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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 20

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 20

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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 12. 1907.

most Ingen- places of business directly adjoin his. In these cases friendly relations are kept up through an and frequently the small retailer who and then re- starts a plant on limited capital is en- out -from the machine on side haa a the monument workers i clear. mlrror-liko surface, and the proc- iously employed. be polished, lappreni snip tour The greater portion of the granite put ceive practice of from one year to thro Cut by Brooklyn monument works year before be is allowed to take charge treat. al in this way.

Some of tho plants 0f graving process. It is an exa. i sclf with tl in ffais city are equipped with hand pol- science and requires the greatest auen- cry and laborers. Many of lasers, which arc but miniature arrange- tlon and skill of those who are engaged latter class frequently receive the gran- tnents of the larger Instruments. These In It.

As In other phases of the bust- Its) already manufactured from plants can.be In the polishing of any sur- ncss. an Instrument operated by com- near the quarries cither direct or through far, and while it is Impossible to sue- pressed air has nine Into use and almost the aid- of wholesalers or middle men. cesafully apply the big machine to entirely superseded the old process of In fact, the grcafr proportion of the CARVING STONE BY COMPEESSED AIR POWER. HHL1 ESTABLISHED, January 1st, 1854. THOMAS PITBLADDO, GRANITE AND MARBLE MONUMENTAL WORKS 25th STREET, BELOW 5th AVENUE, TELEPHONE No.

2 SOUTH. Main Entrance to Greenwood Cemetery, and CORNER FORT HAMILTON AVENUE AND WEST STREET. TELEPHOHE No. 2340 SOUTH. Fort Hamilton Avenue Entrance to Greenwood Cemetery, BROOKLYN, N.

Y. LOTS INCLOSED. VAULTS BUILT. through agents by the smallei largo manufacturer as well, who nro In this line of work can be used for this purpose I results In llfflculty. For the polishing of possible a the finer surfaces and where designs nov pleasing effect 1 work, hand polishing i ifroji Miraii "'Tu li Motive Power and Machinery Em-' This is an 1 whenever the isible to do so.

ESTABLISHED JANUARY 1ST, 1854. ployed. All of the plan's In this borough THOMAS PITBLADDO Granite and Marble Monumental Works are oauiot.ed w'th uiam cneines for the OOmforUWe fortunes lu the esto Expert Designers Employed. the p(llishing dyna. I and running of agencies for th.

Vheu the granite passes out after pol- mos for the air compressing buU time, I and selling to private dealer lng, expect designers (employed by all I which with tho air compressing tanks Brooklyn supply, the Brooklyn plants where tho finest 1 complete the equipment. The largest of The assembling of the monum Tventy-fifth Below Fifth Ave. Tel. 2 South. Corner Fort Hamilton Ave.

and West St. Tel. 2340 South. LOTS ENCLOSED. VAULTS BUILT.

BROOKLYN, N. Y. POLISHING STONE BY IMPROVED MACHINERY. CHARLES W. TANDY, Formerly Ouchterloney Tandy, MONUMENTAL WORKS, Fifth Ave, and 25th opp.

Greenwood Cemetery, BROOKLYN, N. Y. Telephone South 149. Residence Tel. 182 South.

sEKIMnBH I New Entrance to Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. CTp i J. TUCKER 00. GRANITE WORKS Contractors for All Kinds of GRANITE AND BLUE STONE WORK. YARD AND OFFICE: Seventh Near Second BROOKLYN, N.

Y. Telephone, 1713-J South. MRS. J. M.

KELLY, Two Branches, One Formerly Owned by James J. Ryan, Granite and Marble, HOLY CROSS CEMETERY, FLATBUSH, L. I. Work Done in All Cemeteries. CURRAN MURPHY, Cut Stone Contractors STEAM STONE WORKS, Specialists in Church Work 305-321 DOUGLASS STREET, bell SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO LETTERING.

Ml BET. THIRD AND FOURTH AVES BROOKLYN, N. Y. work is done), draw out with pencil on the plants so equipped, run all the year the different pieces with which It will bell the surface the design that must be around, but the majority of dealers In 1 made up, Is the last step In the pasBing 1 I or this city who have not a comparatively of the rough granite luto the completed Jf only letf rs are to be engraved on It. extensive business, close their plants monuments, which Is done in the factory, these, too, art' marked out.

After the during two or three winter months. In many of the more costly and complete this i prospective monument or portion of a 1 Among the nearly seventy dealers in i specimens of the final product, the mar- tie monument has passed under the hands or granite and marble works, not over a ble figures from the manufactories at i the the designers It Is next ready for the half have tho machinery to turn out their i Carrara are used. These are generally a hea men who do the carving. In all of the own work. In the sections where the in the form of angels or in figures which I ble fl Brooklyn monument shops a full coriu competition Is not so great as It Is in the I otherwise have a reillglous symbolism.

elabo Of these men Is engaged nnil It is in this Cypress Hills district, one dealer does They range In cost from $50 to JliOO and estals branch of the buaiaoss that tho skill of the work for a number of retailers whose cannot be secured In the same form In of gr year I the different nieces with which It will in up. Is last stop the passing plan's I 1 I ouths. many nf'-he oatly and complete this irs in I specimens of the final product, the mar-' tlo ver a I ble figures from tho manufactories at the their I Carrara are usod. These are generally a heavy the' in form of angel, or In flares which ble In the I otherwise have a reillglous symbolism. 1 elaborate jz jizr.ttrz TELEPHONE 4090 MAIN.

country. It is estimated that a lit- lighter variety and the upper portion of I I over 300 of these arc brought into finer black grain. It for the purpose country every year, on all of which last named that much of the Westerly Import duty is paid. The mar- granite quarried in Khode Island Is used. m.T figures are In all cases provided with The kind quarried In that region Is by JV.

HAKAlN. pedestals. Generally the ped- some believed to bo the finest (hat cau Steam Granite and Marble Works OM p.eces I. pronounced in Brooklyn. ILOfeSM AVtNUb.

When one slab of the prepared granite I Is lifted on the other and the marble1 1 NEAR ENTRANCE TO TYPICAL LIMESTONE QUARRY IN OHIO. I i- HOLY CROSS CEMETERY, FLATBUSH. i ready to be placed over a grave. At A Large Assortment of Monuments and Headstones always on that time the cement Is removed and In hand. Designs and estimates furnished upon application.

Plots In- 1 it place thin strips of lead arc closed. Lettering and all kinds of monumental jobbing carefully done stretched over where two surfaces aro in the Cemetery. Work done in all Cemeteries. io moet.When tho wholcmonument Is TELEPHONE 328 FLATBUSH. 9PHE rrHVxSC Ave.

Flatbunh, N. Y. I TyJ c-n wB Ul''P1 Uft Tpl" ranWeor TEL. 2361 -L FLATBUSH. -jv J-iateV of Central America a'nd even to 1 fcfc-l ported, like that which is used in this piushinK.

Friendly Hand, Friends tlon is great and price cutting is the rul 'v4 Ik 2 -feSMrfa 5aS cemeteries. Trfnk'y Llndeu Hill, Lutheran, Mach- bodies are buried every year and this 'WmmaMMMimSSi MalmonUlea, Maple drove, Mctho- means nn extraordinary sale In the fin- i6 TZ ens Me Mount lshe.1 wwr JUT Bay Sldo; Chescd. Acacia, Cedar Chevra Sholom, City Cemetery of Brooklyn. Cypross Hills, Evergreen, Flat- competi- the country, quota of atone shops,.

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