The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-11
Do AWAY WITH TENEMENT EVILS
New York Prepares Plans for Mod
ern Apartments at Cheap Rentals.

.hents AT Cheap Rentals.
NEW YORK. Dec. 10.-One of tha
most important humanitarian enter
pflses ever undertaken in this country
mas at last assumed definite shape,
ana When 1T is finished the working
classes OF this city will be enabled to
ilVe IN modern, wholesome and SANTA
ry apartments, instead of the follJ i'll
smelling and disease breeding tene-
ments that most of them occupy.
rms great work of providing healthy
habitations for the same or less rnonev
than tenement rooms now cost has
0een undertaken by the City and
suburban Homes company, and
ever since it's incorporation. on
july Z, the preliminary plans
nave been pushed with vigor,
ana now everything is ready for the
s, peginnang or building operations, which
Will be undertaken early next snrinp
The first block of city homes to ha
constructed by the company will be
on the plot Of ground between Tenth
ana Eleventh avenues, and Sixtv-
eighth and Sixty-ninth streets. from
the plans of Architect Ernest FIagg
me prot embraces nineteen city lots
: and is 400x200 feet.
The buildings will be as nerfact o.
science and thorough study of the
Whole question, backed UP by plenty of
money, can make them Mr. FIagg's
plan provides for four BUILDINGS on
the plot, each 100 feet square, with an
interior court about thirty feet square
Lney VIII be ventilated from the street.
eieHef py narrow paSsa ageways or
through the Easements, and additione1
Hsnt ana air will be provided by re-
cessed courts 18x60 feet opening from
the street - oiii
fire, that dread of tenement-house
Gmeiiers, qar mas been guarded against as
aar as possible. The buildings will be
constructed of freproof material aud
each building will be divided into four
compartments by unpierced fire walls
running from cellar to roof. The stair
ways VIII be freproof and inclosed in
prlek nreproof compartments.
Inc dlfferent compartments have two
tnTee or Tour rooms, and each room
VI MI nave an abundance of air and
Mght. There will be closets. pantries
dressers, mantels, private bathrooms
ana everything else that the modera tA
+ class nat houses are possessed of The
SMALLEST bedroom will contain at least
seventy square feet of room. as q against
an average of forty-five in the present
tenementS, and the smallest livinp-roono
Will contain at least IA square feet.
In addition to the laundry tubs in
each apartment there will be a central
laundry, furnished with all modern an
pnances, and steam drying rooms
Where clothes can be dried in half an
nour. These will be at the service of
all tenants and will do away with the
necessity OF upsetting the different
apartments with the weekly washing.
Gas fixtures will be placed in fbe
nails and in every room and pas
ranges furnished for cooking purposes
In addition to this hot water will be
furnished from the central boilers. and
to crown all, roof garden will furnish
resting place, where tenants will be
able to get breath of fresh air during
the hot summer nights
The City and Suburban Homes oo,,,
pany has some of the richest and mos+
influential men in the city connected
with 1t, and has capital of 81 900 900
every cent of which has been under,
written.