The Best Evidence of Superiority
comes from the story of success in actual work. Read what the Union Iron Works of Spokane, Wash., say under date of February 23rd, 1907:—“We are mailing you photograph of our new foundry building showing five 36-inch and eight 48-inch Glass Top Burt Ventilators which you furnished. These ventilators are giving perfect satisfaction and we are very glad to recommend them as being the best constructed and most serviceable on the market.”
Burt Ventilators
are made with either glass (a practical sky-light) or metal tops. All are equipped with patented sliding sleeve damper, unique in ventilators because when closed it does not shut out the light. It operates every time and stays where you set it—whether open or closed Burt Ventilators are always storm and dust proof.
Burt Ventilators are made by skilled workmen from best raw material, and are built to endure. They are being used on most of the important constructions in the country.
Send today for handsome, interesting, 64-page general catalogue.
The Burt Mfg. Co., 550 Main St., Akron, Ohio.
Largest Manufacturers of Oil Filters and Exhaust Heads in the World. Notice Sliding Sleeve Damper. Patented.
Notice Sliding Sleeve Damper. Patented.
the flour. Alexander, perturbed by this omen, was only comforted at length by this interpretation of his augurs: That the city was destined to feed many nations. The prophecy has been fulfilled in the moral as well as material sense, for Alexandria, once the capital of Western learning, is still one of the granaries of Europe. —Manchester Guardian.
Cape Cod Canal History.—The Cape Cod Canal scheme is really a very old one. It was in 1676 that Samuel Sewall, of Boston, who, like Samuel Pepys, kept a diary, wrote one evening in his book that Mr. Smith of Sandwich had called his attention to the route of a canal across the cape. Perhaps, had not some unrecorded deterrent event occurred, the canal might have been built years and years ago, says the Boston Herald. In 1697 the General Court of Massachusetts appointed a committee which was to “look into the canal route.” The next recorded step toward dissipating the shades of night was when the General Court in 1776, passed an order appointing James Bawdoin and William Sever a committee to examine the canal route. Thomas Machin, an engineer in the service of the United States, was employed to assist them and to make a plan of the route and an estimate of the cost of building the canal. It really seemed as if some progress was to be made this time, but the stirring events of the period brought about another interruption. This interruption, however, came from such a source that there must be a
disposition to pardon it even on the part of Cape Codders. The responsible person was no less than the Father of His Country. General Washington needed Engineer Machin for departmental work, and he wrote to Mr. Bowdoin, the chairman of the committee, on June 10, 1776, regretting that the action was necessary, and at the same time referring to the departure of the troops from Boston. The next committee to consider the question was appointed in 1791. The General Court offered to authorize anybody to construct the canal with the privilege of collecting toll from all shipping passing through it. Various legislatures heard proposals until 1824, when the supervision of canals and waterways was taken over by the National Government. Year after year the new committees were appointed and new surveys were made, but nothing was ever done in a definite way. As late as 1893 false starts were made. But delays occurred one after another. Only a month or two ago the last preparatory step was taken when the longthreatened fight between two companies, each of which wanted to build the canal, came to an end and the company which is at last to construct the Cape Cod ditch, the Boston, Cape Cod and New York Canal Company, asked for tenders. The work, it is estimated, will require in the building about two and a half years, and the cost will run close to $12,000,000. The completion of the canal will make an almost unbroken waterway inland from Boston to Florida, and canal-boats with cargoes of grain and coal can find a safe passage
from the Great Lakes and inland points to Boston without breaking cargoes.
German Timber Growing.—Consul J. I. Brittain, of Kehl, sends the following information regarding the amount of timber produced in the German province of Alsace-Lorraine :
“The wood-cutting in the demesnial forests of Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, will produce this year in all 18,022,219 cubic feet of timber of all sorts—6,757,369 cubic feet of timber suitable for construction purposes, and 11,264,850 cubic feet of fuel wood. Of the different species of trees the oaks will furnish 1,033,381 cubic feet of construction timber and 1,610,952 cubic feet of fuel wood, the beach trees will furnish 978,856 cubic feet of building timber and 6,628,883 cubic feet of fuel wood, the pine trees will furnish 4,648,468 cubic feet of building timber and 2,298,178 cubic feet of fuel wood; the other species will furnish 96,907 cubic feet of building timber and 734,890 cubic feet of fuel wood.
“The Province of Lorraine alone will furnish 8,986,226 cubic feet of timber, of which 3,410,254 cubic feet consists of building timber and 5,504,340 cubic feet consists of fuel wood. In addition to this, Lorraine furnishes 1,289,350 cubic feet of brush-wood used for kindling and small willow used in making baskets. It also furnishes 8,970 cubic feet of stumps and roots, which are carefully gathered together and used for fuel.
“Lower Alsace follows Lorraine with 7,-
438,644 cubic feet of timber, with 1,467,863
comes from the story of success in actual work. Read what the Union Iron Works of Spokane, Wash., say under date of February 23rd, 1907:—“We are mailing you photograph of our new foundry building showing five 36-inch and eight 48-inch Glass Top Burt Ventilators which you furnished. These ventilators are giving perfect satisfaction and we are very glad to recommend them as being the best constructed and most serviceable on the market.”
Burt Ventilators
are made with either glass (a practical sky-light) or metal tops. All are equipped with patented sliding sleeve damper, unique in ventilators because when closed it does not shut out the light. It operates every time and stays where you set it—whether open or closed Burt Ventilators are always storm and dust proof.
Burt Ventilators are made by skilled workmen from best raw material, and are built to endure. They are being used on most of the important constructions in the country.
Send today for handsome, interesting, 64-page general catalogue.
The Burt Mfg. Co., 550 Main St., Akron, Ohio.
Largest Manufacturers of Oil Filters and Exhaust Heads in the World. Notice Sliding Sleeve Damper. Patented.
Notice Sliding Sleeve Damper. Patented.
the flour. Alexander, perturbed by this omen, was only comforted at length by this interpretation of his augurs: That the city was destined to feed many nations. The prophecy has been fulfilled in the moral as well as material sense, for Alexandria, once the capital of Western learning, is still one of the granaries of Europe. —Manchester Guardian.
Cape Cod Canal History.—The Cape Cod Canal scheme is really a very old one. It was in 1676 that Samuel Sewall, of Boston, who, like Samuel Pepys, kept a diary, wrote one evening in his book that Mr. Smith of Sandwich had called his attention to the route of a canal across the cape. Perhaps, had not some unrecorded deterrent event occurred, the canal might have been built years and years ago, says the Boston Herald. In 1697 the General Court of Massachusetts appointed a committee which was to “look into the canal route.” The next recorded step toward dissipating the shades of night was when the General Court in 1776, passed an order appointing James Bawdoin and William Sever a committee to examine the canal route. Thomas Machin, an engineer in the service of the United States, was employed to assist them and to make a plan of the route and an estimate of the cost of building the canal. It really seemed as if some progress was to be made this time, but the stirring events of the period brought about another interruption. This interruption, however, came from such a source that there must be a
disposition to pardon it even on the part of Cape Codders. The responsible person was no less than the Father of His Country. General Washington needed Engineer Machin for departmental work, and he wrote to Mr. Bowdoin, the chairman of the committee, on June 10, 1776, regretting that the action was necessary, and at the same time referring to the departure of the troops from Boston. The next committee to consider the question was appointed in 1791. The General Court offered to authorize anybody to construct the canal with the privilege of collecting toll from all shipping passing through it. Various legislatures heard proposals until 1824, when the supervision of canals and waterways was taken over by the National Government. Year after year the new committees were appointed and new surveys were made, but nothing was ever done in a definite way. As late as 1893 false starts were made. But delays occurred one after another. Only a month or two ago the last preparatory step was taken when the longthreatened fight between two companies, each of which wanted to build the canal, came to an end and the company which is at last to construct the Cape Cod ditch, the Boston, Cape Cod and New York Canal Company, asked for tenders. The work, it is estimated, will require in the building about two and a half years, and the cost will run close to $12,000,000. The completion of the canal will make an almost unbroken waterway inland from Boston to Florida, and canal-boats with cargoes of grain and coal can find a safe passage
from the Great Lakes and inland points to Boston without breaking cargoes.
German Timber Growing.—Consul J. I. Brittain, of Kehl, sends the following information regarding the amount of timber produced in the German province of Alsace-Lorraine :
“The wood-cutting in the demesnial forests of Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, will produce this year in all 18,022,219 cubic feet of timber of all sorts—6,757,369 cubic feet of timber suitable for construction purposes, and 11,264,850 cubic feet of fuel wood. Of the different species of trees the oaks will furnish 1,033,381 cubic feet of construction timber and 1,610,952 cubic feet of fuel wood, the beach trees will furnish 978,856 cubic feet of building timber and 6,628,883 cubic feet of fuel wood, the pine trees will furnish 4,648,468 cubic feet of building timber and 2,298,178 cubic feet of fuel wood; the other species will furnish 96,907 cubic feet of building timber and 734,890 cubic feet of fuel wood.
“The Province of Lorraine alone will furnish 8,986,226 cubic feet of timber, of which 3,410,254 cubic feet consists of building timber and 5,504,340 cubic feet consists of fuel wood. In addition to this, Lorraine furnishes 1,289,350 cubic feet of brush-wood used for kindling and small willow used in making baskets. It also furnishes 8,970 cubic feet of stumps and roots, which are carefully gathered together and used for fuel.
“Lower Alsace follows Lorraine with 7,-
438,644 cubic feet of timber, with 1,467,863