The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-01-21
DEMONSTRATIONS. -
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!. From the somewhat indefinite era Of
the man who builded his house upon
the sand previous to the rainy season,
there has been 9 continuous wall going
up from the unfortunate people In every
community who ''are building" 1t Is
9 tale of worriment, OF estimates exceed
ed, and oexasperations endless. 1t Is
reassuring, then, to find at least one
man who was too much for the Wlckso
contractor, and built his house not only
upon q rock but like rock so that It
shall stand until some elevated railroad
of the future gets the right Of way
through its second story. Thus saith
the man who beat the contractors at
their own game: People can't be too
careful when they are building, for
those who don't know what Is what in
the way of work and material are sys-
tematically taken in by the contractors.
The architect is supposed to see that the
contracts are carried out, but he can't
slways be on hand, and when q disputS
does arise he naturally leans toward the
mechanics. Many of the inexplicahle
fires that occur In first-class dwellings
are simply the result of criminal care
lessness and fraud on the part of work
men and contractors. had running
! fight while nv house was building, but
| It was done as l wanted it and accord
ing to contract The party wall was
| twelve inches wide and bricks were to
be bonded every five courses went to
| look at it one evening when the wall
was twelve feet high and found only
every twentieth course was bonded.
| Some workmen were going by on them
way home. hired them for an hour.
i We transformed a big beam into bat
l tefing ram and when my friends, the
| contractors, came back in the morning
| they found their wall lying in the cellar
bottom. From that time on every fifth
course was bonded according 70 t1e
| specifications. Then we began ON the
| framing. had distinctly specified that
the fiues in the walls should be Spawned.
One afternoon climbed on the upper
floor beams and found o burned and
sooty brick lying on the scafolding. II
had been taken out of the wall Of me
neighbor ON the right TO let one Of my
floor beams in.
"tLook here said to the German
who was doing the framing, you've
run that beam plum into furnace tue.
Some cold winter night I'll wake Up
and find my house afire.'
"NCan't help dot replied this origi-
nal Buddensiek.
".Well, l cam said I, and got 6
piece of timber and began 10 pry the
beam out
.Herel Vot der Teufelr shouted the
contractor you stop dotH
| ".Get out of the way!' I yelled. On
you'll go where the good Germans 60.
all before your time?
He grabbed an adze and jumped fo,
me. / seized an ak and began counter
demonstrations. Then while he Sst
down to think it over, sat down on thS
end of my lever. Up came the hoOl
beam out of its mortise, and wen
crashing down into the cellar. It had
protruded four inches into what would
have been a red hot fue when the fur
mace was well working.
Things went smoothly after that I'm
til we came to putting in the furnace.
| had ordered double tin pipe and doubli
pipe guards wherever partition Wa
pierced. One afternoon came in AnG
found two apprentices lathing up par
, tition about furnace pipe. ! asked
! the double pipe-guards had been put in
They winked at one another and sait
yes. After they had gone cut Q littl
hole with a hatchet and investigated
, Not q sign of a guard. double or singh
was to be found. 1t did't take long 10
, ! me to rip that all out. told the heaI
/ lather to get somebody other than thos
3 two apprentices to do the work; for
I they ever entered my house again T.
e make him throw up his contract, and
|, he sued me I'd fight him as long as
! had dollar left The furnace-builde
also wore an unhappy look after l ha
finished with him. Well, the house
: finished, as you see. and 1t only Coz
: $40 more than the original estimatG
4 | The excess was due to the building of
e stone wall for the yard instead of
d fence. as originally intended. and Il
: construction of coalbins. which ha
z forgotten to include in the original est
: mate"
}. If others would be as careful an
:, energetic as this man there would be q
chance for builders of the Buddensie
type.-N r Tribune.