Hollow-Tile House

Excerpt from The Hollow-Tile House: A Book Wherein the Reader Is Introduced to Hollow-Tile, in the Making, Is Told How It Is Wrought Into Houses, and Is Shown How These Houses Look and From What Foreign Ancestry Their Appearance, Is an Heritage, Its Key-Note Is Tuned to the Concert-Pitch Of The history of hollow-tile speeds along like moving pictures and to-day's news is but the foundation for tomorrow's forward progress. The field was well-nigh untrodden, when I set forth upon its exploration and in its trackless ways, my feet have led me over deserts as well as lands of promise. When my articles appeared in Architecture and Building they were often valuable as a means of stating that which I sought to prove, and of recalling later what part of it I found to be unprofitable, but at the end of some of these early statements I now may write, "Quod erat demonstrandum." These I have collected in the following pages which I humbly submit to you in the selfish hope that tile's swift progress may not outstrip its printing press and antiquate its new-born chronicle. I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to those good friends who have aided me with picture and experience in this story of a material to which they all are partisan. In particular, I thank my partners, past and present, whose drawings and pictures, collected the world over, have furnished the high lights for the illustrations. Then, too, there are manufacturers, Fiske & Company and the National Fire-proofing Company, who have lent photographs in the same spirit of public education which marks their business policy. Publications like Concrete-Cement Age, the Architectural Record, and Architecture and Building, have encouraged me to spin my yarns, and now that I have collected them between these covers, to them I make grateful acknowledgement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.