The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-12-13
BUNGALOWS
ARE MANY
Neat New Homes Going Up in All
Parts Of City Despite Winter
Season
6OUT7IERNER Will COPY
YAKIMA STYLE AT HOME.
Thinks Type of Cottage in Use
Here Admirably Suited for
Houses for Farmers Of Moder-
4 ate Salaries 4tf

Judging from the number of new
houses being put up the past few
weeks, building is an all year posi-
bility here. Even concrete work,
which Is usually called to a halt long
before this. Is still progressing. Houses
are being plastered, the drying pro-
cess being hustled by the use Of
small heaters, il the hope that
enough Of the wet may be absorbed
before q hard frost causes the walls
TO freeze and crack. Altogether it
has been an ideal early winter for the
carpenter and the mason.
The new homes which are being
put up are rather ideal, too, in their
way. OF a smallness to astound east
ern dweller to whom ten or twelve
rooms seems modest they are never
theless the most attractive and con-
venient abode for a young couple or
m extremely limited family that can
be found anywhere for the money
While space is not overabundant. not
. bit of 1t goes to waste and the
houses gain in coziness and conve-
ness.
He Was Surprised
A Georgia man, visiting here this
summer, fell in love with the Yakima
bungalow and returned home determ-
ined to introduce the fashion in the
south. To him, and to most people
who have not seen the sort of home
which is so popular in Yakima. a
bungalow meant an elaborate and ex-
pensive dwelling after the California
style. The five and six roomed
houses. all on the ground floor, with
their modern plumbing, their electric
lights and their heating plants, if de-
sired, appealed to him as the latest
word in practical housing of the aver
age wage Garner. The fact that econ
omy in construction is not obtained
ut the expense Of artistic effect is
decidedly in their favor
Few Apartment Dwellers
It Is probably the charm and the
availability Of these bungalows with
which the city is dotted which has
discouraged the fiat in North Yakima
There are half a dozen apartment
houses, perhaps, and there are al
ways certain number of people who
don't like to bother with shoveling
coal, tending stoves or furnaces dur
ing the winter. To them the fiat will
always appeal--in the winter. But
with everybody wanting a home of
his own-a sort of racial instinct
even the fiat mans fancy turns to-
wards a lawn to NOV and a garden
to grub with the spring time. So
that here, with the little place on
the car line" so easy to get commun-
ity living has not made much pro-
gress.
Speedily Tenanted
In the Bonnie Brae addition little
houses have been going up like
mushrooms. No sooner do they get
built, apparently, than smoke is COM
ing out of the chimneys and washing
hanging out on the lines A couple
of houses have been started in the
Lesh tract on the other side of the
street and a couple more out on Miles
avenue towards Johnsons corner
within a few days. Some of the new
homes in the city are on more ex-
pensive scale than the average bung7
allow, but they preserve, for the most
part, the bungalow effect in building.
Own Their Homes
A surprisingly large number Of
people in North Yakima own their
own homes and the reason lies just
here For around $4,000 man can
buy a lot and build house; and he
doesn't as a rule have to pay the
whole of the money down. There are
a number of organizations and COM
panies in the city which build homes
to sell on monthly payments, or wlr.ch
will build a home to suit a custo-
mer, whose monthly rentals will be
allowed to go towards paying for the
place. Undoubtedly the purchaser
pays more in this way than if he
could build himself and pay cash out
right. The companies are entitled to
interest on their investment of course
But the great point is that the man,
earning just an ordinary salary, can
come into possession of home in
this way, whereas. If he had to wait
20 accumulate the funds. he might
have to wait long time. going on
paying rent the while.