Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1911 — BALL AND BAT NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BALL AND BAT NOTES

Hutchinson, in the Kansas State league, has a player named Lafiambois, but he does not seem to be setting the league aflame. Corridon of Buffalo holds the distinction of being the hardest and most consistent hitter among the league’s twlrlers. McConnell has not swung into his right form so far, Johnny Kane has been doing some grand work with the Vernon team since he went to the Pacific Coast league. His base- running is a, revelation to the coast players. The meanest man in the world is the bug who writes a postal card to the baseball editor and does not sign his name so that the right kind of an answer can be made to him. Pat Moran, the former Cub, is one of the men who is responsible for the good work of the Phillies this spring. Pat has been doing wonderful work with, some of those young pitchers -on Dooin's staff.

Clarke Griffith of the Reds is nearly broken-hearted over the way his team is being slaughtered. It means a lot to Griff, for he may not be able to renew his contract to manage the team for next year. Umpire Perrine, who is doubled up with Jack Sheridan, is having a harder time than any of the other umps in the American league. Sheridan does not work behind the bat and so his partner gets the heavy end of it Helen Considine, a senior of the Milton. Mass., high school, holds the strikeout record for girls. In a game between the freshmen and senior girls she struck out eighteen freshies. She would do for some of the big league teama.

In spite of speculation in modern house building and the shoddy materials and methods of construction too frequently seen, the fact remains that, on the whole, we build better today than they did in the “good old days” of our forefathers. And this, too, In spite of the fact that the problem of building today is infinitely more complicated than that which confronted the builder of colonial times, owing to the unexampled complexity of commercial and Industrial conditions now marking a transitional period in the development of American city and suburban life. In the olden days all life savored more or less of the country, with its comparative simplicity of conditions. Now, however, the scene is transformed. The marvelous progress of mechanical invention, the creation of new materials and processes and of rapid and powerful lavor-saving devices used in building construction, the wide development of natural resources, the rise of new- and complex industrial conditions, the rapid growth of lndustrial centers, the extension of the facilities of commerce, the great lessons of the fire risk—all these have been reflected more or less in American contributions to the art of building as such. Moreover, the architect and the Guilder of today have advantages that were not at their command a century ago. The range of available and adaptable building materials has greatly broadened, thus giving a selection that did not exist in former days; and this advantage is emphasized by vastly improved transportation facilities which place at the disposal of the builder the varied materials, not only of this entire country, but of the entire world. It is only, however, within the past thirty years, with the revival of the

long-lost art of concrete working, the advent of the steel structural frame, and later the combination of steel and concrete in what is known as the “reinforced concrete’’ type of construction, that anything of great importance really new has been developed in the art of building in this country. Even to this day, outside of the Spanish missions, there can hardly be said to be any distinctively American type of architecture, the results so far developed being merely an eclectic treatment based on well-tried old-world

traditions, though infused in some rare instances, as in the buildings of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, with a breadth of conception and an ineffable spirituality of treatment which have been seen only here. J It is probable that in thp “colonial” style of architecture —a modification of the type developed in England during the reign of the four Georges, and hence sometimes called the “Georgian”—with its quaint freedom of treatment of the Roman orders ana its traces of classic refinement, we approached aa near aa we have ever done to the development of a truly national type of American architecture; and in our modern work it is not safe utterly to disregard the rales upon which it was based. A tew features traceable to the “co-

lonial” influence, with its central hall and symmetrical layout on either side, its classic columned and balustraded porch across the entire front, its curved light above the center window In the dormer, etc., have been embodied in the cottage illustrated in the perspective view and floor plans shown in the accompanying cuts. A house like this can be built complete, under favorable conditions as to location and labor, for $2,650 to $2,800. It is 87 feet wide by 81 feet 6 inches long, not including the length added by the front porch. It contains seven rooms, besides a spacious reception halt This hall, in the very center, entered directly from the veranda, opens at the left into a commodious and well Mghted living room running the full length of the house from front to rear. Half way along the outer side wall is an ample fireplace.

~whose hearthstone is the magnet for many a genial and happy family gathering to enjoy the true comforts of home when the weather is too chilly outside to use the spacious outdoor retreat of the ample porch. Along the opposite wall may be ranged the bookshelves, piano, couches, or some of the other furnishings ordinarily found in the room where the family spend much of their time. The dining room is at the right of the hall, and is provided with a buffet A door opens directly at the rear, on the right, into the pantry, which is also

connected with the kitchen in the eenter of the house by a hallway that may be entered from the vestibule opening directly off the back porch. The stairs to second floor ascend from rear of reception hall, and those to basement open off a closed passageway connecting the reception hall in the front with the kitchen in the rear. The hall upstairs opens directly into three spacious bedrooms on the sides and front of the house, each well lighted and provided with ample closet accommodation, the large bedroom on the left having two of these conveniences so much appreciated by the housewife. The designer showed his further regard for the needs of the family by providing a good-sized sewing room directly over the kitchen. The bathroom is on the second floor, opening directly off the upstairs hall. A well-lighted basement extends under the entire house.

Second Floor Plan.

First Floor Plan.