Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1914 — WILL SEE CEMENT SHOW IN CHICAGO [ARTICLE]

WILL SEE CEMENT SHOW IN CHICAGO

Machinery and Cement Products Will Be Exhibited at Coliseum February 12th to 21st.

A number of building material dealers, contractors, and cement workers of this city are organizing a party to go to the Chicago Cement Show, February 12th-21st. The cement show is-held in the Chicago Coliseum, the famous old building in which so many big expositions, national political conventions and other notable - events have been held. The cement show is held in Chicago every year and is the annual gathering of the cement workers, dealers and contractors from all parts of the country. The exhibition consists of all kinds of cement working machinery, materials and products that enter into concrete construction. About two hundred exhibitors take pSrt in the show. In connection with the will be a number of important conventions, including the American Concrete Institute, National Builders’ Supply Association, National Conference on Concrete Road Building, Illinois Lumber and Builders’ Supply Dealers’ Association, Illinois Association of Municipal. Contractors and Interstate Cement Tile Manufacturers’ Association. -The Cement Show is attended annually by about 50,000 delegates and visitors. Cement is now used in such a great variety of products and it is used so generally in building construction that not only the architects, engineers and contractors are concerned but the laymen also take great interest in the show. The application of cement has become so extensivelhatit hasheen said that, ,we are living in the cement age. With streets and roads, houses, factories, bridges, sidewalks, silos, barns,' granaries, fence posts, culverts, steps, cellars, porches, foundations, pergolas, tanks, and reservoirs all built of concrete it would seem that this material is destined to supplant wooden construction. Lumber is increasing in price and each year the supply diminishes.! Cement is increasing in production at a marvelous rate. The price has declined steadily for fifteen- years and with its other many advantages of fireproofness and durability, cement promises a big future.—Adv.