Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-09-23 | Page 37 | Many City Homes are Being Improved

HVI1Y GITYlOiES - ftfiE BEISG IMPROVED Advent of. Prohibition Is Marked by Numerous Examples Ex-amples of Industry. Much lias been sanl about the moral and financial bvitoriiH-nt ' which bas come to Salt Lake a result of prohi- liition, but chore are several other important im-portant a-lvi'iitaos to its credit, in the opinion of (jorf J. Martin of the Bet-tilyon Bet-tilyon Home Builders company. Among them is 1 1 1 e impetus it lias given to decorating dec-orating and remodeling old business . buildings and residents throughout the city that have long needed the refreshing refresh-ing touch of Lfio paint .brush. ' 1 f have frequently been struck with j the renovating -bf iiig done both in the t businc:-s and resit! i-iitial se tions since i August 1," do'dnr.'d Mr. Martin. Prohibition Pro-hibition has certainly resulted in a marked improvement in the appearance' of entire business blocks and residence after residence, k wXatural!v, in order to convert for- S (1r salons into quarters suitable for Yother lines of business, considerable change must be made in the interior, lint the improvement has not stopped there. Kxterios have been repainted, new wi ndovs and new front doors installed in-stalled and even whole entrances modified. modi-fied. ' ' Combined with prohibition as a cause for beautifying residences is the . high cost of building materials. Many houses which under normal conditions would be either torn down and disposed dis-posed of or so 1:1 to be rented at lower : figures, is .being extensively remodeled because it is too costly to build a new home. "Gratifying results have been obtained ob-tained especially with sonic of the fine old homes on the east side, which are really solidly constructed, but which have not been properly kept up. New porches, additions and a new coat of paint are working wonders with some of them. "In these instances, of course, prohibition prohi-bition is probably playing no part at all. But in the numerous efforts to make the small homes more presentable and more habitable, can easily be traced the result of having a little surplus money on hand that formerly went into drink." "The effects of prohibition can also be plainly traced in tiie fact that small homes, both for purchase and rental, are scarcer than they have been for the past five years.'"