Show cuts building cost ernest flagg designer of the singer building in new york lork in recent years has fins built more than five hundred dwellings with a saving of one third of the ordinary cost lie ile has S studied the construction of dwellings with nn an eye to beauty and comfort and many of tits his innovations are astonishing lie ile tells of ills his work in Co colliers illers weekly ile he believes that stone houses should be built because they are cheaper than frame fraine houses in the long run recently lie he put up a stone wall for 6 cents a cubic foot the average cost of that sort of construction st being seven times as much ile he ellmIn eliminates ates the high priced stonemason by placing his rubble stone tri id a torm form as if lie he were going to make concrete the stories stones ore are fitted together dry and concrete Is shoveled into the form behind tile atwi alter after lie he form Is taken down mortar Is squeezed between tile the st ons much of tile cost Is saved by doing away with attles attics and collars cellars A full sized tittle attic for a medium sized house would cost about 1800 one fifth of tile the total cost of the alie house goes into anio building a cellar ile he looks upon the attic as a waste ills living rooms and bedrooms often run to tile peak of the roof and are ventilated by the little dormer windows at the ilie ridge of the roof ile he eliminates ordinary ordIn arF partitions with a kind of construction which seems impractical at first instead of being six inches through as ab in me ordIn ordinary nry partition par its his are only ono nod three quarters inches thick and are fire and vermin proof |