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Show Use of Common Brick Is Growing Rapidly Statistics show a marked increase in the use of common brick which is interpreted as an indication that brick homes are gaining in favor for their fire-safe quality and freedom from upkeep up-keep expense. Consumption of common brick in the metropolitan area of New York is showing an upward trend, as Is the case in many centers throughout the nation. To date this year, according to Floyd W. Flint, secretary-manager New York and New Jersey Common Brick association, shipments from Hudson river points have totaled 71S,-147,000, 71S,-147,000, as against 602,557,000 for the same period last year. Development of brick manufacturing equipment has enabled manufacturers to take care of increased demand that under former conditions would have been impossible. Formerly brick makers mak-ers were compelled to depend on weather and could make brick only on fair days during the warmer months. It was not unusual for a shortage to develop during the building season when weather was bad. Present day methods enable the maker to produce bricks regardless of weather, and as a result these burned clay units are always available in sufficient suf-ficient volume. This assurance, Mr. Flint believes, is another factor in increased in-creased usage. A third factor, according to John E. Fowier, president of the association, has been the formation of an engineering engi-neering service bureau, which has been created for the purpose of supplying sup-plying authoritative technical information informa-tion on brick and brickwork to engineers, engi-neers, architects, builders and prospective prospec-tive home owners. |