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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1926)
Las JL of Qne'N to he $ut$ss&w! r mage Century Would ' be Short Life for This Home 1 j 1 I l'r'.TZJ irrntrmvT UPPEB TSTUFIES WO K IS COMPLETE Only Work Still Remaining Is Scraping First Story : Floor f2 THE ASSINIBOIA DESIGN A-713 GjWNING one's home is a possibility today ' for every man of average" income. Nor is there any reason why that home should be lacking iniany of the comforts of convenien ces. Honie building is becoming more and more standardized. The most modest homes are being equipped in a way that would have seemed marvelous to your grandfath ers youth. We are enjoying the har vest of years of building experience. Yet even so there is a woeful lack of ap preciation of build ing , worth.' In grandfather's day everythintf in a construction-way was more or less tempor ary. The country was growing by leaps and bounds, constant changes in business centers marked the cities. ' New towns were spring ing ip in all parts of the country- Folks who built homes did not' have in mind anv of the f "things which today are most vital. They The Common Brick Manufacturers Association, Cleveland. Ohio, can for this design. Leaflet on brick construction sent upon request. built for the time being chiefly, ignoring the future. , Now the permanent building is coming generally into recognition. Fire safety is being considered along with cost of up-keep and probable resale values at some later day. Increased building costs are making it advis able to build homes that may be inher ited instead of burn ad or wrecked ; homes that will be as livable and com fortable half a cen tury hence as they are today. That is the sort of house shown here. It is built of common brick, with hollow walls that are tinder dry always, yet as strong and firesafe as if they were solid. A century is a short life for this home. A study of the floor plans discloses all of the usual conveniences, with large and well arranged rooms throughout, and solarium, sleeping porch and sewing room as extras. furnish complete drawings HOUSES BUILT OF PERMANENT MATERIALS COST BUT LITTLE MORE THAN THOSE CONSTRUCTED OF MORE TEMPORARY MATERIALS But the Upkeep Expense of Such Houses Is Small See lis for common brick, face brick,, budding M? par tftiOB. tile,vIoitUe, sewer drain tile, vrtrtfiewef tpC - 1 7--Vv . SALEM BRICK '& TILE CO. . .i.. TELEPHONE if SALEM, OREGON All of the work on the Beeond and third floors of the YMCA building on Court street between Church and Cottage streets has been completed. The only work remaining to be done on the first floor is the scraping of the floors. Moving in of furnishings will not be started, however, until the contractors have finished with the building and it has been approved by the architects. The cement floor of the base ment has been completed.- The placing of the hollow tile parti tions between the various rooms of the basement will be complet ed Monday. In the front of the lobby, a boys club room with kit chenette has been partitioned off. Other partitions divide the base ment into the men's locker room, boys' locker rooms, men's shower and drying rooms, boys Bhower and drying rooms, and boiler room. A preliminary water test was applied last week to the swim ming tank, and some leaks, which were found, were remedied. The main water test will probably be made before the end of this week. As soon as the test is passed sat isfactorily, the tile workers will commence setting the tile for the tank. In the meantime the tile work ers are finishing up tne men s shower room. The boys shower room has been completed. The tile has been set in the ceiling of the men's shower room, and the work will probably be over before the end of the week. Plasterers will again be at work Monday, finishing the plastering of the basement. Before they leave, if the weather permits, they will finish the stucco work on the building's exterior. There re mains a margin of about four feet around the foot of the building yet to he stuccoed. This will be fin ished in the same light, dash-coat of stucco as graces the rest of the building. ELSiniORE PLASTER nmni mi Decorators Making Progress in Main 'Auditorium, Labors Continue f Plastering workn the front of the Elsinore theater, nnderr con struction on High street, has been completed.' White smooth plaster, scratched, has been used for the front. Already decorators are at -work on the front part. Decorators hare made progress ,- in the main auditorium. About half of the intricate decoration of ;the celling over the auditorium has been finished. Decoration of the main balcony walls and celling lias been completed. i Carpenters are building the - frames for the doors to the dress ing. rooms -beneath the stage. Three tiers of -flood lights have been IpstalleAiror.tgtage,. Most of the fly ropes are already in place. .The huge marquise in front of the building is reaching comple tion. Most of the sheet metal dec orations have been . done. The ceiling of the marquise has been finished in plaster. SPA BANQUET ROOM TO BE CONSTRUCTED Rear of Hauser Brothers Sporting Goods Store Being Remodeled Rear room of Hauser Brothers sporting goods store is being re modeled Into ap extra- banquet rodm for The Spa. The room when finished will accommodate between 25 and 30 people. In preparation for the remodel ing, Hauser Bros, have moved their shop into the basement and have rearranged their offices. The nature of the alterations will re quire some little time for the task, it is understood. Horse Racing in, Argentine Capital Holds Popularity BUENOS AIRES Although horse racing Inthe Argentine cap ital is now only a weekly event in stead of a bi-weekly as was the custom for many years, the sport still enjoys enormous popularity Figures issued by the Jockey Club of Buenos Aires show that approxi mately $58,900,000 was laid in the betting during the year Just closed. The population of Buenos Aires is about 1,800,000. The heaviest betting was on the day of the Gran Premio Nacional when the public staked $1,432,000 on the eight events. YOUNG BUILDING PLASTERING OOf Wooden Frames for Show Windows Have Been Com pletely Installed Plaster work in the Young building, being constructed on the southwest corner of High and Cen ter streets, has been completed. There are three store rooms in the building. Wooden frames for the show windows have been completely in stalled. Outside of the building has been finished in water proof cement. Hocks are imbedded into the concrete walls for chains to be suspended to hold a marquise'. The building will , probably be ready for occupancy in about two weeks. POPULATION GROWTH LIMIT SET BY RESOURCES (Continued from pax 4) Btood in its various proposals ex cepting by one well acquainted with, $he San Diego of the present and ija; setting Ed.) ' "?Yo "Will here notice the sug gestion of connecting the mesa on the-' north side of the San Diego rfTr rilih, the foot of the Sixth street' grade. Insead of dropping down from the north mesa to the foot of the Sixth street grade my conception would be to put in a suspension bridge from the top of the north mesa to the top of the south mesa. Such a bridge would be from eighty to one hun dred feet above-the arroyo from three-fourths to a mile long. This- would cost a lot of money, but oer ta'nlv would be a wonderful at traction. Persons who have traveled all aver the world say that the topog raphy of San Diego is superior to any other locality in the world for the making of a beautiful city on a grand scale. I wish to now say that if the Boulder dam is ever brought to a successful conclusion, and the San Diego water system is con nected up with that unlimited sup ply of water, that San Diego, in time, will be what Los Angeles has long feared, the nost attrac tive city on the western coast of America, especially in the months of December, January, February and March. The topography of the city and surroundings is so varying, un dulating, that there is hardly a spot that is not scenic; canyons, arroyos, mesas, valleys, plains, promotories, beaches, cliffs, bays, and there can be made innumer able lakes and parks. Give Mr. Nolen fifty million dollars and he will make San Diego the play ground of the world. Every foot of her five miles in width and thirty-two miles of length would be a show place with special at tractions. Then the back country from the city limits to Ramona or Julian, with the orange, lemon and olive groves, will present to the sight-seer a veritable paradise. I have purposely kept away from Tia Juana. Mexico, until the last. If you wish to know anything about Tia Juana you go and see her between ten in the morning and five in the afternoon any other time at your own risk. Our government should purchase, if possible, the sixty mile strip from the present boundry to the south that we might control all of the Tia Juana lands, bottom lands, and be able to operate the San Diego and Arizona railroad in our own country and not be bothered with the Mexican officers on every trip, and also abate the two worst nuisances on our border, namely Tia Juana and Mexican. I am asking The Statesman to republish Srhaf councilman Heilbron said In the San Diego Sun, Feb. 13. 1926 which will show how tensely the water question is felt in San Diego. W. T. RIG DON. Salem. Ore.. March 22. 1926. (Following is the article just referred' to, in the San Diego Sun:) . "Build San VIncente dam at once and continue development on tha San Diego river as far as possible before starting work on the San Diegulto river are the re commendations made by Fred .Heilbron In a letter to the city council today. "The people are tired of talk, argument and litigation,' he writes. 'What they want is some actual definite construction work and the only xway to satisfy them is to build dams yes, two dams, ' one at El ' Capitan and one at San VIncente.' " "He proposes an Immediate bond issue to build San VIncente dam, and steps toward settling the litigation on the San Diego river so El Capitan can be built soon, too. , V "Of the three damsites avail able at this time, San Vicente is the only one not tied up by litiga- MONEY SHORTAGE S UII N Author of "How to Furnish a Small v Home" Holds Unique Opinion country,' and In commenting on her booklet holds to that bit of the lanchman's philosophy which runs "Life don't eist in holding a good hand, bat in playing a poor band well." i . - i Better lpmes'Ja "America Is an ! educational . movement for .home uiivuitiuesi iuiu is uuw cuuuuvi- ir.g' its 'fifth national campaign. Committee aref organized in more than 23 0(i communities and. pro grams are "Urctull swing which will cul tutnate In' Better (Homes Week, April. 25, to May 1. National head.; quarters of the organization are In Washington, D. 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He elim inates Sutherland because it will not be safe for the city to proceed there before the supreme court de cides whether or not the San Dieguito company is a public util ity, because the money required for Sutherland dam is more than San Diego's present bonding ca cacity, because the riparian own ers in the San Pasqual valley must be settled with and because all this would take too long. "The dam he proposes to build at San Vicente would be 150 feet high, impounding half a billion gallons of water and giving a net safe yield of three and a half mil lion gallon daily. The cost, he estimates, would be $1,000,000. "San Vicente, he urges. Is the logical place to build the first unit because ultimately it would be a storage baMn for water from Sutherland. He says Engineer Freeman recommended San Vi cente for that very purpose." 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