House and Garden 
C-iaiage built entirely of reinforced concrete 
Benjamin A. Howes, Engineer 
Frame garage, sliingled, and having planked floor 
Cost about $600 Note the numerous windows 
tiate a steep incline in entering or leaving it. 
Accessibility is an important point to consider. It 
is a very good idea, if conditions wall permit, to have 
the garage so situated and built that the car can he 
driven directly through it by large doors on either 
side. Another important point sometimes over¬ 
looked is to provide room enough to move around 
your car freely when at work upon it. 
Many owmers have improvised various sorts of 
storage places for their machines, often converting 
sheds or small stables to the purpose. One man, 
at a cost of less than ^150, fixed up a storage place 
under a high veranda which made a very satisfactory 
garage. For the same sum of money a small port¬ 
able house may he purchased, while twice the 
amount will procure 
a very comfortable 
one. Some of these are 
now' made of galvanized 
iron and are practically 
fireproof. 
Where a portable 
house is used it is w'ell 
to have the site to he 
occupied covered w ith 
half a foot of cement 
which will make a floor 
for the garage. Small 
gutters may he left out¬ 
side the house to carry 
off w'ater. It is w'ell to 
p r o V i‘d e a place for 
washing the car which 
is an inch or so lower 
than the floor proper of 
the garage so that w ater 
used for washing the 
machine will he con¬ 
fined to this space and 
run off through a 
properly arranged drain. 
As there is alw'ays some 
PORTABLE (GARAGE 
possibility of fire, a few tubes of fire extinguish¬ 
ing powder and a pail or two of dry sand placed 
convenient to hand will prove invaluable. The 
house may he wired for electric lights, but where 
an extension light is to he used it is good prac¬ 
tice to place the socket near the floor so that the 
wires will lie on the floor and not be constantly 
tripping the feet or catching you by the neck. Steam 
is best for heating the garage, hut if this is not avail¬ 
able, a small room should he built at the side of the 
garage w here a furnace or small stove can be installed 
so that the element of danger from gasoline explosion 
can he eliminated. Care should he taken to so 
arrange this that fumes from the gasoline cannot 
reach the stove. There is no room in the portable 
house or in any other 
small sized garage for a 
pit, nor is a pit essential; 
in fact, every pit is a trap 
for dirt and combustible 
waste or oily rags. It 
is possible at a very 
small expense to hufld 
a platform of foot-wide 
planks onto which the 
automobile can he run 
so that a man can stand 
beneath it to work, just 
as in a pit. When not 
in use this platform can 
he taken apart and 
stored in some out-of- 
the-way place. 
Concrete blocks pro¬ 
vide an inexpensive and 
very suitable material 
for garage construction. 
They are made in vari¬ 
ous ornamental pat¬ 
terns, are durable and 
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