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By Jc& Dionne

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Columbus Was Plumb Ignorant

The two colored brothers were talking seriously over historical things. One of them remarked: "Dishere Cristofer Columbus musta been a awful sma't man to diskiver dishere country befo anybody else knew nothin'about it."

t'Sma't man?" exclaimed the other in surprise. "He wa'nt no smat't man a-tall. Fact is, he wuz de mos' igernant man Ah evah heahs of."

CHARLF.S MAPEL RETURNS FILLED WITH OPTIMISM FROM EASTERN , BUSINESS TRIP

Charles Map.l, Secretary of the Pacific Door & Sash Company, of Los Angeles, has just returned from his ann-ual trip around the consuming and jobbing districts of the-east, and says that he never saw a year when prospects looked brighter or the sash and dooi trade of-the-east r,nore optimistic and e:rthusiastic over conditions and prospects, than they are right now. He brought back a satchel full- of_ orders, and George Nicholson, Sales \llanager, smiled broadly.

"Bo/, you a fool," exclaimed the other in huge astonishment. "IIow you figger de man whut diskivered dishere couqtry wuz dat igernant?"

"\Mell, I leaves it to youall. Considah de facks. When he lef oveh yondah he nevah knerr whah he wuz goinl when he got oveh,heah he nevah knew whah he wuz; an when he got back home he nevah lcrew whah he'd been. IIe wuz jus plumb igernant, dat's all."

L. L. LEWIS VISITS CALIFORNIA

L. L. Lewis, Portland, Oregon, sales manager of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, arrived in San Francisco, May 21, for a tu'o-day conference with J. R. "Bert" Neylan, manager of the company's San Francisco office, and H. C. Clark, manager of the Los Angeles offrce, who made the trip from the southern city for the purpose.

Following this Mr. Lewis left for a three-day trip in the Sacramento Valley, calling on the trade in company with Mr. Neylan.

Mr. Lewis says that the volume of rail trade is very good, and it is his belief that this will keep up.

Convention HaII in Houston

(Continued from Page 32) a huge wooden tabernacle with a Lamella roof and have it big enough to seat all the delegates and visitors necessary, and get it done in time, and at an economical price."

And today, on June lst the greatest auditorium is completed, away ahead of its schedule. It rose like magic from there is 308,000 feet of planking and braces. There is over the great flat of land that the city of Houston cleared for the purpose, and thousands of visitors every day have gasped with wonder at this magic development.

It is built entirely of wood. In the Lamella roof alone a million feet of lumber in the entire building. It will seat with comfort 25,OOA people, and leave plenty of room for the workings of the Democratic Convention. It will mark one of the most notable building achievements in the history of man, and will, by the time the convention is all over, have received more publicity than any other wooden building in the world's history, with the possible exception of Noah's Ark itself.

Giving the figures on the size of this great open hall does not begin to illustrate its hugeness. It fairly startles the visitor to walk into that huge room, and see that mighty roof arching above, with not a single upright in the main hall to obstruct the view or the sound.

Nevertheless the facts and figures are interesting. There is approximately 80,000 feet of floor space in the great onestory hall. The main hall is 120 feet wide and 326 f.eet long. That is, the main span. On each side of this great span there are two lesser spans of the same size each 76

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Convention Hall in Houston

feet wide by 285 feet long. Separating these lesser spans from the great central one, there are only twelve posts. In the great central hall, as stated, there are no posts of any sort.

The roof of the main span is built of. 3xl4-12 Lamellas. The roofs of the two lesser spans are built of 2xl0-9 Lamellas. There are 20ffi Lamellas in the main span roof, and 3738 Lamellas in the two lesser sDans.

It required just 22 days to build the frame and complete the roof, which was 18 days less than their contract called for. The erection of the rbof was wonderfully interesting.

Almost a mile of standard gauge railroad was laid within the hall. On these tracks moved the scaffolds on which the crews placing the lattice-like roof supports in place worked. The material was hosited up to the crews with a huge crane.

The three scaffolds under the main vault were 36 feet high and 30 feet by 50 feet at the base. On these scaffolds were l8-foot horses, placing the workmen within four feet of the center point of the span.

Ifere are three excellent vielvs of this great wooden tabernacle.