...Burning shingles can be carried great distances by the wind or draught of a conflagration, and when they alight in their turn upon other dry shingles they make fearful havoc. The modern shingle is thin, and the machinery which now makes it leaves a fuzzy surface which, after...

...Burning shingles can be carried great distances by the wind or draught of a conflagration, and when they alight in their turn upon other dry shingles, they make fearful havoc. The natural anarchy of the American temperament does not readily respond to admonitions to correct...

...Burning shingles can be carried great distances by the wind or draft of a conflagration ; and when they alight in their turn upon other dry shingles, they...incombustible material, and that all roofs which shall Fig. i. "Eveready" Portable Saw Rig Used for Cutting Form Lumber in Construction of Qrand Stand at...

...Burning shingles can be carried great distances by the wind or draft of a conflagration, and when they alight in their turn upon other dry shingles, they...in the future to be of incombustible material, and all roofs which shall hereafter require repair to the extent of onethird of their area to be replaced...

...am not radical as to the way we should stamp out the wooden shingle menace, and I believe it is not necessary to remove all shingle roofs immediately....material, and that all roofs which shall hereafter require repairing to the extent of 40 per cent of their area, shall be replaced with incombustible roof coverings....