Show :x THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JULY 11 1&37 D 7 Bu ildin g Activity Here Held Only Startin g 1 SiuVeys Show Salt Lake City And County Still Short Several Thousand Homes AIR CONDITIONIN G “In these air conditioned houses where a fan Is Used how do you keep fumes from the kitchen from getting back Into the house? How do you heat the bathroom and garage?” Th best syatem Istouse sraptit system using radiators in the kitch- f — on Substantial Construction Beauty-Base- d Realtors of Opinion That Bargain Days For Buying Building Lots Soon Will Be Over Choice Sites Being Taken Up Real Estate and: Home Planning" Well Built Houses Today Held Superior to Thosejpf Generations Gone Before Expert Gives Long List of Superiorities EountlJnJHoderh Buildings Despite Probable Inferiority of Workmanship en bathroom and garage and ventilating outlets as usual in the other RICHARDSON BLAIR By rooms This is expensive The By ROBERT TAYLOR JONES A I A Past President of the Utah State Realty Association kitchen can be ventilated by means The owner of an old house took his friends to the base- proud Some days ago a realtor and a merchant took three visitors of a which in the beet ment “This house is well built" he said “They do not do things from out of the state for a ride around the Salt Lake valley The cases ventilator set over the kitchen stove as well these days See those joistsThey are over two inches thick”— - visitors were shown the Great Balt lake the salt beds the smelters withjiIs duet —It“is true we do nor build houses as they did-Bto an outside mills mines plants and the city itself They were greatly impressed wall If the running of today are superior to those of generations past It seems garage is heated with of resources which 'our our our and industries with activity they warm air the usual cold air return sacrilege to say it but many of those old houses were not well built had heard so little before they came here duct should be omitted Viewed from the modern understanding of construction their proc- " They liked our city with its beautiful trees homes gardens NEW EVERYTHING esses of building are not correct-Exampl- es are numerous of amount the marveled at'were great farks and playgrounds They Take insulation Few of the old houses were insulated excepting “We to homes new intendi one build looked house and there a home building Everywhere going want to use all the — with a rather poor type of sheath- Aew materials — Up— substantial attractive homes t)f good architectural lines the for stucco which as proper served wind a new ingredients ing new floors paper kinds of wall sur The merchant saw more and faces — especially in the bathroom — stop until It rotted — The- - modern did notknow that it should be lean learned moreof the valley and Us new kinds of equipment for kltoh house not— only They lathed their house with has sheatthing ever future than he had grasped ens Where can we learn about In ona day in the past but like paper that is impregnated with ma- goodwood lath perhaps liietter than — these?” terials that will make it durable w have today but here again they many other local people he was This Is an extensive subject Most dubious about some of the things of the l are but wails and ceiling are built with did not have the modern plaster advertised lie had seen in the newspapers and in magaadditional materials bases such as sheet plaster insuinsulating After the visitors had been left zines Architects have catalogs de old builders could only lating board and metal lath Today ' which the at the depot and the merchant and Q Some years ago I purchased a scribing them We think that one f have matched as they sometimes wide ceilings get metal lath as a realtor started back uptown the should not permit his desire for matter of course merchant asked: “How long will low piece of land and have allowed newness to carry him into experinot tried Jo do by filling the walls with It does crack Old builders had to use this home building last before It is dumping of metallic Junk and clean ments Some of the new materials plaster And that method is crude heavy joists In order toexcessively overdone? Don’t you think there fill I now want to build a home are not as sound as the old ones— keep the ) and inefficienreompared with modwill be a letup this fall? Don't you Can I build from cracking do not cost less A fully modern this plaster of fillT Inern oitop scientifically constructed The man who took his friends to think they have overdone it alA It is advisable to build upon house can be built from the establsulation the basement to“aed the wooden ready?” solid earth hence you should have ished materials with records of Old Time Shingle-layin- g joists might also have shown them your cellar dug and extend your long years of satisfactory service Building Just Begun beams and posts a system foundation well down to solid beari- COPPER Another commonplace example la wooden The realtor’s complete answer to which is heavily dis- If a cellar is not contemplated -found in the way in which shingles of construction all three questions was: “Building ng in the modern house We counted It Is possible to level the fill and “How' about using copper pipes were laid lit the old days Then now use cross beams of steel sup- activity in this city and county has pour a reinforced concrete mat for water Inside the house?” there was a belief that roof boards them from steel posts Just started you haven’t seen any- properly designed and construct the This type of water service is apport should be spaced apart and the And those old foundations walls-thing yet” As a matter of fact we house upon this mat To consult a proved by architects It is someso Jhat laid felt without shingles are still short severaLthousand good competent architect or engineer on what more costly- The comparative not as good as ours They air could course through and dry were were built of stone or brick mate- - i homes in this community Salt Lake such a particular problem is advis- cost of galvanized pipe must be we know them Now roof rapidly is which do not stand up as well City is growing its population learned from the plumber able Copper boards should be placed close to- rials as concrete Few of these old stone increasing faster than usual Betubing tends to clog up lese readily roof felt the with covered gether defore us there are business and walls are waterproof and with i home is only 15 years old than steel The hot water service and the shingles put on with Q them Is gone ' mortar of the velopment opportunities we have and itMyhas been necessary line many debe should Insulated is It nails which they did not W use concrete for me never had before Rapid and lm- - to today not be- some of my mechanical sirable also to lacquer these copper use old kind This of in the replace days cause it is less expensive than stone proved transportation facilities and equipment Is this reasonable? pipes roof lasts just as long at the other modern highways are pulling marbut because it is better A It must be remembered in rewere is saved The old heat attics kets closer and closer to us day by to such equipment that the sure to collect soot which the new Bathroom Betterment gard day if ever the last Drain Traps Need — “"Another in a ones do not — first cost is This year “local home building cost — a thingrarely long list of supe-- J which is particularly As for stucco about of rlorities is to be found in the way will probably not exceed the 400 true of equipment which contains Constant Attention the time they had unfortunate re- we the bathroom By the 7 mark Four hundred new homes for moving parts Consequently when sults with it not knowing why They old lay tile in this city is hardly a “drop in the choosing equipment the items of The Chicago sewer explosion In used wood lath for one thing We cut process the top of the joists were off and three or four Inches of bucket” to what is needed A little never do today knowing metal rein- concrete repair operating cost and the prob which a manhole cover soared five was laid down imposing -study of what happened in this able length of service before re' stories and killed a man in an eleforcement is not only more durable a heavy load on the floor Often it vator of a near-b- y community In dwelling construction placement must be considered shows but does not shrink and expand It building not cut the the need for constant attention to during the last decade might be also reinforces the house and the sagged Today we do We lay metal away at all joists drain enlightening to some basement not in floors stucco did have says traps vent air the plane The They from Q pipe of lath across the aubfloor and put n Between 1921 and 1930 the my gas heater blows the flame out the Modern Home institute Inch of mortar With-t- his “Unless aifresh water seal is of Salt --Lake City increased whenever there is a north or east Features of the exterlorof design" f'Brickf reinforcement and also beBlond’ Grades of 22000 or from 118000 to 140000 wind What can I do to stop this? constantly maintained in the drain walls steeply pitched hip roof second story windows cause of extra lightness thebe- 9167 new to the same hinder the there trap nothing A— period entrance-octagDuring — You will mosUikely find that Js on breaklngxornice linearched havior of the floor through long Wood More Popular family units were constructed These the vent pipe above the roof is too entrance of four and sometimes ex- stair tower years is better consisted of 6937 singles homes and short It should extend two feet plosive sewer gases” the institute Features of the interior: Coat closet stair hall In these old basements one la ac ' Advance offurn!ture 3230 duplexes or apartment units above the highest point of your roof points out “To offset evaporation showings kitchen-windi- ng -- with— rear and customed to see electric wiring x-— entry connecting fresh' water" should be frequently That is practically one new family lines for the fall of 1937 indicate a posed The modern house has the added to the drain trap A recent stair long living room with recessed bookshelves and unit to each two and a half persons Q I have a marked trend toward the clasaic wires in pipes It was fairly comshowed that 27 of 51 major fireplace breakfast nook pantry three bedrooms — In the population increase house Without going to the ex- survey one with fireplace basement recreation room with lines of traditional Sheraton Chip mon in these old houses to have U S drain cities that traps 1931 to 1934 more dwelling pense of insulating how can I maki require From Detailed houses documents for shown the building be peqdale and Hepplewhite with an fire occuring in them from what spedlal automatically by 'primed' units were torn down than there the second-floo- r space more cool in valves” was termed"defective wiring" With fireplace were new ones constructed lit this the summer? accompanying swing toward work- wires in pipes or conduits such fires in be this series cost secured at moderate may louvers in each city In 1921 879 new family units A Provide “ ing out these famed designs in are rare through the home building editor of this paper were built in this city in 1922 1007 gable end of large the roof to circulate “blond” shades of bleached hardModern metal basement windows is This our to Shelves Brackets and service 1024 presented in 1924 1001 in 1925 the air in the space between the in 1923 last longer than the old wooden woods 1381 Of the above 5292 3987 were ceiling and the roof On hip roofs Shelves brackets and related or- readers through cooperation with houses is both picturesque and as ones and they let more lightinto Serthe Architects’ House Small in red bluegold and the basement for a Upholstery single homes or an average for the provide louver dormers The lou-ve- naments are always important decplanned entirely practical A partial with capacious cupboard and drawer given opening in five years of 797 new homes and view of this is shown at the right fuchsia offsets the warm honey the masonry should be built as high as poss- orative notes in the period room and vice bureau 261 multiple family units a year tones of bleached Philippine maThe handsome design of this All rooms are of comfortable aize space ible so should be selected with a nice The list is long It does not In- - ' Home building question will be hogany noted in many of the ad- elude the advances we have made regard for appropriateness In an house as well as its substantial con- The living room pleasantly proporNothing to Fear Now W 'make beteighteenth century bedroom little struction will make it appear to tioned has recessed bookshelves at answered without charge Writ to vance designs according to a Mod- in manufacturing For the 10 years between 1921 E T Ashton Forms ern Home institute white tole shelves with filigree advantage even in a neighborhood one end and a brick-face- d aeurvey fireplace the home building editor of this window frames than once were ter and 1930 we averaged 916 new famModern streamlined designs have made even though today we use fences make an ideal cache for of larger homes Undoubtedly its with adjoining wood closet oppo- paper inclosing a stamped ily units a year of which 593 were New Realty Company china and woolly lambs most striking feature is the octag- site There are two additional fireapparently made a permanent place thinner sections of than the e envelope single dwelling units No one wants Elmer ' T Ashton who for the Ranged above a modern bed a tier onal stair tower with its narrow places one in the front bedroom and Construction: Solid brick walls for themselves in American decor old frames had And the modern 1937-3- 8 to see this city overbuilt least of last two years has been associated of glass shelves will hold all those arched windows This adds immeas- one in the large basement recreation roof of the are and in winprominent method of weatherstripping these shingle tile casement all realtors From a study of mar- with Capson-Bowma- n showings The modern furniture also windows is hardly to be compared realtors and “necessaries" and trailing plants urably not only to the beauty of room dows d makes Increasing use of riage licenses for the past two prior to that was appraiser for the besides In a dining room furnished the exterior but to the charm of the Between dining room and kitchen with the flimsy felt devices that years realtors are convinced (that state banking department recently in French provincial walnut it is interior The winding stair which it is a breakfast nook with built-i- n mahogany bleached walnut "" and once were used Many similar Items 1937 for The Tribune Copyright we have nothing to fear at present “blond” woods other could be noted organized his own company to be effective to use above a high sideNationally) In the last decade the known as the Improved Realty com- board three rococo brackets of the No we have not lost the art of — Now Goes Coal construction of multiple family pany same dark wood with Gallic cocks Thera are constant im- - -building Best units increased from 25 per cent Mr Ashton has- - been In the real of yellow pottery on their ornately provement In countless basic eleRefrigeration -To the Beauty Shop of the total to 55 per cent estate business in Salt Lake City carved shelves ments of eonstructionr-te-eay-BothAt or 50 Degrees e of tremendous strides we have Ift'SalL Lake City in 1921“ 7 4 for more than 18 years and in hLs Jekyll-Hyding Coal has gone to llje beauty shop mechanical per cent was multiple construc- new organization haul facilities for Life’s not the only thing that be- made m - Improved has received a shampoo and an oil tion and by 1930 this had increased complete real estate and brokerage ‘Cozy Corners’ equipment40 Effective at refrigeration gins Philippine mahogany ls thevey showed that it is one of the treatments and now is seen In the for the home food service to 52 per cent or Perhaps workmanship is not as There’s no reason In the world Jekyll-Hyd- e supply begins good wood of the world a most adaptable woods known wideas it was in the old days but the whole period of 276 per cent 40 of to at and continues most immaculate make a tete-a-tecan’t says swank-escompany why up you degrees ly used in such unrelated work as companion of luxury In the it is no longer anything like as This increase back in the early 50 at one end of the dining room G Marc degrees Bluth homes and a common workmiji fishing ukulele manufacture ten- a report prepared by so much of what thirties caused the realtors to make Sofa Setting a pleasant little group made up of doing mundane chores and earning nis racquets and the baking indus- - secretary of the- Stoker Manufac- - That’s the verdict 6f Miss Fran necessary since a careful study of local trends Then — house 'is Produced-bV- L tabl-Onhajust--com-i0(ier1Weedmanho a pursuits-ac-cordioungeohaira-anm— oderncesp— practical meth a careful analysis of the whole before the hearth its lovely curves model room furnished in dashto a survey-jus- t pleted a study of varying refrigeracompleted Because of Its great resistance to Home institute problem convinced them that apart- and shining wood deserve better ing tor their effects and walnut has such a by the Modern Home institute to salt water a fact long known to is temperatures “The era of mechanical firing ment construction would slow down treatment Put this walnut or roseconclusively Miss grouping before the tall windows determine uses of the wood yachtsmeh who specify Itfor deck- making a new kind of fuel out of The study proved when home construction started up wood declared that temperawall A Weedman round cocktail a table mirror glass beauty against The uses of Philippine mahogany ing and planking of the finest craft coal” he states papered Such“has been the cue Salt or tures between 40 and "50 degrees in a color flattering to between two comfortable armchairs as a leading interior trim and in Philippine mahogany is used in the ‘The widely popular stoker size were Lakers are home lovers and most its painted and where its upholstered in lemon yellow invites fine furniture favored because of butts of the finest deep-se- a ideal for refrigerators operatcoal is now- rigorously scrubbed in complexion fishing of those who do live in apartments opulent charms are displayed to the you to relax to gossip to sip tea its lovely ribbon-grai- n have long rods where It must keep Its strength huge ‘beauty shops' to eliminate ing under normal conditions and — ieen known But the institute sur- occupy them only long enough to best advantage or cocktails a deux — that4emperatures above and below although subjectto constant salt foreign matter' make it possible for them to ac“It’s further treated by oil or that range were either unsafe or Likewise the of water deep spools a home of their own When " quire sea fishing reels are frequently chemicals to keep It dustless in the unnecessary new home construction started up basement “Refrigeration begins at 40 demade of this mahogany last some year apartment again “Stoker firing has made coal a grees because there’s no need for “Hawaiian” ukuleles are also orand rental house owners were worand a lower cabinet temperature" Miss ma- convenient fuel — dinarily fashioned of Philippine ried for fear that the new building bell-lik- e Food“retains all ‘electric Weedman says resmellow by and regulated automatically Its hogany program would upset their rental its tastiness and all the moisture Is brains’ musical Instruments onance in returns i— fuel it needs in temperatures neighborbut another example of its versa- “Coal is now an Soon Over Days tility The better tennis racquets 'Coal flow burners convey it auto ing on 40 degrees Bacterial growth Bargain hich it is safely ch subject to perspirationcorrosion arelm —During the past 18 months more and there is therefore no need to also of Philippine mahogany and is stored” than 2000 family heads in this city mamtaiirJemperatures below 40 baker's peelsralsopreyJtt-chemic- al who were formerly renters have The aim of refrigerators is not to corrosion sre almost umformiy of become homeowners yet today freeze tasty foods into icy chunks this tropical hardwood ““Although Housing Your Hobby owners of apartments and rental steeLhas supplanted wooden pro- -- Surely nothing could be more sat- of flavorless matter but torcool our houses are doing even better-thafor pellers for aircraft the wooden isfying than a whole room dedicat- food in the manner best suited did half a a and year ago they “props” on smaller sportscraft are ed to one’s hobby whether it be the enhancing of natural flavors The bargain days for buying of harmful bacalso Philippine mahogany because models astronomy or private and the destruction teria’ building lots will soon be over its tight grain and tough fiber allow ship more circumfor But printing Week by week the more choice Here’s a window so smooth it to withstand stresses better than scribed mortals a niche alcove a building sites in the developed secother woods in even “L" or operation that a child can a or an cupboard jog tions of our city are being taken and Brackets - raise or lower it with the may be pressed Into service— The ivy Pot$ Is a lip Soon thoee who own lots are is to gather all The rich glossy green Ivy thipg Important of ease Sit alonbound to Increase their asking price Match greatest scheme WoodsNeedn’t almost any your material Into a compact space welcome noterin As they begin to appreciate what Amerthis gside as Curtis Silentite as be it early simple decorative a unit It to make and One of the most attractive feathis building activity means to the To this end "iaper” the area with ican as dignified as Adam or as Window— tyt n on the winrooms was of fine confistate old as ture their and and period city as empire or modern Ivy diest day— and not the slightthe habit of using a number of dif- one of the smart linings available stylistic dence In the future returns they in pots ivy in clear glass globes ivy ferent woods in the same room' In now in sheets Cork is feasible will naturally want more money draft will disturb you est or wall pockbrackets from most would trailing or walnut plywood Jja fact it isn’t ever necessary to have and stlffer ’ terms for their propets of woven wire or urns high For this is an Insulated winall pieces match it is sufficient to effective in an apartment furbished chests" shelves or mantelatopStudy erty dow—'' perhaps have pleasing contrast and har- in that popular wood — As more merchants bankers lawin a color or burled grain thesepoints" of" vantage anduse Come In and see SlUNIIIt-t- he chosen card round With a empire mony yers and doctors in fact as more luxuriant English ivy where it will modern window with the predominating contrasting brass fitted with of table our mahogany and more of people ride around be most effective In your home the and furniture of color grain one an handles might scrolling this valley and state and learn more use four side chairs in French walR of what is actually going on and of some covered nut seats in with fuwhat Is In preparation for the HomesHeats Sawdust modern chintz in plume design V ture the higher will go real" estate Just as in many an eighteenth cenBritish Columbians heat their prices tury English room four chairs in homes with fir sawdust Popularly ‘Those who have faith in the fuused were black and gold lacquer used its great drawback as fuel ture of Utah have always prospered & CO around a card Table of pale Queen has bee!! that its smoke' tends to and thoee who have discounted its use we as Anne walnut or corrode the usual steel stacks and today future have lost” That saying Is as Builder Supply Hendquerter t Jilond walnut chairs around a dark necessitates replacing them about true today as it was 10 20 or even wood table every two years S ‘ ut - -- Questions on Building new-materia- ' 1 -- rust-resisti- -- - two-thir- -- popu--Jatio- -- rs w-oo- light-tone- Philippine Mahogany Held As a Wood 40 te - d ng - -- -- Something Artistic in Curtains and Drapes self-servi- ht -- n ’ nn ORRISOU-E- n ILL |