Excerpt from Gernert Bros; Lumber Co; Louisville, Ky; U. S. A: Lumber Laths, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Moulding and Interior Finish, Exterior Finish, Brackets, Sawed and Turned Work, and Pressed Wood Ornaments, Etc

To keep pace with the rapid progress in artistic building designs, and to show our patrons the latest and neatest styles of finish, to supply the demands of modern Architecture and to make it possible for the humblest to obtain a pretty home at a moderate outlay, has been our object in issuing this, the third and enlarged edition of our Trade Catalogue.

We take pleasure in announcing that our trade has been fully maintained, and steadily improved in the past, and we have enlarged our facilities to accommodate our increasing patronage.

Relative to modern structures, Louisville and the South have kept abreast of the times, and any one familiar with the situation must admit that the South and the West are both far in advance of the East in the matter of artistic designs, pretty homes from the humble cottage to the handsome mansion, surrounded by lovely lawns, flower beds, trees and shrubs, all of which tends to lighten the burden of the toiler, to make our homes more happy and bring us nearer to the goal to which mankind is striving, and to that far ofir Divine event toward which the whole creation moves.

Having gained a prestige in this respect by reason of a more abundant supply of greener fields than is allotted to our brethren in Eastern cities, we do not propose to permit them to outrun us in the race in future days, and, therefore, we have contributed not only our means, but years of toil and study to stimulate a desire on the part of our people to obtain a broader knowledge of the Building Arts, We trust our patrons will appreciate our efforts in establishing a repository where can be obtained on demand all the necessary material for the construction of an ordinary building from the foundation to the finish. During the last few years, we have frequently accommodated customers by loading on cars all the material required to complete a house on the day that the order was placed. Our large plant with unsurpassed railroad facilities and the immense stock of Lumber and Building material we carry, alone enable us to do this. In this publication will be found an illustration of finished material only, as it is unnecessary to list ordinary 'stock with which every one is more or less familiar.

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