The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-25
BIG ENTERPRISE
WHITE CHEMICAL BRICKS TO Be MAN
UfACTURED IN WILMINGTON.
Organize a Corporation with a Capt.
tai of $40. 900 for That Purpose-Suf-
fIcfent Stock Already Subscribed and
Property Purchased for n Plant

toms most e~nterprising business men,
has promoted a company to manufac-
ture white ehencal bricks in Whining
ton, employing the Huennekes' system
Mr. Smith and his associates will short
ly take out articles Of Incorporation
under the style of the Hydraulic
White Pressed Brick Company, with a
capital stock of $4,000.
Sufficient stock has already been SUD-
scribed to establish the enterprise, and
the site for the factory has already
been purchased. The plant will occu-
by the whole square known in the Old
cial plans of the city as Block 29O, ly-
ing between Front and Second and
Bladen and Harnett streets. The prop
erty embraces the big sand hill next
north of the Seaboard Air Line depot
and the Standard Oil COmpany's works.
The Huennekes' bricks are manufac-
tured from sand. lime and other chemi-
Gals, and the property purchased for the
plant will provide an ample supply of
sand for the enterprise. ARRANGEMENTS
have already been made for the ma
chinery, and the company proposes to
go to work right away. The factory
can be erected in sixty days and VIII
be 'ready for operations in 80 days more.
The capacity of the plant will be from
5000 to 10000 bricks a day and the en-
terprise will give employment to TWEEN
t. men. All sizes and shapes Of bricks
and building Will be manu-
featured, and, in point of economy. we
understand that the bricks can be Ma
ufactured at a cost that Will compete
with ordinary bricks and bricks of the
best quality.
The inventor of the HuenneckeS'
brick is a German, and for some time
Mr.. smith has been the general agent
in the south for the system. Now he
and his associates have purchased tie
right in North Carolina for the manu-
facture of bricks under this system, nd
the industry will undoubtedly be n
of vast possibilities. By reason of their
beauty and their unequaled quality
for durability the bricks are admirably
adapted to building purposes. Mi.
Smith has samples of the bricks in his
office, in the Smith building, on Prin
cess street, and those we saw are GER
tainly very handsome. They are grey
ish in color but Mr.. Smith says his
company will be prepared to manufac-
ture them in all colors to be used either
in building or trimming. Before en-
barking in this enterprise, Mr.. Smith
took a trip to Germany, leaving here
early in June and returning in August,
for the purpose of investigating the
system of manufacture and examining
buildings constructed of the brick.
These bricks have been used in Ger
many many years and he says he saw
beautiful dwellings and business houS-
es in Germany and Austria that were
standing like adamant. He states
that private residences can be con-
structed of these bricks nearly as
cheap as frame structures, with The
advantage that they are prettier more
ao1 ra1Y,ira Lose ronairS
really making such buildings cheaper
in the long run than houses built Of
lumber. In speaking of his enterprise
he said:
THE making of bricks out of sand,
with a slight admiXture of chemicals,
constitutes an invention of eXtraordl-
nary Importance to the buildin indus
try, an invention that will work, and
in many respects has already worked,
undreamed reforms in the art of brick
making. 1t can be said of the bricks
manufactured according to this system
that they can be used for every Kind
of construction and in all cases are
much preferable to clay-bricks. Their
shape is far prettier, and under this
system they can be given the greatest
variety Of shapes and colOrs. They can
be mad equally as Well in winter as
in summer.
1.-The idea of manufacturing white"
bricks out of these materials is founded
on this property. Many a trial has
been made in this direction before but
without giving a satisfactory result.
Success has been achieved at last, and
indeed a brick made out of sand with
a small admiXture of chemicals, has
stood the test in Europe 1t makes a
brick that is in every respect Tit for
every use to which a good brick is put.
On the other hand, the cost of the same
is very reasonable, and is cheap con-
sidering the quality
Il will give a brief description of the
process of manufacture. The chemicals
are pulverized in a ball-roller mill and
from the mill the pulveriZed chemicals
fall into an apparatus which is used to
measure the required proportions of
chemicals and sand. the latter material
being simultaneously brought in to an
other part of the apparatus. This
measuring apparatus is adjustable and
will be set according to the quality Of
sand to be used. From this measuring
apparatus the sand and chemicals thu
measured off fall into a mixing appa-
ratus in which the materials are thor
oughly blended together. This appa-
ratus, like that previously mentioned,
runs continuously and turns the mix
ture over TO an elevator which carries
it wherever it may be wanted The
mixture is compressed into bricks un-
der a very heavy pressure by a press
specially constructed for the purpose.
The freshly pressed bricks are stacked
on iron ~Stray-cars. which, after they
are loaded, are run into an iron cylinde-
fitted with rails, which is then sealed
tight and a very high pressure of steam
turned on. In about twenty minutes
there is created a pressure of eight at
mospheres. the desired standard % OBJ
tain the hydrates and silicates of the
sand combined. which gives to the
brick its hardness and weather proof
qualities. After the bricks have under
gone the action of the high pressure OF
steam for ten hours. the same steam is
turned INTO a second hardening cylin-
der that has been filled with bricks il
the meantime. The bricks are tneT
taken out and are ready for use.
THE bricks referred to are by M
a new thing in Europe but tn,
process has been wonderfully improved
within the last four or five years. Thi!