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t .f Angry Sea Wrecks Ships and Gives a Man His Dream Home! 11 .ftr, mmt Xjiii. A house and its interior that was salvaged from the sea by Guy Allison (right) of Portland, Oregon, is pictured here. The strange animals are ornaments made of driftwood and stray bits picked from the beach near Ocean Park, Wash., while the lumber and wood for the house was tossed upon the beach by angry waves as though to answer the dream of a man who wanted a home and had not the wherewithal!. From time to time during his meanderings through the piles of drift along the beach, strangely formed freaks of wood were found. With imagination and a little ingenuity, these finally developed into the Wreckage "Zoo," the only one of its kind in existence. There is the "swindleoserous," the "pop-eyed oofus," the "gyrumpus," camel, Jiggs, Maggie, duck, seal and a boa constrictor, each resembling the skeleton of some strange distorted animal. HKRB in a strange story of a a trail kg House-by-thc-nlde-of-the-sea! A house given to a man who dreamed, "even aa you and I" of a beach lodge arid peace. The man, Guy Allison of Port land, Oregon, was broken In health and hnd only dreams with whioh to build his place, but oddly enough the spirit of the deep caught up his vision and In tempestuous moods lashed and whipped and tore rafts and ships apart until It gave to him the things he needed. Trying to got nn elusive grasp on health, Allison walked the beach of Ocean Park, Washing ton, and as he walked he picked up stray bits of driftwood, what he calls "floatsam and jetsom from Davy Jones' Ijocker." Then one day, the sea, in a tempestuous mood, gave up thou sands of tawny brown poles, varying In length from 30 to GO feet and from 12 to 18 inches in diameter. There was a great storm and after It passed the bfach for 50 mllco was covered with the wreckage of a great raft. He vlsloned a strange, weird house which would be so unusual that It would always hold Inter est for him that he could add to from month to month as the roa gave up its driftwood to the beach near the fort of hiB dream house. Allison began to see his dream But how could he start? In the village near by was a youth with block and tackle, a peavy, an axe, and a cross-cut saw. Almost any village has such a person and they usually can be sold on dreams? DAY after day the woods re sounded wilh the strokes of the axe and thn hum of th r.n.w. Day after day tho creaVnr; pul leys drew into position the heavy logs. Two, three, and four weeks posfvl. and a structu'C. resem bljrg a mammoth pig pen or corn crib, arose. No preliminary plans, or bhi" prints were followed, but in Allison's mind therr wan the memory of an o'd Russian Dlock House, which he had visited sev eral years previously in' Sitka. Alaska. This block house had been built over a hundred years previously for a fort. The upper story of it overhung the lower story, so that it was larger. Why not make this cabin that way? With large, airy bedrooms above, it would look different from ordi nary houses. The thought was father to the deed, and when the pecond story was reached, long lo"-s vrre placed crosswise, extending five feet over the lower side walls. His houso began to take form, fie stood on the beach from whence he had taken the ' wall for his castle," and contemplated this work thus far acrnnl'shed with great satisfaction. The ex terior was almost complete, he decided, and his mind wandered to the interior. Then, there arose the question of lumber for rafters, for sills, joists and door and window frames. Lumber was high for there was no milt within twenty miles. Why not try the beach? Maybe along that twenty-nine mile stretch of driftwood enough lumber could be found. Then something unexpected happened which solved the problem. AGAIN the sea answered his ca'l and a lumber vessel was wrecked In a great storm. Not be lieving that it could be possible, AlMcon wandered along th" beach after a storm and two miles be low Ocean Park, as he looked over the line of breakers he saw the jostling of hundreds of planks as they were bMng floated shore ward by the incoming tide. There -they were, two by four's, two by six's, two by eight's; just the kind of timbers needed for raft ers, sills and joists. Ad they drifted ashore, with feverish haste, he carried them beyond the reach of the ebbing waves. After hours of work he rushed back to the. village and got a team and hauled his valuable find to the slowly rising house. Within a week rafters were in place, sills were laid, partitions were made and door and window frames were ready. But the house was not rain proof. Where would the shinnies com-! from? The sea had given up everything needed thus far, and back to the beach the builder went. Among tne flntsom and pet som were found seasoned fh'ngle bolts, which had drifted down the Columbia from the shingle mills and washed ashore. These were hauled in, and with a fro, one by one, the shakes were split off, and soon the house was covered with long, home-made shingles, a roof to last a life time. Next came the' chinking be tween the wide cracks of the logs. For this purpose. Allison took his axe and went to the nearby forest and cut down fir poles. These were peeled by his wife and later they were inserted between the openings of the logs. Finally, his strange "house by the sea" was complete, and Alli son and his wife comfortably lo cated. And so his dream came true. He is happy in his unique drift wood home. SAX- HOW C4N HIE CAMEL X l'VE SMOKED CAMELS VECPLE MAKE AN OFfEU LIKE sj TOR A LONG TIME. MY THIS? IT SAYS HERE THAT SELF, SO I KNOW. CAMELS MUST PLEASE YOU V HERE'S THE. IDEA OR. tOUVE SMOKED 'EM re(PS. 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