four-dollars-a-day

Updated: May 24, 2025

The growing scarcity of wood, the usual costliness of stone, the abundance of clay, the rapidity with which brick can be made and used, one season being sufficient to develop the most awkward hod-carrier into a four-dollars-a-day journeyman bricklayer, the demand for more permanence in our domestic dwellings, and the known worth of brick in point of durability and safety, all these reasons will, I think, cause a steady increase in their use.

E. C. (Eugene Clarence) Gardner - Homes and How to Make Them