Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 14

I SEPTEMBER 25 Detroit gxte A 4 4 aft a Plans and Specifications urnished ree for The I HOME of Your DESIRES 'a ii I WHEN YOU BUY Wet Process Concrete Block Last a Lifetime YOU GET THE BEST STOP LARGEST SCHOOL PURE WATER IS OR LETTERING EASY TO OBTAIN AND CARD WRITING Prompt Service Phone Main 6361 Zagelmeyer Cast Stone Co 1 Hemlock 1964 Twelfth and Outer Belt i OUNDATIONS CONCRETE BLOCK (THADS Solvay Collieries Co Semet Solvay Co SOLVAY £TZ UEL PRODUCTS i Nut sss DETROIT i I luai MADE IN EGYPTIAN IBRE I75lda3lkuufnl Letter 'shopa IRE BRICK nW BROS CO REDERIC STEVENS SPECIAL SHEET METAL WORK the pru the also LEHIGH VALLEY ANTHRACITE Koa Tnv Bead And think of the superiority of Wet Pro cess Concrete Block as compared with'dry tamped block or brick Excavating Steam Shovels Machinery Moving and Rigging Ml Phone Cadillac 6701 4 Unique Detroit Institu tion Insures uture for Students GRANITE ACE BRICK Must be sepn to be appreciated 3 tu1 76 Washington Blvd Multlgraphlng Addressing Sta Wo Operate 250 Wagons of Every Stabler Throughout City We Deliver reight or: Wabash Railway Co Creat Lakes Tramit The Narbleloid Company Uarbleloid ire Proof looring Cork and Tiling XCala Officer Sew York City Xocal Offlcei Sime Beak Bldg TeL Cadillac MSB Exclusive Hatter WIDEST RANGE IN BUILDING IN THIS WONDERUL CITY Egle ilter is Simple in Construction and It Doej the Work Among practical educational In stitutions from which the students matriculate with no uncertainty as to future existence Detroit School of LMUring has won a high place for Itself Education la desirable In any field of endeavor in many it is a neces sity Put how many boys emerge from the and other ad vanced schools and say to them selves Successful sign and show card earn from $25 to $100 a week and having made success of this art himself Charles Strong set about devising ways and means to impart his knowledge to others Having worked out a plan to his own satisfaction he founded the Detroit School of Lettering In 1899 and every year since then the growth has been steady Larger quarters had to be secured so that the institution now is at 82 to 81 Griswold street and 8 Strong who served hla apprenticeship in a prominent engraving concern is its president and actively In charge of its service and supply departments Charles Strong was original forceful and enthusiastic and he bad the knack of making the scholar understand just what he a real teacher As a matter of fact 95 per cent of the students do not know the Kfirst principles of sign writing when thev begin but they always succeed if they finish the course There ar five different courses at the school and they embrace the complete lettering and sign paint ing course including show card and ticket writing the show card and ticket writing course plain letter Ing course advanced sfiow card and ticket writing course and the ad vanced course in sign painting and card writing When one of the scholars has completed his course and the official in the shape of a recommendation is handed to him he is ready to make his way in the world Not only that but the school guarantees to place proficient stu dents In positions paying from 813 to $45 per week or the start The 'Detroit School of Lettering sticks by Its studnu until they are suc cessful It is economical Insurance against the future in a business that is genteel always In demand and very profitable Bottling Works at 228 lorian Avenue Hamtramck Mich Phone North 69 18 Order by phone and get quick delivery Depot for Mt Clemens Summer Drinks 24 Inch Shingles On Your Next Bungalow Cylinder ti Belle Ide Boat Co The best use of ire Brick the use that means long service is not the growth of a night but the result of long study I have had the exeprience I have the brands and the stocks With my sales go guaranteed service UNION TRUCK CO Ltd 12 to 24 Eighth St Wert LARGEST OPERATOR OP MOTOR TRUCKS IN THE CITY Heavy Steel Stamping Deep Drawing and orming nn'ract and Job Work Solicited Michigan Metal Spinning Mfg Co 638 Xaat Woodbridge Stret Detroit Mich THE GIGAR THAT (VICWEL WORTH A OWE Reading Truck Co CONTRACTORS Diamond State ibre Co HABD AltD LEXCILE IBRE or Electrical Insulation and Mechanical Purpose Sheet Tubes Washers Diac and Special Shapes ibre Receptacle tor Offices DREW Mirr Hodges Bldg CADILLAC 1488 DELAWARE HARD IBRE CO soa KRTS4 1 fU i'ACMUKCW if MISS DETROIT CIGAR Japanning Plating Of Ante Parts Hotel Silverware and Llghtiac ixture Have It doua by ncUlgaa'e oldest Coal Lump Deep Springs Water Co 674 Grapd River Ave PERECTLY PURE DRINKING WATER rom Our Springs at Northville Mich or Office and actory our Demijohn Service ie Good Call Grand Cm of Price 6 Bottles 2252 No Other Charge 50c OCR WXTER SUPPLY IS UNLIMITED ilters made by Egle Bros Manu facturing company at the plant Bellevue and Sylvester avenues have been installed in many resi dences and business places of the city and are affording a supply of pure drinking water These filters are very simple In construction and effective in their work the fluid coming from them standing very high in labratory tests In fact they have displaced other methods in many places be cause of the ease of installation and their efficiency These filters corns in various sizes The one that is used in the household la sightly takes very lit tle room the installation is simple and it is reasonable in price or restaurants hotels and others who use great quantities of water for drinking and culinary purposes there are sizes which are ample to meet the demand upon them City water generally contains sub stances which may bs harmful to th human svstem and thia is the most simple way of rendering the fluid palatable and germ proof The i difference in the color of the water drawn from an ordinary tap and I through one of these filters is an argument which cannot be doubted LEONARD MOELLER BUILDER Heal Estate Tire and Automobile 304 Whitney Bldg 172 Griswold Bi Phono Main Commercial Envelope MAIE AXI KINTEII IN DE TROIT HV THE LATEST METH ODS KNOWN TO THE ABT TULLAR ENVELOPE COMPANY 4S Congress St West plant BARNEY NEHLS 348 BRUSH MAX 630 WATERPROO BUILDING BLOCKS Adds Beauty The Name Guarantee the Highest Quality Sales "Department Detroit Michigan Carpenter Repairing kLdUd Cement Work Garage loors Driveways and Sidewalks Work guaranteed Call between I a and in Give your address Cherry 36C3 Edward Pitts 161 Griswold CRES0TE STAINED SH1NGLES American Boat Co BUILDERS BEAUTY" CRAT oot Motor Boat Lane Detroit OU can pay your rent into your own pocket regardless of whether or not you now own a lot WE WILL BUILD OR YOU on a lot you select to suit your taste furnishing Plans and Sped fications ree On a small pay ment down and balance like rent or further particulars phone or call at our office Output of Zagelmeyer Cast Stone Co Greatly Increased to Meet Demand Such Is ths demand for various kinds of building material that the manufacturers and supply houses have had to work hard to keep up with orders this year The increase In the quantities sold is enormous and there is not much sign of a let up although what wai consid ered the slack seasun Is approach ing While the increase has been felt on all sides there are very few es tablishments that can show the gain made by the Zagelmeyer Cast Stone company with plant at Twelfth street and the Detroit Terminal line The business done so far this year is 125 per cent greater than in a like period last year This company specializes in wet process concrete blocks and these blocks do not need waterproofing Another product is the Zegelmeyer granite veneered block which is In great demand Most of the blocks are used in foundations the wise wnicn accompanies the installation and the everlasting qualities uf the concrete made by this process es pecially commending them to build ers More homes are being erected on the concrete block foundations thisear than ever in the past and the Zagelmeyer company has kept abreast of the growth of the trade by added equipment POHL PRINTING COMPANY Main 1592 148 WAYNE STREET BEST OR MAC HIN IDOt WORK Patents Trade Mark and Copyright BARTHEL LANDERS BARTHEL ATTORNEYS AND SOlTlMTORS UNITED STATES AND OREIGN PATENTS 35 Congress St 408 14 Buhl Block Cherry 4115 Detroit Mich Netalwood Manufacturing Co Hydraulic Machinery and Equipment Leib and Wight Streets Benaraia Courses Learn bv our essv home tnatmetfon Per sonal attention at the school rto every student ill a big 'er position Eam from $18 to $4S Per Week Go In business for yourself pt successful students Satisfaction Guaranteed for new literature Detroit School of Lettering 89 84 Griswold St Detroit 0cbM Established 1898 Coke oundry Nut Pea Buckwheat Breeze Tool Room nW yW Heat Treating and urnace STANDARD UEL APPLIANCE CO 1267 1269 Beufait Are DetrmtV A LISTEN To the expression of satisfaction each and every one of the builders who have used our HIGH SPEED BEARIHGS containing up to 32 of lead l( No LEAD SWEAT on heat test Can be furnished in Ingots and repoured without deterioration BRASS and BRONZE Castings to Order X4 v' Panacea Spring Water PUREST WATER OR IRE TABLE Cements Supplies Large Stock on Hand and We Can Deliver A AGNEW CO GENERAL CONTRACTORS 312 Hammond Bldg VAULT DOORS PETER OLS SAE COJ 5 fort LwC fWJi lAfm Daaamaah PROMPT DELIVERY SERVICE wmL Besancon holden road 739 taa VMI IWVI HighUnI park Yard Det Ter Hemlock 1003 A HUMAN TYPEWRITER Operates Automati cally Supplant Three Typists Come and see it ALL" Hooven Automatic Typewriter Detroit Bearing Casting Co 75 85 Baltimore Ave Wert Phone Market 6336 running from the city single story tAingalows and two story houses are putting in an appearance The number of these runs into the hun dreds perhaps it passes the lOuO mark and should be credited to Detroit as these are to be the homes of people whose business in terests or employment is here North End Activity The activities of some of suburban towns have nounced Highland Park Isf'ona nf mnrh hamw buildinc more enlargement to Ite mammoth automobile plant In Hamtramck many factory addition have been made and hundreds of small homes have been built during the year Grand River avenue is being de veloped and In a few months scores of houses will be built ol the new subdivisions and even be yond Redford Royal Oak has been booming for two or three years and the builders there have just about all they can attend to for the ac cessibility has made that a great home center Years ago there was a lot of activity In what was known as River Rouge real estate but demand did not come at the time Thera was only a gradual growth but the anticipations of the pioneers will exceeded in a short time for a new community is to spring up on the west side of the city River Rouge activities will ex tend from ort street north of Michigan avenue and the outlook la that in flv years there will have been such a change In the section that nobody who has been away will recognize It Iron and steel mills a tractor plant and other In dustries have made that part of the city and county prominent Best Mstcriala and Work The factory 'office building store or home builder of Detroit Is for tunate because of the high stand ard of the building trades In this city Contractors are numerous and not only do they do as good work as any but the materials which go Into local' structures are tjie best obtainable With the Increase in the price of the raw material in the last five years and the advance In wages they do work on a nar row margin thetr proportionate profit being less than In the days when Detroit was moving slowly Building projects for the next two years run so high Into the mil lions that the figures are astound ing The work will continue through the winter and the spring will see the beginning of some of the most Important operations Meanwhile the supply men are keeping up their stocks end order ing months and years In and the contractors are lining up their forces to take rare of the demands of the wonderful city HARRY BROTHERS MANUACTURING CO ormerly Voelkner Mfc Co" METAL STAMPINGS AND DIES 283 333 Woodbrld Buw Sas MliliME wf2rVnnwMiiss JL is RECOMMENDED OR INDIGESTION AND KIDNEY TROUBLE Bottled and Sold by LOUIS MER1QUE rf' 14 MONDAY i Dickinson Co 1140 ourteenth Ave Phone Walnut 2365 SPINNING STAMPING DIEMAKING Goodnow Blake Mfs Co i 4tk and Porter Maia 4 STI 4 4 1 4 We aJiip Id every Ibwri in Mulligan WrHc foe samples rid Catalogue DETROIT 4317 MB BBS DETROIT MIL LU At any one of our many jobs it) the city in which our Blocks are used 1X YnriKifxi 1 1 hj 1 1 El LEWIS HALL IRON WORKS Structural Steel rraar avs orv4d tbvxk I4W i EVERY TYPE MODERN STRUCTURE BEING ERECTEDCALLING OR COMPLETE STOCKS 1 MATERIALS AND CONTRACTORS WHO ARE BIG ENOUGH TO HANDLE WORK BUILDING operations in Detroit cover the widest range In the downtown section imposing office and store buildings are taking the place of landmarks which have served for years residences on avenues which now have become business sec tions way to stores with flats over them Some of the fac i tory buildings are among the larg 'est in the world and all of them are modern in detail In residential sec tions fine homes duplexes and apart ments are being erected To carry on this work involves the production of an immense amount of finished material and the carrying of i great stocks by the supply men Also I they thousands of men and maintain transportation departments in which are hundreds of motor i trucks and thousands of horses i Detroit la gaining aa la on other city and thia puta a heavy atreaa on the aupply eatabllahmenta and con tractors who have met it In aplte uf conditions which have prevailed during the year Large Stock Are Xeceeaary The amount of money Inveated In stock would run Into fancy figures The face brick men have had to 1 be on the job to secure their nia I terlals from statea to the south the lumbermen have bad to keep 1 at It to have material on hand the concrete makers and dealers have I had to meet an unusual demand and the iron men have been about aa hard pressed as any Building is not confined to De troit It extend fully 15 miles on any of the main thoroughfares run ning from center of the city While the showing ut the city it self is gratifying it would be won derful if all of the operations of the citizens In nearby could be lneudrd In the total Subdivisions have been laid out on all sides and every one that Is at all attractive is sold very quick ly Some of ho lots are bought for speculation and others for homes and on any of the roads hti ffiE LI IhJuNfflWIiUil ilv I I 1 WK A 11 bl I Oltae nnl Lua ipjrn Toot Room vHeat Treating and urnace STANDARD UEL APPLIANCE CO 1267 1269 Beaufait Are Detroit A.