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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11

the large window. The boxing for the
walls of the first story is treated in
the same manner as the arches to pro-
duce the random range.
The second story is finished rough
cast in the panels, the borders of which
are worked out in very light shade
by very slight addition Of hydrate of
lime to the cement, and the panels fin
ished with a darker shade of cement,
no color other than this being used to
obtain the desired contrast.
B The large brackets carrying the balus-
trade in front are reinforced with iron
rods carried into the wall The bay on
the second story front is built up Of
the same material as the walls, and is
reinforced with rods radiating from the
bottom like the ribs of fan. The side
walls of the dormers are likewise built
of concrete. The roof and balustrade of
the circular porch are of wood, also. the
balustrade over front entrance.
Materials Count
f. It may be well at this point to re.
mark that the quality of work done in
cement depends not upon the molds used
to retain the materials in place until
crystallization takes place, but upon the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11
HOW TO SELL REAL ESTATE
Minneapolis Man Gains Many Valuable
pojn+ors u, Toe A,roH,.

SIS Pointers in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Infection marks for
it's own nearly every Minneapolitan who
visits the California city. Real estate
features are the talking points of these
returned enthusiastic tourists and all
express wonder at the low comparative
values in Minneapolis, with its superior
advantages, from a commercial stand
point, over it's California rival for pub
1icity. =. -.
Other features of Los Angeles are the
"stand-together' and the boosting pro
clivities of the Los Angelesians. Never
word is breathed by the citizens that
might be taken as knock against the
city. Everybody is of the most opti-
MYSTIC temperament and the character
stif S Of their city are always painted
quently represented as lacking in Min
neapolis and is, perhaps, rightly, men
toned as one Of the deterrents to ris-
Ing values of real estate here. The Min
neapolitan as whole, is said not to
have reached proper appreciation Of
his own! city.
Los. Angeles observations by Mime
city. The latest contribution is from
serving member Of the Minneapolis
Real Estate board. Wallace, H. Davis
vice president Of David P. Jones &
Co., writes T he Journal from the
Jonathan club, at Los Angeles:
II do not care to exploit the ad
vantages Of this growing and prosper
ing city, for it does not need it, as
every citizen here is barker for hit
own town, and then it might depopu
late or cause an exodus Of citizens from
our beautiful city. have tried to alb
stract few ideas that are being used
successfully here in the selling Of rea
estate, with the hope that their applica
| ton might be of some value to rea
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11

excellence in the hands of the engineer
when used in heavy construction; hav-
ing permitted him, to take liberties with
it that he would not have attempted
with any other material, it has proved
it's ability to take care of itself when
it invades the field of domestic con
struction, since the greater mustsinclude
the less, in physics as in logic III
This house is intended to have/te
rooms, exclusive of the attic, but the
first floor is so planned as to afford wide
vistas thru the various rooms. The sit
ting room is placed in the circular por-
ton, having its wide, circular porch
carried around to the rear. Its fire.
place and mantel are built Of concrete,
as also lis the one in the parlor to the
left of 1.-THE entrance porch ~
The dining room is located to the left
Of the sitting room, and is lighted by a
large, circular window in the rear. The
reception hall is very spacious affair,
lighted by stained glass window, To-
Gated in the wall, extended to receive
it, adjoining the4$.circular portion and
below the roof dormer.s It also has a
window at the half way landing of the
stairs, seen in the side wall, as we'll as
the one. opening onto the porch, and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11
zrican Experiment in
transportation, Lines

An American traveller who had been
touring France in an automobile, asked
famous French physician one day
how to account for the superiority Of
the French roads over those of every
other country.
my explanation the physician
replied, els that in France the roads
were finished before the railways be-
gan to divert public interest. If the
system had been only partly completed
at the time Of the advent Of the rail
roads the transportation interests
would have mustered enough influence
to induce the government to abandon
the highways and to concentrate atten-
ton on railroad construction. But it
happened that the government had al
ready built the roads before any hostile
Influences arose -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11

materials used, the proportions of each
used in the aggregate, and the manner
of using the combine yhen placing in
position. Unless the forms (and this is
true Of blocks as well as in solid con-
struction) can be left in position for
at least one day the best results cannot
be obtained. Some manufacturers, how
ever, remove forms Immediately.
!, Enough water must be used to pro-
duce correct capitalization of the
cement, or density and strength win be
sacrificed In the manufacture of blocks
we find advocates of "wet' and dry
mixtures. In the dry process the mould
is to be removed as soon as tamping has
been completed. This cannot be safely
done unless the mixture is dry enough
to stand up" and the block must
stand for some hours before it is safe
to add the additional quantity of water
needed by sprinkling.
In the interval between molding and
sprinkling, partial capitalization has
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11

taken place; that is, the mass has
"set - to the limit Of the moisture sup
piled in holding, but not to the extent
of the capacity of the cement to absorb
that without which it is an inert and
useless mass. Complete capitalization
cannot be accomplished after setting
has begun by the addition of more wa
ter, and checks and cracks are pretty
sure to result in the end when the blocks
are thoroly seasoned.
Is The mortar must be at least as plastic
as that required by the bricklayer when
laying brick or stone, and when this
amount of water is provided the mix
ture will not "stand up' when the
mould is removed, but it will make a
waterproof block when properly cured.
1t will not do to omit the sprinkling of
blocks made in this way. The curing
room should be planned to exclude sun
light and currents of air, the blocks
being sprinkled several times daily for
| a week, nor should they be used in the
wall for two or three weeks after max
ing.
One manufacturer says there is a
happy medium between the wet and
dry. This, he says, must be used to
insure success. n
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11
Ventilation Without Draft.

An ingenious householder recently
added two. conveniences to his house
which may be suggestive to other home
makers. There was sleeping room in
which the bed and windows were so
related that if a window was opened at.
night there was direct draft on the
bed, and in the summer flood Of early
morning light. To obviate these an
noyances he made wooden frame such
as he would have built for an ordinary
window screen and stretched white oil
cloth tightly over 1T. The frame was
made the size of the lower window sash
and provided with two hooks on one
edge which fitted into corresponding
screw-eyes on the side of the window
frame nearest the bed. These hooks
and eyes served as hinge. An eight
inch hook on the lower edge Of
the frame fastened into an eye
on the window sill few inches
from the hinge side and held the screen
fast at an angle Of about forty-fve de-
grees. The oilcloth obscured the light
sufficiently and the current of air was
diverted from tae bed. The amount. OF
ventilation, of course, was regulated by
adjusting the window sash.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11

question is more than on the side of
the 'tpoor workipgman who would
own his home. Once the home is ac-
quired, permanent improvements, not
only inside the house. but in proftably
arranging the garden, are soon made,
and there, too, is accomplished another
saving.
Once property owner, vital inter
est in municipal affairs and the charac-
ter of improvements in your section Of
the city is soon felt, which is bound to
enhance the value Of your home invest
ment. The offceholder of your ward
fully realizes that he must properly con
duct the municipal affairs, as you are a
permanent constituent, and thereby
hangs his future. Thus banded to-
gether you will obtain the best results
for your district If not a tax reduc-
ton, at least the best possible returns
for the money spent.
Stanley s.. Staring,
Manager Real Estate Department
David G.. Bell Investment Go.
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The plausibility Of this explanation,
says the Kansas City Times, is evident
to every American who recalls the his
tory Of the once. famous "National and
United States road, better known
from the name of its eastern terminus
as the Cumberland road.
Planned by the government as the
great national highway between the
east and west from Cumberland, Md,
to Jefferson City, it had traversed 700
miles to Vandalia, Ill, when the rail
roads overlook it in 1852, and its glory
vanished. Incomplete as 1t was it was
the longest macadamized road ever
built by any government.
AS It Was In 1880.
Wheeling is the point at which
ost travellers from the. west leave the
Ohio to take the stages which travel
the mountain road to the Atlantic
cities 5es s, ~ e 8 s.ssa-ss
This is the reason Mrs. Frances Troll
s1ope, mother of the English novelist,
gives in her book, 9 The Domestic Man
ners Of the Americans, for her cir
cuitous route in 1880 to New York
from Cincinnati, where she had been
living for two or three years. In those
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11
RENTERS WASTE MONEY
Real Estate Man Tells Why One Should
Buy Home.

-
Buy Home.
J. TO the Editor Of The Journal. =
About three weeks ago an article ap-
peared on your real estate. page, Can
aman save money me 9y building ms
man was well answered. but one
strong argument was not brought out
in the economy Of being a homeiowner.
It is true that a property costing
about 81 400 will readily rent for $3.50
per year, and while 6 per cent interest
4 consideration that the amount the
home-owner would have so invested is
generally deposited in "a savings bank
paying 3 per cent interest. This being
the case, the interest charge against
$3.50 rental should not exceed $42, OF a
: saving Of $13S per year to the owner
= of home Nearly 10 per cent on the
Investment.
And certainly, taxes, insurance, re-
pairs and depreciation will be wholly
Offset by the wear and tear on the fur
sniture of the man who must move, ii
Nrenting, on an average OF at least once
"a year.
cutting over of carpets, shades and
dfaperies and breakage are entirely for
gotten, to say nothing Of the uncer-
tainty that forever hangs over the
renter Here today-where tomorrow2
These items, if properly accounted for,
/ will more than offset the carrying
charge of q home.
too, the continual renter never
feels as tho he could buy many of the
things desired, because what fits here
today may not find a place in the next
rented house. And so the money that
should be spent for the betterment of
the home and to make it more home
like, is spent for unnecessary food OF
clothing, or articles of no substantial
value.
The dollars and cents side Of this
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11
Classihe ed Section.
TIE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.
lie REALTY MARKET ISALIVE ONE; HERES PROOF
estate owners and agents Of our own

Los Angeles, Cal, is growing rap
especially and marvelously in building
and real estate operations, and it does
seem that we might CLEAN some valla-
BILE. ideas from its remarkable growth,
and apply them to the upbuilding and
development OF our own city.
The paramount question Of the real
estate owner and broker is how to in.
crease the value Of the property, and
how secure buyers for the same, and 1
believe that the real estate owners and
brokers of Los Angeles have discovered
the answer to this question.
will limit the answer to unim-
proved residence property. An owner
son or corporation, buys a tract Of
land, has it surveyed and plated;
grades the streets; lays cement side
walks, curb and gutter; places orna-
mental stone posts at the corners OF
the tracts as monuments, and magnlti-
cent stone and iron gateWays at the
street entrances; plants carefully Sc
wards and lots; probably places a beau,
tiful retaining wall along the front of
the tract, and then in the sale of the
lots places certain restrictions as to the
value and character of improvements,
in order to maintain a uniform and ele-
CANT appearance in the addition.
The object of all these improve
ments to the land itself is to make it
more attractive to the possible buyer,
and when the real estate agent takes
him out to view the addition, it needs
little oral argument, and his customer
generally natures into a buyer. Land
under these conditions sells much easier
and for much better prices.
Il interviewed in this city one large
operator in high grade residence prop
erty, who purchased a tract for $780,
900, and spent another 100000 in sim
ply embelishing it, ais outlined above,
and then. put it on the market for sale.
This operator told me that he had sold
! $4O0 900 worth of property in this tract
in two years, and still had the better
one-half remaining unsold.
appreciate that the illustration
is remarkable, but it is typical one in
this city, and it contains a principle
that is vital and valuable. That is, that
we in our city should prune and trim
up our property before we put it on
the market for sale, if we desire to
get quick and satisfactory results. [
believe there are as many buyers for
real estate in Minneapolis as in Los
Angeles; we certainly have more
beautiful city, especially in our parks
and long parkways, and it is only a
question of dressing up our real es-
tate in order to get similar results
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11
THE CONeSTOCA .wAcON

days there was only the one trans
Allegheny highway-the National road
and eastbound travellers had to jour
ney north or south until they
reached it. -.
: It's fine construction and ample pro.
portions impressed all who passed over
it. Even Mrs. Trollope, prejudiced as
she was. speaks of it with admiration.
"I regretted she says, Hfnot having
counted the number Of bridges between
Wheeling and Little Washington, a dis
lance of thirty-four miles; over one
stream only there are twenty-five, all
passed by the road. They are built Of
stone and sometimes very neatly fin
ished.O
The political as we'll as the financial
Importance of the old national road is
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11

that was removed I remembered, with
some dismay, that the females at least
were in the predicament of sailors who,
{ in danger have no door to keep out. -
English travellers generally were
rather hostile to these coaches. Fanny
Kemble, the actress, who travelled in
the United States in 1928, writes of
them:
"Oh, these coaches! English eye hath
not seen, English ear hath not heard,
nor hath it entered into the heart of
Englishmen to conceive the SURPRISING
c]umsiness and wretchedness Of these
leather Inconvenience. They are
shaped something like, boats, the sides
being merely leathern pieces, remov-
able at pleasure, but which, in bad
weather, are buttoned down to protect
the inmates from the wet.
There are three seats in this ma
chine; the middle one having movable
.leathern strap, by way. Of a dossier, runs
between the carriage doors, and lifts
away, to permit the egress and ingress
of the occupants Of the other seats.
For the. first few minutes thought I
mtst have tainted from the intolerable
sensation of smothering which I ex-
perienced. However, the feathers hav-
ing been removed, and little more air
obtained, took heart of grace and re-
signed myself to my fate
Road Cost $1,000 200.
The National road was constructed at
a total cost Of approximately 81 ,O0O, 900.
It was projected in 1905 in compliance
with compact made between congress
and the state of Ohio regarding the non,
taxation of public lands. Permission
had to be secured from the states be.
fore the government could build thru
their domain and the contract for the
first section was let at $21.25 rod in
1911.
A sort of right of-way, eighty feet
wide, was cleared of timber and stumps
and the roadbed itself was thirty feet
wide. 1T was constructed under the
supervision Of the war department. II
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seen thru the side arch. But little wood
is used in the interior finish Of the re-
ception hall, the decorations being
worked out in nodded panels in the con-
crete, and the whole surface tinted in
harmonious colors.
The freplaces also are treated with
delicate designs in relief and unglazed
tile set in the breasts, as the work is
built up, after a carefully detailed plan
worked out in colors before the work
is begun.
Walls Monolithic.
The outside walls are monolithic thru
out. The arches are cast in the solid,
and the arch-stones are carefully laid
out on the boxing and the joints after
wards pointed up when the work has
seasoned. Thus the buttressed wall in
front is a solid portion of the arches,
which meet at that point on Che right,
and the same is repeated on the left to
give seeming resistance to the arch for
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11

E1ROM the modest cottage illustrated
last week to the large, roomy and
imposing structure shown below
may seem to some of T he Journ al
readers. a sudden, if not extreme, -transi-
ton. 1t must be remembered that these
articles are intended to show, primarily,
that concrete construction should not be
confined to its present narrow limits;
that having attained a ihigh standard Of
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11

An English butler who committed suicide left
for his employer note in which he said: ST
should have gone to a better world last night.
only this being your at home day. I thought
would wait until tonight. hope you will
find everything all right in the pantry
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11

In investigating the death of a child Lon
don lodging house inspectors found room at
the East End in which nineteen Russians slept.
Their beds almost touched. There stove
in the middle of the room and no ventilation.
and water was running down the window panes
in streams.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11

Then along would come heavily loaded
freight wagons, with four or six horses,
many of the teams with bells suspended
from an iron archsresting on the names.
And then would appear the stages at a
swinging trot, full inside and out with
passengers, the driver holding the reins
proudly over four horses which dashed
on with open nostrils, as If each one
knew he, was carrying the United States
mail. remember one roam team espe-
cially, for more than once I saw the
great leader-he was then and is now
my ideal horse-with long streamer
from his names, indicating that Mr.. CLAY
or Mr.. Benton or President Polk, or
some other great man, was aboard.
believe that the choice been given
me, or any other small boy, between
taking his place and that of the presi-
dent, we would not have hesitated a
nloment-the driver was the greatest,
the most envied man in the world.
"There was the night Boston mail,
the st. Louis, the Southwestern, the
Great Eastern and che Great Western
mails. The latter left Washington az
9 pm, and Baltimore at Z pm, and
reached Wheeling in thirty hours, CO.
lumbus in forty-fve and one~half, In
dianapolis in sixty-fve and one-half,
Vandalia in eighty-five and one-half,
st. Louis in ninety-four hours. It left
Wheeling in the early morning and
passed our house with the regularity
of q clock about 3 o'clock the follow
+ ing morning. -
The Stage Coach.
Another and more critical point Of
view of the glories Of the stage coach
is given by Mrs. Trollope, who says:
4The coach had three rows Of seats,
each calculated to hold three persons,
and as we were only six we had, in the
language Of Milton, to inhabit lax
this exalted abode and accordingly for
some miles we were tossed about like
a few potatoes in wheelbarrow.
stThe vehicle had no step and we
climbed into it by a ladder. When
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11
Lake MinnetOnka

and In two months cottagers will begin
moving out to the Lake. 1t Is time that
you begin looking and seeking for your
location II you wish to buy. We are
able to help you locate.
At Interlachen we have an s-room fur
nished cottage with $50 feet of shore,
trees, water and rowboat. for $2250.
At Zumbra Heights, 7-room furnished
cottage and boat and barn. for $4,000
At Connors Bay, very nice place of 8
rooms and laundry, pantry, sheds and
closets: also fine shore and ~ acres
ground, for $4,000.
A few good lots left yet, fronting on
Crystal Bay and only two blocks from
Minnetonka Beach Station, at from $3.50
to $1,000 each.
"A choice acre tract on south shore OF
Upper Lake; good trees and clean water
front; IA acres with 1000 feet of shore.
Small acre tracts at the Lake are scarce.
This one won't last long. See that you
get it.
The only large farm that is for sale
aow which borders upon the shores Of
Minnetonka; a fine location and well
worth yOur attention Come sae
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-11

The writer Of these articles
would like to have the names and
addresses Of several contractors and
workers in cement, to whom he will
gladly send free, circular informa-
ton on this topic. Address at Min
neapolis, MINI.
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