, we ship then under our
standing offer to refund for any grate returned to us which does
not fulfill our claims for it when provided with a chimney flue
containing good draft, set and operated as per our instructions
and although this has been our offer for the past five years, as
yet we have never been called upon to refund for a single grate.
Aldins Manufacturing Co.
The Pittsburg Terra-Cotta Lumber Company among their late
contracts have secured the Postal Telegraph & Cable Company’s
building a thirteen story structure located at the cor. Murry St.
and Broadway, New York City; and also the Metropole Hotel, a
nine stor}' structure located on Broad St., Phi adelphia Pa.
These contracts were secured by reason of this company mak-
ing better porous terracotta than any manufactured by any other
concern in the country. Their fuel in Pittsburg (Natural Gas)
insures a
uniformity in their tile. Their clay is the strongest
and will with stand more fire than any clay which is made in
the porous tile so far manufactured.
The capacity of their factory is the largest, which insures to
Owners, Architects and Bin ders the most rapid completion of
their work.
To parties who are contemplating putting up a
fire-proof build-
ing it would be well for them to send for a descriptive catalogue
of this company’s manufacture which can be had by addressing
Pittsburg Terra-Cotta Lumber Co., 559 Bedford Avenue, Pitts-
burg, Pa.
The Cushman Iron Co., Architectual & Ornamental Iron
Works, Roanoke, Va., have just received the contract for fur-
nishing all of the ornamental work, stairs, etc., for the Chamber
of Commerce Building at Richmond, of which Mr. M. J. Dim-
mock is the architect and W. 0. Burton is the contractor.
This Company has also lately signed contracts for the com-
dlete iron structure and ornamental work for the Bluefield Bank
Building, Bluefield, W. Va., of which Mr. W. L. Reid, Roanoke,
is the architect and J. C. Jones & Co., of Basic City, the contrac-
tors. Besides this they are furnishing the iron construction for
the Lemley & Jacobs Building at Winston, N. C. and have just
shippod a car-load of iron fencing to Philadelphia.
It is astonishing how quickly some people f >rget their dead. It
has has been said that you can
judge people by the way in
which they take care of their dead. It is a disgrace, and a shame
to civilization, the condition in which many graves are left un-
protected, to grow up in weeds and brush. You can go right out
here in Oakland and see this neglect, and in a very few years
those noglected graves will be lost altogether, and it would not
surprise ns to hear that others were being buried in the same
place as those forgotten and neglected grave. There is no need
in neglecting the graves in such an unchristain like manner,
when you can protect them thoroughlyand cheaply with a “Hart-
man” Steel Picket fence, a fence that is practically everlasting,
handsome, very strong, and does not obscure the view of the lot,
flowers, etc., much more than if you had no fence. When you
go to Oakland again, examine the handsome fence recently erect-
ed, enclosing the lot of Mrs. P. H. Owens; this fence is admired
very much by all who have se.n it. Before
purchasing a fence
for any purpose, write us for catalogue and book of testimonials
of the “Hartman” specialties, which contains cuts of our Steel
Wire door mats, tree guards, our new panel wire for farms, etc.,
Hartman Manufacturing Co., 51 and 53 South Forsyth street,
Atlanta, Ga.
Iron Mountings Only. Cover and Vane Complete,
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