The new era., November 07, 1907, Image 5

About The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??

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Mr. William A. Radford will answer
questions and tfive advico FREE OF
COST on ail subjects pertaining to the*
subject of building for the readers of this
paper. On account of ills wide expe
rience ns Editor. Author and Manufac
turer, he is, without doubt, jhe highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
ull inquiries to William A. Radford. No.
194 Fifth Ave., Chicago, 111., and only
enclose two-cont stamp for reply.
Building a house for a home is one
of the most interesting propositions
that a man can undertake. Every
married man expects to build a house
and every single man hopes to do so
some time. If he doesn't he is not
constructed on the right plan. It often
First Floor Plan.
happens that a man has a small fam
ily which may consist of himself and
wife and possibly one small child.
They don’t want a large house, they
don't need it and they don't want the
care of it, but at die same, time it is
only business to build in such away
that the house may be sold if occasion
should require. But no matter how
small the house may lie, a woman
wants the down stairs to appear right.
She naturally takes pride in having a
well-arranged house neatly furnished
and well kept. If the plan suits her
she is perfectly happy In working out
the details.
In this plan only two »oms are fin
ished off upstairs. About one-third of
the upper floor is left unfinished to be
used as an attic store room. This
saves expense when building, and the
housewife has fewer rooms to take
care of afterwards. Two rooms may
be added here any time in the future
at very little expense.
Two bedrooms and bathroom up
stairs makes a very nice arrangement
for a family of two, and leaves a spare
bedroom for use when required. The
bedroom downstairs may be made in
to a library, if so desired. It is real
ly more appropriate for this purpose
than it is for a bedroom, if so wanted
by the family. Families are different,
their tastes and requirements are dif
ferent; what suits one would not suit
another, but this room would make a
very nice library or smoking den, and
that is what every man should have.
Jf he doesn’t smoke, some of his
friends do, and most women object to
having tobacco smoke scattered pro
miscuously through any other part of
the house, and they cannot be blamed
for this objection. The house means
more to a woman than it does to a
man, and it is her pride and ambition
to have it exactly right and to have
things as nice and delicate as her keen
sense of propriety suggests.
The sitting room and dining room
In this plan are almost like one long
room. The archway between may be
fitted with portieres or not. If por
tieres are used and looped well back
the view is not obstructed to any
great extent, and a company of a doz
en or two may comfortably occupy the
two rooms. The general plan of this
house is what used to be called the
Boston style. It Is rather after the
long and narrow order, being 22 feet
wide and 38 feet long, exclusive of
porches.
There arc some advantages in a
house of this shape. You get more
light and better air. The rooms may
he placed to better advantage without
using diagonal partitions, which gre
objectionable they do not
leave nice comers to place good
pieces of furniture. Every corner In
this house is square, except the bay
windows, atnd nobody wntats a square
corner In a place of ftftg kind. The
Home.
American
Wm.A.Radford
Editor
display hero Is principally composed
of curtains and a nice chair or two de
signed for looks as well as comfort.
The general air of this house Is what
may be called “tony." It has a neat,
clean, dignified appearance, rather on
the prosperous order, but the beauty
is in the design rather than In the ex
pensive finish. The materials are
good but ordinary, no unnecessary
work or expense is specified, but
everything is plain and substantial.
The back porch is a feature a little
I out of the ordinary, it is intended for
a sort of a summer addition to the
kitchen, an out door work room that
may be enclosed with climbing vines
and furnished with a couple of old
fashioned rocking chairs, with ging
ham-covered cushions, somewhat on
t he* grandmother order, but comforta
ble as everyone knows. This back
porch offers a good place for an ice
box, especially in the summvr time,
which is the only time in the year
when an ice box in this kind of a
house is really neecssary. The cellar
is cool enough at other times, and is
fairly convenient to the kitchen.
The outside grade entrance to the
cellar is a great help. It gives an
easy entrance from the garden for
carrying things in and out without
tracking through the kitchen, a fea
ture that every woman knows exactly
how to appreciate. A long cellar like
this is especially well designed for
keeping fruit. With a partition behind
the furnace the part under the kitchen
may be kept cool enough to keep ap
les and veegetables without drying
ip. The cellar walls are built with
cmer.t mortar and broken stone ot
übblo. AM stone surfaces are
layered outside and the joints filled
•: J b :u! d with black beading, whicl,
ivos ;!:e wall an attractive finish. If
bo house fares the north it would bn
better to put the fruit room in th •
'rout end of the cellar. The north end
s several degrees cooler than tho
tin furnace pipes past the partition
outh end, and it is not necessary to
n the sitting room.
To reach the front bedroom an up
stairs pipe may be placed on an in
cline through the wall partition. Such
little details must be looked after by
the owner. That bedroom upstairs
would be difficult to heat from a fur
nace with the pipe improperly laid.
There is a right and a wrong way to
put in furnace pipes, and my experi
ence Is that the eye of the owner Is
a little better than the eye of the In
spector. In arranging furnace pipes It
is a good plan to study the different
rooms before the building is started.
Almost as soon as the cellar wall is
built you want your furnace pipes in
place. You want the hottest pipe In
Second Floor Plan.
the sitting room and the next hottest
pipe In the bathroom.
The old-fashioned way of .heating a
house was to lead the biggest pipe to
the lower hall and let the air float up
stairs naturally, but natural conditions
cannot always be depended upon to
furnish good results. A good furnace
man, if given plans before the build
ing Is started, can lay out a system of
pipes that will heat every room with
out passing the air through the front
hall. There Is another extreme to this
proposition, and that is to keep the
front hall shut off and not have any
air carried In that direction. This Is
as much of a mistake as the other.
Ventilation is just as Important as
heat and you cannot have good v£n
tilatlon with the hallway shut off.
I BRAND DIRECTORY \
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P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Range,
North Park.
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Range
North Park.
P. O. address, Rand, Colo. Range,
North Park.
T. JOHN PAYNE.
P. O. address, Pinkhamptofi, Colo.
Range, North Park.
CHARLES B BEHGQUIST.
P. O. address, Hlgho, Colo. Range,
North Park.
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JOS. W. SLACK.
P. O. address, Rand, Colo. Range.
North Park.
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WU. NORRELL.
F. O. »aaran, Walden, Colo. Range,
North and Middle Parka.
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HANSON & RICH.
P. O. addreia, Spicer, Colo. Range,
Horth and Middle Parka.
ED. GOULD.
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Range
North Park.
ANDREW AND Git ACE PETERSON.
P. O. addreaa. Hebron, Colo. Range
Worth Park.
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BVERHARD * ISH.
P. O. addreaa, Rand, Colo. Range,
North and Middle Parka.
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WILL L. LATHAM.
P. O. address, Butler, Colo. Range,
North Park.
JACOB JOHNSON,
f. 0. address Walden, Colo. Range,
JNO. C. ISH.
P. O. address, Walden, Colo Range,
North Park.
OWEN S. CASE.
po. address Walden, Colo. Range
North and Middle Parks. __
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p o. address, Pinkhampton, Colo ,
Range, North Park. __ j
CASPER FOX.
P. O. address, Cowdrey, Colo
Range, North Park.
C. F. STAPLES.
P. O. address, Hebron, Colo. Range.
North Park. -
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LARS LARSON & BRO..
P, 0. address Walden, Colo. Range
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JAS. MACFARLANE & SONS.
F. O. address, Hebron, Colo. Range,
north and Middle Park.
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WM. McCONNAUGHEY.
P. O. address, Hebron, Colo. Range,
North and Middle Parks.
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MARl r A. KING.
P. O. address, Pinkhampton, Colo
Range, North Park.
Mo.-S.MVN ,‘. ■
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Range,
North Park.
Wm. BROWNLEE, Walden, Colo.
FORDYCE BROWNLEE, Walden, C 010.
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MAUD C. BROWNLEE.
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Range,
North Park.
AUGUST ANDERSON.
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Range,
North Park.
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ANNIE C. MATTHEWS.
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Range,
North Park.
DAWSON & GREEN.
P. O. address, Hebron, Colo. Range,
North and Middle Parks.
JOHN MITCHELL.
P. O. address, Butler, Colo. Range,
North Park.
WM. HEINEMAN.
P. O. address, Hebron, Colo. Range,
North Park.
WM. KERR.
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Range,
North Park.
FLOYDB. RICH.
P. O. address, Spicer, Colo. Range
North Park.
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GEO. H. MANVILLE.
P. O. address, Hebron, Colo. Range,
North Park.
J. H. OLDENBURG.
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Range,
North Park.
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D. W. McDOLE.
P. O. address, Butler, Colo. Range,
North Park.
HARRY L. BAUGH.
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Range,
North Park.
WILLIS F. WEBB.
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Range,
North Park.
CHAS. L. P. WINiOOM.
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Ragt,
North Park.
WM. BENNETT,
P. O. address, Butler, Colo. Rgagk,
North Park.
JAS. MARR.
P. O. address, Hebron, Colo lun.
North and Middle Parks.
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MARY AMI.
P. O. address. W i :. Colo. Rang;
North Park.
SAMUEL H. HAWORTH.
P. O. address, Hlgho, Colo. Range,
North Park.
CHAS BROWN
p. O. address, Zlrltle, Colo. Rangi
North Park.
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WM. R. MONAHAN,
p. O. address, Hlgho, Colo. Range
North Park.
HENRY C. RIDDLE.
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Range,
North Park.
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NORMAN R. MCDONALD.
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Range,
North Park.
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PARK AND MONTIE A. BLEVIN.
P. O. address. Walden, Colo. Range.
North and Middle Parks.
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SOFIE ERICKSON.
P. O. address, Hlgho, Colo. Range,
North Park.
MRS. LAUGIIOFF.
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Ranges
North Park.
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ALEX K. MARR.
P. O. address, Butler, Colo. Rangi
North and Middle Parks.
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JAS. BONIS.
P. O. address, Spicer, Colo. Rangs
North Park.
WM. ERICKSON.
P. O. address, Spicer, Colo. Rang#
North Park.
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JNO. M. COCHRANE.
P. O. address, Spicer, Colo. Rang*
*«Uh Park.
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AUGUSTUS'*E, Dw INELL.
Address Cowdrey, Colo. Range North
Park.
JNO. KIMMONS. .
P. O. address, Walden, Colo. Range, "
North Park.