The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-03-25

rork. There is a tremendous de-
hand for IL In all OF the outlying SUI
kurbs. in some of which you q now
md practically whole streets that
nave been shipped {. o. b. from some
factory in the middle west. Some OF
he houses are of the light. portable
<ype. and some are of the cut-and-
atted kind, which are unpacked and
a together like pieces OF a jigsaw
ouzzle, and just looks as IL they had
been transported whole, like motor
6ars, to their destinations.
BY exempting new homes from a K
&tion for a period OF several years,
he State has managed to give a ire
nendous impetus to building. so that
he building trade, handicapped by
thermal ~dissension is far behind, on
"a contracts. Some builders declare
lat any one wanting to build a house
6psting less than $4,000 cannot even
III the foundations dug before next
kugust. Hence, people who are i'm
1atient for homes are buying them
rom the factories or department
3ores.
Not Ions ago, for instance, a New
FORK business woman, who was ex-
remedy weary of paying what SEEM
"A to her to be excessive rent, de-
SIded that she wanted her own home.
Its not only the rent" she ex-
~lained, in developing her new idea.
It's the noise. The only way you
m achieve quiet in New York is to
ave a place Of your own on a lot
mfhciently far out of the city and
0nmciently isolated to avoid near
.1oighbors. am looking for such q
not, and intend to find 1t and be
I<Helling there in great contentment
~ Spring, when New York opens all
- windows"
The real estate agent, who had
card Of many such ambitious quests
More, shook his head d~iscouraging-
~ and told the woman that she
would have a hard TING finding isola-
ton accompanied by modern gas and
uater pipes. Yet two weeks later he
VAS willing to acknowledge that the
Impossible had been accomplished.
ne woman had her lonely lot. which
ne had bought at a bargain price at
real estate auction. Then, upon the
4trength of her ownership of the lot.
ne arranged with a large Chicago
mail order house for the purchase Of
two-story "cut-and-ftted" house
containing eight rooms
A RIVAL OF ALADDIN
I'm a few weeks" said the real es-
tate agent, the house began to ar
rive, coming in pieces. the framing
nd other principal parts first. She
Immediately hired a few men to put
e together. and I know II was not
more than ten weeks from the time
nhe bought the lot and ordered the
house until she was living in it.
These new department store
houses are going up on every tract
OF land I've sold this year." continued
the agent. There are hundreds of
them under way or completed on
Long Island and in Westchester coun-
II. They're just az attractive and
comfortable as those that are slowly
built by hand, and they are. l be-
Iieve, the greatest remedy that has
yet been found for the housing prob
lem."
QUANTITY PRODUCTION AIM NOW
Before the introduction of machin-
cry a single workman. unaided, could
make only a few pins a day. while
row the daily product of a workman.
assisted by modern machinery. Is 49,
100000 pins, complete and stuck in
paper. The same thing can be done
n regard to houses. 1t is being done.
From now on, people can buy their
houses in the same department stores
there they buy pins"
This is not quite the case, as yet.
even in New York. where the demand
tor ready-made houses is so vigorous;
but you car choose your home by
nail through the aid Of a catalogue.
Most of the real estate agents have
these new house catalogues, and the
New York public library did have a
urge collection. which have almost
disappeared owing to the frequent
thefts. The prices 6f the houses
xange usually from $500 up. accord
Ing to the number of rooms and the
0Iaboration of detail. In the light.