H ouse and Garden 
art, Fort William. The erection of these 
houses commenced last summer, and has 
been energetically carried on with the 
result that eighteen of them are now un¬ 
der roof, and the remaining fourteen of the 
group are well forward in other respects. 
The houses, with a few exceptions (which 
are built of stone), are built of concrete 
blocks cast in constructed molds on the 
hollow wall system, viz., two parallel 
vertical walls with an air space of two 
inches between them, which should ad¬ 
mirably answer the requirements of the 
climate of the Lewis. These neat and 
substantial buildings, which are built by 
the Congested Districts Board to relieve 
the congestion in the Point district, to- 
INTERIOR OF CONCRETE COW STABLE 
Cement A%e 
farmers throughout the country are using 
cement posts in large quantities and the 
demand is rapidly increasing. Post timber 
in most every state is practically ex¬ 
hausted, with the exception of a few cedar 
and black locust, which retail as high as 
thirty and forty cents.” 
Concrete In Broad Bay, Ireland, was 
Cottages recently discharged a cargo of 
Portland cement, to be used in the erection 
of cottages at Aignish fishing settlement. 
This is the fifth vessel that has discharged 
material for these houses to the order of 
the contractors, Messrs. E. and D. Stew- 
BUILDING OF MOLDED CEMENT BLOCKS ERECTED FORTY 
YEARS AGO Cement Age 
CONCRETE FARM BUILDINGS 
Cement Age 
gether with four or five acres of land 
attached to each house, will doubtless 
be appreciated by the fishermen who 
are fortunately among the chosen. Mr. 
Weir, M. P., for the county, and Col. 
Gore Booth, consulting engineer to the 
Secretary for Scotland, visited the set¬ 
tlement recently. 
It is fortunate, indeed, in view of the 
rapid deforesting of this country, that a 
material is at hand at once so simple, so 
natural, and above all so indigenous, to 
replace the native wood which was so lavishly 
used by our forefathers for their chief 
building material. 
When the capacity and characteristics of 
concrete are not only acknowledged but 
frankly used as the basis for a sympathetic 
style of design, then it will largely replace 
the more expensive building processes. 
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