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Show TAKE PORTABLE HOUSES. Iron Homes Now Go aa Port of tha Equipment cf Camping; Partlea. Chicago is not only furnishing thi H thousand and one resorts In Michigan ind Wisconsin with pooplo enough to ifford a living, but it is sondlng to , , lake and mountain tho portablo houses to llvo In, says tho News. Nowadays when a Chlcagoan mnkos roady to go away on his vacation, literally ho may H (old up an Iron house and steal away rrhere there Is nothing but forests and fish. He may almost put his :abln in his suit case. A Ravcnswood man Is at work on tho portablo cabins. The frames ot the cabins aro made of anglo bars, ind tho sides nnd tho roof aro of cor-rugated cor-rugated galvanized Iron. Some of the H Iron houses aro planned with six H rooms and a latticed porch. They weigh from a ton up and cost from H 125 to fSOO. They are scrowed to- tether on tho grassy sward to tea H that every part Ills all right, and then H they aro taken apart and shipped in H tho knockdown. The other day one H of the Chicago Iron cabins was shipped H DUt to the Grand Canyon of tho Colo- H rado, and another will bo sat up on H one of tho mountain sides of Eatea H park, Colorado. Etch cabin Is fitted H with a good floor and other eon-' H renlcnces. If an owner becomes H weary of a locality ho may ke down H his houso and moro awa with It H One of theso cabins Is a veritable bomb H proof, Indeed H Is bear proof, for no H specimen of tho bruin trlbo would b H Iblo to eat his way Into one. H Some of the cabins are flitted with H wooden sides, but whether they ara ot H Iron or wood they have windows and H tood-flttlng doors, H |