Hardware merchandising October-December 1910 . would have been more fire-proof, in-destructible or everlasting than asbestosfibre and hydraulic cement as raw ma-terials from which to prepare a per-manent building material such as wehave in Asbestos Building Lumber. The Asbestos Building Lumber, com-posed of such a large percentage of As-bestos fibre, is naturally a tough ma-terial, not only for special work, but forordinary building uses as well. Nailsmay be driven through it, by a quicksharp blow of the hammer, quite closeto the edge without danger of fracture,Asbestos Building Lumber thus di
Hardware merchandising October-December 1910 . would have been more fire-proof, in-destructible or everlasting than asbestosfibre and hydraulic cement as raw ma-terials from which to prepare a per-manent building material such as wehave in Asbestos Building Lumber. The Asbestos Building Lumber, com-posed of such a large percentage of As-bestos fibre, is naturally a tough ma-terial, not only for special work, but forordinary building uses as well. Nailsmay be driven through it, by a quicksharp blow of the hammer, quite closeto the edge without danger of fracture,Asbestos Building Lumber thus differingmaterially from all other sheathing ma-terials in this important attribute oftoughness and homogeneousness. The main office of the Asbestos Manu-facturing Co., Limited, is located at 705Eastern Townships Bank Building, Mont-real, and the factory—the only one of itskind in Canada—is located at Lachine,Quebec. Booklets and other informationdesired by hardwaremen who want to se-sure agencies, can be had by writing tothe address CANADIAN NATIONAL ENHIBITION.—Asbestos Mfg. Display of Shingles and Lumber. 44 Hardware and Metal CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION WATER POWER WASHING- MA-CHINES. Cumrner-Dowswell, Limited, Hamil-ton, made both a display and a demon-stration of their power washing- ma-chines in the Industrial Building, fourof the machines being connected up tothe water pipes and a lady demonstra-tor being on hand to explain how dirtylinen can be made clean without thewasteful expenditure of human energy. In addition to the old favorites theVelox and Ideal, the New Cen-tury water power machine was shown,and it was universally conceded thatthis was a triumph in the making of thing entirely new in dolly washers. Ithas no fly wheels, gears, nor springs,absolutely nothing of an intricate ordelicate nature. It has proven to bethe simplest, lightest, easy running pinwheel machine ever devised. Those living outside the cities andlarg-er towns where the water c
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