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HORTICULTURE 



March 4. 1916 



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 Knixtf ll;ir ( laNp 



Fits That Misfit 



I'li-t mill ( ast 

 Iron iSill for Con- 

 I reli' Walls 



TIIK fi'wer (lifTcTiiu tjiics uf 

 riiiistructlon a ftreenliiuise 

 iNiacern makes, the more 

 iiioni*y it makes. This fact is no 

 secret. You know It as well as 

 We know It. Because It is so 

 surel.v so: some concerns are con- 

 tinually trying to make tlielr 

 standard construction features, fit 

 every place and any place. 

 As .-1 result, tlieir fits are often 

 misfits. 



Take for example, tlio four .lOO 

 foot houses of .Mr. I,. It. Codilin^'- 

 lon, now going up at Murr.iy Hill. 

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'Ihey are CI feel 

 wide. Our standard 

 lionse Is CO feet. They 

 are uneven span 

 niofs; while our 

 standard is even 

 spnn. 



Did we try for ex- 

 ample to make our 

 iiilumn caps use<I in 

 nnr standard even 

 span. 00 foot housrs. 

 do for these uneven 

 • span 61-footers? 

 Not a bit of It. We 

 designed a si)eclal 

 cap and rafter splice 

 to specially meet the 

 special conditions. 

 .Always, it has been 

 our policy to huild a 

 house the way we 

 know It should l)e 

 liuilt, and not the 

 way it could he built 

 if we wanted to work 



Splk'C plale. nilunin 

 purlin and rafter 



ofT our S" called ".standard details" 

 on yiiu. 



Standard Details, of course, we 

 must have, but we do not attempt 

 to make a st;nuiard detail fit 

 where, as experts, we know it Is a 

 moreor-less of a inisllt. 

 That traveling scaffold with Its 

 swinging crane, we rigged up 

 especially to meet conditions on 

 Mr. Coddington's Job. 

 With il. our men can put up 200 

 feet of frame a day, and because of 

 tile convenience of working from 

 it. the liolis and screws are more 

 likely III he put in right than If the 

 men were climhing 

 over the rii"f In dlf- 

 flenlt positions. 

 It has so short cut 

 the ereelion time and 

 increased tlie quality 

 of worlimanship, that 

 we are going to use 

 it in erecting all our 

 tiig houses. 

 In reducing erection 

 time we pleased Mr. 

 Coildinglon. and at 

 the same time, bene- 

 fited ourselves. We 

 both gain by it. 

 It is the basis npon 

 which we do I>usi- 

 ncss. It's Just an- 

 other of the reasons 

 whv you can depend 

 upon depending on 

 Ilitchings. 



We go anywhere for 

 business: or to talk 

 business. 



Front view of rlilice 

 rafter splice plat«i 



Side view Qf Rlilge 

 Hlinwinc tlalvanized 

 Steel Sirup fonncct- 

 Ihk \'ent Siihli 



Foot I^a^e for Steel 

 I'ost!*. No part 

 the post Is under* 

 Kronnd 



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 i,treng11i of Turllo 

 Knee 



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