The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-11
OLD STYLE MAINE SHINGLES.
The shaved variety That Outlast the Houses
ON Which They Are Fastened.


FoxCRoFT, Ne, March IO.-In driving or
s,ruNlng over the back roads and deserted farm
cl"arings in northern Maine last fall II Nv York
visitor sometimes SAW on old building a lyle
uf large shingles differing markedly non the
smaller kind in general use for roofn- III T'rai
communiu's Of the State. Besides l. iHS much
larger in every way these shingles, LaI, even
hen plainly very Old, a well preserved, durable
u" '' ruara, .or, uv
700" 'n"' vas '"''''S III " ~" :
inqltring h. learned that the hrs' variety were
H., ham. mod,. or shsyed shingles while the
-. uJ I'm CONN,
u" + "'i' MANN, ma"'' " -
very old structures that he saw 'he large si'heles
had been nailed instead Of ClaphOarls against
a., ,ou. ,h.i, .i,, ,ond,,ipc ,beu o,itc suitable
!" vans '"'' NJ " ',s v" 49,
for the purpos'. One day h" came upon a mar
who was teariug down the rickety buildings on
o,,li farm Tim, In ,.lv hoI hcen sold and observed
''' o." '''', - A., 49,, "a, or,a,.d
mat WIN" most "' the na'era' NAV na" er"'eu
int1 tho .trlcturcs had been thrown aside as
,,,,lsos Tho ,iy ehirolas had carefully been
W rs ,.li ID T.. rnos..
taken from IN roo's ana 'a'n h'a"y !" ph'S nS
"Ub,,l, vou nr,posa IA do with those shingles"
ga ,;r, ,,o,
10 asked, a''er the new owner han 'lu n'h 'na'
the buildings with the same shingles on them
hal hacn standing forty years hp fore. you
Il wv" '"r 't
seem !" or SAVING 't'W 'of some puipo'e.
En'SN lNl, W. liIHNi IFtlhNf " ~
,ir, , tho ,,,, q, rho harm ri MI, I'M her. before
-
haydn begins next year
what, shingles forty years old on a new barn.
a., w., y,,l.r ,oid u,rde,ipy II The farmer.
"' Wv va" p" - -.
"Eo was Il bhpu7' "'a'"h III g"on summing, "a'
not irving tha stranger a little quiet gulf. isn't
fan, ,r.i,,t v,,r r,liyinus doctrineo You know
""' """'"'7 > " : !,
What M Good l""h says ABOUT pn'uhg o'd
patches On new garments ~
There nothin thai "" ever reah ag IN me
They r IKE cedars o. LEBANON g9'd an{Where
ami for all time More mat these AIN lor
pH,CAlu There $. enough on en- 20 cover inc
hui roof, am only mop. the resi- Oh ue Dhfh II
last A. long a. III" shingles.
The N"N l,"tk man examined some OF we
shingles hat hal wlthstopd The snow and ram
ami summer sunshine Of forty Stnte-of Maine
! years. They were d%aIkened, by long exposure
and had lost most Of the fresh cedar aroma NAV
they once had. but they apr. AIRED TO he as sound
as they could have been when put on the rooi.
Some Of them had been warped by the sun, but
the farmer said that these Were all night.
I've Just h. nail EN- on the roof tOther side
up and they'll come back into shape themselves.
he sAd -,
Later in the autumn the New York man heard
If a camp where "A man and his sons still Ilved
| and showed" shingles, and he made i IN his way
to- VISIT it Here he saw how the big shingles
were mode The camp, a log hut a little larger
than an urdinary hunting camp, stood in a knoll
in q clearing at the edge If a cedar swamp Out
side was u litter uf chips and shavings and within
tie camp an Did man was at work with a draw
! shave reducing a fla, piece ~ wood 10 the shape
| as his seat, was a log about five feet long, set on
four legs like "A a rpenteT sawhorse, with one
end higher than the other In the upper end was
set frame for holding the lift, as the Hat piece