The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-02-09


Mr.. Charles Barnard has paper with
the above title in Scribner for January,
from which we take the following in re-
gard to the SALISBURY Park homes for
workingmen in London:
On the streets one meets well-dressed
and apparently well-to-do working peo-
pie. Here is jolly company of hearty
u. children just loose from school, living
testimony of the healthfulness of the
town. Yonder man is tending one of
the gardens, and there young girl is
cutting roses from the luxuriant vines
that trail over her door. There are
flowers everywhere in the greatest
abundance, and every patch of garden
is a new conceit in horticulture. With
in the houses are supplied with every
convenience of gas, water and heating
apparatus. and all save the very cheapest
are supplied with bath rooms. The
first floor usually contains a hall with
stairway, a living room, with one or
two windows on the street, a kitchen, a
sullery and closet in an extension in
the rear. On the second floor are three
or more chambers, according to the
size of the house. Every room is also
communicating with the hall or with
the chimneys. There are no cellars
and drains under the houses, the drains
being all laid in the yards in the rear,
and only reaching the street at the end
of the blocks. The foundations and
floors being laid in cement, the rooms
are perfectly free from dampness and
decay The floors of the kitchens are
finished in brick and stone, and the hall
and the living-room have wooden floors
laid on the cement. Each house is
protected by fire-proof walls carried
above the states, and in some instances
brick is used for partition walls. The
cornices, window-caps and stills, door
steps and ornamental work, are all either
real or artificial stone, and, in the use
of brick, several colors are employed to
give variety and finished to the houses.
Everything is solid, substantial and
perfect of its kind. Each house is sup
piled throughout with inside Venetian
blinds; and when the Wallpapers are
put on every tenant is allowed to select
his pattern out of the company's stock.
The sidewalks are all of concrete, and
in the gardens in the rear, walks and
other conveniences are provided to suit
individual tastes.
Every house is occupied, and hun
dreds of applicants are always waiting
their turns for vacancies. Some of the
houses have been sold to the tenants,
with or without ground lease for nine
ty-nine years; others are being paid for
in regular monthly or weekly install
ments, and the rest are rented. The
rents are 5s. 3D., 6s. Cd. and IS. per
week, according to the size of the house,
while the larger houses command EGG
and upward year. In purchasing a
house by installments, the payments are
made according to fixed table. pre-
pared by an actuary, designed to spread
the payments evenly over given num-
Der of years. Compared with the CO.
opertive society's plan. or the system of
building societies, the company offers
these advantages:-the purchaser may
begin to pay at once, as soon as a house
is ready for him, paying in the form of
rent and without any previous invest
ment. If he pays anything in advance,
or anticipates his payments, his install
ments are proportionally decreased. and
he cannot be called upon for further
payments till his anticipated payments
are exhausted. The money due on the
house cannot be called in by the COM
pany before it is due; but the purchaser
may tender full payment and take the
house at any time, and having paid all
the installments, he is no longer liable
for any claims whatever, excepting the
ground rent, and this he may take up if
he wishes.
Killing a Polar Bcnr.