HOUSE AND GARDEN 
448 
June, 
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Country Estate, Westchester County, 
New York 
Good Samaritan Hospital, 
Portland, Oregon 
Evergreen Apartments, Washington 
and 48th Street, Chicago 
Boulevard 
KE.WANEE 
Garbage Burners 
Make Fuel of Garbage in these Buildings 
Childs Restaurant, 23 
and 25 Park Row, 
New York City 
Sanitary engineers have stated that a ton of garbage contains 
as much heat as 200 pounds of coal — often more. And in a 
Ivewanee Water Heating Garbage Burner garbage and refuse 
are used as part of the fuel necessary for heating hot water. 
Furthermore, the only really sanitary way of disposing of garbage 
is to burn it on the premises where it originates, before it has a chance 
to decay and breed and feed flies, rats and other disease-carrying 
insects and vermin. 
Therefore a Kewanee Water Heating Garbage Burner performs two functions. It 
provides hot water at minimum cost — because it uses garbage and rubbish as fuel. 
And it eliminates the garbage problem by burning garbage, without odor, while 
it is still fresh and green. 
Lewis & Conger Building, 
6 th Ave. and 45th St., 
New York City 
The Rexford Apartments, 
Broadway, 78th to 79th 
Streets, New York City 
Burns Garbage Without 
Garbage is thrown into the upper gar¬ 
bage chamber and a small coal fire started 
on the lower grates. In a very short time 
the garbage dries and burns without odor. 
Notice the by-pass (a patented feature 
of the Kewanee) which allows the flames 
to circulate around the garbage. This pre¬ 
vents the damp garbage from smothering 
the fire and insures the garbage being 
completely burned without odor. 
The water jacket surrounding the burner 
and the water tube garbage grates ensure the 
heating of an abundance of water. 
If you own, or are interested in an apartment 
building, hotel, restaurant, hospital, etc., you 
cannot afford to have your garbage hauled away. 
Let us send you some literature describing this 
device. Any competent steamfitter can install 
it, in any building, old or new. 
Odor 
Kewanee Boiler Company 
KEWANEE, ILLINOIS 
Steel Heating Boilers, Radiators, Tanks, Water Heating Garbage Burners 
Chicago New York St. Louis Kansas City Minneapolis 
For unplanted properties 
of less than an acre we have 
certain suggestions to offer, 
which assure the proper land¬ 
scape setting for the new home. 
Ask for our Special New 
Property Proposition. 
THOMAS MEEHAN & SONS 
This offer applies also to un¬ 
planted — or unsatisfactorily 
planted portions of established 
properties. Our Summer 
Catalog, free for the asking, 
shows how to get quick, pleas¬ 
ing results. 
Pioneer Nurserymen of America 
Box 40, Germantown, Phila. 
must be harmonious. This mixing stain 
in one room with a paint in the next, 
polished mahogany in one room with 
brown oiled furniture in the next, white 
in one room with paint in the next, 
is intolerable, for on the first floor, with 
its wide openings and interchanging vistas, 
colors must be used with the effect of the 
whole continually in mind. 
In the service wing paint has been used 
throughout. Starting with the butler’s 
pantry and the kitchen, a smoke-gray, sug¬ 
gestive of the gray scheme of the dining¬ 
room, has been used for the walls. It is 
oil paint with enough turpentine to give it 
a dull finish. You have no idea what won¬ 
derful finishes you can get with oil paint, 
what lovely soft colors, what dull finishes, 
what subtle effects by using one trans¬ 
parent color over another glazed body 
color. This last effect has been gotten in 
one of the upstairs rooms in the wing by 
using a transparent brown over a body 
color of rich golden yellow. In the 
kitchen and butler’s pantry the top sur¬ 
faces of the woodwork have been painted 
white and the sides of the wood suggesting 
the width have been painted black, a most 
effective scheme such as Austrians like 
Coloman Moser are fond of using. It is 
a curious thing that while the Germans 
and Austrians, for instance, and most of 
the European nations, are doing a great 
deal, and have done a great deal, for the 
past fifteen years in experimenting in color 
in the domestic interior, Americans have 
been most conservative. This gray and 
black scheme could be used with great 
charm throughout an entire floor of a 
small house because so many other colors 
could be introduced in the hangings, up¬ 
holstery, rugs, flowers and furnishings in 
general. In the kitchen of the Pattison 
house designs of various kitchen activities 
have been stenciled in blood red upon the 
walls to make effective space division as 
well as a delightful color scheme. 
My Suburban Garden 
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trees, made a wedge point for the entrance 
and return of this round turn. This gave 
an oval-pointed bed some twenty feet long, 
rounded at the rear end at twelve feet 
radius, which was all the land we could 
spare to it, and from the rear end of the 
curve ran out the drive to the barn. This 
radius worked out all right, even with a 
large coal wagon, and would accommodate 
a car of the smaller sizes by backing it 
once or twice in making the turn. To 
permit this without overrunning the rear 
lawn we widened the drive on the curve 
to eleven feet and, at that, got a car of 
ten feet wheel base around it without 
trimming off the edging sod. 
With the drive laid out, the walks fol¬ 
lowed easily. Tradesmen must have direct 
and easy access to the back of the house 
or they will make their own paths, so we 
laid out two curved ones from drive to 
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