House and Garden, 1911, Vol. 19 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from House and Garden, 1911, Vol. 19 N a recent visit to New England the writer had occasion to spend some hours in a smoking-car on the ancient Knox and Lincoln division of the Maine Central Railroad. Local daily papers and the favorite authors eventually proved dull, and an examination of the interior of the car was instituted to see what might prove of interest. The interior wood finish was bad enough, but what held the attention was the hardware and other metal work with which the car was trimmed. The character and design of this hardware is too well known to need much description here. Made of cast iron, its surface covered with crude, queer, Oriental design and washed with a thin coat of bronze plating, it was typical of the hardware which was in vogue about the year 1870, and immensely suggestive of the great advance made both in de sign and construction of hard ware since those days. 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.