The Washington times., 1903-09-06
HEADQUARTERS HERE
OF NEW ENTERPRISE
American Granite Brick
Company Opens Offices.
LkrGE FACTORY TO BE BUILT
Claims It's Product Is Better and
Chez. er Than Similar Articles
-,Jw On Market.

The American Granite Brick Company.
recently Incorporated under the laws of
Virginia with a capital stock Of s950.OOo.
fully paid and non-assessabIe. has es-
tablished Washington headquarters IN
the Home Life building.
The company has undertaken and has
we'll in hand a new and gigantic enter
prise. which is evidently destined to
revolutionize the brick-making business
in the territory which it controls, in
cluding Eastern Pennsylvania, a portion
of New Jersey. the District of Columbia
and the Atlantic and Gulf States from
Maryland to Alabama
The chief business of the company is
the manufacture and sale of building
brick made from sand and a small per-
centage Of lime by a process known as
the "Huennekes system" The move
ment is in no sense an experiment. but
has proven its practical value and sta
bility by many years of more than salts
factory use OF the product in Germany
and other foreign countries; also ty
numerous thorough and severe tests TO
which II has been subjected during the
past two years in many parts of the
United States, resulting in its adoption
by the United States War Department.
The process was formally patented here
in 1901.
Superiority Claimed.
The American Granite Brick Company
claims great superiority for It's product.
and names the following reasons why
the sand-lime brick is the twentieth
century building material: Every brick is
uniformly perfect: they are made equal
ly well in summer or winter; they save
the builder a large percentage in labor and
material; they are tinted in every color
and formed in any shape desired; the
cost of their production is one-half les
than that OF clay brick: the time re-
quired to make all grades Of granite
brick ready for use is only twenty-:oIr
hours; they stand all kinds of heat. cold
and climatic changes as well as lime
stone or granite rock. Brick sand is
more unlimited in quantity and more
generally distributed throughout TIE
half the capital is required for their pro-
duction than for making an equal guam
tity of clay brick.
The company has recently purchased a
controlling interest in the Ventnor Con-
crete Company. Atlantic City, y. j., and
the $3.50. 900 plant of that company has
been converted into sand-Iime brick
factory. now in successful operation, and
capable of being increased to a capacity
of 100. 600 bricks per day of ten hours.
The company. judging from present in
dications. will find need of that capacity
to meet the demand of Philadelphia and
New York markets.
Will Begin in Three Months.
To operate a large factory In Wash
ington, the company has secured one of
the best adapted and most valuable
water front sites in the city, and its
purpose is to be making sand lime brick
in Washington within the next three
months Arrangements are being made
I. for subsidiary organizations and large
manufacturing plants at Harrisburg and
Philadelphia, Pa, Baltimore. Nd, Nor
folk and Richmond, Va, Raleigh, y. O..
Charleston, s. c., Atlanta. Savannah and
Brunswick. Ga, Jacksonville and Tampa
Fla. Mobile and Montgomery, Ala All
large distributing centers will be IS
tablished and factories located wherever
business demands.
The officers OF the company are mostly
Washingtonians, men of standing com
mercially and socially. and the project
gives pomise of adding materially TO the