xviii AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
November, 1909 
A Silent Servant 
A customer writes: “The Hot-Air Pump you furnished us some eight years ago works as noise- 
lessly, as effectively, and as satisfactorily to-day, 
has drawn water from a well some thirty feet 
of one and one-half inch pipe to the reservoir.” 
ce ” 
our friend has 
In using the word ‘‘xozselessly, 
touched upon one of the most important features 
of a Hot-Air Pump. 
Many of our customers are people with country 
homes who have had their nerves sorely tried by 
the noisy clanging of a windmill’s wheel (the source 
of their private water supply), until, in a spirit of 
desperation, they have felt compelled to remove 
the windmill and make trial of a 
Hot-Air Pump 
With its silent action, health and rest have come 
ENGINE Co. 
Hot-Air Pump 
means satisfaction to the cultured home-builder 
combination of constructive elegance unsurpassed. 
Grates, etc. 
Dixon’s cait:ie Paint Lasts 
And the reason why it lasts is because its pigments are inert. 
have inert pigments to do with it? 
RI D ER- E, RICSSO N 239 Franklin Street 
(Also builders of the new ‘‘Reeco”’ Electric Pump.) 
ARE YOU GOING TO BUILD? 
The specification of Woodward-Eubanks Mantels by the Architect 
Natural beauty of materials and harmonious elegance of design form a 
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WOODWARD-EUBANKS MANTEL CO., Dept. D, Atlanta, Ga. 
as the day it was put in. During this period it 
distant and thrown it through five hundred feet 
back again along with natural quiet and repose. In 
this way the Hot-Air Pump has proved itself a 
wonderful therapeutic agent, besides being the most 
reliable domestic water supply known. 
Remember that these pumps are not steam- 
engines, but machines of low-power which cannot 
explode, operated solely by hot air, automatic in 
their action, requiring no skilled attention, so 
simple that any servant or farmer’s boy can start 
and stop the little flame that gives them life. The 
cost of operation is almost nil, while the delivery 
of water is absolutely certain at all times and 
seasons. 
Be sure that the name “RIDER Or -FRICSSON appears upon the pump you 
purchase. This name “BEECO “BEECO- protects you against worthless 
imitations. When so situated that you cannot personally inspect the pump before ordering, write to our 
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What 
Our Booklet 106B will tell you. 
Ground bone should be spread on top and 
worked in with a rake or wheel-hoe, and if 
the whole garden could be covered for the 
winter with strawy manure or leaves it would 
be the best possible preparation for the next 
season. 
TOOLS 
The forehanded gardener will clean, 
sharpen and oil all tools, repairing those that 
can be repaired and discarding those that are 
worn out, making a list of spring replacements. 
The lawn-mower should be put in order now; 
but are there many people who do not leave it 
until the last minute in the spring? 
SCIONS 
If you intend to do any grafting next spring, 
cut the scions now, selecting wood not of this 
season’s growth, but a year old. ‘They should 
be cut in lengths of 6 to 8 inches, tied in 
bundles, and buried in some well-drained spot 
below the frost-line. Next spring they will 
be ready when wanted and much better than 
newly cut ones, because they have been well 
protected through the winter. 
HOUSES THAT DO NOT SHAKE 
DOWN 
T IS a mooted question whether it is better 
to anchor the building solidly to the 
ground by deep foundations, or to place it 
upon the ground like an independent load free 
to move in every direction without having its 
proper vibrations hampered by the discordant 
vibrations of the ground. In the independent 
method the lower parts, not being suddenly 
brought back when the ground returns to its 
former position, it might be expected that the 
building would be less easily dislocated, as 
inertia acts equally on all its elements. But all 
the advantages of this system can be secured 
only if the whole building is light and homo- 
geneous. In any case, a masonry building 
should rest upon an indeformable base, such 
as a grating of iron bars or a bed of armored 
concrete. To make the independence more 
complete, it has been proposed to support build- 
ings upon steel balls or round stones, but this 
device is of uncertain efficacy. The endeavor 
is usually to connect the building and ground 
by solid and deep foundations. Such, at least, 
is the opinion of M. G. Espitallier, who has 
contributed a valuable paper on the subject to 
the Mémoires et Travaux de la Sociétés des 
Ingenieurs Civils de France. It has been in- 
ferred, from the comparative immunity of mine 
galleries and other subterranean voids, that 
the vibrations travel more regularly under- 
ground than on the surface, and that advantage 
can be taken of this regularity in laying foun- 
Before You Decide 
ABOUT HEATING 
Your Residence 
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are installed in more buildings than any other make 
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It will add materially to the value of your house if 
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