The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-20
Royal has larger sale than all other cream of tartar baking powders combined.

tensely interesting, more especially from the fact that as the industry is constantly entering upon novel phases, new methods of treatment and special machinery have to be devised. One of its special uses is for wall-plaster. This is new application which will have distinct effect in modifying the practice of indoor plastering. Instead of the ordinary tedious and elaborate preparations of studs and strips, and the use of inferior and dust-creating mortar, with it's after scoring, which is necessary to give cohesion to the final coat of plaster of Paris, a single coat ing of the asbestos is laid on. It has glossy surface that will not crack, as, while firm, 1t is perfectly flexible. 1t can be put on the raw brick; and a room of which the walls have been built in the morning can, before night, have a smoothly finished interior sur face, shining like glass and hard as rock. A kindred application of asbes- tos is now coming into vogue in the shape of uninfammable decorations for walls and ceilings. These are used great deal for the saloons of steam ships They are embossed in very beautiful designs, and can be treated with gold, varnish, lacquers or any oth- CT substance, for the enhancement of their ornamental effect.
 Bremen clad in asbestos clothing and masks, as are those of London and Par is, can walk through the hottest flame with comparative impunity. Asbestos fireproof curtains have reduced the mortality of theater fires in very ap preciable degree In torpedoes, the diff ficulty of dealing with the charges of wet gun-cotton is overcome by enclos ing them in asbestos, the employment of which has also in great measure, | brought the dynamite shell to it's pres ent efficiency. Asbestos is made into a cloth available for aeronautical pur- poses. A balloon made of this unin- 1 fammable material escapes one of the | most terrible dangers to which an ordi- narily constructed balloon is liable 1 Probably one of the first applications | of asbestos in this country was to roof | ing To buildings covered with this
 material, the shower of sparks from a neighboring conflagration involves no | danger. The fact that woodwork can, | by it's use, be made uninflammable has come to be an important factor in the | insurance of buildings. One of the | largest branches of asbestos manufac- | ture is that of sectional cylinders for pipe-coverings, for retaining the heat of
 steam and other pipes, f$t protective coverings for boilers, frost-proof protec-
 tions for gas or water-pipes, and ce-
 ment felting, which can be laid on with
 a trowel, for the covering of steam
 pipes boilers, or stills In some of these
 cases, where it is only necessary to re- | tain the heat, the asbestos is mixed
 with other substances; but where the protection must be fireproof as well, l only asbestos is used. The utility of | such covering is well illustrated in the heating system of railway-cars The
 mainpipe from which the individual
 cars draw their respective heat supplies
 by side mains, if not covered with as bestos, would lose a large portion of it's
 caloric from the rapid motion of the car
 through the air. An interesting inno-
 vation in this class of manufacture is
 asbestos sponge. It is not generally
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