HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1912 
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and finishes to match original purchases. 
Sold by 1500 authorized agencies. Where 
not represented, goods will be shipped on 
approval, freight prepaid. 
The “Blue Book of Fiction” Free 
It contains a comprehensive list of good, 
wholesome novels published in English, selected 
from the world’s greatest writers of fiction, by- 
Hamilton W. Mabie. 
A copy of this helpful, instructive book, 
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log containing many beautiful suggestions for 
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portion of its area there is a mixture of 
natural sand and gravel which can be dug 
right out of the cellar of the house and 
makes excellent concrete with the addition 
of cement. On Long Island, therefore, 
cement is the only material which costs 
anything and concrete work accordingly 
is comparatively cheap, costing for the 
concrete and labor and setting it, about 
twenty-two cents a cubic foot, beside five 
cents a square foot for forms. As the 
ordinary house wall would be 10 inches 
thick, the cellar wall on Long Island would 
cost 5/6 of twenty-two cents, or. say, nine¬ 
teen cents, and five cents for the forms, 
about twenty-four cents a square foot of 
surface. Concrete in New Jersey would 
cost nearly 50 per cent. more, bringing its 
cost about equal to or slightly above that 
of the stone. Brick foundation walls 
would be 12 inches thick and would cost 
forty-five cents a square foot for a 12 
inch wall, about 40 per cent, more than 
stone or concrete. 
Now above the foundation work in 
spite of the arguments advanced by the 
terra cotta block and cement manufactur¬ 
ers the ordinary frame wall is still the 
cheapest thing to use, although with the 
growth of knowledge on the part of the 
builders and masons of how to lay terra 
cotta blocks on the one hand and the in¬ 
creasing price of lumber on the other, it 
will probably not be very long before 
these values are equal. An ordinary 
wooden wall built up of studs, cross 
braced, with sheathing on the outside, and 
paper over the sheatliing, is worth about 
eleven cents a square foot, and either 
shingles or clapboards add about nine 
cents a square foot to its cost. Stucco on 
wire lath costs twenty cents a foot. This 
figure is based on using a high grade gal¬ 
vanized material with metal furring strips 
to hold it away from the paper so as to 
give a clinch for the stucco. Stucco on 
wood lath, though somewhat cheaper, 
should not be used because of its tendency 
to crack because of the expansion and 
contraction of the wooden lath. 
A terra cotta block wall 8 inches thick 
is worth about twenty-five cents a square 
foot to lay, but it needs a finishing mate¬ 
rial, either a brick facing or stucco. As 
the brick is little used we will consider 
the price of the stucco, fourteen cents a 
square foot, making a total cost of a terra 
cotta block wall stuccoed, thirty-nine cents 
a square foot, as opposed to thirty-one 
cents for a frame wall stuccoed. A rough 
brick wall is worth forty-five cents a 
square foot, 12 inches thick, and the stucco 
on it would again cost fourteui cents a 
square foot, or fifty-nine cents a square 
foot for the wall finished. A fcce brick 
wall is worth about fifty-five cents a 
square foot. Stone walls above the first 
floor require careful facing and laying, 
and the ordinary type of stone house walls, 
such as used in many of the houses around 
Philadelphia and a few around New York, 
are 18 inches thick and worth about fifty 
cents a cubic foot or seventy-five cents a 
square foot of surface. None of these 
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