City of Yakima, Washington Show Room, Elway & Miller Co., Aberdeen, Washington prominent hardware man. This splendid home was equipped completely with high grade plumbing fixtures furnished by the Seattle branch of Crane Co. and installed by Mellen & Riley of Yakima. By H. J. Baum The City of Yakima, situated in the center of the far-famed apple growing section of the State of Washington, is a fine type of clean up-to-date American town. Yakimans have a highly developed "city consciousness" with the result that no proposition relating to the betterment of their city is ever passed by without thorough consideration. They find time, however, to devote to their own homes, and the ones illustrated are fair examples of the sort of houses that are being built in this coming city. These include: A $30,000 home planned by Architect DeVeaux of Yakima for Wm. A. Bell, a A $25,000 house designed by Architect Deveaux for Dr. Helton. Plumbing fixtures, including two dental lavatories, were furnished by Crane Co. of Seattle and installed by the Lentz Hardware Co. A $30,000 home planned and built for Horace Rand, Vice President of the Cascade Lumber Co. The sanitary equipment of this place included three pedestal lavatories, two Woodmere baths, a large double drainboard, enameled sink and is furnished throughout with Crane Air-controlled Flush Valves. The work was done by the Lentz Hardware Co. bathrooms. Each of the closets is fitted with a white enamel cane seat chair, thus affording both a seat for the closet and chair for the bathroom combined in one fixture. There is a space of three inches between the bowl and floor, thus facilitating cleaning the floor. The showers in the guests' bathrooms are fitted with a plate glass shower stall door, white enamel finish with open grille at the top. The shower consisting of an 8-inch nickel plated tubular head coming from the ceiling of the stall and is operated by a concealed Crane mixing valve placed close to the front of the stall so that the user may ascertain the temperature of the water before entering the stall. In the Barber Shop and Beauty Shop special attention was given to the lavatories, which are 24x30 inch vitroware china pedestal lavatories, each fitted with a Crane concealed mixing valve with china Guests' Bath Room, Drake Hotel escutcheons and china handles. The mixing valve controls the supply to the basin through an integral spout and also independently controls the shampoo supply. The Public Toilet room is conveniently located for guests, being off the main corridor on the street level floor, thereby hav ing an abundance of daylight, and is so arranged that the amount of privacy required in a room of this character is very effective. The general lay-out of the room in finish and color scheme has been highly complimented by competent critics. Marshall and Fox, Chicago, were the architects of this attractive and sumptuously equipped building, and the plumbing contract was handled by O'Callaghan Bros., Chicago. "Let's Put It Over" By R. Vessey The latest State to adopt the term "Sanitary Engineer" for plumber is Colorado. We now have Indiana, Tennessee, Minnesota and Colorado. At the latest convention of California Master Plumbers it was suggested to change the name to Domestic Sanitary Engineers, but this did not carry which is very unfortunate. Still, all things require time. When I suggested first the term in 1913 in an article which I prepared for the Plumbers Trade Journal, I had set ten years as the time required to "put it over," which leaves about 22 years to go. Hundreds of individual plumbers are changing from Plumbers to Sanitary Engineers in every State of the Union and in most cases they are the live wires in their community, real business men with a thought for the future, not only for their business but their families, their social standing and general uplift. The peculiar thing to us is that the term has been adopted by progressive states in the West and South but the East lags. Is the East going to allow the West and South to beat it to it? We hope not. Let us all get together and put it over "now." Conversion of the water power of the River Rhone into electric force will be an accomplishment so great that the resulting power will be able to operate all industries of Paris, besides providing electricity for light and power for scores of cities between the Mediterranean and the Swiss frontier. It is estimated that the project cannot be completed in less than twenty years, but that power production would commence in less than five years if public and private capital is ready. Who Fills the Pay Envelope? No doubt 99 per cent of employes in industry think their wages are paid by the man or firm that employs them, which is not unnatural in view of the fact that they draw their money at the cashier's window. But in truth the boss doesn't fill the pay envelope, and wages come through the firm but not from it. The workman's pay comes from the consumer of the product, be it bicycles, batik draperies or breakfast foods. The week's pay may be drawn long before the product of that particular week's work reaches the market, in which case it is drawn out of the price paid by consumers for the product of previous weeks. Or it may be considered as advanced to the employe out of the firms' capital investment just as a bank discounts a note. But in this case the employer simply discounts with cash wages. the prospective income from the sale of the commodity. From this selling price, of course, there is also extracted a certain percentage to compensate the executives of the firm for the work and responsibility of management, and a certain percentage of dividend on the capital invested in the plant, machinery, equipment and operating |