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WEEKLY ".PORTElt BUILDING . \ O~O~tb- ':I~\~"~ And REAL ESTATE o~~~~\\\-a ~ <\ . 0 '1. <J.Q'\ -at-0'li -====================-=-==3 Vol. 6-No. 24 TORONTO, JUNE 14, L ~~tl-\. ,\c;, "''.): Price 10 Cents ~~) What the Shriners Saw in Toronto partmental stopes' in the whole wide world, and in the T. Eaton Com pany's store, they would find them selves customers of the largest retail organization in the Empire, an organization that has now nearly completed the first unit of what will eventually be the largest retail store building ori the globe. vVe will omit mention of our citv's many fine churches, schools and c·ol leges, Governmental institutions and will some day be widely recognized est and most complete lakeside re buildings, and pass on to the crown- as the great metropolis of the Great sort in the world, and should they ing feature of the city-the feature Lakes region? Did they see here have grown weary here, a few st!eps that has ever sold Toronto to every opportunities for industry and com would take them into High Park tourist that has visited with us-our merce? and did they above all else one of the larg,est and most beauti many fine homes. There are 108,000 depart with the idea that Toronto ful of natural parks on this continent houses in Toronto, and over 70,000 is a mighty fine place in which to within the limits of any city. of our citizens own their own homes. live-a city par excellence for the Those who made the RoOyal York Apartments, and most modern ones home dweller and home lover? their headquarters, were guests at too, have been erected in large num Well, it all depends on what they the largest and finest hotel in the bers during recent years, but still really did see when they were here. British Empire, while directly across oOver 60 per cent. of Toronto resi From the time their caravans, . th,e ;way was Toronto's Union dents live in houses, and appfo·xi~.---. camds and elephants crossed the Depot, a stately edifice and one of mately two-thirds of our house Humber a week ago until the last the best ,equipped as well as one of dweUers own their own homes. rocket had screamed its wav to the largest railway stations in Yes, we may be sure that most OIf heaven from the playground at Ex America. the visiting Shriners would see and hibition Park, they were all-every In our downtown business sec realiz'e the for.egoing points and H~ Shriners hav'e been here last man of them-receiving imp res tion, they would w.itness the trans pwbably many others as well about T and, by the time you are read sions ,of this city and i,ts people. formation of a provincial "big town" ToroOnto, for whatever ·else the ing these lims-most of them wiH Let's hope that they all left as good into a modern metropolis. The American may be, he is generally have gone. Gone, back to those publicity agents for Toronto. And stone facing on the new Bank o.f alert enough to recognize a good countless thousands of homes from now, what could they see as they Commerce Building was fortunately thing when he s'ees it, and we sub which they trecked ,over the burning marched, strolled or drove around completed just a few days ,before the mit he saw many good things while desert sands to the great oasis of our city. vanguard of the visiting nobles in Toronto. His camel mav be Toronto; and when we say that we To begin with, they would live, arrived, thus finishing the closing-in dumb, but he himself is quite' wide don't at all mean that this city was move and have their being every of the largest office building in the awake. And it is for us who remain the Mecca for thirstv thousands day in Exhibi,tion Park-the home Empire and one of the most beauti behind, who live and toil here, to Not at all-some there were no of the world's largest annual exhibi ful structures oOn the continent. In fully appreciate that we have a Citv do ubt who look'ed forward with tion, with permanent buildings re the Star Building, the Canada Per of Opportunity-so let's get busy most pleasant anticipation to that garded the world over as master manent Building, Northern Ontario, and make the most of it. feature of their stay among us. pieces of ex hi'bit ion architecture. and Sterling Towers Buildings, they Such was their right and just due, Their daily parades took place he would see structures, which while Summer Boarder: "But why are those and it was Toronto's privilege to tween seemingly endless rows of not the highest or the biggest in the trees bending over s,o far?" play the part of hO'st. An oasis any "bleachers," specially built for the world, are outstanding examples of Farmer: "You'd Ibe bending over, too, way doesn't mea.n simply and only occasion, and forming the world's commercial architecture. In the miss, if you were as fuU of green apples a place of moisture, but, according largest grandstand-over two miles new Ro.bert Simpson store, they as those trees are. to our copy ,of Webster, "a fertile in length ('taking in boOth sides). would shop in not only one of the place in the desert." That certainly Nearby at Sunnyside, they would largest, but ,o ne of the most modern implies more than mere dampness, beamus,ed and refreshed in the long- ly equipped and best appointed de- and so we believe that thousands, nay, the vast majority of our visit ing fez wearers, went away from Toronto with something more than wet f'eet. Did they go away with the impression that this city is thoroughly progressive in . every way? That we in Toronto are en gaged in the building of a city that -Illustrations courtesy HThe Humane Pleader," Toronto. 2 Weekly Building Reporter, JUne 14, 1930 President, "FELLOWSHIP QUALITY PROTECTION" Past·President, BUILDING W. H. Kerwin, W. H. Little, 47 Keystone Avenue, 63 Edna Avenue, LOANS GRover 9212. LLoydbrook 0901. Building loa n s 1st Vice-President, Secr~tary, a r ran g e d from W. E. Maybee, HOME BUILDERS' ASSOCIATION C. M. Pelton, 159 Sheldrake Blvd., 63 Benlamond Ave., plans at current HUdson 1776M. rates. Pro m p t Office, 31 Willcocks St., Toronto, Telephone Ki. 6718-Evenings Howard 2227 HOward 2227. service.. 2nd Vice-President, Treasurer, D. C. Kay, R. D. Wood, ADelaide 9900 18 Strathearn Blvd., 96 Westlake Ave., HIllcrest 4485. Official Journal: Editor: GRover 1403. Evenings: Weekly Building Reporter, P. F. McCleary, Official Solicitor, W. A. Curtis, HU. 4076 lrd Vice-President, 31 Willcocks St., 43 Roslin Ave., Leigh S. Hedges H. W. Timmins HY.6176 R. Muir, KIngs dale 6718 HUdson 6208W. T. W. Rea. HU. 2709 20 Linsmore Crescent, 371 Bay Street, HArgrave 9281. ADelaide 6482 F oIIow the Red Arrow W.A.CURTIS & CO. To Builders' Picnic INSURANCE & MORTGAGES Plans are now almost all completed for 357 BAY ST. TORONTO this year's Annual Picnic of t'he Toronto Home Builders' Association at Kiwal1lis Park, Thistletown, Saturday, June 21st. 10:) •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• OeJ John Carrol and his committee have been U 0 holding sessions early and late and mem U 0 bers and visitors can look forward to one of the biggest days ever staged by the MORTGAGE MONEY Association. The route map 011 tlhis page shows you For first mortgage loans on plainly how to get to the happy hunting improved property in and grounds at T'his,tle'town, and to make about Toronto at current your way easier t'he committee will have rates of interest. the highway leading to the park marked by a red arrow sign all the way from GREGORY & GREGORY ~ t Kee1e and Dundas Streets. There will be no 'parade this year, ,but everyone is ungcd 371 BAY STREET. ADelaide 3211·2 ~ to leave home early so as to arrive at the Evenings: LOmbard 5567; KIngsdale 8593 0 grounrdsby 12 noon, in good time for o 0 dinner, which will be served from 12 to The road from Thistletown !COty ~ ••••••••••••••••••••••• 'C;Q) to the Picnic Gr01.mds 1 o'clock. The comple'te pro'gram of sports is will be plainly marked published else,where in this issue, and the wi th the Arrow Sign. st. Clai r A--->,..... -"'-- committee ,have an assortment of the J~ortgage Loans Dundas st. most beautiful prizes for the winners of at the various events. Current Rates Telephone AD. 5497 MOFFAT, HUDSON & CO. BUILDERS - SUPPLY MEN EVERYBODY 1118 Federal Bldg. - Representative: REX. H. SMITH GRover 9605 ATTENTION! ((Follow the Red Arrow" to the Annual Picnic and Sports Day of the Toronto Surveying Home Builders' Association to Kiwanis Park, Thistletown, Instruments SATURDAY, JUNE 21st For Sale or Rent From Keele and Dundas Streets the route to the park will be marked by the Red Arrow sign. Bring every member of your familY and all your friends and be sure and leave home early for Dinner will Be Served Commencing at 12 Noon Sharp. Sports Program Begins at 1.30 p.m. Supper Served at 6.00 p.m. The Weston Boys' Band, one of the best known musical organizations 1ll Ontario, ,will furnish music all during the day. One of the features of the Sports Program will be a basebalJ game, Builders vs.