The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 9, 1924, Page 14

PAGE 14 ATTLE STAR ¢ GIVE REPORT ON PUBLIC WORK City Spends Nine Millions During Last Year SKAGIT GETS "$3, 703,899 Local Improvements Exceed 1922 by One Million astruction Do You Know? | «2.7% of City Engineer J. D. file in Mayor Brown's yn to this fig 542,046.00 was HOMES | unter contract at the close of the FINANCE APARTMENTS ""Thew figures include only such BUILD —_ BUSINESS BUILDINGS ervioed by the OUR 1925 EDITION NEW PLAN BOOK—“Homes 1 7 x : ath e ss ; % by of Individuality”—$1.00, Sent Anywhere GARDNER J. GWINN, Inc. 1703-4-5 Hoge Bldg. EL iot-6359 PLANS PLANS PLANS DRAWN TO SUIT YOU, $10 UP was spent That We DESIGN H omes T hat Le Dif ferent eating distinctive individual features—are the homes built uel Andersen, They cost no more than ordinary houses— return large dividends in satisfaction and comfort. — DOES NOT BUILD FOR SPECULATION — — JUST HOMES — SAMUEL ANDERSEN 432 Peoples Bank Building MA in-6270 d the Sw Lake dam $750,000, while the sum of $2,703,809.58 was put inte the Skagit river power project. Of the local improvement expend! tures, the property owners pald $3. $60,072 and the balance of $696,490 ame out of the city's general fund They tnelude lowing work: rading and new sidewalks, $1,837,- water mains, 236; planking, lights, $19, (70, and steel and concrete bridges, without the tn oo, and the sonertenty to attractive features to one’s home, about @ vogue of em: homea. Th buy an automatic oil burner with- mn all parts of the out first consulting one of the oil companies to make sure it will burn heavy Diesel oil. Ask the Standard, the Shell, the Union or the General Companies. , Find out just how it -will operate with the gravity oil they supply. Yi OMATI( previou © amount of year was $30,399 individual owners demand. Without a doult they fll a long-felt want, and when property denigned, planned and bulit they will prove aplend@ homes. About half a m $4,600,000 spent provements was maturely and will repres nomic loan for tome years to come, Blackwell de clared. In addition to completed work, a number of projects were given pre liminary consideration and will ‘be ready for action by the city council shortly, Blackwell state a The home filustrated t distinctly different tn | rrangement and design, Wut {t has proven expe ¥ clally well adapted to tts location. — Living: Room - Ateatt nm room have been allot he addition of the bed clonct, pro- for the guest without crowding the ving room ttaelf, living room and bulk of the «| OMATII is the only fully automatic burner that ignites by electric spark and burns without adjustment any oil from 24 degrees Baume or lighter. We Install and Service Ray Burner—Oil-o-matic Kleen Heet also Gleewood Gas Furnace and Servy-cl Electric Refrigeration “Heat and Cold for Home and Factory” $1,907 buys all the lumber for this modern story-and-s-half Colonial, six rooms and sleeping porch; also all windows, doors, shingles, lath, built-in features, finish hardware and out- side paint, All the modern conventences are placed tn the New Sorority House vvikealon for Alpha Xi Delta Plans prepared by The Alpha X! Delta sorority, at E4ward L. Merritt, who also superintended the con- the University of Washington, will | #ruction of the building. build a two and one-half story brick and frame building on the vacant Use Stetson & Post lumber and mill- ing onthe i bi TS to ag 3 ch ; i | CONSOLIDATED BIG INFLUX ‘antee every piece of material to be tira strictly up to the grade under which it 2 algal oper delle " | Isaacson Buys Pacific Con- Crowd Into struction Co.’s Plant and specifications were Discussion of the proposal to hold & second Modern Homes exposition in Seattle this will feature the meeting of the Seattle real estate , 12 the Hote! | Tourists will The discus within the next week or 10 days. is sold. All framing lumber is extra and present plana call for ts com. pletion by August. thigk, giving you more strength at no additional cost. SEND FOR PLAN BOOK Send 25 cents for 1924 plan book, showing plans of more than thirty-five convenient and artistic homes. STETSON G POST LUMBER CO. 5300 WHATCOM A LIOTT-O7 You Can Know About CONCRETE on natever use of Concrete planning, the Portland Association can, and ‘will gindly, yo you absolute- 1 lo information We will toll you ex- actly how to use concrete to wet the best results, This association js the Joint research and educational foun- dation of 86 cement manufac- turers. It has been carrying on this work for 21 years. All the association's factli- ties are at the services of the public without charge. Portland Cement Association Organization to and Extend the of Concrete, The completion of negotiations for the sale of the Pacific Construction | & Engineering Co.'s buildings, plant and equipment at the foot of Forest st, to the Isaacson Iron Works of Seattle, announced today, adda a new item to the olty's rapid industrial ex pansion. With the purchase of the plant, the Isaacson Co, took a 25 year ground lense on the lam’. owned by William Calvert, on waich tho buildings stand. The plant extends the entire dis. and East Marginal way, near the Fast Waterway port terminals, It was constructed during the war at/ location until ft now ® cost of a half a million dollars, The congideration of the wale was not stat™, but tt Is supposed to be in the nelghborhood of $100,000. Following its construction, the plant was used for forging aml ma chining parts for the shipbutiding yards of the Coast, and was later do voted to the manufacture of tools for the Callfornia ofl industry. For led by J. A. P. Hender Automobiles Are Burned in Garage Automobiles valued at $4,000 were destroyed in a fire at the Nelson Co. garage, 2108 Wer ave, late Tuesday, The fire's waa to be probed by Fire Marah I, Laing Weds hasten asateeeneenneeseateunn | Isaacson Iron Works, started in bus! tance between the East Waterway! hess 16 years ago with two men in o shop at the foot of King st. Hix business has expanded at the same employs —5( skilled workmen and is tho largest ship anchor plant on the coant. The two plants will be consolida ed at once, and will form the large f » machine shop and galvanizing plants on the Coast, Andrew Bernth is general superintendent tn charge of operations for the company, a Harry A. Smith will be retained Pacific |‘ West This Year, Claim Tourist travel thruout the West vill be a record-breaker this season, according to Charies Donnelly, pres- ident of the Northern Pacific mui} road, who was in Seattle Wednes- |day. Donnelly claima to be one of |the first tourists here, having t his family with him on one of his regular trips of inspec: tion. | joint publicity campaign con- ted by the Northern Pacific, at Northern and Burlington roads has brought in thousands of |inquirtes concerning the Northwest from all over the country, he de- ed, and this will naturaily be followed by a@ large amount of ravel here, Donnelly will leave Wednesday night for his St, Paul headquarters, According to advices recetved by the Chamber of Commerce from Its Washington bureau, the national park service is expecting a ¢ cent Inet @ in tourists to POWER PLANT ENGINEERING CO. 1933 Fifth Ave—EL fot-7648 @2 Tacoma Bldg —Main 919 The Gas Range with heat automatically controlled by the Lorain Oven Heat Regulator. The Instantaneous Automatic Gas Water Heater The Warm Air Gas Furnace with the Automatic Heat Control are the ideal appliances for the new home. The Use of Gas means health, comfort, economy and conven- ience, Seattle Lighting Company 1308 Fourth Avenue MA in-6767 the past two years {t has been under|an advisory capacity. E the control of a creditors’ committee,| All parties in the transaction wer | parks. Last year Rainier park sc with Harry A. Smith fn charge, represented by FE. G. Sill of the firs ja high tourist record with 123,000 John Isaacson, founder of the|of B. L, Lambuth & Co, visitors during the season. HOME INSURANCE You oarry lite insurance to assure your family against want. Did you ever stop to think how long the money would last if pald out as rent at tho present acale? 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