davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
CONCRETE IN PRESS BUILDING
WOULD BUILD 15-MILE ROAD
Estimated That 1920 Freight Cars Will Be
Needed to Handle Material for
Structure Being Erected.

The electricity to be used will be ] $40
kilowatts. This is sufficient current TO
light the homes of a city of 10000 IN
habitants.
The total area of all partitions of
the structure is about 800 900 square
feet, or approximately seven acres. 1t
will have a rental area of 225.0O0
square feet. This does not include the
space to be occupied by the National
Press Club or the 3,500-seat theate
that will occupy the lower and in
terror portion of the building. The
theater will be the largest south of
, Philadelphia and has been leased from
the date of completion to the Fox
Theaters Corporation for 80 years at
an aggregate rental in excess of ST.
900 900.
Two Miles of Corridors.
The building will have more than
2 miles of corridors. 972 office rooms,
1000 windows and an equal number
of DOORS 1t will be equipped with
elevators, all running on an aver
age of ~ miles an hour, or more than
800 miles daily. This does not include
the service after business hours. but
mileage between 9 am. and pm. In.
elusive There will be 24-hour service
for the club.
The heating plant VIII ne so ar
ranged that either coal or oil may be
used for heating. If coal is used II
will require 1.040 tons annually. If
oil is selected 232,s19 gallons of fuel
oil will be used.
The building will occupy an acre OF
ground and the cost, including the
land will be more than 10000 600. 1t
will he completed the early part OF
next year and will have an official
valuation of approximately 81 900, 900
The above description of the size
and material to he used in the cree
ton of the National Press Building
will give the reader CLOSE up" of
what will be the largest privately
owned office building in the Nations
Capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
DISTRIBUTION COSTS CUT REAL
NEED OF AMERICA, SAYS BABSON
Business Expert Ayers There Will Be
Plenty of Coal This Winter-Foresees
Failure for Bituminous Strike.

that these men should get employ
ment i'm some other industry. ANY
real solution of the coal problem II
the United States must provide fo1
the shutting down of many mines and
placing OF many miners In other In
dustries. IT Is even said that one
half of the miners now in the In
dustry could mine all the coal that
needed. This means that our trouble
is practically the same as the troubl'
in England and the solution of tn,
problem in both countries is the same
OverprOduction Is General.
In discussion of the coal industry
we must not think that this is the
only industry in which we have over
production today. In a general way
the same thing applies to many other
industries Modern machinery and
invention has so increa Sed the output
of mans work that we are having
many more goods produced than can
be consumed. This applies to the
textile industry. the steel industry,
the copper industry. the lumber in
dustry and many other industries.
America developed system of mass
production during The war which is
Just beginning to have its effects.
What the solution will he no one can
tell It. may result in the shutting
down Of factories and considerable
unemployment, or the solution may
be met by the development of foreign
trade and the increasing of our eX-
ports I. however. firmly believe that
many industries are living in a FOOLS
paradise at the present time and will
soon be confronted by the same prob
p,,.@ b. l,>
industry The great problem facing
America today is not production but
distribution. Selling costs must be
reduced SO that prices can be reduced
and consumption increased. We
must do our utmost to solve our prob
lemshy increasing consumption rather
than by increasing production.
This situation explains the action
of the Babsonchart in the fact that
il still continues to stand about 10
per cent above normal while so many
people feel that business is poor.
Profits are poor. but the volume of
business continues to be exceptionally
good The Babsonchart registers
volume of business rather than
profits. The difficulty is with the
excess of production and the high
cost of distribution. This tends to
reduce profits and makes people poor
even though statistically business Is
very good. Readers have nothing to
fear as to the supply of coal or any
other standard commodity the coming
Winter. There will be plenty OF goods
for all. We. however. must strive to
see that the people are kept employed
and are given sufficient wages to
enable them to buy the goods that
are produced.
copyright. 1926
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
JULY REALTY BACK
TOLEvEL FOR MAY
Activity Index of 164 II
Points Lower Than Figure
for June.

Real estate market activity for July
slipped back to it's May level. accord
ing to the index compiled monthly by
the National Association Of, Real
Estate Boards. The compilation is
made from official records of transfers
and conveyances recorded in Al typi-
cal cities.
The index for July stood at 1874, a
decline of II points from the June
figure. 1t is IA points lower than
the index for July of last year, which
figure however, represented more
than usual squirt in demand. and
mea sured the highest point reached
in any month of what became a
record year.
The highest point recorded by the
index so far in the present year was
reached in February, when the asso-
cations barometer of real estate &C
tivity registered 1856. The present
figure of 1874 indicates that the num-
Der of transfers and conveyances re-
corded for the past month in the cities
reporting was GA per cent higher than
the average number recorded for the
month of July in the years 1916-1923,
which is the period taken as the norm.
Building permit reports from 410
cities as collected by S. w. Starus 4
Co. showed a decline from July of 1928
and from June of this year amount
ing to approximately II per cent. "A
drop of ! per cent is reported for
July in the index Of construction
volume, based on statistics as to build.
ing contracts awarded in 81 States,
compiled by the F. w. Dodge Corpo-
ration. This was accompanied by
marked rises In industrial construc-
ton volume, public works and utili-
ties contracts in the Central West,
and by falling residential construction
volume.
The total volume Of building con-
tracts awarded for the country as a
whole for the first seven months of
the present year is approximately I
or per cent more than the total for
those months of last year, according
to the same report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04

The concrete to- be used in the con-
struction of the National Press Build
ing, the History structure being
erected here by the National Press
Club. would build Is miles of road 10
feet wide. oo
II is estimated that more than 4.2OO
freight cars of material Will be re-
ouired for the erection of this struc-
ture. The common and face brick to
be used will number 100000 or SUM-
cient brick to build "a attached SIX
room houses, allowing each dwelling
a frontage of 16 feet and depth OF
so feet. This imaginary row would
stretch about 8 blocks. figuring 2oo
feet to the average city block. ;.
The rods of reinforcing steel II
placed end 10 end would stretcn oV
miles. or as far as from New York
CITY to the United States Military
Academy at West Point. n. y. The
rods have a tensile strength of 10000
pounds per square inch. 1t would re.
uuire the weight Of 500 men to pull
or break one of these rods In two: all
Of the rods would hold, suspended.
&. OOO, 900 men, or more men than were
modified in the United States and
Canada for the World War.
There will be 81 structural steel
columns, each 80 feet long. The COM
bined length of these columns will
be 6,4SO feet or about a mile and a
quarter. The columns will require
approximately 100 900 rivets.
100 Concrete Columns.
The structure will have 100 con-
crete columns. each 140 feet long. If
placed end to end they would measure
% 400 feet, or more than miles.
Each of the concrete columns will
hold a weight of from 900 to 500 tons.
The building will weigh $4,000 tons
and will be so constructed as to hold
four times its weight, or 100000 tons
This is technically known as "a factor
of safety of four
More than 500 miles of electric wiz
ing will be used in wiring the building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
LECTURES TO JANITORS.
Chicago Workers Given Ideas on
Reducing Smoke.

To aid in reducing smoke in Chi
cago, the renting and management
division Of the Chicago Real Estate
Board has been arranging a series
of better firing demonstrations.
Practical talks are being given by
experts to the janitors Of apartment
buildings in an effort to obtain more
efficient management of heating and
to lessen the smoke evil. The Chicago
Flat Janitors' Union has been CO.
operating in these demonstrations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
Solarium Gains Favor.

A solarium is a more economical
use of space than an open porch, and
space is becoming more valuable
every year. With such a latitude for
color and variety of furnishings,
many a housewife finds the sun porch
the most lived in room in her home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
MANY FIRES IN CELLARS.
Underwriters Estimate High Per.
], centage Originate There.

Fire underwriters estimate that Sis
dwellings throughout the country are
afire every day of the year. They
also estimate that nearly three
quarters of these fires originate In
cellars.
1t is not until the fire has developed
to such an extent as to be seen or
felt that the householder Is aware
that his investment. his domicile, Is in
serious danger. More than 81 .000, 000,-
900 worth of property was licked up
in flames last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
FOURTEEN HOMES SOLD.

Notwithstanding the very Indictment
weather. the demand Of home seekers
for new and resale properties con-
tfnued high, as shown by the report
filed this week by the office of l.. T.
Gravatte. Fourteen homes and two
desirable building lots, aggregating
in value $131,500, were conveyed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
French Heading" Described.

BY the term French heading" is
meant that heading where the full
ness of the curtain is taken up by
groups of outstanding pleats. evenly
distributed at intervals, depending
upon the amount of fullness to be
pleated into the window measure
ment. A French heading should be
about two inches deep on soft. thin
material--with heading turned In
double-and deeper up TO four
inches. depending upon the heaviness
Of the curtain goods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
THING GROWS IN FAVOR.
May Be Applied to Old Walls and
Floors

In old houses the desirab ility of
thing bedroom, toilet and kitchen
walls and floors. to say nothing of sun
rooms and porches, is now universally
recognized. Tile may be applied to
old floors and walls quite as economi-
cally as in a new building.
Nothing adds more to the delightful
cleanliness of home Hardware
needs attention occasionally. Every
lock is a little piece of intricate ma
chinery that may go indefinitely with
out fault. but here and there you will
find lock requiring a little oil, or a
knob needing tightening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04

Upper Hilltop Manor eight story apartment building to take up the
street to cost than So The structure will contain
There will
be Warwick is the architect.
The new
WadswO a
will
New Britain herald., 1926-11-12

Is under way. No detour necessary Norwalk-Danbury road. route | 126. Grading and concrete construc-
 ton is under way Detours posted
 where necessary. One-way traffic l past the concrete mixer. idgefield-Main street and Dan- /, bury road. route 136. Concrete
 construction under way. Detours are | posted as necessary. Roxbury-Depot bridge. route 125.
 Work on the new bridge foundation
 has commenced. No detours neceA | sary.
 Old Saybrook-Route 1. One-way ! traffic for one-haf mile.
 Marlboror- -Mebron-Road is under l construction for six miles. Does not
 interfere with traffic. Through traf- l fic advised to avoid this road. Bloomfield-Route 10. Road is
 open for traffic, shoulders incom-
 plete.
 Colchester-Hartford Lon-
 don road. re-surfacing of concrete
 road. One-way traffic for a short
 distance during the day; route IT. | Harminton Plymouth-Poland ! Brook road, no route number is under construction, traffic passing | through.
 | Vernon and Tolland-Tolland ! turnpike, no route number. 1, under
 construction. Road closed. detour. | Windsor Locks-Route 110. | Bridge is under construction. No | delay to traffic. Farmington-Scott Swamp road ] is under construction. Road closed | to traffic Detour is posted. oomfieId-Bloomfie bridge,
New Britain herald., 1926-11-12

route 10. is under construction. No delay to traffic.
 Bloomfield-Wash Brook bridge Is under construction. No delay to traffic.
 Manchester-Center street, route :. Is under construction. No delay to traffic, short detour.
 Newington-Newington-New Brit. ain road is closed to traffic. Good detour over macadam road.
 Newington and West Hartford Willard street and Newington road Is under construction but Is open to traffic. Short detour at north end.
 East Windsor-Route ?. bridge Is under construction. Short detour to the east.
 Hartford-Springfield-Route no. In the towns of Windsor and Wind sor Locks road Is under construc- ton. Through traffic from Hartfod to Suffield and Springfield detour at Windsor going through Poquonock and Suffield over the recently fin- ished state road.
New Britain herald., 1926-11-12
Road Conditions
 In Connecticut

Road conditions and detours in the state of Connectncut made neces- sary by highway cons 'uction and repairs announced by the state highway department as of Nov. 10th are as follows:
 Norwich Putnam road. route 12, Grade crossing is being eliminated in Plainfeid, short detour
 Norwich-New London road in the towns of Waterfords and Montvilie route 12, is under construction. Open to traffic. Through traffic will avoid this work by using the Norwich Groton road on the east side of the Thames river.
 East Lyme, route l. On the Post road the Golden Spur bridge is be- ing reconstructed. Detour posted.
 Hallville road in Preston. route 179; surfacing being placed, detour posted.
 Eastfolu, Eastford Kenyonville road is under construction, short de- tour around bridge.
 Woodstock. w. Noodstock s. Woodstock road is under construc- tion. gra ing beins done. open to traffic. f
 Chaplin. route 101. Bridge at So. Chaplin Is being constructed. No detour. s-
New Britain herald., 1926-11-12
TRAFFIC DWINDLES
 0N MISSISSIPPI
Old River Doesn't Have Freight
 of Tore

Keoku,-, Iowa, Nov. IF R-With the commerce bearing season brought to a close several weeks earlier than usual by high water from the fall floods, the upper Mis- sissippi river has taken on it winter quietude.
 Fourteen fleets, with crews, pilots and clerical staffs of about 1000 men have sought their winter quar- ters and soon the light house tend CTS will desert the Father of Waters. marking the end of another season of maintenance work for the dwind li-r river traffic.
 Packet Boats Decline
 The packet boat business seems to belong to the show boat" age and apparently only some unusual transportation development will re- store the one time demand for river carriers.
 Only few packets now are In operation on the upper river. Some excursion boats. which formerly were passenger carriers, still make short pleasure jaunts, but for the most part the traffic Is made up of barge lines and their conveys.
 Occasionally the river towns are visited by the show boat of anoth- CT generation. These floating play houses still retain the trappings that characterized their first venture, but their productions have changed. Now. Instead of Uncle Toms Cabin, East Lynne. etc., they offer vaude- vile, motion pictures and the latest in stock shows.
 Deepen Channel for Barges
 The government maintenance work on the river is designed large ly to meet the requirements of the barge line services. The six foot channel is being built to meet the needs of these craft which promise to become more numerous If the Upper Missippi Barge Line proposal is successful.
 The upper river district includes 6S8 miles-from St. Paul to the mouth of the .1issouri-and is carefully worked over by the gov ernment fleets each year. The light house department looks after the lighting on the S1 bridges Of the district
 The present season will close Nov. 15, when the Dandelion. = ap- propriately named. as the first craft out in the spring and the last one in the fall-extinguishes the lights for the winter in this region.
New Britain herald., 1926-11-12

Bridge over Quinebaug river at Wauregan. route IA, is under con- struc.ion. Temporary bridge is in use.
 Sterling. route 103, bridge is be- ing reconstructed. Temporary bridge is in use.
 Canaan, South Canaan-Lime Rock road. route 134, is under construc- ton. Detour at South Canaan end.
 Burlington center oad is under construction. Short detour around two bridges.
 Hartland. East Hartland mountain road. route l33. is under construc- ton. Present road is open for travel. Harwinton- Burlington road is un- der construction. Short detour around bridges. Short delays at the steam shovel.
 New Hartford, village of New Hartford. route IT, bridge is under construction. Shoulders incom plete:
 Norfolk. Nor 'lk- Vest Norfolk road, route IT, 8 under construction. Short detour at bridge In Norfolk.
 Plymouth, Bull Head road. bridg. es under construction, Short detour around bridges.
 Salisbury, Lakeville- Millerton road is under construction. Detour posted.
 Thomaston. approaches to Key holds bridge, route s, is under con- struction. No detours.
 Torring, T, Torrington Norfolk road, route 322. bridge is under construction. Short detour around bridge.
 Torrington, 'ington Goshen road, T. L. bridge at West Torring- ton detour established. Route 123.
 New Canaan, Poundridge road. route 1S4, is under construction. A slight 1elay traffic.
 Fairfield-Old Kings Highway is under construction. Slight delay to traffic.
 Westport and Fairfield-Boston Post road. route l. Grading Is un- der contract from Blacksmith Shop to Round House. No delay to trafflc.
 West port and Fairfield-Bulkley Bridge, route 1. Is under construc tion. No delay to traffic.
 Westport-Wilton Road is under construction. No delay to traffic.
 Fairfield-Mill River bridge is un- der construction, route 1. No delay to traffic.
 West Haven, Milford and Orange Milford turnpike, route 1. Con- crete road is under construction, No delay to traffic. Waterbury and Cheshire-Ches hire Waterbury road. route 322 Shoulders are under construction No delay to traffic.
 Durham-Northford route 112 is under construction. One-way traf- fic past green concrete for one mile.
 Newtown-Bethel road. route 15S. Grading and macadam construction
New Britain herald., 1926-11-12
Three Sons of Sultan
 Tn Marry af One Time

Rabat, Morocco. Nov. 12 @ - Three of the sons of the Sultan of Morocco are to marry simultaneous ly.
 The population is preparing some great fetes in anticipation of the triple wedding. One of the bride- grooms will be the heir apparent.
New Britain herald., 1926-11-12

Everybody speaks most highly of Herald Classified Ads.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-20
ERRORS AND HITS
 BEAT HIGH SCHOOL
Locals Put Up Ragged EXhibi.
 tiOD Against WeaTeT Team

Another defeat was chalked up against the New Britain high school baseball team al St Mary's field yesterday when the Weaver high school team of Hartford sockcd out 13 hits against the offerings Of 'EIuegy" Carlson which together with seven errors accounted for a : 10 0 Win for the Hartford team.
 Carlson pitched fairly well and would have made contest out Of rhe game if the team used its head on n.r of the plays, Poor mental work on the part of some of th" players accounted for loss of runs for their team and the addition of runs to the Weaver teams column.
 IL cannot be said Of the New Brit ain team that il did not bunch it's hits. In the fourth inning il got three out of it's total Of four hits and yet failed to score. Zalcsht singi,l 10 center, and on tho next play was thrown out at second, Charlow singled and Erombore singled. Carlson was then retired for the third out
 To give Carlson credit he al- lowed only one earned run, and would have managed to keep the hits scattered if his teammates did not fail him. Some of the features Of the afternoon were Trhan's per feet throw to home plate from cell torfield in time to cut off a run and . catch of a foul ball by Ialcski after great run.
 Four Of what will be New Brit
New Britain herald., 1926-05-20
BRITISH GOLFERS
 BET EVEN MONEY
ED5liShm0n Impressed by Work Of American Walker Cup Team

London, May 20 lPl-British fol- lowers of the ancient and honorable game of golf are offering even money, in small amounts, that their countrymen will conquer the Ameri- cans in the contest for the Walker Cup at St. Andrews week after next.
 Although Bob Gardner captain of tn invaders, and his seven team mates were defeated at Woking Tuesday in foursOmes by combina- tton of British amateur stars, the at titudc of the critics here appears 10 be that the visitors should be permit ted few more days of conditioning on this side Of the Atlantic before any judgment of their abilities is at tempted.
 Englishmen generally have been impressed by the accomplishments Of the Americans at Sandwich. Rye and Woking in their first week off the ship. Only Jess Sweetser seems to have been off his game. The new corners on the team, Watts Gum, George Won Elm and Roland Mackenzie, have readily adapted themselves to the charged atmos- phere and Terrain.
 Bobby Jones. the American anna teur champion, has some trouble with his irons on the courses near London, but the British experts seem to agree that when the Walker Cup is at stake at St. Andrews the Georgia boy will prove one of the strongest cogs in the American ma- chine.
 The Americans are now in Scot land and will practice at Muirfeld until next Monday for the British amateur championship tournament.
 Before the Walker cup match" :" Capt. Gardener said, i've will have become acclimatized and have com pIete knowledge of the conditions to be met on the links over here.
 The team sems to be rounding into shape
 During their stay in England the Americans were constantly on the move. They played golf six of the seven days and motored when they were not being entertained by nota- bles of the Folting world.
 Walter Hagen, twice victor in the British open championships. is said 10 have accepted the challenge of a London magazine for a = hole match with the English veteran, Abe Mitchell, to be played in England June IS and 19. The magazine of forcd to wager $500 on Mitchcus chances. A. W. Wallace. a Detroit business man, is said to have backed Hagen in the venture.
 Hagen is expected to sail for Eng land next week to attempt to win his third open crown. Jim Barnes is tho defending titleholder this year.