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- Committees Spend Mach
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i,- ti,The Medart sporting goods
company of " St. ' Louis.llissourl,
i has been awarded the contract to
vv furnish the nevr YMC A building
- with, all the equipment, to be used
fcy the physical -departmeat. TLe
equipment includes lockers mats.
and all of the gymnasium 'equJp
1 ' menu Tbere was. keen, competl
r " J' tion for the contract, the Spauld
Jug sporting goods company, and
the .Narranganset sporting goods
company competing with the Me
dart company for the contract.
V in addition the Durabuilt Lock'
cf "company and" the L7ons Lack
r company bid for the contract
m
lor the lockers. ' But it Is under
stood that the bid tor the entire
equipment- submitted by the Me
dart company was several jhun
dred dollars lower than anyc? the
other companies. .. ' : "
The entire ' equipment, as pur
chased from the Medart company.
represented by. J. ' J. , Sullivan ol
Portland, costs $5700. This price
includes - the installment of ' the
equipment, and the cost of. the
freight-- ; v '- v-i -a'1';' ' '
The commiUee appointed " Ir
the purchase of the equipment
consisted of Col. Carle Afcrams,
chairman, John Farrar, J. D Jar
man members of the general pur
chasing committee;' George Hug,
chairman of the physical depart
ment committee, - Paul Wallace,
chairman of the building commit
tee and W.-I. Staly, president of
the Salem : YMCAi .The: equip
ment is to be . shipped from St.
Louis immediately. --iui-ii !':--
Read the Building Pages in the
Sunday Statesman. , A wealth of
information is contained for. the
home owner"uid the prospective
home builder. J 3 -
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Mayor-John- B. Giesy Urges
Realtors to Help Make
- Salem "City Beautiful"
the
city
done her
5 "Salem is known as
beautiful. " Nature has
part, and we should, do ours in
trying to make it as beautiful as
possible," Mayor John B. Giesy
declared in his address before the
Marion 'Polk County, Realtors as
sociation '. at their weekly lunch
con Thursday. For this reason,
the mayor is in favor ot a zomng
system and called upon the real
tore to d'j all they can in bringing
about the realization of the plan.
The council has passed an ordi
nance calling for a special com
mittee to, be appointed by the
mayor for. the purpose of planning
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:tbe zoning system.! Mayor Giesy
I m i m. & - it.
miormea me reaiiors iioai vne
committee would consist of seven
members, besides the mayor.. the
city engineer, and the ity attoM
ney, alt three of whom will serve
in ex-officio capacity. .
'"There should be a. way tor. a
man to know whether or not he
can build as he contemplates be
fore he buys the property," Mayor
Giesy asserted, citing the case Of
a man who recently bought a lot
oa North Capitol, planned to erect
a service station, and at the last
minute was refused permission
because of the protests of the resi
dents adjoining the property. He
expressed it as his belief that
there should be some Way of de
termining whether a man stiould
be allowed to build, without leav
ing It up to the city council.
Declaring that a city practical
as well as beautiful must be kept
in mind, Mayor Giesy showed that
the traffic problem might enter
into the zoning system! but said
he believed this would not 'tie
much trouble because Salem for
tunately 'has such wide: streets.
' Mayor Giesy expressed himself
as being liighly in favor V)f a zon
ing system, and declared the com
mittee would be appointed this
week, so tha tthey coul begin In
vestigations immediately to find
the best plan for zoning. He said
the zoning system is advisable,
because now there is nvi sure way
to stop the erection of buildings
out of harmony with their neigh
borhood. He said he hopes that
with the working out of the zon
ing system, that the sight of ill
kept parking strips and 'lawns.
and vacant lots and be remedied,
FIBRE
WEEK
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Nation Making Observance
. October 4 to 10; Mater
ials Discussed
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BUILDING SHOWSI FLURRY
PERMITS DCTUXa WEK IXDt
CATE COXSTRL'tlnON '.
What is the lesson of National
fire prevention week to the pros
pective home builder and to those
more closely connected with the
building trades? It is stated in
the ; resolution passed at the Na
tional conference on home-bunding
which recently met in Chi
cago: "Whereas, the annuaj fire loss
in the United States has reached
the rate of $16 per second, or
$60,000 per hour, day and night,
the studding of walls and parti-:
tions. or they may be used as a
floor-fill to deaden; sounds and to
make each floor act as a barrier
which confines any fire that
breaks out to the room of its
origin until the firement can ex
tinguish it. - '
These are only examples of
what can be dona to make the
average small! home fire-resistive.
Portland cement doncrete, asbes
tos, mineral composition, lime and
other minerals, as Well as gypsum,
offer themselves as supplements
to ordinary dwelliig-construction.
"Exposure, Including conflagra
tions" is listed by the National
board of fire Underwriters as
having canred $69f030.839 of. the
$535,372,782 fire-loss in 1923.
This could have been largely elt?
minated by the use of - strucco
"overcoats" over frame houses.
Sparks on mofs cajiised fire-losses
or $15,931,342. Atineral roofing
which are approved by the under
writers' laboratories would have
reduced this figure! by a large per
centage. ;
These, again, are only examples
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SIIIIICIM
Operations During. Septem
ber Drop Slightly Under
Those for August
Building permits calling for a
total bt $42,052,161 in construc
tion costs were issued during Sep
tember in S2 principal cities of the
OREGON :
Astoria ...... ; - .
Kn pene a
Mimnur r i. .-.
MeOCmxi ,...... r--
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seven Pacific coast states, com
prised, in the monthly building
survey of S. W.' Straus & Co. Ths
shows a .reduction of 3 per cent
from the, August figure noticeable
In all states except Washington1
and Utah. "All states, excepting
California, . Arizona' and Idaho,
however, show substantial increas
es over September of last year.
In Oregon, seven cities, as a
wholer show a slight reduction
from the August1 total,', but in
creases of 33 'per ctnt over, last
September's total, 60 per cent over
that of September, 1923, and 140
per cent over the comparable fig
ure of 1922. ' : . ' . -
more than doubling in the past
decade bringing American losses .f what 'the buj,der with a limite(1
budget can do to "build fire-eafe.
to the total of $4 per capita while
those of England . are 90 cents.
Prance 49 cents and Holland 11
cents; and f
, "Whereas, this tremendous loss
in the United States has been
estimated to equal the cost of a
row of dwelling-houses 2,000
miles long; and
"Whereas, the loss In human
lu.OQO per
Building has taken on a slight
flurry during the last week, judg
ing from the number of, building
permits issued at the of flee of the
city recorder. In spitej of tht fact
that winter Is rapidly approach
ing, and the poorest ; season - for
building is almost atj hand, the
amount represented during this
week In building permits: is about
doublt" the 'amount 'represented
last week. , Permits I taken out
during the past week represent an
outlay of $26,800. ; City Recorder
Pouisen Expressed the hope that
in spite of the lateness ofj the sea
son, the building permits will go
well over the $1,000,000! mark.
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life by fire exceeds
annum, be it hereby
"Resolved, that this conference
accord preference to fire-resistant
methods and materials in the con
struction of American homes and
dwellings."
- Statistics indicate that this pre
ference, if generally adopted by
the builders, will materially affect
our,national annual fire loss of
$535,372,782. The Actuarial
bureau of the national board of
fire underwriters, reports that the
number of claims made on fire in
surance companies as a result of
fires in dwellings classifies as fol
lows: ' frame houses. 162.427
elctms; brick dWellingfs, 37,531;
fireproof acmes, 282.
This means that the number of
fires in. frame houses Is five times
the number of those in brick
dwellings, and 666 time3 the
number of those In fireproof
homes. The number of fires in
brick houses Is 133 times the num
ber of those in fireproof houses.
Yet we, as a (people, go on
building homes that represent the
maximum fire hazard. The divi
sion of building and housing of
the tlnited States department of
commerce vtells us that there are
20,697,204 dwelling-houses in the
United States and that 83.34 per
cent of them, 17,247,670, are of
ordinary wood frame construction.
Supporting this general conclusion
the United States Geological sur
vey. In a publication on "Building
Ooerations in tfie Larger Cities In
f9l9,v" made this observation:
"In the larger cities, where it
would be expected that wooden
construction would be limited,
both by expediency and by law,
L nearly, three-fourths of the num
ber of all new buildings erected in
191!hwere of wood, and only 24
per cent were of. brick or hollow
-tile; 0.3 per cent were. of stone, I
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per cent or concrete, ana u.i
per cent of steel skeleton construe
tion. ? .",
Commenting on this condition,
Virgil (?. Marani, former building
commissioner of the city of Cleve
land, - member of the American
society of civil, engineers, the
KatlonRl f 're - protection associa
tion, the British' fire prevention
committee, the Society advocating
fire elimination, and other tech
nical organizations, recently wrote
in Engineering World:
With an annual fire loss of
considerably more . than half-a-billion
dollars, and the consequent
tax levy to install and maintain
adequate fire departments and fire
fighting apparatus, a new slogan
for America might be -'We Build
to Burn!' "
Build fire-safe," is. the slogan
which experts advise In place of
that guggested bv Mr. Marani. In
its "Code of Suesestlons for Con
struction and Fire Protection,"
the National board of fire under
writers points ont that "the cost
of structural fire farriers neces-
arv for reasonable protection to
a -dwelling: house amounts p bnt
a proall percentage of the total
cost of the building. - For this
reason it is honed that architects
and owners .will adopt 'them, once
their attention is directed to the
reduced hazard! resulting from a
little intelligent thougth and
cars- .V -.,
Development of the ; modern
building materials industry makes
this -practlcable-and economical
to the home-builder of average
means. Gypsum is one, but only
one. of the non-metallic minerals
that are now being used, "toot 'to
eliminate wood, but to encase and
protect wood In snch a manner
as to 'increase Its tire-resistance.
permanence; .structural ; strength
and Insolation value. v . J
Thus, It now Is possible to
sheath the outside of the stnd
framework of a rfwelllng with a
fireproof gypsum sheating lumber
at a less cost thanordinary high
ly inflammable sheating requires.
Xon-metallis mineral lath may
be used to cover the Inside faces
of the studs, protecting them from
fire and insulating the whole in-
tenor, of the house." . Fireproof
rock wallboard may be used In
piace or pulp, fibre or paper
boards., Porouw grpsum fillers may
he used to erect fire-stops between
For thi3 principle) is not too ex
pensive to be applied by the build
er of the moderate-priced home.
The plan to be followed is, not
to use one material for a struc
tural purpose, an T'extra" for in
sulation. Another 'fextra" for fire-
proofing.' and so on. but to choose
one material wh?ih combines in
itself the three functions struc
ture, insulation ind fire-protec
tfon. Materials chosen from this
point of view are cheap insurance!
Most builders plan their homes
on the basfl of such questions as
these: "Will it bej desirable locat
ed?" "Will it be big enough and
comfortably arranged?" "Will It
be nrettv?"' "Will it contain all
the 'comforts arid conveniences'
my wife talks about?"
Too frequently the builder
Ignores the questions, ".Will it be
permanent?" "What chances will
it have of burning up?" "Will it
be expensive to heat?" "Will it
be so built that the repair bills
will be low?" There is a type of
builder who would sacrifice in
sulation for a built-in ironing
board, who would) give up a fire
resistive first floor which would
act as a fire-barrier between the
furnace room and the body of the
house for an unnecessarily showy
bathroom. It is
builder that National fire preven
tion week and the slogan. "Build
Fire-Safe," comes
lenger.
as a direct chal-
Scpt. 1923
$ .41.000
.. 256,500
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n.s.or.o.
$42,052.16l"
Sept. 1321 .
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3350
,- 2,348,575
107.2.10
T3,2 15,375
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ng. 192",
$ 2.H.3
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235,293
4H.214
4,214
3,544.1 1
$ 4.30,7fi
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THEATRE REDECORATED
liEXOVATIOX OF. OKEGOX
SOW WELL I XDER AVAY
The renovation of the interior
of the Oregon theater - is coming
along in a satisfactory . manner.
but it will be. another week be
fore the work is completed entire
ly, according to , word received
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Saturday from Mr. Guthrie, own
er of the theater. The ceiling
has been retlnted during tht past
week, and part ot the walls have
been . gone over, Mr. Guthrie
plans to have the entire interior
done over. The theater has been
kept with such ercellent care that
this . is the first time in seven
years that it has been necessary
to retint tht theater.
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CLUB AFTER QUARTERS
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LONDON Oct io Members of
the Ham Bone Club, a London re
sort of artists and writers, are in
search of a home where they can
in peace and quiet pursue their
av oca tioB3. They plan . to have
their own village; in the south of
France.
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frames
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material for building almost
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HERE is a cozy home of seven
rooms designed to give the
maximum of comfort at moderate
cost to the family t)f average
means.. The outside of the house
is attractive and lit will fit nicely
on a 0x100 site. I
There are two
good-sized bed
rooms on the ground floor ana
space for two additional chambers
In the upper story. Ample closet
space Is provided; and windows In
sure plenty of light and ventila
tion. f j. ' . -:- - '
The centr-I Railway connects
viit. n parts of the house and
gives entrances to a large linen
closet and coat closet. The living
and dining rooms are bright and
cheery.
Kitchen Bpace
Is well adapted
to needs of the housekeeper and
the adjoining breakrast nooK oi
lers room for four or five people.
Two setc of blue prints and specifications for' the above house or other bousea will be up-.
piiea at nominal cost upon application to "
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SALES!, OREGON