Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-12-03
French renement Honses.

The question of tenement houses is al
ways interesting. Abroad they are i'm
proving the dwellings of w)rkmen. In
Paris they have what is called the Cite
Ouvriere, in the new street, Rue de Cam
pagne Premiere, leading out of the Rue
d'Enfer This consists Of a number of
very neat houses, only three stories above
the ground floor, with two sets of apart
ments in each story. They are inhabited
by 500 people, and produce q revenue of
$4,000 francs, or Els, 900 year. Each set
has a sitting room, about II feet square,
one bedroom only, and g small kitchen.
The height of every story is q metres or
nearly feet. Gas and water are laid on,
aud there are conveniencies for slowing
wood, &c. Each set lets for $50
francs, or about $50 per snnum. AL
though deficient in accommodation, they
are q great improvement on the gslret and
cellar system. The rent is paid readily,
and the place is always filed. But better
by far than these are a large row of dwell
ings which are now in progress of erection
by q very public spirited and enterpIising
individual, M. Garand, in the Rue Popin-
court, Faubourg St. Antoine They are
from the designs of NJ. Oslin. There are
four sets of apartments on each floor, con-
sisting of three rooms and kitchen, with
every convenience. These, though much
larger and more commodious than those
formerly described, can be let for 300
francs, or $50 per annum. The principal
room Is IA feet by u feet, and Z feet high.
On the upper or fifth floor are to be single
rooms for bachelors, which are to be fur
nished for 20 francs month, or $48 per
annum.
slHow do the mass of the inhabitants live
in New York? Let facts and figures
show. Three-quarters of million live
tenement houses. OF 10000 families in
the city, only 10000 have an independent
homes by themselves. 1882 families live
two in a house, 4,4l6 live three IN q house.
In the II, 1854 houses not included in the
above, II, ,388 families live, or rathor stay
6 families, OF 35 souls, in each house. This
is the average; while in the Eleventh
Ward. II3 rear houses, or the back ends of
lots reached through allys, contain l, ,653
families. ls9 to a house. Others have so,
and some 95 persons living in them. In
one Ward % houses hold 6, 6,449 souls-l87
persons IL q single house. In one house
there are ll2 families. In another there
are 500 low Irish and German persons hud-
died together. Packed into q single block
are in some cases people enough 10 q city
of the size of Utics, \. Y. To call
these barracks by the name of houses has
been well described as follows =
"a structure of rough brick, standing
upon a lot 25 by 100 feet, from four to six
stories high, and So divided internally as to
contain four families on each hOOr-eaeh
family eating, drinking, cooking washing,
and lighting in room eight feet by ten /;
unless, indeed, the family renting these
rooms takes in another family to beard, or
sub-lets one room to one or even two other
families"
Of course, most of the rooms are so dark
you can scarcely see in them Of cloudy
day; and as to ventilation, water and 9TH
er closets, or any of the comforts and con-
veniences of a home, they are lot to be
Thought Of Stencil, indeeency, gloom, de-
morslization-these are the attendants L.
it not strange that children and adults can
live while crowded into such places And
is it strange that vice and brutality rage
rampant.