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How Three Years Ago 

 et the Demand for Lighter Homses 



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T'c ) further light- 

 on a construc- 

 tion, that had ap- 

 parently already 

 reached the point 

 of greatest light- 

 ness, consistent 

 with safety, was a 

 problem that faced 

 us three years ago, 

 when the J. W. 

 Davis Co., of 

 Davenport, Iowa, 

 added their last 

 wide house. 

 There seemed but 

 one thin;^- to do and 

 that was, widen the 

 distance between 

 the rafters, So we 

 increased it to 8 

 lights 16 inches 

 wide instead of 6. 

 This decreased the 

 number of col- 

 umns and posts 

 considerably. But 

 it put an extra 

 weight on the pur- 

 lins and rafters. 

 To overcome this, 

 we slightly in- 

 creased the size of 

 the purlins and 

 depth of the rafters 

 and strength of the fitting that secures the pur- 

 lins to the rafters. In the center, between the 

 side posts, we put sort of a junior post, just 

 half the size of the regular posts. This ex- 

 tended from the eave into the concrete sides 

 and footing. 



It took the extra strain put on the eave, by the 

 wide spacing and met any tendency of the eave 

 to sag. 



It certainly made a splendid house. 

 On entering it, you at once recognized its un- 



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TIiIm shows the Ughtnesn of the hou»«e when the riifterw lire KpReed with 

 8 lights of 16-lncb glass iostead of the time-worn 6 llglit spneing. 



usual lightness, 

 but if it didn't oc- 

 cur to you to count 

 the glass between 

 the raters, it would 

 have puzzled you 

 to account for it. 

 This same con- 

 struction was used 

 in W. B. Davis' 

 houses at Aurora, 

 111., and is being 

 used in the new 

 Davis Plant, now 

 under construction 

 at Terre Haute, 

 Ind. The houses 

 are 76 feet by 600 

 feet. 



Doubtless, you 

 wonder why it is 

 we have not ex- 

 ploited and pushed 

 this expanded 

 space construction . 

 Our answer is: it 

 was such a radical 

 departure that al- 

 thoughwe believed 

 in it thoroughly 

 and tested it out 

 exhaustively be- 

 fore selling it to 

 the Davis Broth- 

 ers : still we 

 wisdom to do a litttle 



thought it the part of 



"watchful waiting." 



We wanted to make sure that we were surely 



right and take time to watch its action carefully 



during several seasons, under varying weather 



conditions. 



The way it has acted has more than satisfied 



us. As a result, we have concluded to still 



further widen the spacing, and it's of this extra 



spaced house that we are going to tell in our 



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