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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES -- Greater Oshawa Edition -- SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928 ilding Activity Conspicuous Among Apartment Houses DERN APARTMENTS FOR RESIDENTIAL SECTION The Simcoe and Buckingham Apartments, corner Huckingham Avenue and Simcoe Street North, . Oshawa, now nearing building follows the E com m at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars. a eta style. Archtecturally, the 'F Batures of Design, Construction and Equipment Whiche Illustrate the Specialization of Later Buildings of This Class--Cost Estimated at a Quarter ¢ XCREASED demand for living .accommodation is the natural out- come of a growth which has lon, - sirice overtaken the available facili- ties. Noteworthy additions to this class of accommodation are three : neyv apartment houses, the enter- prise of H. H. Davidson. The build- ings in question are the Simcoe and . Buckingham Apartments, at the cor- 'net of Buckingham and Simcoe Stfeet North, and the Victoria Apart- . ments, on the east side of Simcoe Stpeet South, between Elm and Maple Streets. The Simcoe and Buckingham Apartments are beautifully situated on: a comanding site toward the end + of Simcoe Street, occupying one of the choicest residential locations in the city. 'Added value attaches to thém as being the only available apartments in the neighborhood. The Simcoe Apartments are scheduled for completion by September first, while the Buckingham and Victoria Apart- ' ménts - arg already completed. A pleasing feature of the Simcoe and ; Buckingham Apartments is an attrac- tive roof garden. The total estimated cost of the two 3 § of a Million Dollars apartments on Simcoe North, which follow the old Elizabethan style of architecture, will be $200,000, and of the Victoria Apartments $50,000, a total of $250,000. _The apartments will consist of cighteen suites of four or five rooms with baths. Each apartment will be sound-proof and insulated. The halls will be done in decorative plaster. The floors will be trimmed in wal- nut and ivory enamel. The buildings consist of three storeys and base- ment, each being 42 x 130 feet in di- mensions. Garage accommodation will be provided in the rear for ap- proximately twelve cars. These gar- ages are of brick, with cement floors, and will be roofed with shingles. The bathrooms will contain built- in tubs, shower baths and pedestal basins. Each apartment is equipped with electric refrigerators, giving a tem- perature of twenty degrees winter and summer and a supply of ice cubes at all times. Hot water is supplied the year around for shower baths and general purposes. Each apartment 1s furnished with cupboards for milk delivery. Ironing board cabinets are equipped with large and small boards and broom-holders. The bathrooms have medicine cabinets with bevelled plate glass mirrors, Full kitchen cup- board equipment and accessories are provided. Some of the apartments will have Murphy folding beds in the living rooms. These fold into the wall and when not in use are con- cealed by a pair of doors. . Electric stoves, fixtures and appointments will be installed in each apartment, There are two sets of stairways--the main entrance and the service, the latter running to the roof. A domestic con- venience is a garbage incinerator with the provision at each floor of a door for the reception of garbage. The Victoria Apartments on Simcoe Street South consist of eighteen suites, similarly equipped. The con- struction is solid brick and the di- mensions 40 x 106 feet; three stories and concrete foundation, The architect. for the Apartment building was Henry J, Chown, of Toronto, whose speci- alization in this class of work is evi- denced in many fine apartment build- ings in Toronto. Contracts were awarded as follows: brick and steel work, Wm. Hughes Company, Toron- to; carpenter work, W. Barnes, To- ronto; electrical work, L. F. Chidden- ton, Toronto. The brick was supplied by the Cooksville Brick Company, and the lumber by the Williamson Lumber Company. Davidson 'NEW ERA FORESEEN IN . 'GREAT AIRPORT PROJECT " Continued from Page 53 and specifically for the aviation acti- ,vitles of General Motors. A. Montreal's Air Base i Montreal now has a great airport ; insthe provision at St. Hubert of the aiff base for Canada of the Imperial } Aigways dirigible service, The re- pmoval of Camp Borden to Whithy ¢ automatically will give to Toronto "identically the same safe harbor for ; aifcraft as Montreal enjoys. The next move is for Toronto to unite "with Oshawa and Whitby in their effort to accomplish a great good, , giving volunteers for air service to : Canada a fair chance to train as only they may have with the Camp Bor- ¢ deh base transferred to Whithy. iz An Ideal Solution tr Ft is impossible for Toronto to lo- } cate an adequate airport within its { borders. Whitby, in these times of : apid transportation, is really a sub- urb of Toronto, and were the rail- f ways to treat Whitby as they do Oakville in the matter of commuted fares, this would be more easily ap- preciated, There . e from 2,500 to 3,000 acres of land and water in Whitby bay and adjacent territory that would provide an ideal airport. Two hundred acres of harbor and bay, already owned by the Govern- ment, with the surrounding marshes drained three or four feet, will pro- vide runways for manoeuvring from three-quarters of a mile to any de- sired distance outwards on the lake, which fronts the airport location for the three miles or more constituting its extent, and adjoining is the high level plateau, 60 to 80 feet above lake level, that is a distictive feature. The northérn boundary is the main line of the C.N.R., immediately east of Whithy station. The plateau runs easterly in diminishing width until the beautiful Corbett's Bay. The plateau is some thousand acres in extent. To the north are 300 or 400 acres more that really belong to the plateau, be- cause thereon are the farm buildings, The whole tract is about equally di- vided between Whitby town and township. Utilities Available But it is the contiguous thousand acres to the north, northwest and northeast, of farm lands, that afford safety flight conditions, The farm buildings wouldn't average more than one per 100 acres. And when it comes to providing modern utilities in sewerage, light, water, roads, etc, it is estimated that more than $2,000,000 would be required to re- place improvements. As for the har- bor, it is open every day in winter, Where would a flying ship from Europe make a safe landing other than at Whitby were she Toronto- bound in winter? It is but five minutes' run by auto to General Motors' plant at Oshawa, where cadets from Camp Borden, re- moved to Whitby, might study engine construction. Reported purchase by General Motors of the Fokker air- pla. - plant at Buffalo, if true, means that before long aircraft will be as- sembled in Oshawa, Toronto Uni- versity, with its department of aero- Established 1908 HEADQUARTERS IN OSHAWA --for-- ENS FINE CLOTHIN ND FURNISHINGS OSHAWA OSHAWA Agency for LOUNDES' 20TH CENTURY nautics, is little more than half an r away. Sir Samuel Hoare, present Minis- ter of Air in the British Government who visited Whitby in 1918, and Ma- jor-General MacBrien, who is now head the jan Aviation e,. have ssed favorable inions as to itby's natural Does Big Business in Popular Cars Motor City Service Latest Ac- quisition in This Important Field Along in December, 1927, An- drew Moffatt head of the just or- ganized Motor City Service, was quoted to the effect that a new building would be erected in the spring to house that business and to provide adequate and worthy showroom space for the Motor City Service's line of Cadllac, LaSalle and Oldsmobile automobiles, The story, in fact, was printed on Dec. 30, 1927, and it is now gettng close to September 1, The new two-story garage and show- room building is yet to be built, There are two reasons for this situation. One is the Motor City Service has been too busy selling Cadillac, LaSalle and Oldsmobile cars-- particularly the latter, with the cash registers recording something over $300,000 in sales since the first announcement was made. The other reacton is Andrew Moffatt, Mr. Moffatt has heen selling Oshawa-built automobiles since the Year One of the Motor Era in Can- ada, That is to say, since the Mec- Laughlin Motor Cars were first marketed in 1908. He knows auto- mobiles--their origin, develop- ment, faults, virtues, and their unending possibilities. He also knows how to sell them, After years of sales association with the McLaughlin Motor Car Co. Ltd., Mr, Moffatt in 1918 joined General Motors' sales or- ganization at its inception and be- came assoclatd with Ewart Me- Laughlin in the Moffatt Motor Sales Ltd.,, for the Oldsmobile Agency in Oshawa and district, In 1924 he sold his interest in Moffatt Motor Sales and entered the Durant organization at New York. Having been the pioneer Oldsmo- bile distributor in Canada, he re- turned to his first automobile love towards the close of 1927 by form- ing the Consolidated Motor Sales, Having heen away from Oshawa for a few years he still thought of it as "Oshawa," The development of Oshawa's major business and civic interest, however, soon sug- gested the name which the organi- zation now hears--Motor City Service, Motor City Service, however, fsn't confined to Oshawa. There are seven sub-dealers throughout Ontarfo, Victoria and Durham- Northumberland Counties, with a co-ordinate branch at Lindsay. Associated with Mr. Moffatt are his two sons, Alex. Moffatt is chief accountant while Norman Moffatt is head of the parts and service department. There are 18 employees in all, and service of all kinds for Cad- flac, LaSalle and Oldsmobile cars are featured. The used car depart- ment is also one of Motor City Service's important divisions, The new building will be erect- ed soon. Plans are being prepared now and Oshawa is promised a structure that will be a distinct addition to its business architec- ture. The showroom for the three fine General Motors automobiles which the company distributes will conform to the latest thought in motor car display. In the meantime, they keep on elling more Oldsmobiles. Not that Cadillacs and LaSalles aren't up to quota and beyond it, but most folks don't casually tele- phone in and say: "Hello, Andy, send me up =a Cadillac by two o'clock, I've got to take the children to the den- tist's." It's just that the 1928 Oldsmo- bile has been one of the most popular higher priced cars ever turned out by General Motors of Canada, Limited. Anyway, that's the story in Osh- awa. And Andrew Moffatt has had the selling of them, HAPHAZARD PLANNING Some years ago the town of Ayl- mer, Quebec, eight miles from Ot- tawa, was partially destroyed by fire. The town lies on the lovely lake Deschenes. It has a water-front that might make the fortune of any town if intelligently planned. Built in jumble fashion, it owed its destruc- tion by fire to bad planning. The proposal was put forward that the town should be properly planned, so that from the devastation there should arise a better place. The planning was to cost nothing. The answer was that the town immediate financial help, and not town planning. Since then new houses have been built, with the help of the Federal building loan, below the level of existing sewers. This bas involved the town in the enor- mous cost of a mew sewer and, of course, the houses have been built with no regard to a comprehensive plan of the town. It seems clear that an intelligent plan would have been of immediate financial assistance to the town of Aylmer and possibly would have determined its future prosperity to am extent mot realized by the officials, Values within NE of the most historic blocks in Oshawa is the Queen's Block at the corner of Simcoe and Bond streets. For many years | which was well known to the travel: ling public. In 1919 this property, which was then owned by tand tained the section of the property north of the Bassett section to the : armouries, it was the site of the Queen's Hotel, | the first seven apartments in Osh- awa. B.| ful experiment, but the apartments HISTORIC QUEEN'S BLOCK REFLECTS CITY'S Once Popular Hotel Rendezvous Now the Site of Modern Store and Apartment Building--Revolution in Last Decade apartments. A. S. McLeese re- which he converted into In 1921 it was considered a doubt- + PROGRESS in Oshawa, it being about 135 feet in length and three storeys high. It contains eight stores and about 30 apartments. At the present time this block .is undergoing a considerable thange. The Robert Simpson Company are more than doubling their store space and will have one of the finest stores in Oshawa. R. G. Smyth's drug store is being moved to a new store nearer Bond Street, where he will have a fine new store front and up-to-date premises Robertshaw's book and | stationery store is also undergoing a accommodation has been taken up. centre for twenty-five thousand dollars, Queen's Block--the longest business block in Oshawa---which A, S, modern store and apartment building, Conveniently situated in the heart of the city, it fulfils the requirements of a considerable scction of the communty, as evidenced by the readine s with which its Less than ten years ago it was offered to the city as a municipal Today it is valued at three hundred thousand, McLeese has converted into a Mitchell, A. E Owens, was purchased by A. S. Mc- Leese and Samuel Jones, who held it for two years and then sold it in seec- tions to Frank Martin, who erected a bottling works on the rear; J. W. Borsherrv; Ewart McLaughlin, who bought the major portion of the Bond Street frontage; F. C. David- | son, who got the section on the cor- ner of Simcoe and Bond Streets; and R. N. Bassett, the 40 feet north of | that secured by F. C, Davidson. This | was the advent of this block as stores | Law and Chas. | were not completed till they were all | complete change and will have a new occupied, and they have never been vacant since. The ground floor of the hotel building was converted in- to stores. This was also considered an experiment, but this has become one of the busiest business blocks in the city, and at present houses such firms as Loblaw's Groceteria, The Robert Simpson Company, Smiles an' Chuckles, etc, who are among the foremost in the Dominion, The Queen's Block has the longest frontage of any one business block | apd up-to-date front. A considerable addition has also been made to the store of Service Cleaners & Pressers. A. S. McLeese, who has in the past | vear purchased the holdings of Frank Martin, J. W. Borsberry and R. N. | Bassett in this block is completing additional apartments to those he al- ready owns and those recently ac- quired which make the total in the neighborhood of fifty, The Queen's Block probably re- - from a real estate standpoint more than any other in this city. In 1919 it was offered to the city as a muni- cipal centre for $25,000 and the rate- yers voted against its purchase. Noday it is valued at over $300,000. The new apartments nearing comple- tion in this block will form a ctedit- able addition. to the city's apartment houses, as they are equipped with hot- water heating, oak floors, electric stoves, Frigidaire refrigerators, elec- tric washing and ironing machines, incinerators, electric fixtures, su- perior windows, a continuous supply of hot water, storage rooms, and other conveniences. 0 portunities in ol Estate Field Horton & French Optimistic as to Outlook for "'Kingsmere", New Sub-Division "It has been a splendid vear, :avs J. P. Horton, of the real estate firm of Horton & French. Mr. Horton, with C. H. French, has an office in the Mundy Block, « Simcoe Street South. In proof of their faith in Oshawa's future, the are opening a new sub-divisior east of the city. This new sub-division, which will be known as "Kingsmere,"" comp about fifty acres on the north of Kingston Road east, according Mr. Horton. It is on property whizl was formerly the Michael farm. L der the sales agreement it will pro- vide a highly. restricted residential sub-division, on which no homes «1 less than $5,000 value may be | The owners are highly optimist about this property and believe that as soon as grading and other wor now in progress is completed, ther will be ready sale for the large lots prownded in the sub-division Messrs. Horton & French have been associated in the real estate business for a number of years. Mr, J. P. Horton has seen some wonder ful changes in the growth of O:h- awa. When he first came here mn 1910 there were no pavements wet weather one had to cross Four Corners on planks. The late Richard Hobbs used to keep the crossing clean. Property values have increased wonderfully. Large profits have been made, and Mr. Horton considers that there are many oppor- tunities to make profit in real estate. He has seen the city of Oshawa grow from a town of four thousand in- habitants to a city of over twenty five thousand. Mr. C. H. French has been actively engaged in real estate in Oshawa for the last ten years. He has a wonder ful knowledge of farms, and the na- ture of the soil, having been a farmer himself in Prince Edward County. The firm of Horton & French handle real estate in all its branches, also flects the development of Oshawa fire and automobile insurance, N---- Roofing in rolls and shingles, Gas Stoves and Perfection Oil Stoves, OSHAWA' LEADING Hardwares ERIE Sy QERVICE unexecelled is one of the reasons Hardwares are ahead -- with Simcoe St. and supply of everything in Hard- ware, we are able to dispatch all orders in a manner hereto- fore impossible, Complete of all Lines of Hardware Carried in Stock Including --Gurney, Coal Stoves, Electric and Gas Ranges, Linoleum, C.C.M. Bicycles, Bran- dram-Henderson and Moore's Paints, Bird's leman's Aero | CLEVE FOX HARDWARE 15 Simcoe St. North and 22 Simcoe St. South R-------------- I ------ RL m---- why Fox ever forging two stores on an extra large oh