The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-05-28

| Patented February 2lst, 1885,
THIS INTERESTING DISCOVERY
- was made known to the world by the
Farmers Club Of New York, at their meets
Importance to our country and the world
was earnestly discussed; but the inventor,
has been carefniiy e9perimantins with the
strated its utility and practicability.4 ; II.
ma fn IN is IN
and phases-in sand, granite, plaster, min
dust, soap-stone, cement, coa1-tar. svege-
table tar, asphaltum, etc,-in all, the pro-
portions and combinations that an intel.
Tor fourteen gears. He tried the slate-sIone
also, in many combinations, before he dis
covered that natures Jaw DEMONSTRATION
gluten to hold the particles in connection
til time. and the action of the elements.
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
paint over new tin, and would preserve it
many years without further attention,
stead of paint. 1t will repair all defects in
old ta,a roofs, such as st-holes, cracks, and
breaks, making them permanently water
proof, and more durable, at much less cost
than q tin-smith could afford to do il, even
in his imperfect manner. Old roofs of
mors = nd can ee reparsSd n neh
Slate than with any o. her M material extant.
Coal-tar is found to be the viscious ele-
ment alike of coal and slate; and it was
discoUered, not fnpeated, and scientific in
vestigation, as wells as experience fully es-
taolishing the fact that its exposure to
heat and cold, wet and dry, serves only to
reconstruct the two elements in their con-
dition-5oLID SLATE.
Plastic .SLA TIE is SUPERIOR TO TIN.
:. B. cause it Is a better non-conductor of
heat. The rooms under 1t win be cooler
In summer and warmer in winter.
2. 1t will not rust. = Ass A.s*e&5 i
3. 1t win not break or crack open like tin
does where jointed.
A. 1t is less dangerous. nr. Tyng's church, /
in November, 1865, causing a loss of $780,
900, from fire IN its tin roof from the bra
zlers of some menswho were repairing It,
s.. 1t needs no painting, which on tin
amour is in few years to the entire cost
of Plastic Slate Roof.
have. at considerable expense, obtained |
from 1.-The Plastic Slate Joint Stock Com |
pauy, OF New York. an exclusive right |
for Evansville and Vanderburgh aCounty,l
Ind and am prepared to puton new roofs
and copper cutters.
Present price for new Plastic Slate Roofs I
eight dollars per square of ten feet; same /
applied to, new or old tin roof, four dollars
per square, Suffers repaired at REASONABLE /
rates as to size; and at these prices all work
IIUe 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. Il
Ienny, Esq.,; John. ]. lDeig, ESD; Messrs.
Messrs: Gilbert & Co..; Mark $-herwood, |.
ESD; Joseph p. Elliott, Esq. Messrs.
Forth, Bowles & Co.; Anthony REFS ESQ
Evansville National Bank. ff'l1 s-77fA''i
Orders for roofing or repairing may be
left at my Lumber Yard Office, corner of T
Main and seventh Streets, or with my.
Agent, Charles M. Tileston. Esq. y
10 Sc 80 JOHN f. GLOVER
Evansville. Ind, April LIST, 1857, {apl dom