The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-29
MAKING BUILDING MATERIAL
An INDUSTRY IN WHICH 500. 900 SA-
VANNAH CAPITAL Is INVESTED.

Depending Upon the Industry-IOO
Hands Regularly EmpIOyed-New
Works Likely to BE Established.
The Making of varnish.
The manufacture Of building material,
brick and plaster is an important Industry
in Savannah. 1t represents a capital OF
$4,000 in the three plants and gives en-
ployment to about 100 hands. and supports
in all about 400 people. including depend
ants on employees.
The wages paid, even now when the
building trade is depressed, aggregate
50, 800 a year. Many years there is a much
larger number Of people employed. proba-
bly, exceeding 80. and the wages then go
over $4,000 year.
Savannah produces only high grade ma
terial both in brick and plaster The sa-
vannah gray brick has had an actual test
of over century and proves to be one of
the most lasting bricks made. Frost,
time, and atmospheric changes, are
absolutely without effect on well-burned
gray brick. The prices are also low If
the size is taken into consideration. The
inches thick, which means that 600 Savan-
nah bricks will go as far as a 1000 Rome
or Augusta, Ca. brick, and a bricklayer
will lay about as many of one kind as an
other, so that there is a considerable saw
ing in labor in favor of the large Savannah
brick.
The Chatham Brick Company has an
equipped with machinery and an artifi-
cial drying house. The capacity of the
plant is ample to supply any demand that
may arise for bricks in Savannah. The
plant is valued at $4,000, and as it is en-
tirely owned by LoVell's Sons, and forms
part of their general business, the exact
data about its earning capacity could
therefore not be attained, but it may be
classed as one of Savannah's successful
manufacturing plants
About so hands are employed and the
pay roll foots up now about $4,000 year
When building is brisk twice as many
hands are employed and the pay roll is
nearly $4,000 year
Mr.. Andrew Hanley mas an extensive
plant which manufactures Kings Wind
scr Asbestos Cement. The manufacture
covers the state right for Georgia, Flor
ida, South and North Carolina and Ala
bama, and the output is sold and shipped
| throughout these states. AS the name
indicates asbestos is an important COM
ponent. 1t is name given to a class of
minerals which are unaffected by the most
intense heat. This mineral is also called
mineral wool, as it can be hacked, carded,
spun and woven like wool or cotton. The
individual hbers have considerable ten
acity, hence it gives the plastering a
greater elasticity and strength than any
other known material. other ia
vorable points are its absolute
fire proof character, and as it
is bad conductor of both heat and sound
it has the advantage of having in a high
degree the capacity of deadening the sound
and renders houses cooler during the sum-
mer and warmer in the winter. 1t is
withal, a cheap and easily applied plas-
tering, which dries out in a few hours.
is free from chemicals and has many other
valuable points. The works are automatic
throughout, requiring only ten hands to
operate the machinery. The plant is es-
timated to be worth S25,000 and the paw
roll averages $500 or $1,000 a year AS
rapidly as this plastering material be-
comes Known the sales increase, as the
business has steadily increased and is
both successful and remunerative
The Southeastern Plaster Company has
extensive works in Savannah, manufactur.
ing the now celebrated and well-known
sand has been found to be an excellent
raw material as an admixture in the man
ufacture of the plaster. AS its name i'm
pies adamant is a material design
ed 10 produce hard and
practically indestructible wall and cell
ing. II Is chemical composition, which is
ALREADY mixed with the necessary ouan
tity Of sand, and in a few hours after
being applied 1T becomes very hard ana
capable OF resisting all the ordinary cas-
ualtles, that prove so destructive to com
mon plaster Adamant saves time. both
IN preparing and applying; it is cleanIy
ana easy to work; avoids saturatine the
timber with water and consequent shrink
ing ana saves waiting weeks for rooms to
dry out, and they can be safely occunta1
Immediately after finishing.
Adamant has also the advantage of he
ing hre-proof, and there are instances on
record where property has been saved
from destruction by fire entirely attr,h1,-
table to the use of adamant It's density
adds to the building valuable acoustic
properties, which is particularly import
ant in churches, halls, orera houses
schools and all similar public Dlacs~
Adamant is protected by numerous nat.
ents and copyrights.
MI. George w. Vanderbilt at Biltmore
n. C., had every available variety of
plasterlng material tested, with the result
that adamant was selected as the host
one huhureu ana twenty-five car loads
were manufactured in the works at Sa-
vannah and shipped to North Carolina.
The factory occupies part of the IN
per Tice mill, while the main offices of tho
company are in the Inman ONCE building
in Atlanta.
Mr.. Allan Bond. the manager. here. saws.
we employ on an average thirty TO thfr-
ty-five hands, some times as high as
seventy. We have five skilled mechanics
( Our pay roll for labor and salaries win
exceed $4,000 a year; we have a capjtai
of $4,000 in the business. which is a sue
cessful one"