Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-07-19
To Those Wanting Homes i'm Bel
lows Falls.

lows Falls.
1t is said every day, why don't they
build tenement houses in Bellows Falls |?
Why are there not more houses 10 rent 7
More than fifty families were literally
turned out of the place this season, for
want Of houses to live in. They were
ready to work, ready to pay good rents,
yet there was not room for them.
We invite laboring men to come and
do our work, our mills and factories fur
nish employment for large numbers of
craftsmen, but when they come, they are
Immediately told they mustshift for them
selves, and they are fortunate indeed if
they find feeding and lodging places.
The fact is we need good, comfortable
homes for our workmen and business
people. Tenement houses, though OBJ
ljectionable in some respects, would les
son the evil somewhat, if we had them,
but they are not built-worse still, they
are not being built. And though we are
showing good degree of enterprise and
activity in opening and developing the
business capacities of the place, still we
are made sensible every day that our
capitalists commenced at the wrong end,
they should have built homes first, work
shops afterwards.
Now workmen and business men gen.
orally prefer to own their own homes -
they have in such case the privilege of
gratifying their own notions of comfort,
convenience and ornament: they satisfy
themselves, thereby they become better
workmen, they make better citizens. Our
interests, material and social, require US
to afford all possible opportunities for
our business men to obtain homes for
themselves.
These thoughts have occurred to US,
as we were about to offer our lots for
sale, and they have induced us to make
what we consider very favorable and en-
eouraging terms for all who desire to own
their own homes.
We have recently purchased some fif-
teen acres of building land, so located as
to afford accessible building sites. Some
of them not surpassed any where, and
all good and desirable lots. These lots
are offered only to those who wish to
build upon them, and at fair living rates
with every prospect Of increased value.
The prices of course will vary accord
ing to the size and location of the sever
al lots. The propositions are as follows:
1st The plan of house must be ap-
proved by us; this however, is only for
the purpose of avoiding the erection of
cheap and undesirable buildings.
I'd. We will sell house lots and the pur-
chaser of each can erect such house as he
chooses, provided it shall not be cheap,
unsightly one. And part or the whole
of the purchase money can be paid in
one or three years, if he will commence
the house this season.
Sd. We will sell lot, the whole of
the purchase money to remain unpaid
from one to three years, if desired, and
will advance to the purchaser five, ten
or fifteen hundred dollars towards build
ing his house, in such sums as he wants.
The purchase money of the land, and
the money loaned, may remain from one
to three years, with yearly payments.
4th. If person will advance 81 900,
We will build him house according to
a specified plan, not to cost over SO, 800,
and give the person three years or more
to pay for the lot and house, the purchas-
er to occupy the house after completion,
making payment of the interest and part
of the principal every year, treating the
$1,000 as the first years payment.
A plan of lots and plans of houses can
be seen at the Office of J. D. Bridgman.
We respectfully invite the considera-
ton of the public to these propositions.
j. ID. BRIDGMAN.
I'll. w. SUFFER-.
Bellows Falls, VT, July II, 1872.