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Show MAKING CITIES OF COMPETE Dwellings For Workmen Also Made of Cinders, Sand and Cement Waste Products Utilized. A model concrete city for the wage earner is being built at Nanticoke, Pa., E. N. Lewis conceived the idea of building these houses of re-enforced concrete throughout, which would not only furnish the operatives with model sanitary homes, but would serve as a demonstration of the possibilities of building industrial communities by this I new process of pouring in steel forma. While th-e idea of the poured house is similar to that of Edison, the method, meth-od, the Scientific American says, is entirely different from the plan on j which he has been working. The prac-I prac-I ticability of the system of building, in-: in-: vented by a Washington architect, Milton Mil-ton Dana Morrill, has been demonstrated demon-strated in the building of a cement city, Virginia Highlands, near Washington j In the Pennsylvania town for workmen, work-men, now being completed, products which have been heretofore regarded as waste are being utilized. The buildings build-ings are a mixture of coal cinders, sand and cement. Forty houses are being poured, grouped in pairs, inclosing inclos-ing a park or a playground which is SCO bv 600 feet. A railroad track is around the whole group and a mixing plant is mounted on a fiat car with an elevator for hoisting concrete attached. Cars of sand, cement an(3 cinders are attached to the mixing car and spouts conduct the moisture into the steel forms at the various parts of the building. As a section of one house is completed, the train is moved to the next. Still another cement city is well under un-der way at High Lake, a suburb of Chicago. Here, the entire concrete work, including cellar walls and first story walls of one of the bungalows, j some 30 by 40 feet, has been poured ! in four days and the cost of construc-; construc-; tion of six inch walls, which is ample j f or a one or two story building, has I been brought down to eight cents a ' square foot, which is less than the cost ! of constructing of frame houses. The ! houses are said to have proved dry and ! exceptionally warm during cold weather. weath-er. I |