. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Jamuaby 14, 1915. The Horists^ Review 98. The Arthur Cockcroft Ransre at Northport, L. i. The Four Houses are L. & B. Construction. One of Uncle Sam's Boys Made a Mistake and Instead of the Plans Going: to Arthur Cockcroft at Northport, L. I., They Went Way to Honolulu. |W0 MONTHS after the hoDses were up, the plaos and erection instructions came back from their jaunt to the Hawaiian Islands. None of us, in the meantime, had heard anything about their CoinK astray. All we knew was that "the houses were going up satisfactorily," If Mr.
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Jamuaby 14, 1915. The Horists^ Review 98. The Arthur Cockcroft Ransre at Northport, L. i. The Four Houses are L. & B. Construction. One of Uncle Sam's Boys Made a Mistake and Instead of the Plans Going: to Arthur Cockcroft at Northport, L. I., They Went Way to Honolulu. |W0 MONTHS after the hoDses were up, the plaos and erection instructions came back from their jaunt to the Hawaiian Islands. None of us, in the meantime, had heard anything about their CoinK astray. All we knew was that "the houses were going up satisfactorily," If Mr. Cockcroft can put up our Iron Frame houses without the aid of plans or erection instructions—it certainly speaks well for the simplicity of our iron frame construction and the accuracy with which the materials we furnish must be cut. fitted and drilled at our factory, all ready for putting together. Don't know how long Mr. Cockcroft was putting the houses up. but in a recent conversation with Mr. Alban Harvey of Brandy wine Summit, near Philadelphia, he said that after the posts and eave plates were ready, it took him only (> days to put up the complete framework of the big house 72 x 500 he bought of us last year. To get back to Mr. Cockcroft's houses; he had a bit of previous building experience that, to use his expression, "cut his eye ; It happened with his first house—that big one at the left. When he compared our estimate with another builder's, ours looked high. It was higher—considerably higher. So much higher, we lost the order. Two years afterwards, however, when the house became "wob- bly" and we were asked to strengthen and re-support the entire roof, Mr. Cockcroft good uaturedly admitted that whon he bought another house he would compare constructions and materials, first, and price, afterwards. The lower priced house he bought, was worth all he paid for it. He got just what he paid for. But! Mr. Cockcroft now says that "if
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