"Building, as everybody "knows, has become terribly dear, This is very hard for all of us, rich and pour, but especially it ' hits the poor. The notion needs a tremen-dows crop of new houses. What it ting is a moderate number of very dear, very cramped houses, which, as the old woman said, there is not room enough, to swing a cut," writes Sir Leg Chiozza Money, in the-"London Magazine, "Building being so dear, 1 thought
Jdearer if I did it for myself instead of employing". professional, builder. So I blithely' plutiged into the buying-of- bricks; "cement, sand, ballast, timber, baths, patent [cookers, and: the' thousand. and one other things which go to the making fof a modern house with. all the latest improvements. I may say at ones that the experiment was on the whole shecetsful:
have: never had: a very. profound reverence for. the' alleged secrets of trade? If one has a reasonable, knowledge of - elementary science, there is nothing dificult to understand about any manufacturing business, "Successful building calls for wide knowledge of @ host of m ials, trades, and- methods of con truction, Above all, it demands design, 'In my case T knew clearly what I wanted, atid my friend, Mr. George E, Clare, LRIB.A, a gifted Jand experienced architect, developed the plans and: worked out the many' details. "No one proceeding to build, whether for themselves or through @ contractor, should fail to employ: a capable architect, His feo is well earned and remunerative to the man who has the sense to! pay it, Pity it is that millions of builders' houses have been put up without proper architectural direction, "The employment of a thoroughly' efficient foreman on a building, job is as necessary for professional as for an amateur builder. He it is, on a small job, who carries out the work in detail, who engages the! workmen, who'is responsible for} secing that they do their' work! faithfully and well, who receives the various materials, who makes! up the weekly wage sheets, and who actually pays out the wage provided: by the employ "A careless or incompetent foreman can easily make the building house both poor and unprofitable, T had the good fortune to find the! right man, and no one should] dream of ' following my building example unless assured firstclaca foremanship.
"A foreman hax not only to handle materials, but human beings, jand the workmen in the buildin trades, -INkevimoat of! us}
*SaNow let tis tall' about vinta, "In recent years there' have" bent developments both good and: bad: int building materials, To deal siral with the clatter, high: prices ha to the free use -of substitutes: which are not really cheap,-although they pretend: to' be: Nothing has. beet invented to beat the qualities of brick and mortar, timber and: pla ter, but there exist a host of subs titares whose- main recommendation is that they cost less in the? first place. It is always true that) the cheapest is the best;.and in-the.casa of buildings their desired. quality of permanence makes it very. dear in the long run, and sometimes dei rven'in the short run, tou "This is very notable in: the'¢ése of brick and tile, THe cheapest, facing brick is the hand-made prox duct. Pressed bricks do not went well, because the machine compress sion imparts to the clay the-unfor tunate quality of, lamination. Machine-made bricks, peel off in layers, an doing this, 'A. hand-made out of well-milled delay, is, practical purposes, inde "More than that, the hand-made brick has an individual quality, No two such bricks are exactly alike, Just as' no two nose: are exactly alike even in the same family, A building faced with handahade bricks, therefore, has the subtle charm of trite artistry. It does hot Took as' though it wore spated' out with a ruler. "And if the brickmakex knows his joby and if we order our Lovicks carefully, we get charity shades of colour, a well as gobd lines.
Sir Leo Chiozza Money goes: Ort to describe in the "London Magazine' how the rouse was built, his "books scape," the garden, and a host of Li Pao-chang, Defence Com missioner of the Shanghai and Woo sue districts, has despatched numb: x of plain clothes Chinese detectives to protect those workers who have eturned to. there sco Amazing, Chesterfield's swift climb to popularity. Amazing, that is, until you /aste one Liccerr & Mytns Tonaces Ca,
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