The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-01-31

mans homo Is his castle aud he has a
home feeling Ia H.
For from six 10 twelve dollars o
month comfortable house, eonlain'
ing everything essential 70 comfort,
can be had, including cleanliness,
These houses are huilt In long rows,
usually upon narrow streets, running
hetween the main lhorpughfares Each
has two ro1ms Oh tho ground floor and
small Kitchen Ia u back extension,
Ia some, the front door opens into u
narrow hail. IN others into the front
room, Up stairs are Two bed rooms
and there Is bathroom over the
Kitchen supplied with hot water from
the kitchen range. There ~ cellar
for provisions and fuel, and q small
back yard, These houses do not vary
IN size aud range IN rent from six 10
twelve, dollars according 10 situation.
For ten dollars such u house may be-
rented IN respectable nelghborhood,
They are small but comfortable aud
honielike, aud vastly more desirable
than the usual tenement house, a
box house or cheap ceiled frame IL not
known or recognized ~ house,
Houses built upon nearly the same
plum, but with third story, rent for
from fifteen 10 twenty-five dollars per
month, They are usuallya foot or two
wider, the rooms have higher ceilings
aud the back yards are larger often
ahbrdng epuce for flowers, besides
ground for clothes lines, An excellent
range, hot and cold water, gas 10 all
the rooms plenty Of closets and u large
dry cellar may bo found In each house
OF the kind, The bath room often
takes only u portion of the space over
the kitchen, the remainder making n
small bed room. This gives Ave sleep
Ing rooms, besides the parlor, dining
room aud kitchen, These houses are,
OF course, cheaply built, but they are
warm In the winter and airy In the
summer aud make comfortable homes
for persons Of small means, Some
times they are better furnished, but M
they are well plastered, painted, with
close fitting doors, windows and blinds,
they do not differ materially.
Houses with an equal number of
rooms, but more extensively built and
furnished, aud more desirably located,
rent for from twenty-five TO forty dol
lars, Twenty-Five dollars secures
modern Philadelphia house, which has
family sitting room, on the second
floor In the back building, parlor
hall, diningroom and kitchen on the
ground floor, the two latter
being In the back extension. The
second floor contains n large front bed
room, n bnck hall, into which lead the
back stairs from the dining room, and
II large sitting room with two side win
dows and large bay window looking
into the yard. In this latter apart
ment centers the life of the housekeep-
err II affords ready access TO the do
nestle regions below, and TO the bed
rooms of the family on the same floor,
and tho floors above. These cores
pond In size and number to those de-
scrlbed. Such houses are usually heat
cd by II furnace in the cellar, and Il
Latrobe stove, or "lire place heater"
in the dining room, and afford all the
space and conveniences required by n
family with moderate income.
For seventy five dollars can be had
house which would rent in New
York for two or three thousand dollars
year. For two thousand to twenty
five hundred dollars year, II house of
twenty rooms, can be had in the best
neigh borhoods, spacious and elegant
and models of architectural beauty,
such as would cost six thousand dol.
lars year in New York.
We have condensed from some
lengthy articles and private notes
these interesting facts, which may in
tercst our readers and stir up our cheap
house builders.