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House & Garden 
1 here is a place for Redwood in the construction of ev¬ 
ery home, whether it be but “four walls and a ceiling” or 
an architectural masterpiece of design and planning. In many 
parts of your new home Redwood will be best adapted to 
architectural design and builder’s construction practice in 
ways that will assure your greatest satisfaction in its use and 
your protection from the expense and annoyance of repairs 
and replacements. 
^Adaptable to Every 
^Architectural Style 
All through the range of design, 
from houses of bungalow and semi¬ 
bungalow style, up to the spacious 
mansions, Redwood maybe adapted 
to the design and plan in perfeft 
harmony with all other materials 
used, while giving better service and 
longer life wherever it is installed. 
Its use in the bungalow type of 
home is a natural outcome of the 
conditions and place of its growth, 
—California. As this style of home 
is becoming more and more of a 
national type, it is everywhere ac¬ 
cepted that Redwood is necessary 
to its construction if the style and 
“atmosphere” be maintained. 
But it is now known that the 
utility and long life of Redwood gives 
even better reasons why it should be 
used in the more elaborate and spa¬ 
cious homes where the building in¬ 
vestment is so much greater. It is in 
these homes that repairs and re¬ 
placements, due to the decay and 
rot in the wood used, soon increase 
the building cost to astounding 
figures. 
This increased cost will not be 
necessary if Redwood is used wher¬ 
ever there is contact with weather, 
water or earth. 
Resists Nature’s Destruction 
in oAll Climates 
Redwood, unlike most other 
woods, is free from resin and pitch, 
and contains a natural preservative 
that permeates the trees from core 
to bark. So every piece of Redwood 
that goes into your home has a re¬ 
markable resistance to all forms of 
rot and decay, and is moreover un¬ 
usually slow to ignite,—a poor food 
for flames, and easy to extinguish. 
In texture Redwood is of close, 
even grain, with a surface that has 
been aptly called “ paint-tenacious, ’ ’ 
while the body of the wood contains 
innumerablesmall, regularly formed, 
longitudinal dry air-cells, which give 
high insulating qualities against heat 
and cold. This allows the natural 
absorption and evaporation without 
expanding or contracting the wood, 
•—-thus preventing warping and 
splitting,—so common in ordinary 
woods. 
No matter how hot or cold, dry 
or moist, the climate, or how rad¬ 
ical the changes, Redwood has a 
place in the construction of every 
home. For porch columns, posts, 
flooring, side walls, roof and side 
shingles, eaves, gutters, door and 
window frames,mudsills, rails, fenc¬ 
ing,—wherever there is a tendency 
to rot, decay and fire hazard,—Red¬ 
wood is the best wood to install in 
your home. 
Tfe Pacific lumber Go. 
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REDWOOD 
The largest Manufacturers and Distributors of California Redwood 
Send for Redwood Information Sheet Ne./r on“ Rriidcn- 
l ial Buildings. Also tell us the name of your architetf 
and builder, for -whom we have special Redwood data. 
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Eastern Sales Organization 
THE PACIFIC LUMBER CO. OF ILLINOIS 
1111 Lumber Exchange Building, Chicago 
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The device is 
so made that 
the fixture can 
be “plugged in” 
easily and 
quickly 
The shield of 
the fixture cov¬ 
ers wall recep¬ 
tacle completely 
and does not 
appear portable 
The fixtures are 
as portable as 
pictures and 
can be moved 
from one socket 
to another 
PORTABLE LIGHTING 
FIXTURES 
N EW home conveniences are ever 
welcome. And one of the most 
welcomeable of these is a recent 
invention which makes possible the 
utmost flexibility in the lighting of the 
home. 
This new arrangement, originated by 
Cantelo White, a New York lighting ex¬ 
pert, is greeted by architects who have 
seen it in use as one of the greatest re¬ 
cent electrical strides. 
Electric lighting fixtures need no 
longer be fixed, since the introduction of 
this new method of wiring the home. 
Instead, they may be as portable as pic¬ 
tures. With the new plan, a tenant may 
have as many or few lighting fixtures in 
a room as suit his need or taste for any 
occasion. When he desires to remove a 
light, he lifts it from the wall with the 
same motion as he would to take his hat 
off a hook. If he wishes to place it in 
another part of the house, he has but to 
thrust it into any one of a number of 
outlets, situated at various places—as 
easily as plugging in an electric iron for 
use. 
A new kind of outlet or receptacle 
and a new type plug, with curved blades 
instead of the usual straight ones, to fit 
into it, form the basis of the new in¬ 
vention. The wall outlet looks much 
like the ordinary baseboard plate and is 
installed in a similar way. The ceiling 
receptacle is marked by a small brass 
plate, the center of which is a rounded 
triangle, containing the two contact slots 
for the curved blades of the plug. 
These outlets are placed at the vari¬ 
ous places about the house where lights 
may be required. Here ends the work 
of the electrician. He need never be 
called in again whenever shifts of fix¬ 
tures are necessary. The householder 
can do the changing as easily as hang¬ 
ing pictures. The outlets are inconspicu¬ 
ous and will not mar the harmony of 
any decorative effect. 
The new type plug is attached to the 
fixture, in the case of wall lights. This 
is easily plugged into the outlet, the 
curved blades pointing upwards. Thus 
the electrical and mechanical connec¬ 
tions are made at the same time. The 
curved blades are strong enough to sup¬ 
port the heaviest fixture. 
The plug for the ceiling fixture is made 
so one-half of it is inserted at a time, 
the curved blades extending in opposite 
directions like the prongs of an anchor. 
A hook on the lower end of the plug 
holds the chandelier. The harder the 
pull, the more firmly the plug holds the 
chandelier. 
This new arrangement will make it 
possible to bring a light where It 
needed and remove the light t 
niently from places where it 
needed, without leaving any gapinj 
or any dangerous dangling wires to 
Another advantage is the ease wth 
which fixtures may be taken, do\... .... 
cleaning, or when a room is cleaned. 
An important electrical manufacturer re¬ 
cently said that the reason why most 
householders were fussy and hard to 
please when selecting fixtures is because 
they realize when a fixture is once in- . 
stalled under the present method it is up 
for good. 
Another commendable feature is that 
when a building is once wired under the 
new method, it is ready to be passed on 
by inspectors and underwriters before a 
fixture is in place or even selected by 
the tenant. Fire insurance companies 
will welcome a system which eliminates 
the possibility of loose joints at the very 
point in the wiring of a house where a 
defective joint is most objectionable. 
The device will be on the general mar¬ 
ket early in 1921. 
