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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-24

ings Of the national board Of ire under
writer's has issued a booklet of lis
pages on methods of increasing the fire.
resfstive qualities of dwellings, says
Engineering Record. Builders every
where. especially in localities outside
the control of building ordinances (and
by far the majority of ordinary dwell
ings IRE built in such localfties), will
find valuable information in this pres
entation of methods for making houses
reasonably safe from fire. Particularly
important. not only for builders, but
the sections devoted to floor and roof
construction; chimneys. fiues. smoke
pipes and fireplaces: fire stopping and
general precautions for fire protection.
Generally recognized dangers from
such old offenders as single roofs. un-
lined chimneys, unprotected stafrways
and shafts are strikingly illustrated,
and many simple and effective, while
relatively inexpensive. devices in con-
struction which retard the spread Of
fire are clearly explained. Every poten-
tial house owner will find it profitable
to become familiar with these building
life as well as of property. Engineers.
through their positions in building de-
partments and their participation as
plain citizens in civic associations,
chambers of commerce and similar or
ganizations, can let 1t be known that
ordinary dwellings can readily be i'm
proved as to their firesresistive quail
ties, and can direct interested parties
to the proper source of information.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-24
Rural Type Demanded.

Rural surroundings demand a rural
type of house. no less respectable than
the city house. but distinctly rural.
Where a house has plenty of room it
should not be built as though it did not
have plenty of room. In our climate,
where warmth in winter is a vital fac
tor in the house plan, the farmhouse
cannot be permitted to ramble as 1t
may be in Oregon or California. 1t
must be a compact in its vital parts,
but it's open verandas and sun porches
may be spread wide to its beautifica-
ton and to the added joy of living in
1t. 1t may also have some service
sections that would not be a needed
part of the city house. A farmhouse
should be SO much of farmhouse
that it would never be mistaken for
a city house. This Is not to say that
many a city house would not fit well
into a rural setting. But it is to say
that the house formed to fit a forty
foot lot is not ordinarily fit to stand
on a forty-acre tract.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-24
NEEDS REAL
RURAL ARCHITECTURE
Farm Homes Lack Beauty of Form
and Type They Might Have at
No Added Cost to Build.

Slowly. very slowly. and that in spots
only. the form of city residences and
stores is improving. The architect
with a real appreciation of art in
building is making himself felt to such
an extent that not few of the smaller
dwellings as we'll as the richer ones
are demonstrating their fitness to sur
vive. This is true in city and village.
but the building of attractive farm
houses is still in the early twilight
of it's renaissance. Few farmsteads
are so built or SO kept as to please
the eye. This Is not wholly because
the farmer is not financially able to
build a house on pleasing lines. or to
keep it in pleasing style. He is able.
And as a rule he spends enough on
his house to make it attractive. The
trouble Is he does not know how. and
does not know that he does not know.
More than half the farmhouses of this
state are painful to see. They speak
loudly of wasteful ignorance.
Exotic House Impractical.
One can hardly drive ten miles
a farming district without see
ing an attempt on the part of a farmer
to build a home better than the ordi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-24
nary. but lacking fitting plan he has

nary. but lacking a fitting plan he has
taken the plan of a city house that
was built to 1T a narrow lot-a house
that stands up like a potato sprout in
a cellar. a house built in a huddle OF
houses running up to get out of the
shadow of its fellows. Such house
can never fit it's surroundings. 1t may
be a costly house. but 1t is no more at
home in its general surroundings than
a dress suit at a grange social. The
city does not transplant well to the
country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-24
The Volunteer and the Conscript

regularity tho landlord and to the
life do It
He kno didn't
to a man regularity into
to stara home? to
not to
world
take them them to at
hard o a 1t Is
home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-24
Adopt Lumber Standards.
Benefits Expected.

80 far as expressions have been OBJ
tanned from manufacturers of material.
one of the great benefits that would re-
suit would be the elimination of sharp
competition on the part of contractors,
who might detect in a specification some
incomplete definition which would per-
nit them to substitute a cheaper mate
rial and one not contemplated. One Of
the difficulties that may be presented is
the extent Of the guarantee of the man.
ship Is involved and 1t is results that
the plan contempiates. And 1t is posi-
BILE that in close cases the national bu-
reau of standards may be called upon
to establish presidents. But the pros
pective benefits are SO great that the
committee is beginning its undertaking
with a great deal Of enthusiasm.
!, Speaking of these benefits. Emery
Stanford Hall, who introduced the
measure at the meeting Of the Illinois
Society Of Architects. says:
1T is not always easy to clearly
convey in written form the ideas in one
mans mind to the minds of other men
Of wholly different ideals and expert
ence The use of standard specifications
would allow contractors and material
men by experience to become familiar
with the exact requirements Of specifi-
cations and would therefore put them
in a position to quickly and accurately
rate costs on work submitted to them
for estimator"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-24
WANT STANDARDIZED
LATH AND PLASTER
Illinois Architects Plan Revision of
Building Requirements, With
Aid of Manufacturers.

The Illinois Society of Architects has
ardization of building material and
workmanship-namel that of plaster
ing and lathing-says the American
Contractor, which adds:
ITO that end it has invited the CO.
operation of the Plaster Contractors
Association. the Plaster Material Manu-
facturers. the Expanded Metal Lath
League. the Gypsum Plaster Associa-
ton, the Lime Manufacturers Associa-
ton, the wood lathing manufacturers
and lathing contractors in preparing
standardized specifications of material
and labor to be used by architects and
to be known as Illinois standard speci-
ications. The idea is to prepare sRsci-
fcations which will be sufficiently de-
scriptive from a technical standpoint to
guarantee the quality of workmanship
and material without the use of trade
names so as to make perfectly open
specifications for all legitimate dealers
and contractors in material and work.
manship.
Adopt Lumber Standards.
The Illinois Society of Architects. it
will be remembered. adopted a few
weeks ago standard specifications for
structural lumber. The present project
is one of considerable more difficulty
but of no less Importance, and IL 1t sue
ceeds there are intimations that the
work Of Standardization may be extend
ed to various other kinds of material
used in construction.
There is much to be said for Abe
proposition from the standpoint of the
architect. The adoption of standard
specifications would relieve him of con-
siderable detail work and Of the neces-
sity of working out specifications over
and over again for successive commits
sions. 1t would eliminate many contro-
versies and insure to the owner a con-
lon Of st nda I'd fN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-24
LARGE
WASTES IN LUMBER
Government Laboratory Is Now
Manufacturing Baking Powder
From Sawdust.

The forest products laboratory main
tanned at Madison. Wis, by Uncle Sam
to promote efficiency in the lumber in
dustry by reclamation of part of the
present waste has been rechristened.
unofficially, as the results of a demon
stration made to the national lumber
manufacturers convention, held recent
ly.
The new name is the "sawdust
laboratory" in view of the amazing
work that is being done for the con-
version of sawdust, and other lumber
waste, into valuable articles of COM
merce, especially methods of reducing
the present print paper famine. Here
are some of the lines along which the
'sawdust laboratory" is working. most
Sawdust Biscuits.
The production of baking powder
from sawdust, the lumbermen being
treated to biscuits made with this
cheap baking powder-sawdust sugar,
instead of the usual tartaric acid bak-
ing powder.
The improvement of present meth
DDS of conversion of mill waste into
artificial silk. Americas product of
sawdust silk socks being valued at S.
500 900 in 1915. In addition the same
department of the laboratory is turn
ing sawmill waste into binding Irvine,
rope. woven furniture of the woven
willow type, milk bottles and woven
mating rugs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-24
Electric Light Soon.

Work is being completed on the wir-
and power. and it is hoped to have this
work finished by July l. Machinery is
all in place in the new powerhouse. and
as soon as the wiring is completed the
dynamos will be put in operation and
Quantico will be electrically lighted.
The immense new dancing pavilion
and clubhouse have been completed and
dances are regular weekly Or semi
weekly events here. A force of work.
lighthouses and bathing beach. which it
is hoped to have ready for use by the
time really warm summer weather ar
rives. The beach, always known as one
of the best along the river has been
dredged and improved until it Is de-
clared to be without an equal on the
Potomac.
The international Steel and Ship
building Company has a force of more
than 200 men at work on the big plant
at the junction of Quantico creek and
the Potomac. where a regular village of
small houses, bungalows and other
buildings have been erected. The plant
itself is rapidly nearing completion and
officials of the company say operations
will be begun not later than August l.
With a population of more than 500,
bank, a theater. three restaurants,
eight stores. an electric light works, a
hotel. water system almost completed,
more than fifteen miles of concrete side
walks and graded streets and half a
dozen Industrial establishments to saw
| nothing of a newspaper of it's own,
Quantico is beginning to take on the
airs Of a real city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-24
URGE FIRE-RESISTIVE
DWELLING HOUSES

tanned by thousands of home owners
through construction which tends to
spread fires instead of retarding them.
the committee on construction of build
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-24
ASSUMING
URBAN APPEARANCE
Population Now Exceeds S00-Lum-
Der Yard to Supply Building
Material.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star
QUANTICO, Va, June 24.-The resi-
dent population Of this town is slightly
more than 800, according to private
census taken this week. January
Quantities. population was exactly $50
men, women and children. This is an
indication of the growth of Virginia's
newest industrial city.
That Quantities. growth would have
been even greater but for the difficulty
in obtaining building materials is the
assertion made by persons most closely
concerned in the development of the
new city on the Potomac.
To Build Planning Mill.
Construction of more than a score of
dwellings and number of store build
ings has been held up because of ina
bility of contractors to obtain lumber
brick and other materials. This
shortage of building materials is to be
obviated within the next month by the
location here of big planning mill and
lumber yard. Clyde Bolts. proprietor of
other large lumber yards In STAFFORD
county, has purchased site Tor mills
and yards in Quantico and has begun
The new industry is to be located on
large tract on 4th avenue near c street.
where grading, etc, is now under way.
Mr.. Bolts is to use more than $4,000
feet of lumber in the construction of the
buildings.
Shortage of building materials made
it necessary for z. L. Perry, Brown &
Neill and G. D. Pickett, general fore
man of the Quantico company, to re-
sort to unusual methods of obtaining
lumber last week. Brown & Neill were
forced to buy the lumber for the new
Quantico Theater from mill on Aqua
creek and to bring the material here on
barges. towed by tug specially en-
gagged for the work. MIR. Perry bought
a big bill of lumber in Alexandria, hav
ing it shipped on special cars by rail,
while Mr.. Pickett, for the Quantico
company bought more than $4,000 feet
of lumber from the Aqua creek mills.
to be shipped by barges.
Inability to obtain necessary mate
rails on time has delayed the compile
ton of the new Quantico hotel. which
was to have been finished June 10, and
the contractors for the building are
now paying the company a penalty of
$40 day until they shall be able to get
the materials and complete the hotel
ready to turn over.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-08-10
Erca Catchers Busy.

1t seems That the home side of the
fiog-clicitlng industry is looking up.
bHcalIse there are disadvantages to
T. hlitiflng for frogs On parts of
Frsseee that are battlefelds. A hand
iui den, whose fathers were In the
business before them, work frog catch.
Ing III Eip3ing forest with Seven Dials
assbase, and it is II Of the most high
Is specialized Industries in London.
With frog catching, snail cutching is
nilsed; the frogs 80 to some restnu-
rants and to the anatomical laborato-
fies Of the hospitals. ard the snails are
chiefly bought as cleaners Of suburban
stlestic aquariums. The snail that is
sf}ten. in Soho comes from the vine,
,ryis Of tfisince.-London Chronicle.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-08-10
MAKE BIG GUNS OBSOLETE
Torpedo That Gives Promise
of Effectiveness.

What may eventually prove to be a
highly effective war implement, and, il
so, possibly render present heavy ar
tillery obsolete for ~Tong-range opera
tions. Is a seif-controlIed aerial tor
peuo that has lately been developed in
ColoIGo. 1t is described in the Au-
gust number of Popular Mechanics
Magazine. In a general way, the in
strument attempts to accomplish over
land what the United States navy's
new wireless torpedo does nj sea. Its
principle and method Of operation, Of
course. are entirely different. AS is
to- be inferred. it consists of IL small
aircratt-much like an ordinary BIZ
plane-carrying Il large. high-explosive
torpedo which 1T is designed to drop
a.t amy predetermined spot within a
certain radius. The proiectile. which
is about twelve feet in length, forms
the. body Of the machine sud is divided
Into two compartments. The propel-
Ter Is mounted at the front end of it,
while the shaft extends through the
entire torpedo to the rear conipart-
tncnt, where III 1S-horsepower motor
Is housed. The speed and course of
the machine are regulated by means Of
II gasfasfapic mechanism, Whit. a tim
tnlg. device of some sort releases the
tngine containing missile ST the prop
ei' instant for it to strike its target.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-08-10
MUTE RELICS OF WAR
ARE CAST UP BY SEA

Dieppe (By naiO-FI6tsam and jetsam
cast up by equinoXial tides and sold here
by auction under maritime regulations
that date from the time of Colbert, reflect
each year tie destructive force of nature
in fury at sea. In ordinary years it Is
small w~reckage that predominates-
minute salvage from sailing and fishing
vessels such as pieces of rigging, fishing
nets, broken rudders, barrels of tar and
so forth, but the wreckage washed ashore
on the coast of Normandy has lately gone
beyond all previous records.
Jagged wounds in pieces of ships hulls
showing traces of ~torredoes, barrels.
casks, cases, more or less clipped, denied.
or crushed by contact with the sharp
reefs, with cordage and smashed cabin
furniture, ~life-saving belts, bales of rubber
and cotton, barrels of Oh! and molasses,
casks of tallow. with a conglo1nera-
ton of apparatus and paraphernalia such
as none but a mariner could identify or
connect with any rational use, We're col
lected in one lot along with a baby's
cradle and a beheaded DOH. The cradle
was almost intact, the body Of the be-
headed doll was blackene as IL by pow
der.
There are regular buyers OF the fotsam
and jetsam of this coast, who come here
every year TO speculate upon the seasons
ui9astelS. Inc instantaneous ueDfiS Oh an
average year has acquired a certain value
that none but these experts would ever
venture to get out of X. This year, in
harmony with the general movement.
nearly everything brought war prices.
There We're some rare commodities in the
salvage and there was sentiment.
The industrial alcohol, rubber, tallow
and oil went to unprecedented prices, 9TH
er miscellany that would nave been COM
paratively neglected in ordinary years
was readily turned into money.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-08-10
BELGIANs CANNOT BUY
FOOD FROM HOLLANDERs

The Hague. Netherlands, (by maiD.-
Notwithstanding tina she was already
largely monopolizing the export OF Hol-
lands surplus agricultural and other
FOOD products, Germany has just taken
measures with a view to removing Bel
gan buying competition from the
Dutch market. a decree has been is
sued In Belgium prohibiting communes
and dealers from importing goods from
Holland. Applications to make such
purchases must De submitted to Berlin.
The result is that Belgium, where dis
tress vas already acute, is deprived OF
an indispensable supply of goods, and
the great difficulties which the Ameri-
can relief commission is experiencing
with cargo space does not allow of the
adequate and speedy replacement from
that Quarter.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-08-10
Navies Must Have Coal.

Every world power casts covetous eyes
on available sites for coaling ports for
its naval and mercantile fleets. On the
confined shores of the Yellow sea three
great powers established coaling bases
at Fort Arthur, at Wei-hai-Wei and at
kiauchau
Our own government, with an ear open
to faint sounds, keeps an eye peeled on
st. Thomas and the coast of Mexico. ever
watching for mysterious doiEgs. or slight
est suspicion of transfer OF domain to am
other power. To guard the trade routes
and approaches to the Gulf of Mexico the
navy department at Washington has es-
tablished a most important coaling base at
Guantanamo, Cuba. Thus all three routes
to the gulf-through the Florida straits
between Key West and Cuba, through the
Vineyard passage between Guantanamo
and Haiti. and the passages either side of
Porto Rico-are now controlled by Ameri-
can bases.
In the Pacific the coaling station Homo
lulu. with a storage capacity of l65, 900
tons. provides ample supplies for the needs
OF warships guarding the approaches
across the Pacific. In contrast to the Gulf
OF Mexico and the Pacific routes and those
to South American ports. the trade routes
of the world are practically dominated in
time of war by English. for of the II inn
portant steamship companies of the world
sSday 81 of them are British.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-08-10
IlTI%IIIIITNINHII1IF1Wl

most burst. I got where L was almost
awalking skeleton andiife was a burden
TO me until one day my husbands step
sister told my husband if he did not do
something for me / would not last long
and told him togetyour medicine. So he
got Lydia e. Pinllham's Vegetable Com
pound for me, and after taking the first
three doses | beran TO improve. [ con-
tinued its use, and / have never had any
female trouble since. L feel that I owe
my life to you and your remedies. They
did for me what doctors could not do
and [ will always praise it wherever
go."-Mrs. G. o. LowERy, A19 w. Mon
terey Street, Denison, Texas.
If you are suffering from any form Of
female ills, get a bottle of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and
commence the treatment without delaw.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-08-10
CHAPTE XIV.

When Duane reached the crossing Of
sign post seemed to be the hing that
tipped the oscillating balance of de-
cision in favor of that direction.
He answered here to unfathomable
impulse. If he had been driven to hunt
up jeff Aiken, now he vas called to
find this unknown ranger captain. In
Duane's state of mind clear reasoning,
common sense, or keenness were out
of the question. He went because he
felt he was compelled.
Dusk had fallen when he rode into a
town which inquiry discovered to be
Fairfield. Captain MacNelly's camp
was stationed just out of the village
limits on the other side.
No n except the boy Duane ques-
toned appeared to notice his arrival.
Like Shirley. the town of Fairfield was
large and prosperous, comnared to the
innumerable namlets dotting the vast
extent of southwestern Texas. AS Du-
ane rode through being careful to get
off the main street, he heard the toll
chGly reminder of his old home.
There did not ppear to be any camp
on the outskirts Of the town. But, as
Duane sat his horse, peering around
and undecided what further move to
make, he caught the CLINT Of Pickering
lights through the Heading
towards them. he rode perhaps a quar-
ter of a mile to come upon a grove Of
mesquite. The brightness OF several
fires made the surrounding darkness
all the blacker. Duane saw the moving
forms Of men and heard horses. He
advanced naturally, expecting any mo-
ment to be halted,
who goes there?" came the sharp
call out of the gloom.
Duane pulled his horse. The gloom
was impenetrable.
One man-alone," replied Duane.
"a stranger"
Yes"
What do you want?"
I'm trying to find the ranger camp"
You've struck it. What's your err
rsud?"
Il want to see Captain MacNelly."
Get down and advance. Slow. Don't