The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-23

ed in "TRe Conservative" and the Wheel
ing REGISTER.
On motion the meeting adjourned
| 49, JOHN. j. DAVIS, Chairman.
JOHN C. VANCE, Secretary.
Coed Houses for SIX Handred Doilars
The Chicago Times, of recent date,
gives an account of plan adopted 10
secure dwelling houses for people Of
small means in that city, and which has
met with 80 much success that it Will
excite general interest in other parts OF
the country. The particulars are as fol,
lows:
During the past year, Messrs. George
A. Seaverns g. Brother, of this city, have
erected 40 cottages similar in shape, at
an average of from $3.50 to $500 each.
One of these houses, 18 by 90 feet, with
an addition in the rear of IL feet, have
been finished with blinds on all the
windows, a piazza in front, cistern
holding 20 barrels of water, with water
leaders complete from the roof, sink
and pump in the kitchen, storage for
fuel and tools under the house, at cost
of S676. These houses are small and
plainly built, but complete and CON-
Portable. They are all painted neatly
inside and out with two coats of paint,
and are situated on Main, Farrell and
Laurell streets, between Thirty-hrSt
and Lyman streets.
Colonel Lyman Bridges has also built
row of seven houses on Thiriy-trst
street, near Cottage Grove avenue, each
ofwhich, including fencing all around,
has cost 5000. These houses now rent
for $50 per month each.
A SAVINGS BANK FURNISHES MODELS.
On the first day of July last. the Mer-
chants, Farmers and Mechanics Saw
ings Bank, No. 13 Clark street, deter
mined to provide for the use of its de-
positors models of cheap houses, which
should he within the reach of all the
most industrious and frugal people of
Chicago. Tho cashier was therefore
to publish an advertisement
calling for plans and informati on as to
the cheapest and most desirable build
ings to be obtained in Chicago, at prices
not exceeding 5000 or $1,000. The adyer-
tisement offered, ... .rsru
1. Fifty dollars for the best plan Of a
single tenement cottage, to cost not ex-
ceeding $500 when erected in the city of
Chicago, to be complete in itself, but
to form a part or wing of q
larger building;
The plans were to be adapted to lots
"a feet front, and were to include fence,
out house, painting plastering and fin
ishing complete.
MODEL NO. l.
The committee unanimously decided
in favor of awarding the prize for the
$500 model to Col. Lyman Bridges.
This plan is for cottage Of four rooms,
parlor, kitchen, two bed rooms, press
aad pantry. The size of the ouses is Is
by "a feet.
The following are specifications:
The foundation will consist of two
of pinch plank, two feet
square, laid crosswise, placed three and
one-balf feet in the ground. The posts
the stills will be SxS square,
pine, placed upon the foundation plank
above mentioned. The sills will be 6XS
square, pine, well framed together to
the posts, studding and joists; the tops
Of sills to be #. from the top of the
ground. The posts and sills will be
braced. The studding will be
lx4, pine, double and bolted-and we'll
spiked together to the etudding and to
tho r.ftofs. The 1oists or the hrsJ moor
will be 2xl0, pine, set l6 inches from
centres and cross-bridged. The ceiling
ioists will be 2xI, pine, set 10 inches
from centres. Headers and trimmers will
be double.
The rafters will be 2x6 inch, pine, set
20 inches from centres. The place be-
low the sill will be ceiled with perpen-
iicular narrow, plain and matched pine
ceiling. The entire outside of the build
ing, above all, will be sheeted with
common pine boards, we'll nailed to the
,tudding and rafters. The entire walls,
above sill, will be covered with common
pine, dressed siding, well Tapped and
nailed to the sheeting. The roof will
be covered with No. l sawed pine shin
giles, free from sap or knots, and laid so
as to lap three times. There will be
plank cutters on each side of the roof,
covered with tin aDd painted. The
chimney to be placed on bracket in
sitting room, having two tlues sxl2
inches each, for the parlor and sitting
room. There will be two thimbles for
receiving the stovepipes from either
side, as shown by plans and elevations.
The inside of the lines will be smoothly
plastered. Suitable plastering will be
placed around chimney. There will be a
coat of brown mortar, suitably mixed
with live quick-lime, sand and hair,
aud second coat of plaster paris hard
finish. The floor will he one inch pine,
plared, matched, tongued and grooved,
and well nailed down through the face.
The outside doors will be l. inches thick,
with cottage rim locks; all other doors
to be II inches thick. All to be four
panneled. The window frames will be
plank frames, with window fastenings.
The sash to be Il inches thick, with
cheekIip meeting rails. There will be
two pair of blinds, (VeAetian rolling
slats), on front windows. The castings
will be four inch pine, plain architraves.
with ogee edge. The bases will be 5-inch,
plain, with head on top for principal
rooms. There will be plank sink, two
by three feet in kitchen.
All trimmings to be mineral knobs,
metal wards and escutcheons. There
will be bell at front door. There will
be privy AKA feet, with a vault 2x4
feet, set three feet in the ground. The
front and rear steps will have suitable
rail and newell, as shown on plan.
There will be walk two feet wide,
from front gate to front and back steps,
and from back steps to privy. There
will be two strips, with hooks, in the
press, and three shelves in the pantry.
The entire dressed woodwork, and in
aide will be painted with two good coats
in oil. The blinds will be painted in
Paris green. The glass used will be
best American shingle thick.
No plumbing or gas fitting is called
for. The specifications include all the
materials and labor necessary to COM
plete this dwelling for occupation.
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