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“PUT A STOP TO DEPRECIATION — BUILD WITH CYPRESS AT FIRST !" 
THE WOOD ETERNAL 
is SO MUCH the best wood—for SO MANY KINDS of uses—that only 
its more conspicuous merits can be covered in any single advertisement. 
_ _ CYPRESS advertising will therefore proceed upon the broadest lines 
—with an educational purpose as permanent and safe as your investment in CYPRESS itself. 
For the moment, (and as a guide of real value in your Winter Plans for Spring Building, or 
Spring Improvements, or the Repairs due to your not having known CYPRESS before) 
the vital CYPRESS FACTS may be condensed into 9 words: — 
“GUT OUT REPAIR BILLS — 
BUILD OF CYPRESS AT FIRST!” 
If “it” (whether palace, bungalow, “back-steps” or pasture fence) is already built — 
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and PUT A STOP TO DEPRECIATION 
SOME DIFFERENCE BETIDE EN THESE H 0 U S E S — (B O TH C Y PRESS): 
It took a cyclone to injure this. Only a cyclone can wear this out. 
In this house (of solid CYPRESS) in Sinepuxent, Md., the 
heroic Commodore Decatur was born, January 5, 1779. In 
1884 a cyclone left it as photographed above — wrenched and 
half-denuded, BUT NOT DECAYED. CYPRESS is equal to 
an insurance policy against Ordinary Depreciation and Repairs. 
This is a modern residence in Brooklyn, New York, roofed and 
sided with CYPRESS shingles throughout. CYPRESS shingles 
when weathered take on a beauty and substantial picturesqueness 
not approached by any other material. CYPRESS bevel-siding 
(clap-boarding) is equally enduring. “Cut Out Repair Bills.” 
C YPRESS is indeed ‘‘ the wood eternal.'' 
He who uses Cypress builds but once. 
Why not FIND OUT what CYPRESS can do for YOU, NOW? 
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work being done by the plumbing contrac¬ 
tor, who had more work on other parts of 
the building still to be finished before a 
payment was due. Another contractor’s men 
accidentally allowed a heavy ladder, used 
for other work on the roof, to drop and se¬ 
riously damage this gutter. At once the 
question of responsibility for the injury 
came up. The plumbing contractor claimed 
that he had finished the gutter according 
to the specifications, and had left it in 
good order, and so could not be in any way 
held responsible. The owner stated that 
the work had not been “accepted’’ by the 
architect, therefore he was also not re¬ 
sponsible. The contractor, whose men 
caused the damage, said he could not set- 1 
tie for it. All parties were placed in a 
most uncomfortable position. If the 
specifications had contained a clause such 
as was mentioned at the beginning of this - 
article, in all probability the occurrence 
would never have taken place, as greater 
care would have been taken by all em¬ 
ployed about the building. A box marked 
“Glass, handle with care,” usually, if not ■ 
always, is handled with greater care than 
one not so marked. Plan your contracts 
to provide for these contingencies. 
Another case, similar in some respects, 
took place in a house heated by a furnace 
still under construction. This was for 
the completion of some work, which could 
only be done if the house was partially 
warm. The contractor doing the work had 
his men build the fire in the heater. It 
went out unexpectedly during thenight,and 
the water pipes froze and burst, floodingthe 
upper story with water and damaging some 
of the ceilings. Again came the need of 
determining the responsibility for the dam¬ 
age. The mason wanted damages for the 
plastered work which had to be replaced; 
the plumber wished to be reimbursed for 
the piping, and the owner wanted to know 
why he should be held responsible for what 
was not his fault. A point is sometimes 
made in such instances, that as the heater 
is being used for the owner’s benefit, it is 
being used at the owner’s risk; in other 
words, if there is not a clause protecting 
him in the specifications, he is expected to 
assume all risks of this kind. It is obvious 
that this is unfair to him, and he should : 
insist that the architect shall fully protect 
him when he draws up the contracts and 
specifications. If such cases are taken to 
the courts it will prove expensive and : 
troublesome, and as the owner is the most ; 
interested party, no matter how the case . 
may be decided, it is usually less expensive t 
if he is unprotected not to sue, but simply - 
to settle for the damages himself. He will . 
probably save money in the end, for the 
expenses consequent to a law suit are 
heavy, and he will be prevented from fin¬ 
ishing and entering the home as soon as . 
he otherwise could. Such difficulties are 
very easily settled by the “grain of pre- - 
vention” taken beforehand. 
Even if you are protected by one or more 
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