San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-10

The Turner Roofing and Supply COM
pany, 500 Dawson street, is a distri-
vutor of some of the highest grades of
roofing materials and supplies in Amer
lea, according TO William A. Turner,
manager and owner. This company is
furnishing the material and putting on
the roofs of some of San Antonio's
largest buildings. 1t is the distributor
of "Swartwout" ventilators and gal
vanized iron buildings which are already
out, numbered and ready TO put up.
The company employs thirty expert
roofing men and is known all over
Texas and in parts of bordering states
as q reputable roofer. All classes Of
composition roots as well as states are
included in the company's large stock
of supplies. Dance floors on several
of the roof gardens here have been
built by this company.
Among some of the large jobs the
Turner Roofing and Supply company
has completed and is working on are
roofs on buildings in local army camps,
the City National BanI building, Ma
iestic theater, the new Masonic Ten
pie, Elk's building. Public Service
DullulnS, tne HcW IIdNlS uOlti' uaHS'
| floors on the Gunter and st. Anthony
roof gardens and at the Alamo and San
Antonio Country Clubs. Turner
Adamat dance floors are known in prac-
tically every city in Texas, Mr.. Turner
| says.
The Turner Roofing and Supply com
pany is furnishing the slate for the
roof of the new Municipal golf club
house in Breckenridge park. This roof
| will be of various coiOred States. Mr..
Turner says, and probably will be one
of the most beautiful aud artistic roofs
| in San Antonio. Slate is the best roof
ing material known, he says. 1t is said
that the United States government,
after extensive Investigations, is now
substituting slate, for all other mate
rails for it has found that it is efficient
for all roofs. sloping or flat, where APP
pearance and up-keep are factors. Slate
requires no upkeep. Mr.. Turner says.
A tornado. after l>I years. UC"asIJned
the first repairs on record TO the slate
roof Of the old Ursuline Convent Mt New
Orleans, Mr.. Turner says. which is only
one example of its durability. Slate has
been found useful in manyTother ways
other than for roofs. he says, for IN
many cases it is used for playground.
storage rooms, garden walks, terraces,
| floors and of course blackbOards.
"SwartwOut" ventilators are distri-
| buted by the Turner Roofing and Sup
ply company. They are manufactured
by the Swartwout Ventilator company
Of Cleveland. Ohio. with is one OF the
largest manufacturers of ventilators in
the world. Its products are sold in
practically every large city in the
United States. There are thousands Of
| these "Swartwout" ventilatOrs on roofs
Of buildings in San Antonio, MIR. Tur-
rler says and they are a great improve
ment over the old way of getting fresh
| air through apertureS in roofs and
walls. Proper ventilation is necessary
for the health of workers in any factory
or building. he says. The necessity Of
an abundant air supply is emphasized
by comparing il with food and water. 1t
is possible for human being TO live
three weeks without food, thrnu days
without wI;CF, Tut Of ~ three minutes
without cir. 1t has been found that
the immediate effect of devitalized air
is drowsinesS. The body experiences
weary. tired. dragged-out feeling gen
orally followed by dull headache. The
continued occupancy of such n room re
suits in lowered vitality. mental and
physical inefficiency and a greater sus
rcptibility to disease. The world has
realized the supreme importance oI
maintaining air of a certain standard
Of purity in all buildings only recently
Mr. Turner says and the industrial de