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your second mortgage, tho cost OF which
Ia IS u month, and the balance could be
applied to the principal. I think you
would have to make larger payment
than this to secure tho arrangement for
the second mortgage. but this is about
tho only suggestion that remotely APP
plies to your problem.
On building operations to-day the
owner should have close TO s5 per cent.
either in land or money before he un-
dertakes the building. Where the in
vestment is less than this on the part or
the owner tho monthly outlay must be
greater. You must either have done your
saving before you start TO build or do II
afterwards.
Dear Mr. Clarke: l am q single young
man living with my parents and am de-
sirous OF obtaining a home for them. l
thought that a two family one would
be desirable. as / am only wage earn
er, and in this way could let out one
floor to help pay on the cost or the
house. ! belong to a savings and loan
association run by the association OF
the employees OF the company I work
for. l am now paying into fund GO
per cent? that l will need to take out
loan, which ] will have over eleven
years TO pay and which will cost me on
an average of about AZ per cent
am about to buy two lots, nifty min
utes from the Grand Central station.
II Is unimproved property as II now
stands. but have permission to take a
three-quarter inch tape on a two inch
wataerllne running about ESQ feet from
the lots. The electric light company
has agreed to give me service as soon
as i am ready. A private trunk line
sewer runs about three blocks from me
and / have the permission to use same
| (meaning the section as whole)
There are no streets laid. The lots are
assessed at $50 each. Do you think
would be getting a bargain II bought
them at from $50 to 5000 each2
I have been looking over the plan.
and description OF q two family hous,
sold by q company making ready GU
houses. Tho house. excluding the
founda ton. interior decorating. and no
including plumbing or electric wiring
&C. would cost about 1000. How dc
the contractors figure on the cost o
erecting house of this type? Do the.
charge n certain percentage OF the
entire cost or Just how Is It donei
Excluding foundation work II woulC
take. the company estimates four car
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TO CELEBRATE B'WAY
SUBWAY EXTENSION
I'D Street Property OWners
to Dine at Coney.

The extension of the b. r. It's SUBJ
way service in Manhattan 10 Seventh
avenue and Fifty-eeventh street will be
celebrated next Wednesday evening by
the Forty-second Street Property Owners
and Merchants association. Headed by
Edward w. Forrest the secretary. dele
cation OF members will board a special
train at the new Fifty-seventh street
station that evening and will go TO
Conoy Island for dinner over the Sea
Beach route, II Is expected that the
running time will be about forty
minutes.
For more than a year tho B. r. T,
express trains have been operated only
as far as Union Square except during
the night time and on Sundays and
holidays. The Forty-second street ter
minus was linked up with the express
service by local Manhattan trains. Now
that the local tracks have been opened
to Fifty-sevsnth street and Seventh
avenue. the express service vii be main
tanned without interruption to Times
Square.
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called upon to solve was to take a house
built, not quite 30 far back as that
which William J. Hurlburt In his play
The Strange Woman" calls the early
Con. Grant period. but at a time when
fine ideals in every department OF life
were submerged. and make Of It a
manor house for a country gentleman's
estate. 1t was as difficult task as
architect ever tackled. but Mr.. Hopkins,
with unerring taste, ripped of the ginger
bread work, tore away a tier OF circular
bay windows at the right OF the facade.
removed two story Colonial veranda
over the entrance and one story ex-
tension than ran around the bay" The
roof. suggestive of the Georgian type
more than any other. was raised its en-
tire width to form a straight roof that
sloped toward the front One dormer,
introduced for no obvious reason. and
several other curious little elliptical
openings in the roof came on when the
new roof was built, after which three
small and admirably proportioned dor
mers were introduced TO take their place.
The one good feature Of the main IA
cade was square bay to the left of
the entrance. This was left as II was
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~ HARRIET sIssoN GILLESPIE.

~ HARRIET sIssON GILLESPIE.
To satisfactorily remodel q dwelling
the creation Of another mans brain and
make 1t a thing of beauty is one of the
most difficult problems with which the
average architect has TO deal. The word
average is used advisedly. since It
takes a man OF more than ordinary abil-
ity to remodel a mediocre house SO that
Il has both dignity and charm. but to
make over an atrocity of the post Vic
torian period into Colonial mansion
Of the Mount Vernon type Is to rate the
designer a genius.
Alfred Hopkins Of New York has al
ways stood out strikingly as one OF the
comparatively few architects whose work
IL noticeable in this respect, for he not
only possesses the architectural skill to
make the necessary technical changes
and transform ugly structures into the
most artistic and liveable of human
habitations, but what Is quite as essen
tial in doing over houses along the lines
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SHORTAGE
REDUCED TO FACTS
32,o8O Families Will Be Homeless in
1920, According to Statistics Gath
cred by State Experts

Experts of the Reconstruction Com
mission figure that the greater city will
10 shy $500 apartments on January I,
1920, which. they say. 'is as close as
ne can come to a scientific statement
II the real need of housing for tho pres
INT time
This means $3.50 families, represent
ng 199,100 men, women and children,
who would like to make their homes here
will be hard put to find housing accom-
nodations. What they are going to do
kSout II Is one OF the puzzles causing
anxiety all along the line Just now.
Many of these families will be COM
PEELED to double up" In apartments
with other folks willing to reduce ex-
penses by soliciting parts OF their
space. Others will move into undesir-
lble "old law tenements." much against
their inclinations. Neither of these solu-
Hons OF the individual family problem
viii make for the health or the happi-
hess of the people themselves. but there
nay be no way out of II. Hundreds,
perhaps thousands. Of families will be
obliged to seek living quarters outside
4 the greater city limits which isn't going
4 10 add to the wealth or prosperity of
the city.
Were II not for the fact that plans
aled SO far this year call for 21S puIid-
lngs, with provisions for 4,675 apart
nlents, the estimated shortage at the be-
Einning OF the year would be 4o,2S2.
The experts calculations are based
ppon a study of facts and figures fur
sished to Abram I. Elkus. former Am
bassador to Turkey and chairman OF the
Reconstruction Commission, by Frank
Mann. Tenement House Commissioners.
Little building In IpI7 ar 1913,
From 1914 until 1915 l,27l buildings
rere erected each year. This gave an
annual average of 21,517 apartments
I "A continuance OF the same rate OF
building during 1917 and 1918 would
havd resulted in the construction OF
e.54t new buildings. containing 1904
4 apartments. However, owing TO causes
Tor which the war was responsible. only
800 buildings with 1921 apartments
went up in 1917 and 1913.
The 1suyes for 19l7-calcuiated from
Harch to March-show that there were
1905 apartments vacant. and the fg.
ires ia March. 1919. set forth only a.
iS2 vacancies. indicating that IL, 1853 va.
lancies had been oiled because OF the
bhortage OF houses.
Nearly 10000 OF these, vacancies
which were hlled in." the report OF the
experts says. "were In the old law tsns
hlent houses. almost all OF which are II
bad condition and really not Mt for hab
itation."
One Of the distressing features OF tn,
present and threatened future shortag,
Of housing, those who are investigating
conditions are poiuting out. Is the fac
that thousands OF persons. II they ar,
10 continue 30 live In the greater city
will by force Of circumstances be obliged
10 take refuge In these old law houses.
AT the beginning Of 1919" the re,
port continues. '.there would have beer
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and another introduced on the opposite
side Of the doorway to balance It, The
main unit then stood n perfect semblance
of a fine Colonial mansion, but as 1t was
necessary to supply larger living quar-
ters and a new service portion two wings
were added at either end, forming Alto
gether a spacious country home cover
ing a ground area OF Soxl0o feet. afford
ing accommodations OF an ample sort for
the family OF the owner.
Charming Hall Divides House.
Like the old Southern Colonial homes
the first floor plan is divided right
through the centre by a broad hall that
insureS not only good ventilatio but n
charming rendezvous for the family.
To the right OF this hall are the living
room. the drawing room and a den to
the left are the dining room and service
extension. The upper floors are given
over v sleeping rooms, baths and ser
wants quarters.
The broad hall Is we'll worthy OF men
ton since II is a restitution of the old
idea. II homes are to be real homes nd
are To express the ideals that make foi
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MoNTCLAIR LANDMARK GONE.
Storage House Succeeds It--old
Hotel Going Also.

Ono of Montclair's oldest dwellings,
the Leach homestead on Bloomfield ave-
nue. close by the Municipal Building was
torn down last week and work has been
started on the construction OF $4,000
flroproof storage and warehouse build
ing. The Leach residence was built
ninety years ago by the late John Dodd,
whose son. Edward Dodd. one of Mont
clair's seven surviving veterans e the
civil war was born there
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Warning OF still greater burden of
taxation on property and persons follow
ing on the heels of the many demands
for estate aid measures" before the ma
tional Congress at Washington is
sounded by Leo D, Woodwork. secre-
tary Of the Advisory Council OF Real Es-
tate Interests Of New York According
peculiarly vicious and costly form OF
mandatory legislation" which demands
tho attention of all taxpayers. Like
charity. he believes the first considera-
ton Of the subject should begin at
home, which prompts Mr.. Woodwork
to say:
New York. like probably every other
city In America. has its budget in
creased by salary and supply Items over
which it has no control, and for which
its administration cannot be held re-
spons.ble at the polls Whether or not
these budgets would be smaller or the
money expended TO any better advantage
under a greater amount OF homo rule
may be doubted. but that is not the
question. The functions and Jobs are
decreed by an outside and irresponsible
but superior authority.
Now charges OF unlimited millions
and billions are threatened to-day which
must increase all State taxes upon prop
erty and persons. II being conceded that
so-called indirect taxes have been de-
veloped to their limit Furthermore,
this threat involves permanent and fur
theT encroachment by tho Federal Gov
eminent on the sources OF State revenue.
In fact a Federal real estate tax is
by no means an impossibility.
Work OF seif-styled Reformers.
I'VE refer to the numerous demands
for State aid measures at Washington.
| Under the guise OF State aid various
groups OF self-styled reformers and re-
constructionists are seeking TO establish
national bureaucratic control of functions
which were never contemplated as nee
/ ccesSary or proper for Federal control
which were and probably are generally
! believed 10 be within tho sphere OF
'self-determination' reserved to the SOW
ereign States In the union, Tho issue Is
now drawn between two lines of future
development
81 Exercise OF personal discretion by
all citizens in the voting and control OF
public walfare projects II Is a truism
that q sense of personal responsibility
ability-among officeholders as we'll as
among citizens.
"9. Surrender OF all such personal dis.
erection TO Federal bureaus manned by
political appointecs and empowered &c
rule or wreck according 70 personal abil'
ity or bias or whim---ths effects to be
nationwide rather than localized. Car
any such plan develop individual initia
tive. encourge popular interest, or lead
to anything except a bureaucratic pa
ternaliHn7
Among the various nAtienSiha tior
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is largely a matter Of good proportion
and simple ornamentation. So in this
Colonally designed hall. we see 1t Is the
chaste beauty and simplicity OF the arch
itecture that makes 1t so attractive.
Nothing lends such distinction to house
as an artistic hall. 1t strikes the key
note of charm and good taste at orce
and above all. It emphasizes hospitality.
vital Point in Colonial House,
Invariably II the hall follows the lines
OF harmony, the rest of the house Is
likely to be similarly planned. Not al
ways. though. is the architect able, as In
the Boettger house. to attain this stand
ard, so that Is the reason why some CO.
lonial houses do not appeal to US. AL
though We have never known why. The
reason why so many fail in attempting
to reproduce the Colonial successfully IL
because they don't love the things the
Colonial house stands for. The Colonial
house needs first OF all to be harmonious
throughout. and no one can take liberties
with 1t and escape scott free. The least
deviation from the model Is disastrous.
|. The beauty OF this Colonial hall lies In
its harmonious proportions and the con-
sistent manner in which the architect
has carried out his ideals. There IL a
feeling Of conscious hospitality akin to a
cordial handshake experienced on en-
tering the hall Even without a vestige
of furniture 1t would still be livable and
! loveable, and although the furnishings
are most appropriate. the beauty Of the
room depends not a whit upon their
presence but almost wholly upon the
harmony Of line and design.
| In II IL expressed all the feeling OF
the old Southern hall, used as a gather
ing place for the family. The width OF
tho doors and the splendid spacing OF
tha panels are all indicative of the time
when houses were built by masters ir
wood craft and not turned out, each
like the other. by machine. Tho Sim
pllc!ty OF the moulding and the cornics
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Continued on Fono.Osn0 PsoA
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-03-28
TWIN LAKES

March 25-Joe B. Deering motored to
Little Falls Thursday.
August Piekarski of Little Falls,
spent Thursday with Mr.. and Mrs. John
Deering.
Frank Schippritt took load Of rye
to Little Falls Saturday:
Real spring weather is here now,
Farmers will start seeding the last part
of this week or the first part Of next
week.
Joseph Deering purchased new Ford
touring car last week.
John Schippritt was county seat
caller Saturday.
Saturday.
John E. Deering made a trip to Lit
tie Falls Monday.
Vince Witt was city visitor sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Dorotf were city
callers Saturday. :,
Leo. Piehowski was county seat cal
Ter Saturday.
Paul Deering made trip the first OF
the week to Minneapolis, to buy 8
threshing machine.
Those who were in Little Falls OF
business Saturday, were Mr.. ana Mrs
Joseph Domish, John Piehowski, Jacob
Stoltman, Harry Locks, Edwin Larson
Paul Deering, John Wallershelm' 1o'
|Piehowski and Vincent Dorof1. =
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Frank L
Deering, Sunday, a daughter:
Joe Stoltman left for Aoorhead
Monday.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-03-28
PIERZ

.Pierz Journal (20): VIM. Leiden'
frost bought the 120-acre farm from An
ton Theser. Anton has bought farm
in the state Of Texas, where he will
move to in the near future.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Peter }. Glrtz
Wednesday morning, boy.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Nagel
Tuesday evening, son.
Henry Gassert has sold his house and
part of his lot in lower town to George
Hoffman,. Mr.. Gassert will build
new dwelling house on his part of the
lot this spring.
Mrs. Peter L. Poster returned home
from Racine, Wis, Monday, where she
had gone to visit her sister, Mrs. Sum;
mes Rice, who is seriously i'll and had
not improved at the time she left
there.
John Kippley of Agram, returned
Wednesday from Iowa, where he haf
been on visit with his brother.
John Fuhrmann, it is said, has ar
rived at New York, lately, and is ex'
pected home any time.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-03-28

low dog fanciers the other night, it was
unanimously decided that HogWalloW
would take no part in the next annual
home.talent Dog Fair unless the show
can BE held on half ground be
tween Hogwallow and Tickville or in
Hogwallow proper, as the Tickville dogs
get all the prizes when the fair is held ~
at Tickville.
Jefferson Potlocks has about comPlet-
ed the crop he has made around the
stove at the postoffice window and as
spring is here will step aside and give
somebody q chance at farming.
Miss Frazie Allsop turned up her
nose at the Widow Of the Calf RlDs
neighborhood last Sunday. This &C
ton could be accounted for only from
the fact that Yam Sims has been trying
to divide his attentions between them.
The Postmaster says he has been in
the postoffice business ever SINCE hog
wallow has been a postoffice and he has
never seen it fail that when some fell
low in congress gets up some bill that
will benefit the underpaid postmasters
Eof the small towns, that same "smart
EllicO starts some kind of filibust-
er and the bill gets lost in the finish.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-03-28

Columbus Allsop says there should be
some law enacted by which fellow
could be made to tell the truth IN a
horse trade. He says most Of the re-
verses he has had in life have been due
to this one thing.
Yam Sims was tried before Justice
Allsop yesterday on a charge Of breach
Of the peace, to which he pleaded gull
ty. He was charged with slapping his
sweetheart, the Widow of the Calf
Ribs neighborhood. Judge Allsop said
he did not doubt that she needed slap
ping but he would have to do his duty
by 6ning Yam little anyway.
! : Atlas Peck is keeping the horse he
got in the trade with the Gypsy horse
traders hid, Everybody here knows ne
got licked in the trade but they can"
sspot tell. how bad unless they could see
she horse he got.
Cape Allsop and Miss Flute Belcher
were seen out walking Sunday after
aeon. This is Gape's first attempt to
break into society since moving here.
The people we're beginning to think he
was going to be "snubbed' on account
of his being second cousin to Column
bus Allsop. However, it is believed if
he will hold. himself up and conduct
himself right he will soon olive down"
this misfortune.
At called meeting of the Hogwal-
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-03-28
SCAND Ola VALLEY

March 24---Hans p. Andersen was q
Lincoln caller last Sunday. SIS. IS
Mr.. and Mrs. w. N. Goodwin and son
and daughter, motored to Little Falls
Friday s=s / 81: - 4 4.
Mrs. A. B. Sharp was in Lincoln Sat-
|urday. rs 4. IS q
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Lee and children Of
Stanley, Wis, arrived Tuesday in this
community, where they will make their
home in the future.
p. O. Swanson and son, Albert, were
Little Falls visitors the first of the
week.
"A. B. Sharp was business caller in
the cities the last of the week.
The Misses Anna Mathewson, Lilly
johnson and Cora Andersen, high
school students Of Little Falls, spent
here. =,
d. j. Ramsey and sons, Charley, Jess
and Frank were Little Falls visitors
last week.
Mrs. f. M. Goodwin received mes
|sage Saturday, announcing the safe ar
rival of her son, Dewitt Harris, who
has been in France since June, as one
Of the Engineers Of the 9th regiment:
He. arrived at Newport News, and will
20 from there to Camp Grant, Ill,
where he will be mustered out Of the
service. -. . ..;-]
Carl Hill motored to Little Falls
Tuesday.
A program and basket social were
given at the school house in district
II, Saturday evening. There was
|large attendance. The program was
fine, consisting of songs, little SOL
diers' drill, Rotations by some Of the
pupils, and a two-act play, entitled
followers of the Palace Garden The
proceeds, amounting to upward Of $50
are to be used toward a desk for the
school house, and the remainder for the
Junior Red Cross. Everyone reported
good time.
Eric Pierson, who ase.visited at the
home of his uncle, Hans Naslund for
| some time, left Monday for San Fran
cisco, where he will be employed in the
ship yards.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-03-28
JOHN SCIIMOI.KE SAYS NO BET
TER LAND THAN HERE

NV Dear Friends: Some people are
looking for a better country than Nor
rison county, but they are unable to
find better place. We beat any state
in dairying. We are getting all KINDS
Of grass such as clover and timothy.
We are beating any state where they
are selling land at $3.50 per acre. We
have good markets and good water and
that IS the main thing: You 60 into
the gloria country on the fourth OF
July and 90 and get your water out or
the well and you will have to put 1t IN
the shade to cool it off. There are
some of our land sharks working for
the commission of $40 an acre to get
the people out of our country. / be-"
lieve those fellows will do anything for
money. These fellows called on me and
wanted me to help them get the good
people out of the town, but thy can t
Get me for such purposes. We like to
get people in Morrison county, not out
Of it. I have been over the whole
United States and I know all this coun-
try which is offered to the public as the
land Of fortune, and when you people
want to 20 into the south, wait until
July or August and 60 there. was
there in January and February, ana
they had to put ice in the water to get
a cold drink. I believe that you will
have to 20 far away to find country
like we have here-all good.
The way some farmers are going
around for some catalog houses, to sell
the catalogs at $500 each, and will say
that never thought that farmer
would do that. I will bet that if you
will 20 to any merchant and state that
you want whatever is in the catalog,
and make him the same proposition as
this catalog house offers you, that the
merchant viii sell you the same goods
Just as cheap, and then you will do
work for the betterment of morrison
county and help the merchants to build
roads, schools and churches.
Go and write to any catalog house
that you want help to build a road,
school OF church, and see what they
will tell you. Isbelieve that every man
sending money to a catalog house IS
working against the country he lives IN.
I have been working over 35 years Tor
Morrison county, spending thousands OF
dollars every year by advertising, but
we have a lot Of sea robbers, as we call
them, that wait for people wanting to
buy land to snap them away, but they
never pay cent to advertise their
business or this country. ~.
So my friend farmers let US work, TO-
gether and boom Morrison county. We
farmers can do q lot of things it, we
work together. Have czeameries, Gle,
vators and potato houses and have GOOD
farmer managers in them and then we
win make some money, but stay away
from -four mills and stores. Youf
friend, John 9chmolke. J.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-03-28
r1NrR FARMsTEADs FOR MINNIE
sofas FARMERS.

As guide to Minnesota's farmers in
improving their farmsteads with trees,
shrubs, plants and gardens, the agri-
cultural extension division Of the Uni
versity Of Minnesota has just issued a
new "Minnesota Farmers Library
bulletin by Leroy Cady, Of the division
of horticulture. The title is Attrac-
tive Farmsteads. - The bulletin gives
plans for improvements that will add
both to the comfort and pleasure of
farm life. Copies Of the bulletin may
be had by addressing Office of Publica,
tions, University Farm, st. Paul.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-03-28

The Liberty Bell, Liberty Loan
publication, is being sent to all postof-
fee patrons in the county by County
Chairman Willard. The magazine dis
cusses the coming loan and other mat
tiers of vital interest to the citizens.