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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1925)
MODEL FIRE-SAFE HOME TO HAVE “BURNED DIRT” FLOOR _ ~ - S3 All-Modern Features Described Dealers in Efficient Appli ances to Be Used Tell of Their Products' Merits. Visitors Are Welcome By WILL M. MAIMS. Been pretty busy with contractors and architects and supply men and rn.v own regular work and a million and one other tilings for the last week. Haven’t had much time to get out to the new house, hut it is coin ing along. Am not trying to crowd things. Got more lime than any thing else. But thi.s new flresnfe house is going to have so many up-to-date tilings in it that really I’m beginning to won der about ’em myself. It Is easy enough to look them over, get all their good points, and all that sort of thing, hut it is quite another mat ter for a layman to explain them so others wiU understand them. That’s why I’m going to let the men who handle these modern appliances and do this new fangled sort of construc tion do the explaining. When I told you about the concrete floor last week I forgot to teil you it wasn't sand and gravel and ce ment. Cement, to he sure, hut not sand and gravel. My Haydite Floor. Omaha’s oWn made fireproofing ma terial will have a place in the ideal firesafe home, for Haydite, is being used In the construction of the con crete floor. Haydite. Is manufactured by the Omaha Clay works, at Second and Dorcas streets, and Its use In con crete construction by laboratory tests has proven it to be considerably stro'nger in fire resisting qualities than concrete made of ordinary sand 'agtd gravel. In addition it Is about one-third lighter, so that the dead load of a solid concrete floor is that much lighter, allowing a lighter and cheaper form of construction, with the same relative strength. Burned Dirt. Burned dirt or clay Is the simple way of telling how Haydite is made. Clay is placed In retorts and heated to 2,200 degrees, at which tempera ture it turns to fluid. When cooled it forms clinkers, which ground up and graded are Haydite. When used,.ij^the. pouring of floors, ns In the ideal firesafe home, this 1 one-third less load In the dead weight of a floor is an item that enters into construction cost in it* favor. The saving In steel construe tion on a large building because of j this decreased weight, is Interesting architects and builders throughout the cotintry. Fire Resisting. As a resistant to fire, which is the reason for the use of Haydite in The Omaha I’ee home, it far surpasses ordinary concrete construction. Test number HH-253 of the Kansas City Testing Laboratories is a sample of what qualities it contains. Common red clay brick at 1700 degrees, when plunged Into water, cracked and crumbled and was considered a failure: t-2-4 concrete under the same degree, had no crushing strength at 1700 de grees while a sample of Haydite con crete stood up to a crushing strength test nf 1690 pounds per square inch. Haydite is expected to win a place for itself as the leader in fire-resisting materials, as it seems to stand up to tests which no Other material can stand. Some 30 men are at present employed In the plant making Hay dite. and the installation is less than a year old. Interest displayed in prospective building throughout the country Indicates that before long Omaha will be supplying the ma terial to many a large and small job. Make My Own Ice. The Iceman Is usually a pretty fine sort of fellow, but I’ve heard some complaints about his tracking mud in on the clean floors. But he won’t track in mud on my floors. I'm going to make my own h e. W ;n’t need much with my kelvinator, but if I do want a little for Iced tea or a — well, If I need a little Ice for the bevernge^-I’ll have it made right in my own home. Artificial ice is a recent Invention Its usefulness for domestic purposes has been brought to the housewife's atuntion within the past tew years. Our forefathers hung buckets in wells, primitive man rarrled snow and Ice down from the mountains and stored It away in raves and straw, for feasts on special occasions. They ate It with much the same relish that we now eat ice cream. Think hack for yourself an 1 try to remember, ;f you can, how your mother or grand mother preserved food. Now ice, with its short period of usefulness in the past, is doomed to become a forgotten means of supply ing refrigeration in the home, just as the outside cave. Electricity, with its silence, has entered most every home and stands ready to serve your every need. Whether it is heat, light or cold you desire, it Is supplied by the push of a button. Witli that same button you can now refrigerate your ice box. The Cave kept food fairly well for hours, the iced refrigerator for a day or two, but now the "elec tric refrigerator” keeps it for weeks. Clean, Efficient. Its cleanliness, its low temperature, the dry reftigeration that it produces. Is vouched tor by many thousands of users. The fact that it Is automatlcal - ‘ Electric Refrigeration Kelvinator Saves Money j These Three Ways Saving No. 1 Kelvinator fits right into the refrigerator you now have. Mechanical parts can be installed in basement or some other out-of-the-way place. Saving No. 2 Kelvinator refrigeration is far more efficient. Its dry, even cold keeps food better and longer. Saving No. 3 Kelvinator eliminates the ice bill. No more muss or worry about the ice man. « KELVINATOR IS A PAYING AND SAVING INVEST x MENT. IT IS BUILT FOR MANY YEARS OF CON STANT SERVICE. REQUIRES NO ATTENTION ENTIRELY AUTOMATIC. A talk with an]) Kelvinator owner or a visit to our showrooms will quickly convince ]>ou that Kelvinator Electric Refrigeration is superior. V* Call AT laniic 3100 for further information. "Electric Shops” 43d and Leavenworth, 15th and Farnam, 2314 M St. Nebraskd Eg Power $. j Low Rates-Courtesy-Service Steel Pans for Concrete Floor in Place The photographer arrived on the scene of activity at The Meal Fire safe Home Just as the workmen of £_ the Concrete Engineering company had finished setting up the steel pans for the Meyer steel form concrete floor. Brnced from below with tim bers. the pans are all ready to have a Haydite concrete floor poured. ly controlled and produces cold only as needed makes it the most efficient and least costly means of refrigera tion known today. The kelvinator has taken its place not only in homes but in apartment] houses also. The majority of con tractor home builders are providing space in the kitchen for kelvinator refrigeration. Soft Water. “Oh, yes, the water softener! T)id t tell you about that? Even if I did.1 I'll say a few~ inure words about It. Instead of building a cistern and catching rain water I'll have a water softener right in the house. That Will avoid oil the germs and tilings that rain water might develop, and I can have fresh soft water any hour of tho day or night. I won't explain how it works, for you can go over to If. K. Lashntutt's place at 1901 Har ney and sec it for yourself. That will he better than a column of descrip tion. “Kelvinator’ the New Refrigeration . ■ ■■ ■'# mm * Iceless refrigeration with a silent' servant who supplies the "freezing'] not every day or two, but every hour ! Find every minute of the day or night. , will be a feature of The Ideal Fire safe Home of The Omaha Bee. It is by means of man's moderti work boy, electricity, that it is ac eomplixhed and under the trade nam»* i of "Kelvinator” will be installed by i Nebraska Bower company. The virtues of such refrigeration over 1 lie more familiar method of ice van only be appreciated by talking! with the representative of the com ' pany, who comes to you with a verit able deluge of reasons why “Kelvins tor” surpasses ice. In appearance it is a simple little arrangement of coils that are set | right into an ordinary icebox, and, through means too devious for the . mind of an ordinary writer of prose. ; but which seemed so simple when he j explained them, keeps the food in the icebox at an even cool tempera j ture, and at a cost that he declared j would in a few years more thurf pay j for the cost of its Installation. Red Oak Community Clubs to Entertain Wood Worker* Red Oak, la.. F<*h. 2S.—Tim ne.\ monthly meeting of the It.'.l flak Community elnh will be helrl at the American Region hall on Friiloy evr nlng. March 6. at which time the tnen who are netually doing the work oh the county'll rods and the eommerria! travelers of Red Oak will he gwest* of .the club. Speakers of the evening will he John Damuth of near VHIIaea, a ptae tleal road man, and Fe Hon, secretary of the good roads committee of th IT. c. T. of Iowa. Road discussion will be taken up. The club proposes to put up Pfizer for the maintenance men to work for and County Fngineer Michel will draw up the rules of the contest. HAYDITE Defies Fire The Ideal Firesafe Home of The Omaha Bee has a solid concrete floor, poured of concrete made with HAY DITE—the greatest fire resisting material known. Ordinary materials have proven themselves unable to stand tests which Haydite undergoes. A Haydite con (rete block . or slab will tar.d 1700 degrees Fahren heit and still have a crush- s ing strength per square inch of more than 1000 pounds. Weighs 3 Less Haydite brings the con struction weight down ’s. With relatively the same strength, you are able with this material to lighten the dead load in home or build ing. Made In Omaha- deliveries are prompt. Omaha Clay Works 2nd and Dorcas Sts. if In the J[j me light M Our product and our work ^k I is in the limelight in the I Ideal Firesafe Home of The Omaha 'uk I Bee. Call there and inspect it. uk I please be free to rail upon us for any dr ^ 1 tolled information recording it, ^ 1\ or fur other products. * ^ V Concrete blocks, chimney blocks, \1 l\ fire clay flue lining, porch piers, I V wall copings, sills, lintels, lawn | V and garden furniture. \ DIAMOND CONCRETE I \ PRODUCTS CO. // V, office and Plant, 42d and // •y Parker St*. WA. 6773. M FRANK WHIPPF.RMAN, /I Manager /M i I Happy Hollow Is Consummation of Realtor’s Vision Beautiful Residence District Planned 20 Years Ago by Men Who Had Faith in Omaha’s Growth. Happy Hollow, with Its rolling hills and beautiful view in whatever direc tion the eye might travel, has always held a favorite spot in .the hearts of Omahans. John Nelson Hayes Patrick still HAPPY HOLLOW— Omaha’s Most Desirable Residence District The story of the development of Happy Hollow is that of the development of a community of homes. From the days when the Indian, upon his pony, topped the rolling hills and gazed down into what we know today as the Happy Hollow section of Omaha, this bit of nature has always remained beautiful. Today it retains all the simplicity of its — natural contours, and the hand of man has only added to and taken advantage of this picture. Situated on the east slope, just west of Happy Hollow Boule vard, and extending north from Underwood Avenue to Western Avenue lies the new unit of Happy Hollow. It ove^jooks the Dundee sunken gardens and many of the finest residences of the city. Streets have been paved, city water, gas. electric light and ■, sewer are available for each lot, and cement sidewalks are com plete. Elm trees adorn the parkings and ornamental iron street lights are installed. *» i i A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE Building restrictions in liappy Hollow Terms that are easily met may he provide that each house must sit hack from Our new arranged on the purchase of th.s property, the street m certain distance and that , circular with houses shall he of permanent material. full information lt js „ rowj p]M<.e jn w(,ich to live and Nothing: inharmonious nor undesirable can '* { one that will he enhanced yearly in value, enter the section yet the prices of the in V;, .} • tMk t * . , , dividual lots are such that one of moderate . Wri»« •' Th"‘ nlon,h "• th* instruction of means may buy and build here. phone tor one. many new homes. GEORGE AND COMPANY, Realtors City National Hank Building. Phont AT. 3024. OMAHA holds a place In the remembrance of the people of this city, and is well re membered by those who lived here a quarter of a century past. The Joy ous hospitality of the old Patrick home was renowned throughout the country. Its name of "Happy Hol low" was distinctive of the happy life that was known to the Patrick home. More than 60 years ago "Nels" Patrick gave $5 an acre to John P. Irish for 500 acres of land. It was considered a most extravagant price, but Inasmuch as the property lay within three miles of the city, Mr. Patrick thought it a good bargain. He lived upon his farm until his death in 1905. The great house, which later became Happy Hollow club, and more recently the Brownell Hall of , today, was constructed in 1571. In 1579 the north wing, which completes l he hall, was constructed. After his death the property was purchased by George & «'o., who even “0 years ago foresaw the. westward growth of the city and planned around Happy Hollow itself, the lieautiful residence district which it is today. Building restrictions, the boulevard ing of streets to follow the natural contour of the ground, the employ ment of a landscape architect to de sign an entire addition to a city, were things that few considered necessary in those days. C. C. George and his associates hung grimly to their Ideal of these things as necessary to the development of a pufelv residence sec tion, and the many streets of hand some residences, all in harmony with one another, are a tribute today to the campaign which they c&nducted for this part of the city. The theory that a restricted area w-ould only he for the rich was over come when friends and acquaintances of young Omaha business men, were seen building their homes in the dis trict. Today's homes in this sec tion are not all wealthy ones, many belong to those of only moderate means, financed successfully hy one of the several Omaha home financing insti tutions. I| ■■fin I < 1 An Invitation to You i * i1 We will be pleased to have ypu visit the Ideal Firesafe Home and see the quality of work being done here. \ Requests for information as to meth ods and costs will be answered to the best of our ability. DAVE E. JOHNSON Contractor 4137 Lake St. WA. 0932 % i