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I &. \4 ^ # Y r ^u,iK W**~ JOOBM4X. VORIC CURB and Canadian Mining; Stocks Bought and Sold for Cash or on Margin Direct Private Wires to New York and Canada. mm 25 East Slain Street, Rochester, N. Y. ! & MEMBERS New York Stock Exchangc,Chicago Board of Trade 100.Powers Bldg., Rochester. Phones S&SSRSSL,* Bell, 2120'Main Fred Stoffel, Pres. Home, 6M8 Stone Republic Elevator & Machine Co., 189 and 191 Mill St, DT CtrATritJC Motor and Controller Repairing:. Turning and Rewinding W-tl V A 1 V-IIVO Also Willwrighting Cable, Fire Doors, Gates, Iron Work, Forging, Wood Work, Factory Trucks, bils. Greases Waste and Repair Farts, Babbit IRON HORSE METALWARE \As stroifir as the Name Implies\ You can have the best by asking for \Iron Horse.'* Manufactured by Rochester Can Co. Rocheater.N.Y. __ STONE 72* MAIN 72* F. H. Phelps Lumber Co., Inc. DEALERS IN LUMBER, L^TH AND SHINGLES, POSTS, SASH, DOORS, TRIM, FIR AND LONG V LEAF TIMBER OFFICE AND YARDS, 25* ALLEN ST. John H. IMcAnarney General Insurance Fidelity Bonds 101-102 Elhranier ft Barry Bid*. Roch. Phone 2172 Bel) Phone 86t2 Mata INCORPORATED 1850 Monroe County Savings Bank 35 State Street* Rochester, N. Y. RESOURCES $28,400,000 Deposits $1 fb $3,000 Interest allowed from the first three business days of any month * Dividend declared December 1st, 1919, for six months at the rate of 4 per cent per annum RUFl T S K. DRYER, Pres: WILLIAM CARSON. Secy & Tress. BANKING HOURS: Daily from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. Saturdays from 9 A. M. to 12 M. Saturday eveninjre from 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. for deposits only Back to Materials Employed by Spanish Missions. CHEAP MATERIAL IS SOUGHT »— — <•*•— SCHOOL DAYS $m MJ Copyright •:ne cUrk for The Journal Concerted Effort to Reduce High Cost •f Building Small Hornet Is Being Mad* in Many Places—Adobe Sched- uled for Picturesque Recrudescence —Cool in Summer and Warm in Winter. Concerted effort to reduce the high costi of building small homes, so as to place them within reach of fanv tiles of modest Incomes, rs being made in many places. Analytical chemists are finding their services In demand testing the various qualities of clay which it is hoped will furnish the du- rability shown In the adobje houses built by the early Spanish settlers in New Mexico, Arizona and California more than* a century since. Many of Ihese buildings still extant are as .&ol* id, if not more so, than they were when plastered together by their crude designers and constructors, long bo- fore the Louisiana territory became an integral part of the United States of America. In an article published in the Post- Dispatch, prepared by Thomas Crane ifoung.-TJromineut ^ Louis architect, ittention was called to his plan to nake a series of experiments with the Mays In the vicinity of St. Louis, to we if small homes could not be pro- vided with a sun-dried mixture of jarth and straw, serving as a substi- tute for walls of standard brick or aollow tiles. These experiments, the 5t. Louis Post-Dispatch announces, are still under way and are being watched closely by those who hope for ?ome satisfactory adjustment of the lousing problem, which has reached in acute stage In St. Louis and most of the other large cities. Adobe Bricks the Thing. With building costs persistently ad- anclng and rents keeping pace with this upward trend, a cheap material ;hat would serve the purposes of lura- oer, brick, atone, tile or concrete would go a very long way in remov- ing an admittedly serious menace. That the adobe \s scheduled for a pic- turesque recrudescence is no longer a matter of speculation, as it has al- ready been taken up on an Intensive scale In southern California, where jome of the mission buildings in- structed of earth still stand as a me- morial to the constructive genius of the earliest settlers, who came' chiefly from Spain. Like the Indians and others who happened along first, they decided that homes were essential. Having no srehitects, builders or skilled mechan- ics, they toot advantage of the mate- rials that nature supplied and molded fheir walls of mud, with sufficient straw or grass to make the binding force necessary to hold the mass to? gether. JSven where there was no timber available, they made supports of die same plastic material after sub- jecting it to a drying process In the lottest focus of the sun's rays. These Inloneers molded the elny into blocks much larger than the standard bricks of the present day and used the soft day instead .of the lime or cement mortar used in modem construction Simple Process of Building. While the construction of the adobe house is a slow process, it is yet sim- ple and requires no large working force such as Is needed In the build- ing of a home with brick, tiles or lum- ber. Gut in California, where the adobe Is coming back strongly, women and girls have turned builders and have reared some attractive-Jonfcins Dtmgalows. They follow closely the style of the mission builders and work with a gemiinp zest once thev get their houses under way. In the Huntington Park district, near Los Anfrelps. young women are giving time nnd study to tlipir plans and are get- ting some artistic effects when it comes to the stucco work on the ex- terior of the walls. Whpti rhw little homes are-completed. It is planned In train vines that will spread all ever the structures and nd..I greatly to their picturesque beauty. Though the Spaniards are credits?!, with the development of tire adobe, ex- cavations made in ancient Assyria. Babylon and Egypt have disclosed the fact that the same material, mixed with straw and grass, was generally used for home building by these early races. They followed the same gen- eral process of molding the bricks or blocks to a uniform size and then drying thenr In the sun, before setting them in the walls. Where a stout building was desired a very thick wall Wa« constructed, hut most of the houses'had but one thickness of the hand-molded forms. Indians Were Pioneers. The adobe of southern California (Hid Arizona in Its Crudest state has slvv.-iys been a delight to the aHist. Part of the soil, not altogether lovely* Inu. yet hjirnioniim-. 'hey present a front of siiildity and unohmisive v«!g- nity that deeply impresses one • at once. The first adobes built by the Indians, who had little inclination for architectural i. beautificntloh, , were Avails of mud heaped up In mass, with n piece of wood or a bunch of grass stuck here and there to give the mix- ture holding qualities. The early Spanish came along and studied the arts, and crafts of the la- art achieving mufts. rtlaim with {tfiittt. Tjtww found many «f th# adobe hpii»es in good condition and as other materials were hot easily obtained, they tH^an improvements on she original; plan, They found that most of the sqil.of tile country wan well adapted for such uses and they gathered their worker* together and proceeded to build their missions. They shaped the pliable clay into bracks 4 by 12 by 16 inches, and add- ed a liberal measure of grass to ini part strength and prevent disintegra- tion. These were piled up , lh the form of parallelogram, the soft earth well watered; being placed in the Interstices and over the points. As timbers and shingles could not be obtained, tlrey molded substitutes of the same mud composition and install? ed them In place. After the great earthquake of 1S12, the Spaniards abaudoued the practice of providing roofs of this material, as it was In that disastrous happening that the top of tlie mission church of San Juan Capistrano collapsed while the place was filled with frightened members of the colony, Many of the worshipers were killed by the falling blocks. Cool in Summer, Warm in Winter, The walls of the early houses varied a good deal, some having a thickness, of three and four feet, and the Boors were made of the same composition, 1'he adobes served the double\ purpose of keeping the ojcreunaots fbol in the extremely hot weather raid warm when a wintry blast -happened along. Where ft was available, the early builders, es- pecially the Indians, combined the soil with \tulle a sort of reed found in the swamps. This added material strength to the walls, Many of these cabins, reared more than a hundred years ago, are still occupied by the descendants of their designers. Among the foothills of Palomar are several villages • of • the Tornecula Indians, whose huts, built of this formula* are still providing home and shelter. Where'the mud bricks _, were placed In the walls wltfcout first being dried out thoroughly ami mixed with some sort of a binder, they soon succumbed to the weather and disintegrated in time. Thus the original building of the San Gnbrjel mission was reduced In time to a mere mound. Tltjs fur nlshed ,an object lesson to the builders who constructed the other missioi groups of stoncher compositions. For many year* one of the show- places of Santa Barbara was tlie adobe mansion erected by Don Aguirre, and known-as \La Cassa do Aguirre.'* Palace Built of Clay., Don Aguirre was ti rich Spaniard who did not believe in practicing economy when It came to providing a home for himself and his descend ants. He used adobe for his wall; because that was the popular materia' of the time, but he made them ar thick as an ordinary fortress! its win- dows deep as tlie ports' for gun* and protected from without with very heavy shutters. The shingles came from Honolulu and the furniture and tapestries from Spain. It contained * store, niagaMne, warehouse and court and in effect was a village with In Itself. SChe residence* was 10 large rooms and its drawing room was known to the grandees from San Diego to Monterey for its receptions and parties, at which the Senora Aguirre presided with all the grandeur of a queen. Tlie patio was 40 by 40 feet the arches of adobe being supported by columns of artistic molding. The porch was fully 15 feet in width, ex- tending the entire length of the court This famous creation of adobe stood solidly, defying the ravages of time and weather extremes, until about twenty-five years ago, when a cloud- burst in the mountains sent a cataract down on the place, tearing; out the sup- ports and starting the disintegration that caused its eventual ruin. The adobe builders-Of 1020, while seeking pome of the ' decorative scheme's of the Spanish builders, afe more intent on providing small home.*\ rather than forts, nnd nre not making their walls as thick ns Don Aguirre deemed necessary. Durability nwl perman.ency' cot) be Insured without resorting to Mich massive walls, and as lumber and shingles can tin secured for the roofs and supports. It. is- not necessary to invite mishaps sUrh as occurred' In the 1812 earthquake. Bas Proved a Success. The saving in brick and tiles, the principal items In hdrae construction, is a very important factor In the cost of providing the Small home, and the workers Out in California and other western states will, find many others following their example in combating the high cost of building. That the women-have found it pleasant employ- ment mixing the mud and molding the blocks to go Into the walls Is also re- garded as a promising augury that there will be,mnny converts to the adobe plan. Of course, all clays are not as well adapted as those In the far West for adobe walls, but most cities have a variety of soils and tests should be made before the bricks are molded* Id -the vicinity of St. Louis some of, the best brick, terra cotta and fire- (Jay-products in the country are pro- duced, ^vhich means that there bira bountiful supply of material waiting to be, taken out of tlie bosom of Moth- er .Ejirin 'for those who wish to exper- iment and build. The tests-.now being m*de by Architect Young and Ills as- sociates nftriselng awaitgiiJEith inter- est by many persons who Itave lots, but lack the means to provide houses at the present record-breaking 'prices of materials of common tjlsftge., If the e»rth aiid its straw or other binder can be hammered and treated Into shape to supply the walls, St. Louis will not be long in catching up with the California men and women whs siwsai 0*. TURK CAPITAL CUT FROM ASIA isolation of Constantinople by British is Complete. ' Waek. An . MOSLEMS mm ENRAGED Food Is Short in War District--2,000,. 000 Christians in Asia Minor Are Threatened by Massacre—-Railway Communication Between Bosporus and the Interior Hat Been Cut Off by British.' :/ Constantinople Is as much Isolated from Asiatic Turkey as If the Atlan- tic ocean separated them, Kallway communication between the; Bosporus and the interior has been cut off by detachments of British, who burned the large bridge south, of BU'ejik. aft- er getting out all their Indian troops which had been guarding the line. British headquarters I* in ismhVaod tlie protective area is restricted large- ly to districts within range of the na- val guns. Anatolia is the source of the food supply of Constantinople nnd conse- quently the prices of meat and vege- tables have already doubled. Tlie huge profit taking Is not checked by the high commissioners, who maintain the Action that the Turkish government Is functioning. Communications virtualj; »re *au»r pended and the allied newspaper* are tilled with statements that the Nation- allst movement has been nipped In the bud. News which readies Constanti- nople through couriers from Anatoli* and passengers from the various Black sea and Mediterranean ports doe* not support such statements. Mn»tapha Keninl Pasha, the Nationalist leader, 'has called a congress to meet in in •wra, with five representatives for each vilayet. General ni6bl!l*atIon Ms been ordered and all 'military' tnunr tions ordered removed from tfitS coast, * . Prepare for Defense. - Definite statements have been made by Mustapha Keraal that ha -will wot rccognlxe the Sultan'* orders. , At 81- vas, Amnsla, Tokat, Samsoun and many other plac** there are trend digging and other preparation*, for de- fense, Captain Forbe*. the British passport control officer, W» been seined at Amasla and taken to Slvas, and It Is feared the taking of silled hostages may become generaL The Frtnch again hav* failed to re- lieve Aintah, and Armenian! from Ada* na are movingy with French permis- sion, upon Badatin in an *ff,oirt to re- lleve-the Christians threatened there. A message from Alotao, »«nt two weeks ago and jnst receiyod in ConatanttnO' pie, says that the >*o*lema will not sell food to 25,000 Armenian* there, Turkish lenders who were at Marash have arrived in AJntab and it la feawd another \great massacre may occur. The Italians and French »r* both critical of the allied occupation of Con. stantinople, which they blame entire^ ly upon the British, and declare thai If the 2,000,000 unprotected Chrlatlahs in Asia Minor are kilted by Jifotlem)« enraged by the seizure of-Cooitantlno- pic it will be the fault of the Brftlirti move, Uncertainty As to Future* So far there has been no Bglittajg of any consequence In Tlirace, btlt there Is great uncertainty as to what will happen ff the French eomplet* their evacuation as planned and the Orwsks occupy the region. The French troop? are unwilling to flgUt In !Thrac*V d*» daring they will not take territory for the Bulgarians and Greek*. A delegation of four member* of th# Turkish chamber are en route: to An- gdva for a conference with Mustapha Kemal. They were allowed to pass by the British passport control and are expected to return here In ten days. The* delegation Is composed «n- ftrely of Nationalists, but they ate a?s- serted to ho anxious to persuade the Nationalist leaders that the Sultan Will not support thetrt atid the movement cannot succeed unless modified. . Wliile the British were repairing the bridge hear Bilejlk, Nationalist* dt> rected a heavy machine gun fire Upon them. Hut tht»ir;aim was so bad that there was only one casualty. After crossing ,lho bridge the British bat- talions burned it to check the Nation- alists, whose game seems to he to force the allied troops to pursue them into the Interior »pd keep up guerilla warfare rather tWan take the oft*en> slve. ft \v.* accident, ^, t /t % her maidk ' *s*M UtaXm soda watw *l ^» ' the same, * - ~ 4 * f '$*>. Urery hnn*a» *#«*, l»{i,|\ Longfellow. For never, never, nUMIi-vmi wise.—Pope. „ , * - \, There are no buffet ears m-4 STORE CUTS LIVING COST --&S ,y* $# i I Co-Operatfve Biisinets House Brings Prices, Down in 8mall Place. A co-ope>rfltive* store, that ha* been operated less than a yea* in Florence. S. D.» at the end of five month* paid each- stockholder a $17 dividend.' Th* store in that time had done a 464,000 business. ; ' -;• ' Here are a few specimen pHeef: Children's shoes, of a brand selllne for $4.75 elsewhere,' cost |340 a; pair. Pure mixed candles, retailln^ift 80 cents a pound, 25 cent* In this farm ers* store,, ^ • • .</;••/• Fape.v cakes and cookie^ are li to 17 cents a pound, 20 to &j eenU ta private-owned store*. Bulk coffee of excellent .grade, 80 cents a pound. Other price* range from ft to fjO cent less than prasiilfa* *tanda' A manager aa«; ttomsr. tint? | kept Mwy.. t A , ) > 1« •f disaster*. j \'^ The parting wordi of 1\' •Which side, planner Applause has made tnelf- ssen than criticism. , s /i Nothing is so local as not «•\'' some general beneflt. ' » w^h Girls, «re true friend* w«Vo fNf^ together in sympathy. Some people make room at tig*\ by pushing other* off, .« Silver 1* the earliest carrcne^' ttoned la the Scrinture*. The different diaeslaa 'wiadai mankind nntnlber ahottt 1^00.' ** i; : Sweet are the atnuea a »«••• hand* him on pay ear - There Is no paoishawat tor taxes; so it nejrer atopav' '. One-slitb of the worWe aninlne i» contnmad fa* IadUu «*I* better to*pateli tail today than yoor **«• '••n »- J r Overplay wni aoowtlmei •tan down a* w«ll M oveywartBa-'v-J Bswara of tba wife ,- wj table s^fts 'eoo*is€' •f-\\**^\ He who I* aasJMa to or his bllU I* at -\- If a eoek haaa Itiaat eier K Jwi :5'i .v\? ,#»«,'i^r« m •tirMM W ftaa Jsa m IhasAassss* Ass& 1 *j ISIB I 1st 1 m *w sofvic wm mil ^^~w a ^-^^^ JA^^. AsWdsuaak SW4BBMK.1^ can yawj eawat faansj taspa; Moat ef 411%' are to>a large *• he talnk*'It east*••%.. Seslakln is namralry srf • color, but It la dye*l*for »•! We.all admire a writer pressea the optnlona we)*r* If a man doetnt wlttd iip v 1 hablte hie health will *»oo r«a Hconony f* the road to also help* keeplng v up wltt No one 'can ^blftjWB «0t; mate aueeee* bat ftflnmt* imitate the rubber baft. «hai It is thrown dowddie fclthsr;yj -Som* mew waitt-avli*^ Ing to. convince etheis trUthfnL - • If there 1* H> h# match love, one ha* to make himself ing of it, A giri never forajebi i$ti> rJo get* after reaeitini _th«.i^ kisses count*. • - •'••''••. -;;. / .:r s One Mi to pe able to r*» what in ord|r # unreasonfthW ;.; know s&« A^ father - ^fa.i<$&ft$ itWy.i company If the boy 'Iwl for pocket money, ' * A tlocior who telfa $Mf% tonm l^fore ynvdw tW^ your eitiral ialtt. ' ' \^ Don't have toe; \tatty They are a freqneatt ^~* ~ presslon of Others. , *?./^i|^ t» \ '*t Kvery cenana has 4iscfes*4f there are mora **e» Itt'-^i-J State* this <iromea, *T ** •. A,>«*J1 it require* «ota*/ •ren aend \hoat member* of the* Pewifmlst* «W and Schoi pesslmlam abent *irata1l#^ Some Of the ' nn gone into for other* for * J < -4 i Soinewome* takin|\\ \\^\ •.*<••' »
