Show iron houses House sj we attended yesterday ev evening ruing 4 an in baor ar mal meeting beti ag of b business men at thia I 1 abc 91 tion booma R boms of M N croft zou courts rt street brooklyn I 1 at which il mr Sp sexton the inventor I 1 I 1 of a new plan of iron buildings building 8 e explained laened bis system he constructs ohp frami fram work of hr his Is buildings entirely of cast iron 0 in awse sections C eions whichard chare made to interlock by ver very close fitting and ingenious seared se trod by y keys this method of building cods AVOS t the 0 mr labor of drilling and bolting mg which has been een ma a 11 great 1 oat inconvenience of iron buildings buildt ings it also so allows the h house to be ae taken down in sections ions and abid removed at a very little expense I 1 ile he covers the frame york work on the outside with plates of iron by a i similar si i a system s ot of interlocking without ay any boltson bolts or other fastenings asne ning the joi 1 eing packed avith jutta gutta per perc eba sha so as to ebol u d e water tin under der hi hydraulic draplin pressure to finish the dove davie tailing of the joints he has aliv invented cited a machine tat that can berf perform orm the work dorkof of f orty forty men the walls a acre re made made hollow and the enclosed space is filled in with a non nou con dueling ducting composition of beach lisand sand and other so that as mr S observed his hia house becomes wad when fini finished sli a perfect fire proof safe I 1 the roofs I 1 and add floors are made of east cast iron flames fl ames resembling heavy window sashes the i interstices being occupied as as in the case of I 1 plates of gl glass iss of any required reau ired thickness edg and transparency the glasa 9 fisli used is not our common glass but it is in itself anew a new and valuable invention being called Wal malleable leable alag from its ands wonderful r if prope property of toughness allowing 0 it to bind freela without breaking it can be drawn out into a eto threads tare a db of any fineness and so strong t and ae flexible ai ble that they are afe said to be 1 e commencing the manufacture kanuf altare of piano and violin strings from their m material attix icil mr S handed a piece of this glass string far inspection it was as small as the E aring string ofa of a violan end and could be bent Wound the finger OT or tied t 1 n a knot like catgut 1 I 1 plates of af this his glass ass being let into the arime framework work of ahe the floors the whole is then covered over with a peculiar pec aliat transparent cement of mr S s invention which makes the whole floor loot look like one ne solid alid plate st of glass the cost of roofing with this material balis is per square foot the walls inside can be covered with finished V I 1 with giroo or glass dt at the op 6 on of the baiker all AH the interior ornamentation such 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 as mantel pieces panels etc may beof be of malleable glass j the advantages claimed for this style of building are first its great e at cheapness and the rapidity with whish which i it t allows 4 0 construction st it effects a saving of oue one third its cost and three fourths in labor over every other method mr S stated that he could complete an ordinary dwelling house I 1 in forty days da y a second the variety of style and aad finish I 1 that can be b obtained at small cost by different combinations of the same pattern the inventor Te remarked marked that in the construction ll 11 of the whole crystal palace but six different patterns were required third the facility which such a building can betoken betaken be taken down and removed Fourt hits seo urite from damage dabag e by fire or lightning thus all the expense of in hawee other incidental advantages are its durability freedom from vermin eto etc NY |