The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-11
TO NE /, MODEL FACTORY TOWN,
Modern Idens TO Tic Embodied In .
New Jersey Tows's Industries.

New York Evening Void
model factory tnwn, wherein rs 10 he
create an industrial community for the be-
tern ents Of the moral, social and healthfui
welfare of the workman, Is now being estab-
lls"ed in New Jersey.
+. is Known rs Belle Mead. a tract OF land
s.tua,ed on tho hishost p.atoau Blong tho
llue Of the pAilaac pAia aud keaupug rail-
road, nus, halt way be .ween New YORK Hn
Pnhadtlphia- IL IL fine, rud.ng country, vi b
beautiful views In an uireeuous, and was BE-
letied batause O. lbs heiltAfui climate.
The l2VJ acres OF .aud are TO ho turned Into
a busy manufacturing district Facto les
arc to he erected and model homes ior tbs
army of w1rkers employed IN the industries.
zach home viii have frontage broad
enough to insure space for npwcr garden,
while tho depth of the lot affords room for
n vegetable garden in tho rear, An expert
hortcu turlst viii give lbs rue ions IN gar
dcnng aud prizes are Ia be offered for the
best results,
For the use of the general community n
nubl.c building win be provided coataining a
library, gymnasium baths and meeting
places Tor lodges and other societies. kin
dorgarteu and good schools Will also be es-
iabllshtd Glasses IN garment cutting, plan
ana fancy sewing cooking and general house
hold economies wi ! be orsanized.
There will be one big builiing which VIII
be deN LED to ba hs ana IN nmonso wash
TO, III. where the housewives may take tho
family wash each week and do their laun-
aud confusion OF such " rk nj home.
The purpose OF the establishment OF the
town Is neither phi!anthroplc nor eo-opefa-
tive. company, capitalized al $4,000. has
been organized and is to carry on the opera
lions oe o purely business basis The dircc-
tors Of the company INCLUDE the Rev. DAVID
j. BurrolI OF the Marble Collegiate church.
,his city, the Rev Z. r. Johuson, D D., OF
Albany, aud Prof. II. y. VOORHEES, OF Rutgers
college, New Brunswick, y. >.
/ The social AFFAIRS OF the town are TO be
managed BIZ the League for social Service,
To which Josiah Strong is president aud VIII
lam u Tolman secretary.
/ Already the property has been artislioally
laid cut lv Prf a. A. Ellsworth h. head OF
The denariment OF surveying and Landscape
architecture Of Ru gers college. into hfoa
avenues aud streets, every 10, on the prop
cry having a frontage Of not less than nfty
rect ard extending back ~ feet into an alley
siNtfen feet vile,
beer started by spring 4 is expected the
Community will bo nc ually estotli he'd
I Each dwCller Of pelle Meade VIII be en-
cortared 10 purchase bis own property,
William J. Robinson, the general manager
NJ the company which has control Of Belle
Meade explained the scheme al length lie
II. response 10 necessity number OF
manufacturers AMI business nien baye &c
itcied Belle Mead as an Heal location FOR
e modern factory town.
''But land Is not everything IN the foun
dauon on n model fac ory town Tic danger
As that Utopan schemes AMI visionary ex-
! ueriments wi en1 N mmsrclal ruin. We
fully appreciate this fact and the plans
sdup'ed ~ as are not IN any wise experi-
mental They are actually In successful ops
eruticn IN several Of tho large manufaoturlng
centars OF the word They sill be conducted
bera by men who know what has succeeded
and what has fuilef the world over"