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OO0O0000%0¢0000s0e000080 0800000 0 0 0 0 000 0 0 0 6 0 e 0"““0“00; sleeping car accommodation. ROUTESâ€"Tickets good going via Port Arthur, Ont., Armstrong, Ont., Chiâ€" cago, Tl., or Sault Ste. Marie, returnâ€" Ing via same route and line only. Generous optional routings., STOPOVERSâ€"within limit of ticket, both going and returningâ€"at Port Arthur, Ont., Armstrong, Ont., and west, also at Chicago, Ill, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and west, in accordâ€" ance with tariffs of United States imes., * Excursion tickets good in Tourist, Parâ€" lor and Standaro sleeping cars also available on payment of slightly higher patsage fares, plus price of parlor or (Condensed from The Eagle Magazine) The other CGay in Milwaukee, five men built a house in eight hours. No, they weren‘t trying to estbalish a reâ€" cord for speed. It was all part of a day‘s jJJb for them to start from scratehn and have a bedrcom, living room, dinâ€" ning room, kitchen, and bathroom by sundown. In Indianapolis a house was started at 7 o‘clock in the morning. The moved in for lunch that same day. Peoria went Indianapolis one betâ€" ter. A complete houseâ€"thirtyâ€"two by fortyâ€"four feet, with furnace going, coal in its twoâ€"ton hopper, and a garâ€" age to baotâ€"was delivered on a trailâ€" Special Bargain Excursions Revolution Created in Some States by Preâ€"Fabricated Houses. Delivering Houses on the C.0.D. Plan CA NADIAN PACIFIC Full particulars from any Agent WESTERN CANADA TO ALL STATIONS IN ANOTHER DESIGN IN THE ADVANCE‘s D. H. A. HOMES SERIES This governmentâ€"approved home can be built in the Poreupine district for $3,800, according to an estimate of a local firm. If built on a $700 lot the whole $4,500 project can be financed with $900 in cash. The monthly payments of $37.98 will retire the $3,600 mortgage in ten years including the interest at 5 per cent. The property is then completely paid for. This is another example of Dominion Housing Act financing. Q4 8 £ M L i# T Other prefabricated houses are asâ€" sembled on the site from parts built in factories. For instance, the five men who pui up a house in eight hours in Milwaukee were working with factoryâ€" A fiveâ€"room house, with garage and venetian blinds thrown in, delivered by trailer, costs from $3,500 to $4,000, cluding the lot. The difference in price is in the lot. Delivery by truck or trailer seoems to be the vogue. The lat> Arthur Brisbane wouldn‘t have the bungalows for his Long Island estat> delivered anyvy other way. °ry, the house is put on a trailer and rolled out of the factory to the site chosen by the buyer. A crane takes hold of three rings on the roof and swings the house from trailer to the l0t. . Gas, water, and eloectrical connscâ€" tions are completed, drapes hung, carâ€" pets laid, furnishings moved inâ€"and presto! You have a house to live in.= t3 > amended to permit the by mail of prefabricated houses. After all, the mails carry baby alligators, lizâ€" ards, and terrapin. Why not houses? Some prefabricated houses, like the one in Peoria, are delivered wholeâ€" that is, they are completely built and assembled in the factory. Connections are provided for water and gas. Wall sections are equipped with conduit for electric wires. All that the house needs is a foundation. When ready for delivâ€" Prefabricated hous>s, or "prefabs," as they are called, are cropping up overâ€" night like miushrooms. Today approxiâ€" mately fifty companies in the United States are turning thom out. A comâ€" pany in Milwaukes "manufactures" 12 ncuzs>s a week, and sells them for from $3,200 to $7,000 each. One company in Chicago is toying with the idea of disâ€" tributing their lowâ€"cost "prefabs‘ through Ssars, Rzsebuck Co. If this novel idea blossoms into actual fact, people who want new homes would simâ€" ply flip through the pages of a cataâ€" logue, pick out the house suited to their tasts and purse, and order it delivered t> such and such a lot, c.o.d. In that event, postal regulations would have er, swung onto the lot ‘by a tnactor crane, and planted! The family moved in with never a worry except where to han; pictures and how to pay taxes. CEQOUND $1L00R | ‘imisgrated house." An "integrated house" is factory built, like the "preâ€" fab," but you cam buy one room at a time. In other words, an "integrated house" grows from the inside out. Imâ€" agine the possibilities of such a housâ€" ing plan! A family can start with just the barest essentials, and keep on addâ€" ing to the house as noeds require and budgsts permit. For instance, a new { baby arrives. No need to move into larger quarters Just buy a nursery and tack it on to the rest Of your ‘"integrated house." What will the next development be in the housing industry? Factories turning out houses on an assembly line ! as Ford turns out cars? Perhaps. At fany rate that‘s the dream of the men in the industry. Blairmore Enterprise: Whien a mother told her little son that the new baby was brought along by the stork, he asked: "An‘ why don‘t they use the airplane?" the "prefab" field, and is now offering a bargain in prefabricated houses. An airâ€"conditioned, twoâ€"story, brick venâ€" €ar buildingâ€"twentyâ€"four by twentyâ€" seven feet, equipped with heating and coslirz units, refrigerator, and electrizc rangeâ€"sells for lbass than $5000. Walls are well insulated, and windows and docrs are weatherstripped. Ancther company is even more acâ€" ccmmodatinz. It has concocted an "Intoegrated house." An "integrated sosclal workers in their highly ecomputations set a maximum rental rate of $7 a month. Purdue recently put up a twoâ€"family "prefab" in the slums of Indianapolis Th cost per family was $669. The rental on such @2 s:tup is precisely $7 a month. Of course, the family has to cook, eat, and entertain in the kitchen, and be conâ€" tent with a shower instead of a tub bath. But it does prove that slum clearance and housing projects for poor families do not have to cost thousands of dollars for each family. A certain company primarily interâ€" ested in the maniufactun> of airâ€"condiâ€" tioning units has branched cut into The first prefabricated houses were manufactured for the higherâ€"incoms groupâ€"thoss> who could afford to live n a $12,000 or a $16,000 home. Today manufacturers are catering to the lowâ€" erâ€"incom»s groupâ€"those who cannot afâ€" ford to pay more than $3,000 for their homes. Costs of production are now being pruned to make possible the sellâ€" ing of "prefabs" for as low as $1,500. Purdue University has been studying the possibilities of lowâ€"cost housing projects in the country. It has been particularly interested in the housing prcblems of families on relief for whom built units. Floors, walls with necesâ€" sary windows and doors, roof, and ceilâ€" ing were all built in the factory. The men m:rely had to fitâ€"the parts, weld, glue, or nail them together, hoist the roof into place, and blow insulating material between the roof and ceiling. It‘s really liks> playing with Tinker Toys, cnly easier, because in putting a "prefab‘‘ together, you can‘t make a mistake. You always come out with a house. HigstT " § EC t : 0 THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Construction standards and methods have improved. New and better proâ€" ducts are being used. Other new items included automatice domestic water heaters, automatic garage door equipâ€" ment, telephone conduits, modern lightâ€" ing fixtures, mrecreation rooms, insulaâ€" tion and streamlined bathrooms with high grade efficient fittings and equipâ€" ment. The azge in which we live has its disadvantages but insofar as dwellâ€" ings are concerned, our ancestors never had anything to approach the standâ€" of comfort and convenience which are ours to enjoy. Homes are placed on larger lotsâ€"the Cld 30â€"foot lots are practically ruled out. Progress is beinz nmade in placâ€" ing the hous>»s on winding, better laidâ€" out sireots with more landscaping and more regard for sunlight and prevailâ€" ing winds. tomatic heating, air conditioning, concealed radiation and a host of other improvements have become standard practice. Even homes in the lowest price range are being equipped with a typ> of heating and conditioning plant which was a luxury for the mansion of a few years ago. consider recent improvements that hav> been made. Tiu2, changing from one house to another involves much more exertion than trading in a carâ€"but there is no comparison in the joy which each brings. One of life‘s biggest events is that of moving into a modern home of your own. And for most men many of the happ‘est hours of life an> spent improving and caring for the homes that shelter their families and themâ€" selves, some Recent Improvements If there is any doubt albout the adâ€" vantage which a modern home offers, The Georgian and Colonial styles lend themselves to modern homes becaus> of their simplicity. There is also an inâ€" creasing number of inspiring examples o¢f Genuin> Modern Design which dao not draw on any of the architectiural heritage of the past. Such homes are perfectly adapted to present living. We must beware, however, of the artiâ€" ficialities of psuedoâ€"modernism, obtainâ€" ed by adding a corner window here and some horizontal ‘bars there, quite irâ€" respective of their merits as a part of the complete house. With interest piqued by a new type of exterior thise enquiring citizen is likeâ€" ly to be made conscious of how far his homs is behind the times, not only in design but also in layout, equipment and int2rior decoration. est. It is ncot meant by this that all the woerks of questionable merit which are threartening to bes>t us under the nams of modern architecture, will help the cause. Refercnc» is made to those designsâ€"often adaptations of the Georâ€" gilan are dasigned to acâ€" curately neflect taday‘s mode of living and thinking. But it is a fortunate fact that our home surroundings are receiving greatâ€" er attenticn than they did a few years ago. It may be expected, too, that the change which is taking place in exterior design will awaken even greater interâ€" Are you living in a house that fits your personality as well as would a or sideâ€"burns? It‘s surprisâ€" ing how many people are, without beâ€" ing awares of it, says a correspondent in the ‘"Building Magazine." They have "got used to" surroundings that are out of date and have come to accept them as a part of life itself{. Many of these same people would never drive the same car for more than a year or two, but somehow the shortcomings of their hcmes are pushed into a kind of backâ€" ground of things never to be thclught about. t hibit will Modern Styles More Simple, But Give Play for Taste. Making Your House Fit Your Personality The "Fashion Show" is ownsd and operated by the plumbing and heating tradge jcurral "Sanitary Age," and is on a 20â€"wesk tour of Ontari>) and Pathrcom equipment, heating boilers, rew styles in brass fixtiuras, pumps, air conditioninz, concsaled radiators, and new me‘thods cof piping are in the display, which shows products of thirteen leadinz Canadian manufacturâ€" and 27th. ‘The t Home Improvement and Fashion Show on W heels Coming to Timmins This Month. Modern Display of Home Improvement Products and Equipment to Visit Here Again on Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 26th and 27th TN Modern Simple Styles nonstr mount spoth ng C( on car is a huge on a chassis similar re engim‘s. The exâ€" to the pubslic, and red by local plumbâ€" ictors Men have high blood pressure, wear no hats, have little hair, shave their whiskers, play golf, bathe twio» a Gay, ago ard whatl is the fashion now:â€"â€" Women wore hoop skirts, bustles petticcats, corseis, cotton stockings butiorcd shoes, frilled cotton drawers They did the cleaning, washing, ironâ€" in>, raising Of big families, went to church on Suncays and were too busy to be sick. i Men wore whiskers, plug ‘hats, ascot ties, red filannel und>rwear, chopped weosd, Ea‘thed cncee a week, drank 5c whiskey, 5e for a schooner of beer, rode waggons and buggies, went in.for poliâ€" tics, work:d 12 hours a Cay and lived to a ripe old age. _ Stores burned oil lamps, carried everything from a needle to a plow, ‘trusted everybody, never took inventory, placed@ orders for goods a year in adâ€" vance and Always Madeo Money. This was all way back in 1848, but times and customs ‘have changed materially in the last ninety years. If you don‘t think so, read the following:â€" Women wear now silk stockings, no zorsets, an cunce of undsrwear, bobbed hair, smoke, paint, powder, drink cockâ€" tails, play bridge, drive cars, have pet dogs and go in for politics. How it was a Century Agoâ€"â€"How it is Now Conference in Men, Women, Stores, Now and a Hunâ€" _dred Years Ago. Head Office Schumacher, Phone 708 Canada Lumb>rman e makes th> tween what wai We‘ll Help You Build The Home You‘ve Wanted! Feldman‘s are noted for their reasonable prices on good quality lIumber and building materials. They carry a complete stock of materials for every buildâ€" ing need, no matter what type of construction is required. Feldman‘s have engaged the professional services of a registered graâ€" duate architect to design and supervise the construction of homes ding to high standards. His practical and technical knowledge assures you a wellâ€"built comfortable house that will require little or no upkeep expense. There are no "extras"‘ in a Feldmanâ€"built home. Specifications and plans are prepared showing every detail and the low price quoted is the exact price you pay. FELDMAN TIMBER CO. $30 per month is all it costs and you‘re the landlord When you can have your home without paying out any more money each month than you now pay for rent, after the initial payment, then there shouldn‘t be anything to keep you from building. That‘s been the attitude of hundreds of persons who are taking advantage of the Dominion Housâ€" ing Act, which makes it possible for you to own and live in a home of your own on terms that a sh(nt time ago were impossible. Interest rates are exâ€" tremely low, just 5 p.c. and you have ten years to pay. Feldman‘s Complete Building Service LUMBER and SUPPLIES SUPERVI SED BY AN ARCHITECT J W larwear, chopped week, drank 5¢ mer of beer, rode went in.for poliâ€" a Cay and lived current isâ€" ‘omparison century Cer Doveiopment Association, lecturing recently on "The Important Us>s of Wocd in Modsarn Eluildings" to memâ€" bers of the Clerks of Works‘ Associaâ€" tion at Carpenters‘ Hall, London, Eng. The modern meth¢cds of seasoning and manufactur> of timber make it adaptable for a constructional and deâ€" corative material in modern buildings, Mr. Boulton said. Timber toâ€"day can ways C Boultct Ssome of the Advantages in Timber Construction nevor go t3 bed the same day they get up, are misunderstcod at home, play the stock marke:, rid> in aeroplanes, drink psison, work five hours a day, play tendency to build in timbear in country toâ€"day, especially for s, hospitals and dwelling hauses, that timber is still the mosst dus to the fact that the moisture n», technical director of the Timâ€" »velopment Association, lecturing Moncyv LT a} dGarily, n>ver buy in adâ€" Th>ad,. markâ€"ups, markâ€" udget, advertising, stook and semiâ€"annual salos, sales, anniversary ys, founder‘s days, imumâ€" momy dayvs, and Neveor Â¥at Feldman‘s have, within their organization, skilled building mechanics who will see your home through to completion. Every detail will be properly taken care of by thoroughly experienced men, LABOUR and CONTRACTS never lIw2iv ust nobody Burns Shoe All handâ€"made from High Grade materials only,. Sold direct from maker to wearer. Fred Burns Write for Folder and Price List Ottawa Citizen: Woman charged with shoplifting had ten pairs of unworn rubbers and six new unbrellas hiddeon in an attic. Her defense is, doubtless, that she was only putting something away for a rainy dav. ways cue to the fact thal ecntent of the timber ws anmce with the moisture c building. If a building car to dar any timber is used in its all difficulties will be c Boulton explained. This advantag> of *imber cor where the entire building ed of timber, the moistu tm> buildinz as a whols constant. The address o Was Huntsville, Ont. Mill Office Timmins, Phone 709 ‘R.Ing is W Mr. Boulton said nccney fC The Famous ntag?> OI Timbr consoruction, Ior e the entire building is constructâ€" {f£ timber, the moisture content of buildinz as a whole ant. The address of Mr. Boulton eard with much appreciation and most instrluctive. dried out tefor> its fittings, then â€" overcoms, Mtr. is 4s the great ‘onstruction, for