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all the lieat which wholesome conditions require can be
obtained without difficulty and with great economy.
Reference should here be made to the highly ornamental
tile stove exhibited by Messrs. Minton, Hollins & Co.,
No. 107 of their list, already referred to. It was specially
designed for the cabin of a yacbt, and was an example of
the use of tilcs for overlaying metal stoves, or frames,
rather than as constituting the body of the stove or chief
repository of the heat.
IY. Terea-Cotta-Beick.
At each sncceeding great Exhibition, the importance of
the indnstry of brick appears to be xnore fully recognized
and represented. Always interesting to constructors, it
becomes more generally so to the public as attention is
more and more directed to ornamental forms and colors.
This tendency happily exists, and, as we shall see, has
already resulted in Europe in the production of a variety
of very useful forms of building brick, of enamelled brick,
and of elaborate decorative work in terra-cotta, both plain
and enamelled, in colors.
Brick Industry—United States.
An idea of the magnitude of the brick industry in the
United States may be obtained from the statistics collected
for the last census. According to the reports, there are
3,114 establishments for making brick, with 372 steamengines,
aggregating 10,333 horse-power; 19 water-wheels,
218 horse-power, and 43,293 persona employed. Capital
invested, $20,504,238; wages paid, $10,768,853; materials
used valued at $7,413,097, and value of the product $29,-028,359.
Massachusetts has 107 establishments, 2,901 hands employed.
Capital invested, $2,435,310; value of materials
used, $978,508, and value of product, $2,251,984. Of brick
and tilemakers together, 26,070 are reported; and the total
value of the products, $29,302,016, against $12,263,147 in
1860.
