News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-07-24
FlFTY-YEAR ROOFS.
How it is Possible to Have a House GOVERN,
That Will last Half Century.

| HOW Il IS Possible to Have a House Covering
That Will last Half Century.
The best roof that can be put on a
house is one made of terne plate,
commonly called by roofers and deal
ers roofing tin" 1t is best because
it is light; does not burden the struc-
ture with great weight. is best be-
cause it is adaptable to any position
or condition. 1t is best beca use It is
fire proof and weather proof. 1t is
best because it lasts life time, when
properly made and properly applied.
There are other reasons for declar-
ing it the best-reasons that are
more forcefully expressed by the
faults of other forms of roofing
fragile, tile and slate, inhammable
shingle, perishable gravel, etc.
But there are many kinds of
roofing tin and to say tin is the best
roofing presupposes the use of the
best. This best terne plate is M F
Roofing TiE-frst made in England
more than fifty years ago by the
most skilliul blenders of metals in
Wales, and latterly brought to
America and improved by the Ameri-
can tin plate manufacturers.
In this country the process gained
it's name and it's fame.
The letters VI r are an abbrevia-
tion of Most Favored, a name that
suggests its familiar use and enor-
nous product. This terne plate is
most famed because it is all that
roofing plate should be or can be. 1t
has the heaviest possible coating of
rich tin and new lead, applied by re-
peatedDy hand dipping the carefully
selected" black plates. "Black plate"
is the technical name for the sheets
which are produced by series of ma
nipulations from iron or steel.
" Black plate" forms the substantial,
rigid body of the roofing plate. The
American Tin Plate Company by it's
untiring Efforts to utilize modern i'm
provements in iron and steel making
in the manufacture of roofing tin has
succeeded in producing black plates
which excel the plates that used to
be made by the now obsolete process.
The coating of tin and lead is so
thick and so thoroughly amalgamat-
ed with the iron base that no mois-
ture can penetrate. 1t makes NJ f
Roofing Tin practically rust proof.
This is the reason NJ F Roofing Tin
has frequently lasted more than half
century under the most trying cir
Cumstances.
AS an instance of the durability OF
NJ F Roofing Tin we mention the we'll
known business building OF Demmler
Brothers, Pittsburg. which was COW
cred with NJ F in 1859 and is sound
to-day as ever.
There is a block of buildings in
Warren street, Boston Highlands,
covered with NJ f Roofing Tin more
than thirty years ago that has to-
day juet as sound roofs as when they
we're first laid.
All along the Atlantic coast are
Hfottages covered with NJ F half GEN.
fury ago. Contact with this sea air
is the severest test a tin roof can be
given.
Instances innumerable could be
cited, and reasons for using Nj Froof-
ing Tin be given without number,
but the very fact that this brand and
process has survived more than half
century's trade competition is evil
dence of its worth and dura bility.
The history OF NJ F Roofing Tin is
fully set outin very handsome book
let, Under An NJ FRoof," which also
contains directions for laying a roof
and for making estimates of quanti-
ty of tin required for any size roof.
A copy of this useful book may be had
free from W. c. Cronpmeyer, agent of
the American Tin Plate Company,
Carnegie Building, Pittsburg, Pa,