New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-22

for clothes Closets hoored with slate aud fitted with
iron basus with water laid on constructed tor the
convenience OF washing The dodgers pay for all these
accommodations ga (53 cents) per week in advance.
The advantages of such building WILL the Society ex-
meet extend greatly beyond its immediate inmates lt
will il is asserted prove to capitalists that they may
erect similar buildings r great profit and od'an'age
IN th,mssIres while at the same time they are dong
much for the good of their tenants.
The fourth building is intended chiefly for poor sew
inc vopen There are Ga rooms, each provided with
two iron bedsteads chairs, table and wash'stsnd.
room lets for p go cents) per week. Wash-nouSe
with washing roughs ironing tables, and wringng ap
paratus is attached TO the establishment and also sew
eral DRY ngrooms, heated with hot-water-ppes' Ooas
are laid up and retaied to the inmates Inc MIN
building affords lodgings to single men a. Id % cen's
Per night p $50 cents per week. This mas proved
a profitable investment The members OF the Society
derive no personal profit from these houses, the income
bepp appropriated to the general objects othe Society,"
while the capital expended is raised by voluntary con-
tributions and by loans.
In 1915 another Society was chartered under the
name of The Metropolitan Association for improving
the dwellings of the Industrious Classes" This di'
fers from the first in connng itself exclusively 10 the
subject of odgiDghouses, and also in beng
Stock Company with capital OF 100000, and seeking
and expecting yearly dividend on the capital invested
1t is nevertheless phanthropic association striving
to benefit the poor and cOnsenng for that purpose to
be restrained by its charter from dividing more than
five per cent yearly among the stockholders, all the
profits beyond this dividend being expended in enlargng
the operations of the Society In $780, supplemental
charter authorised an addition of one million pounds
sterling to the capital of the Company for the purpos
Of erecting model dwellings in the provincial towns
The interest TO be received on this new capital is also
limited to FIVE per cent The essential principle OF the
association is sesuppO and the founders ayowed that
they should regard their scheme as failure did it not
return fair profit on the capital invested aud in Eng
land FIVE per cent is such profit.
This Society has seven edifces in LOndOn-one OF
them handsome structure $40 feet 'front.' with wings
and five stories HIGH for the accommodation OF families
II contains twenyOne sets of two rooms and ninety sets
Of three rooms each Each set is provided with water
yaterclosets sink shaft for carrying Off ashes and
refuse galvanized iron coalbox, and meat-sate The
living rooms are furnished with range, boiler and oyen
court in front for playground for children and another
in the rear for drying clothes. Another building con-
tans doritOry for three hundred single men, and sets
of rooms for forty families. Each single man has a
room to himself Attached to the establishment are
baths yrosh.houses. and schOolroom, which in the
varnc is used as lecture room for the amusement and
instruction of the tenants BY the last report, the
whole average population of the six buildings, (the
seventh is not completed was 1856 The mortality was
very light being only seven adults and i've children
AS an evidence how much the cleanliness and ventlla-
ton of these buildings conducive to the health oil
the inmates the Directors state in their report for 1850
that while Fever and Cholera have been devastating
whole Districts of the Metropolis, not one of either OF
8 those diseases has occurred in your buildings"
The following notice of one of the Society's mode
odcnobouses for three hundred single men, taken from
The London Times, will be found interesting:
"The building five stories in hight from the basement
The latter is surrounded by an open area ana contains
baths and washhoues with all the requisite appurtenlnce
extensive cearage and ample space workshops pom
he Ground floor the entrance hall is commanded by the Su
nerinendents apartments which are placed on the lett
while the store and cooks apartments occupy aoou'
the same space the right Immediately IN 'front.' OF the
entrance are the stairs of reprOO construction, which
lead 70 the three stories of sleeping apartments and Opp0
site the stairs on the ground floor is good sized lavatory
for day The coffee directly in front OF the star
case hall and extends to the back OF the Dulldg conu
nicatug on one side with reading room ana on me other
with Kitchen for the Of the inmates IL IS lofty ROOM
divided into aes by iron columns supporting an open ROOF
of stained tbers lighted by large window at the further
end two smaller side windows, and sheet5 OF rough pie
GLASS in the roof Boxes fitted with tables and seats
round three sides and the room is warmed by not water
pines cooks bar opens into the room ior he sup
G of coffee &c The reading room size 60 feet by 81, IS
warmed by open fires and intended to be furnished with
some of tie daily papers and popular periodicals Inc
kitchen by feet for the use OF the inmates contains
two ranges provided with hot water SINK win coid
water and common apparatus for cooking purposes FROM
his kitchen stone stair case leads TO portion OF the base
mont containing 23i meat safes all under lock and key
raised ON brick piers placed in ranges back to oack with
ample space for ventilation The cooks shep IS connected
NH The mems kitchen by bar, from which cooked pr0ys
ions NAV be obtained at almost every hour OF the day The
bree unper stories are fitted with sleeping apartments on
col sde of the corridors These all furnished
Will iron bedeads and suitable bed furniture There Is
o in Zach locker for linen and clothes, with false bot
tom for the admission OF air. that the sleeping berts can
be ventilated the pleasure OF the i0dger All tD do0rS
are secured by spring aches OF which each inmate mas MS
own kew On each floor ayatories, fitted with castron
enamel basins set in slate fittings. The partitions forming
the eepug apartments kept below the ceiling Tor the
nurpose OF ventilation and the corridors nave WINDOWS
at each end to insure thorough draft when neces'a-
~ With respect to ventilation, the princpn agent IS
shaft which rises hundred feet, into which several
f the smoke flues conveyed and 0y Wnlch means
a nowerful upper current is maintained The sleeping
APARTMENTS and other principal rooms are connected by
ated air hues with the yentatng shafts and the current
- reglated at pleasure by of hampers under the
control of the Superintendent Large clserns IN the ROOFS
and smaller other parts of the building afford an
annie supply of water every part OF the premises EVERY
hoor has an opening secured by an iron door, into dus
eIa communicating with dust cellar III the basement
The whole building is well lighted by gas The terms 49,
per week in advance Each inmate Will have besides MS
sleeping apartment the use OF the coheeroom readng
room and the public kitchen, where ne may cook his own
food or he can obtain ready cooked provisions from the
cooks shop Every odger furnished with small larder
under his lock and key has free access to the wash
house certain times of the day. and can by the payment
Of a small sum have hot or cold BATH
The Morning Chronicle speaking of the Society says
at has made sloveny class Of men neat and orderly in
l,b;+ r. has