The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-05-30
Great Discovery.

Great discovery.
Complete Revolution IN Roofing!
THE PLASTIC SLATE"-For
Roofing and other purposes.
Patented February 21st, 1865.
THIS INTERVENING DISCOVERY
L was made known to the world by the
ing in the latter part of June. 1855. and its
importance to our country and the world
was earnestly discussed but the inventor,
has been carefully experimenting with the
material for many years, and has demon
strated its utility and practicability.
After suffering many partial failures in
compounds of lime in all its various forms
and phases-in sand, granite, plaster, min
eral coal, clay of various kinds, marble
table tar, asphaltum, etc.-in all the pro-
portions and combinations that an intel
ligent and inventive mind could suggest,
for fourteen gears. He tried the slate-stone
also, in many combinations, before he dis
covered that natures law ofreconstruction
was exceedingly simple, requiring only
gluten to hold the particles in connection
till time and the action of the elements
firmly unite them.
If ever a roof leaks, it will be owing to
other causes than The decay of the cover
ing. 1t will be because the water goes
round, not through it, 1t is uneQu0led as a
paint over new tin, and would preserve it
many years without further attention,
stead of paint. 1t will repair all defects in
old tan roofs, such as rust-hOles, cracks, and
breaks, making them permanently water
proof, and more durable, at much less cost
than tin-smith could afford to do it, even
in his imperfect manner. Old roofs of
every description can be repaired much
Slate than with any other material extant.
Coal-tar is found to be the viscious ele-
discovered, not inuented, and scientific in
vestigation, as well as experience, fully es-
tablishing the fact that Its exposure to
heat and cold, wet and dry, serves only to
reconstruct the two elements in their
dition-SOLID SLATE.
PLASTIC SLATE Is SUPERIOR TO TIN
/. B. cause it is a better non-conductor of
heat. The rooms under it will be cooler
in summer and warmer in winter.
2. 1t will not rust.
8. II will not break or crack open like tin
does where jOinted.
4. 1t is less dangerous. Or. Tyng's church,
one of the finest in New York, was burned
in November, 1865, causing loss of $780,
600, from fire IN its tin roof, from the bra
Tiers OF some men who were repairing It;
amounts in a few years to the entire cost
of Plastic State ROOF.
6. Because it costs holf as much, and lasts
tlOice as long. @st-t'
have. at considerable expense, obtained
from 1.-The Plastic Slate Joint Stock Com
for Evansville and Vanderburgh County,
Ind, and am prepared to put on new roofs
ana repair old TIN roofs, repair tin, zinc
Present price for new Plastic Slate Roofs
eight dollars per square OF ten feet; same
applied to new or old tin roof, four dollars
per square. Cutters repaired at reasonable
rates as to size; and at these prices all work
will be kept in order (accidenfs excepted)
fiUe gears, at the expiration OF which time
1T will be better than when new.
We have the privilege of referring to
the following parties for whom we have
applied the Plastic Slate Roofing: R. s.
Tenny, ESQ.,: John ]. Deig, Esq; Messrs.
Messrs. Gilbert d Co.; Mark Norwood,
Esq; Joseph P. Elliott, ESQ.,; Messrs.
Forth, BOwles & Co.; Anthony Refs, ESQ.,;
Evansville National Bank. illas sII =,
Orders for roofing or repairing may be
left at my Lumber Yard Office. corner of
Main and Seventh Streets, or with my
Agent, Charles Nj. Tileston, ESQ.
= 3f .fsti JOHN F.. GLOVER.
Evansville, Ind, April LIST, 1857, (ap1 d6m