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74 WINNETKA TALK December 3, 1927 fl RIGHT HERE WE WOULD) 'LIKE TO MENTION- WE ' ARE WE guess that everybody believes that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Of course you realize that if the plumbing at your house is put into the proper shape at this time some member of your household may not fall ill at some later date. Why not have that plumbing attended to at once? Phone 874 ~464 S.J. STEFFENS 723 OAK ST. WINNETKA,ILL. Read the Went Ads North Shore Board to Hold Election at Dec. 13 Meeting The next regular meeting of the North Shore Real Estate board will be held at Glengables Tea room, 376 Park avenue, Glencoe, Tuesday eve- ning, December 13. Dinner will be served at 6:30, and will be followed by a business meeting. The latter will include the annual election of officers. A large attendance of the members is especially requested. The Board's annual banquet and dance will be held at the North Shore hotel, Evanston, Wednesday evening, December 14. There will also be cards for those who do not wish to dance. Tickets for this, one of the most gala events in the board's calendar year, may be procured from Mr. Brown, of Murray & Terry or Mr. Dodds, of Quinlan & Tyson. The board expects to have a number of guests from the state association at this dianer. At the banquet, Robert Wyatt will present the President's trophy, a silver salad plate and server, to H. Bell, winner of the Board's golf tournament. Mr. Bell, it is said, is already practic- ing his speech of acceptance. President Wyatt's presentation is to be a permanent gift, the provision un- der which it was posted not requiring that it shall be further contested for. And, already, members of the board who are likely timber for presidential candidates are heard murmuring that they fear Wyatt has established a pre- cedent which they will have to emulate at the start of the next golf season. Ped \% (0) 8 {C7:NE) A HOV. NN on Improved Property at Attractive Rates A415 500): 3 08 5 70) Si JEELY, (0:5 yeY-Xei ol O76 1150 Wilmette Ave. Village T heatre Bldg. Ph. Wil. 218] Why All Chicago Would Live on the North Shore (Continued from page 63) who would come, cannot at first com- prehend. The village of Gleacoe, perhaps, en- joys the distinction of having the greatest amount of undeveloped vacant of any of the north shore villages, but the great strides which she has been making in the building line and in the final subdividing for development of its remaining close--in areas, during the past two years, is already a force- ful reminder that this important dis- tinction is rapidly passing, the same as it is, only in a correspondingly greater degree, in her sister villages to the south. Prices Going Up __ People coming out to Glencoe ask us if prices are going to recede? Em- phatically they are not. In 1919, land, close in, east of the tracks, sold for $30 a foot. Recently property has sold in this section for $175 a foot. Why? Because a good class of homes and citizens have occupied this area, thus increasing the surrounding values. The writer chose Glencoe of all Chicago's suburbs, because it was less than two miles in width between the lake and the Skokie valley, hence free from industrial encroachments; was one of the highest spots, hence favored by the prevailing westerly winds; be- cause of its strong community spirit and because there were no unsightly commercial uses at its front door, that is, along the railroad tracks, most of which abutting property is owned and maintained by the Park district. Slight Touch of Blue or Green Adds to Gray Wall Gray walls in a room are harder to achieve than is generally understood. Some grays have only black and white in them, but a good gray to use is one which has a noticeable, if slight cast of blue or green or even red. This is the type of gray which carries a subtle appeal and easily harmonizes with colors which may be introduced into it. Building Pointers 735 ELM STREET Cay Most Builder's Hardware A of BUILDER'S HARDWARE T he standard make of Tools Eckart Hardware Co. WINNETKA complete Assortment PHONES 843-844 ITH so much stress laid on archi- tectural style periods in even the smallest home today the fireplace has come to assume a period style as well as the exterior rendering of a house or the interior wall finishes and floors. A fireplace which is authentic in de- sign is not difficult to achieve these days. Fireplace furnishings such as andirons, tongs, shovel, brush, screen, fender, wood basket and coal scuttle are all offered in certain definite period styles. Furthermore, these fireplace furnishings come in widely differing prices and suited to different pocket- books. When a fireproof residence of ma- sonry construction is erected it is customary to construct the floors of either Portland cement or gypsum con crete. This same construction is large- ly used in light occupancy commercial buildings, schools, hospitals and build- ings of similar character. Such floor and roof slabs are formed by simply pouring the concrete to the specified depth over a ribbed metal lath, which is attached to metal joints. The sur- face then is finished off in one of many possible ways--with wood, linoleum, composition flooring, etc. Both Port land cement concrete and gypsum con- crete are incombustible. However, the latter is lighter by about 50 per cent, and if a floor or roof-slab of gypsum concrete is specified while the plans for the structure are being drawn, it often makes possible a considerable saving in steel. How often we hear people say, "We can rebuild, of course. Insurance will pay for that. But our pictures--our books--our cherished furniture and rugs--money will never replace them. Don't talk to us about fire extinguish- ers! There were several in the house. They proved useless." Fire extin- guishers certainly can prove useless-- if they are not the proper kind for the risks involved. Fires differ widely. But science has perfected unfailing methods for controlling every type of fire at the start, and with the right method in the right place you can avoid disaster. Rigid asbestos shingles have the ad- vantage of being successfully laid over old roofs as well as their use on new work. Their use over old roofing gains in that an additional insulating layer is added, and the labor and confusion entailed in ripping off old shingles is obviated. Sudden rainstorms have been known to do considerable dam- age when a house has been exposed during reroofing and before the new roofing material is in place. Rigid asbestos is fireproof and resists the ordinary effects of time and erosion to a remarkable degree. Every architect and home builder realizes that in estimating the cost of a new dwelling the cubic foot meas- urement is applied to the entire cellar with a cost factor equal to that of any other part of the building. Thus the home owner's investment in the cellar is proportionately equal to that in the main rooms of the house, but the return of that investment, in reali- ty valuation, in rental valuation and in living comfort is entirely dispropor- tionate. Realty experts and statisti- cians are responsible for the figures that $1,500,000,000 is invested annually in cellar construction by home builders in the United States and the equally illuminating figures that only 40 per cent ($600,000,000) of the cellar space is utilized for the boiler, coal bin and laundry, leaving 60 per cent ($900,000- 000) for development and improvement of the cellar.