Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-12-11
w. Il. CHTLDS & CO.'S
- Patent

Patent
ELASTIC FIRE AND WATERPROOF,
CEMENT ROOFING.
HE undersigned having purchased the state Right for
Tennessee shove patent s prepared % introduce
into general and asks the attention of Architects
Buid rs Railroad Companies and The public generally 20
exam ne its supeTioritv yer otheT RoosSg -
ARCHITECTS AND BUILDBRS shoui d not failto exam
his roofing better and cheaper than any thing in
use The material forms hard and smooth thai will
resist the action Of the atmosphere every climate is
mpsrEous Watr, elastic flexible. 1t contracts
expands with the changes ofthe atmOsphee and will Meth
or evaporste crack rot and 70 its durability here
practically impershabls and will psrfeeSfuy resist
any ordinary TO fire. buRdAny prov
put h DING over ordinary good sheathng old shin
giles tar and gravel, tin zinc aRd zinc, copper,
dollars per hundred square es being cheap
er than any Roof OF The old style, and win
1t viii also foundto be the best thing ever invented to
cover or end old leaky TIM and gravel roofs around
seues dormar windows and CUTTERS where the
I'm is rusted through This Cement be put last
os = sione ana 9Tm perfect adhesion TO any object 70
"hcn applied lin koois can be painted over and var
aned not TO Leak al two Goa and my cents per hundred
square feet which cheaper much better than paint
lhis Roofing will be found 70 be the best thing for covering
aTge Roofs where they much exposed 70 nresueh
Dots station Houses, Steamboat Deeks, and IN Hc
kind of Roof where there external nre
thereof tsp erect, without joint IN it, presents
nanee ofds communicate, and any light substance will
burn out WitAYat igntng
Hhere Onlds q COS mas been USE insure Buildings
with Roofs covered with this Cement, al The
Il ? fhe Cement will be furnished distance
with directions for using
AZ Orders TO the undersigned, through the POstOf
ice, WILDE promptly attended TO
No. "a, Spruce street.
TESTIMONIALS AND RBPBKkNCBS.
OFFIoE BUcKETE STATE Insurance CoMPANY,J
Cincinnati Dec. 10, 1856.
To all whom may This certify that have
,Elastc Fire and Waterfront Cement Roofing and be-
emnentIy superior other KIND Of Roof
these large volume Of fame frsm adjoining
building, which struck directly aPon me roof and eoTnice
nearly hour stood The trial beyond all expectation,
and saved the building. I'm. HASk ELL,
President Buckeye State Insurance Co.
CINCINNATI As EEcY ROYAL Insurance COMPANT,t
lbaye examined W Childs & Co.'S Elastic Fire sno
Proof Roofing, and as can judge con
great invention, aAd willing insure buildings
thus ProeceduPon the same terms as those covered
Agent Royal lns. Co. London ana Liverpool
From Bennett, General Agent Of Atna ms Co. for the
.-a-.. southern and Western States
rr CINeINSAII. Jan J, 1857.
aPaient Elastic Cement Roofing" introduced into this city
Ghds ind It be highly mendsd in this
civ by many excellent Judges Ihsi is meeting win yery
psiton Roofing is decided and freely adRied;
finally expect adopt Tor my root, which will be
Misunderstanding intended lin, but will ny the virtue
Of the patent Elastic Roofing" as asubsiitqi e.
oTr1cE or Ta2 C1H. HAN ASD DATroS RliLEoiD.
Chds & Co.'s Patent Cement Roofing is now used here
on classof Buildings We covering Freight
Cars with It, and our Mechanic reports very fayors
bic 10 II. , Il hOAMEDIhU, Pres.
OTTIcR OF THE ONO MISSISSIPPI RAILROGD Co.
#r Cincinnati, Jan Z, 1851. !
SR1n answer TO ouTy inquiry, In reierenesto
opinion practical OF Roof covering
OF cars, may say that from PObseIvson entertain
avery favorable much so, that intend testing
thorough y roofs OF buildings cars &C.; after which
will with pleas give yO0 decided opinion 10 rs ul
Hy, Yours, truly, kLlPPENCOII,
supply Agent Ohio & Hiss. K. &.
II ? Since the above Waswen, the Ohio and Mississippi
railroad contracted covering cars, and
bridge bsIween CihciRna and Vneennes, with t1s Cement
consdengt the best article they have used Tor the purpose
b e Lori, Pres ind aud Gin Railroad.
b Gest, Pres Wilmington and ZanesVie Railroad.
81 Searles, Pres Merchants Manufzctursrs lns Co.
James Cater, Agent na other Hartford Cos.
Hesry Morton, Pres Central insurance Company.
George Garlic, President bEfay stte Bank.
George Colin, Bell Nanuf'r, No I02 EAST Second 81
Baker & Won Phul, No 62 Fourth street.
Ezra Bailey, Smith street, between fourth ana EliIn
GOden, TAILOR an Draper, fourth street
Niles Greenwood, iron Foundry
Judge w GhOson.
John shiIlto & Co.. Dry Goods Dealers, Fourth St.
Mitchell q RammelsDerg, Furniture Manufacturers and
Dealers, Fourth ST.
w Stewart, Builder 345P I'm 81
ueTriwether & SulWell, LOUISVILLE.
W McReynolds & Co.. CafksVile, Tenn.
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