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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1 910 



$6.75. Tray-stands 

 are only $1.50. A 

 round cottage table, 

 any color, costs 

 $3.75, and a chest 

 of drawers, 6^ 

 inches high, 24 

 inches long and 20 

 inches deep can be 

 had for $12.00. 

 (See Fig. 27.) 



Turning now to 

 the question of 

 chairs, the old- 

 fashioned "Plym- 

 outh Kitchen" (Fig. 

 23), costs $6.75, 

 and the rocker, 

 $7.50. "The Plym- 

 outh Kitchen" 

 comes in oak or 

 birch, with English 

 flag seats. The 

 "Antique Kitchen," 

 with hand-woven 



reed seats and ash or birch frames, are $3.50 and $3.75. 

 The latter make excellent dining-room chairs for the port- 

 able house, and also good bedroom chairs, particularly if 

 painted a nice color and rendered bright with cushions. 

 (See Fig. 24.) 



In the construction of a garage there are several things 

 that must be borne in mind: (i) That the garage is rigid 

 and permanent when erected (although portable); (2) 

 that the interior will be perfectly dry at all times and also 

 protected from the intense heat of summer and the cold 

 blasts of winter; and (3) that it shall have a neat appear- 

 ance when erected. 



A very excellent house that can be put up in two days by 

 two inexperienced men is made of kiln-dried Washington 

 fir lumber, which is the strongest in use. The building is 

 formed of panels fastened together with bolts, and where 

 the fastening cleat joins the panels a strip of rubber packing 

 is inserted which makes a perfect joint. The patented 

 panel construction produces a house that is boarded inside 

 and outside, with an air space; and a patent hair insulator 

 is placed between the boards. The roof is boarded over and 

 covered with a patent roofing, water-proof, and is capable 



Fig. 37 — A launch that can be bought for $350 



of withstanding all 

 kinds of weather. 

 There is no ceiling, 

 JHMHHH and consequently 

 a^^^^^H the rafters are visi- 

 ^^^_^^^^^^^^B These are of 



'**^'*''*^^^HB dressed lumber se- 

 ■"■^ -" cured by collar 

 beams, which are 

 eight and one-half 

 to nine feet from 

 the floor. The floor 

 is made of one and 

 one-half inch lum- 

 ber overlapping at 

 the cracks. The 

 doors are nine feet 

 wide and eight and 

 one-half feet high. 



A garage of this 



description can be 



purchased for 



$115.00. The size 



of this is twelve 



and one-half feet 



square, and weighs three thousand pounds. A larger 



garage (12x15 feet) costs $135.00, and one (12x18 feet) 



costs $155.00. 



Another style is of portable steel. This consists of a 

 foundation of wood, uprights of iron pipe, frame of angle 

 iron connected by malleable castings and properly braced; 

 rafters of tee iron, roofing of 24 guage galvanized steel 

 fastened to angle-iron purlin sides, ends and doors of 

 24 gage galvanized corrugated steel; small windows in 

 each gable, hinged to swing in and operated by a cord; 

 one window on each side, four lights 10x12; double doors, 

 8x8 feet, with heavy hinges, bolts and iron hasp for pad- 

 lock. The floor is made of concrete, asphalt, cement or 

 cinders. The building is fireproof. The sizes are 9x16, 

 12x14, 12x18, etc. Flat roofs are cheaper than gable roofs. 

 Another portable wooden garage has a foundation of 

 wood with uprights of iron pipe and iron frame; but has 

 rafters of wood ends and doors of notched and beaded pine. 

 Small windows are placed in each gable and hinged to open 

 inside, double doors are hung in two parts and are fur- 

 nished a two-inch plank floor of hemlock. 

 {Continued on page 242.) 



Fig. 38 — A motor boat that costs $280 



