The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-29
MANY NEW IDEAS
IN HOME BUILDING
Spokane Architect Gives Help
full Hints About Various
Modern C0nvenienCes.
SUBURBAN WATER SYSTEMS
DEVICES THAT ADD TO COM
FORT OF UP-TO-DATE HOME.

construction during the last century,
stin 1t is fact that more improve
ments are coming up right along, says
Architect Arthur C. Clausen of Spokane.
some of the features which / will men
| ton have been in use long enough TO be
considered hardly new features, but
will be mentioned here on account of
their being so little used far that
they are unknown TO most home
| builders.
1t would be useless to try and pro-
phesy what Improvements are apt to
be made during the next century, but If
as much progress is made during that
time as has been during the past cen
| fury, a modern home should be a model
OF convenience beyond our conception
The uses of electricity in the home
are being demonstrated by practical
application in some homes. but so far
have met with little favor on account
of the expense of the current. When
the cost of producing the current is
/ reduced, electricity will be used in the
home in a great many different ways
besides lighting 1t In some homes
| where the cost of keeping It up is
not an Item of consideration, electric
| currents are provided for running the
| sewing machine. washing machine and
ice cream freezer. The cooking is done
| by electricity and some of the rooms
| are provided with electric radiators.
| These, however, are only for inter-
mediate use to warm up room for a
| few minutes early in the morning or
the evening at times of the year when
the beginning and end Of the day IS
keeping up the fire in the heating
plant.
The Vacuum Cleaner.
Vacuum cleaning systems are being
installed in great many homes. the
| best of them being plants located in
the basement and run by an electric
| motor, and from this. pipes leading to
various parts of the house with outlets
In the Dashboard where extension hose
can be connected. One outlet on every
floor is considered sufficient since q
| 50-foot hose can be attached and car
ried TO every part of the house. While
some people still have more faith in
the cleaning propensities of a scrub
woman, there is little doubt but what
as the vacuum cleaning system be
comes perfected and also reduced in
price, that 1t Will be considered as an
essential part of home as the modern
heating and plumbing, for there Is no
doubt of its entire success from
practical standpoint when right kind
of system is intalled.
cheap vacuum system Is a poor in
vestment. Dust is nothing but fine
grit and this soon wears out the parts
OF the machinery which it comes in
contact with, if they are not made of
the best material and kept fabricated.
Where electricity is not o5taina BILE, the
vacuum cleaner can be run by a gaso-
| line engine.
"aseE systems Tor suburban Homes.
In many small cities and in subur-
ban Localities the water supply is a
problem. The old-fashioned way to
supply home under such circum-
stances was to have a tank in the at
tic and pump the water up to it with a !
hand pump, allowing the water to
supply the various fixtures in the
house by gravity. The modern way is |
10 have a large afr-tight tank in the |
basement into which water is pumped |
against the pressure of the air, which |
creates force which sends it to q |
great height.
Hand pumps are sometimes used to
pump in the water, but this is very
tedious work. Where electric current
Is not available a gasoline engine con-
uected by belt to the pump is the
next best substitute. The most modern
way Of pumping the water into the
tank is by an electric motor with an
automatic control. When the water
gets down TO low pressure the motor
NJ and then stops, requiring no at
tentiOn except to keep it thoroughly
fabricated.
Heating Water in Summer.
All modern homes are provided with
summer heaters which are kept going
whenever the heating plant is not be-
ing used. in heating the water fer
domestic purposes. One Of the latest
wrinkles is to have the Nt.ator in the
bathroom arranged so tat it can be
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| by shut-off valve in the basement
and connected with a summer heater
/ by opening another valve on a cross
connection pipe. In this way, by
opening up another valve on the radi-
ator in the bathroom, the room can be
warmed at any time that a little heat
| Is required in this room when IL would
not be required in the rest of the
house.
Don't Gid the Radiator.
While Spaa king of raIfaf ors II ic no
| longer considered the best taste to
gid them, but to paint them exactly
| to match the woodwork in the room
in which they are located The risers
or pipes extending from floor to floor
are painted TO match the wall decora-
lions. This IS done with the object of
sible. Radiators never look we'll no
matter where they are put, and to
bronze them a bright gold only makes
them more conspicuous.
In the bathroom where the woodwork
is white the radiator should be paint
ed white. Sometimes in bathrooms and
other rooms enameled white the radi-
ators are given silver or aluminium
white woodwork II the radiator
stands against an oak or maple wains
coting. it should be not only painted.
but grained to match the wainscoting
as close as an artistic painter can DO So
Keeping Mice Ont.
Mice sometimes get into clothing aft
er il has been put down the clothes
chute in the basement. To overcome
this in a modern way Is TO provide
large galvanized iron-lined box with a
| lid, at the base OF the clothes chute
The modern way of supplying fresh
air to home in the winter time is
] to provide what Is known as an in
direct radiator. This is large radi-
ator placed IN a galvanized iron box
under the floor with a register in the
floor above it. An open fresh cir duct
| is carried from the galvanized iron box
through the foundation wall to the out
side air. The rising of the heat from
the radiator causes suction, which
brings in the fresh air and forces ii
through the radiator. After it has
passed through the radiator Ii goes
| into the room wan but fresh. One
good-sized indirect radiator in a cen
trail location is considered sufficient
| if there are proper outlets for -exhausts
/ in the way of Dashboard ventflators
or fireplaces-
The Metal Weather Strips.
| A great deal of cold air. carrying
| with IL SCOT and dirt gets in around
| the closed windows in the winter time
unless the sash are provided with what