New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-20
Model Lodging Houses and Bathing House
In Londans


We cut the following from q LONDON iesses ~
the Philadelphia Bulletin:
Noyv for the new "home" The one vislfed 10
Il large new brick building, near one OF sne Woros
parts of London but placed on hgher e,n ana
ibsgRgs bs sbg os as play ground for the children
and place for drying clothes and the fourth side
being shut in by high wall. Every one who
knows how difficult it ID even for the rich to had
he alth safe place in city for their children to play
in will appreciate the advantage of this Around
the three interior aides ran covered gaeree, which
ser7ed as very good places for the children to run
about in, in wet weather. and were used as pas
sage ways 10 the different rooms. The hrst row
Of rooms we entered on the ground floor, were me-
c6anics shops al dry and convenient designed for
the mechanics lodging in the house. Than camo
the bath rooms for either hot or cold water and
larger room with conyeniences for washing and
ironing all intended for the dodgers in the
house On the second floor the apartments for
families begin. And very comfortable they are -
Tho floors are of asptalte to prevent dampneas
ascending. The walls and every part OF tham, are
az much as possible, made fire proof the beams
wherever used being laid in fire proof cement, and
the floor reating on brick erches. The passage
ways outside too, are mostly OF slate. Each family
is allowed two rooms and pantry Tue sitting
room or kitchen, 10 furnished with good cooking
range and oven and the pantry has a safe Tor pro-
visions and divers other convenienCes, known to
house keepers. The bed room as indeed is true
Of all the rooms, ls furnished with excellent neans
ofventila.ion Fuels sold by the Company to the
dodgers at the wholesale price and gas sill soon
be- burnt through the building We examined
several OF the different sets Of apartments and
found them certainly most pleasant and convenient
| fell into something OF a conversation with one
woman aboutthe new . Lodging bouae She ked
il all very much-aaid the great reason was why
she and her husband came, was to have dry,
hos n q "a 10
all the lodgers lib ed it very much, though aome
did complain that the flooring she asphalte) busted
the carpets
. Each family pays only from 4s to u q week, for
all these conyeniencies, This lodging house was
designed for families alone. There are still otherB
for single men, with even greater conyeniences |
went over the one in St. Giles, which has not only
all the arrangements, mentioned aOoye-the bath
ard wash house and safe for each indiydual-bu.
public kitchen and CofEeerOor, some 33 feet long.
The dormtores, OF course, in this house, would be
smaller, and on different arrangement from those
for femiea They are equally clean however, and
well ventilated Each one is provided with bed,
chair and clothes box. Ia one par. Of the house,
too, is q small library fer the inmates. The rent
FOX all this iB only 2s I'D week, or at the rate OF
I'D night, which is lower than the price at the
dltiest boarding houses in the city. There is an.
other lodging house for single In another part
OF the city, even more comfortable than ths, with
q better coHeeroom and reading room supplied
with papers-aL at nearly the same rate. was
pleased TO see among the regulations of shese
establishments that there was daily religious ez.
erCises which the dodgers could attend, il they
chose, and that all spirituous liquora were excluded
from the house though OF course, that necessary OF
life, Engsh beer, was admitted All these estao'
lshments are doing well Both the Two LASS
though with over hundred dormitories each, are
amoss constantly full, and yielding fair interest
on the capital invested.
The bath and Wash.b3uses ere doing still better
TIE bath.hoase in 81. Martins, one Of the most
complete in the city not only pays five Per cent
i1teress On the capital, above meeting zpensa'
but even is paying off inatalments on The original
loan. This was asarted by 3 Parsh company, the
fund loaned by the Parish, Thera are others, like
any other commercial companies, where the sub
scribets receive their dividends according 70 the
prof!s. The Arrangements Of this waln'nousa
were 2s elegant ks in almost any batnlng mouse VI
the city. There were two classes OF oa'nS' oIs
the penny baths were fully as comI0rtabIs, snougn
Tot 20 much ornamented as the other The Prtl,,
TONS which formed the separate baths Wese ,o -
IRON and the whole building was almost nfe ;t
The range OF wash-rooms were very ca =. nnig
indeed. An this, be it remembered, az oni'
ha penny an hour o~ tbere was an
| noticed that during the Summer summer, 'e9 dsy using
average Of over thousand PETITE tba bath houses
the bath and washroorns IN I'll that there enc
for the poor had succeeded 80 "9t andon. We hnd
row, in nearly every PARISH 81 - 10th tie agrica
tbsn also all through Eng ana, Il II was only the
tural and manufacturing t9wns an inferior
other day saw one IN