Show SOME HINTS FOR BUILDERS great care should be taken in selection of the most substantial roofing material if you were without preparation or plan rudely placed in a wilderness your first thought would be of food supply and your next of shelter for those these aro are tho the two most vital necessities vf of mankind it is therefore natural that the best thought and tudy study are arc put upon these two essentials more forward steps have been taken in the building industry in the past fifteen years as regards comfort service and architectural beauty than in the fifty ysais years previous only in recent years has the handling of cement in building work been understood properly and progress is still constantly being made with it modern hotels and office buildings are being equipped with sheet metal moul dings and steel vernered veen ered doors nearly early every important change in building construction is away from the fire hazard of wood one ot 01 the most significant developments of recent years is the crushed slate surfaced asphalt shingle which is on new construction and old rapidly supplanting the wooden article there are many reasons tor for this the slate surfaced shingles add beauty to any building in fact there la is really no comparison from an architectural standpoint crushed slate of 0 pleasing tints of red or green la Is employed as a surfacing the shingles are uniformly eight inches wide and are exposed tour four inches to the weather lAfr no painting Is necessary as the red or green crushed slate Is natural and therefore cannot fade the purchaser however should guard himself against buying a slate surfaced shingle that Is not guaranteed by a reliable and responsible manufacturer there are so many kinds of roofing and shingles on the market today each claiming to be the best that it becomes necessary tor for the buyer to got get some satisfactory assurance that the roofing or shingles shin cles are represented honestly |