Evening star., 1928-10-30
THOUSANDS VISIT
HOME EXPOSITION
Mechanical Typewriter in
Evening Star Booth Is
Marvel to Many.

Offering a host of suggestions con-
cerning home development, the Ideal
Home Exposition, sponsored by the
Washington Real Estate Board, was
opened at the Washington Auditorium
last night with several thousand visitors
attending.
Throngs of men, women and children
started to arrive at the hall shortly
after the doors were opened at 7 pm.
and the aisles of the two floors used for
the exhibits and demonstrations were
filled unit. closing time. Educational
in character, the exposition offers eX-
hibits of all phases of home planning
and building, furnishing and equipment.
On the lower floor of the Auditorium
we're found scores of exhibit spaces
filled with latest developments in re-
frigeration, electric lighting plumbing
fixtures, heating plants, wall surfaces.
washing machines. tile work, household
equipment of various sorts and other
products pertaining to the home, while
on the Auditorium floor were booths of
realtors. builders, bankers, insurance
companies, title Offices. the Operative
Builders Association, newspapers and
the Washington Real Estate Board In
booths on this floor experts were posted
to answer any questions of visitors on
problems connected with the develop
ment of home.
Brick-Laying Contest.
An innovation at this years show
which proved a big drawing card was
O brick laying contest held on the
Auditorium stage before an audience
that filled the seats in the front half
of the floor left in place there for this
occasion.
This contest, held under the direction
of Thomas P. Bones, vice chairman of
the exposition committee, was won b.
r. Q. Cowsill, an employe of the firm Of
D. J. DUNCAN, Inc, whose work was
adjudged best by jury composed CT
Col. John w. Oehnlann, District build
ing inspector: A. l.. Harris, municipal
architect. and w. w. Everett. president
of the Washington Board Of Trade. He
was awarded a cash prize of SIS and
silver trophy presented by West Bros.
Brick Co.
Second place winner was William Clay
of the M. g. r. B. Warren firm. Fred
Pitts, employed by Waverly Taylor. Inc,
won third place; James Cox, employed
by the Wardnan companies, fourth
place, and r. J. Haislip of w. G.. & A. N.
Miller, fifth place.
While the men, garbed in white over
alls, made motar and brick fairly ftY,
their supporters in the audience cheered
them on. Haislip, it was announced.
has been laying brick for 80 years, at
the rate of 1000 per day. He demon
stratcd his experience, laying up 10
brick in Is minutes, nearly seven per
minute. Cox, much younger man,
placed 100 brick IN 1512 minutes, but
the Judges found that Cowsill, while
laying fewer brick. had done better
work
Judges Slower Than MaSons.
So fast did the men work that some,
intent on their tasks, consciously bor-
rowed brick from their opponents pile
and laid up more than the quota of
100, thus giving the judges an ad-
ditional task of deciding on an un-
expected question Of the varied number
of brick in the walls. In fact, it took
the judges twice as long to decide upon
the winner as it did for him to lay his
bricks.
Another feature of the exposition
which proved popular was the booth cf
The Evening Star part of which was
an automatic typewriter in operation.
receiving news sent by the Associated