The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-19

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Considerable space indeed, But much
OF this land VIII remain inaccessible for
committing purposes for many years.
OF the rest orderly and natural devel-
Opment would evolve in the outer belt
suburban residences with fairly spa
cious grounds, in the second. detached
houses OF the Flalbu5h and BesohhuFst
type and lu the two nearer zones close
ly built city houses and teuemeuts.
In the Worlds twentieth century
number. issued last November, Build
ing Commissioner Perez NJ. Stewart
said
1T is difficult TO look with prophetic
eye upon the New York of twenty
years from now without appearing
foolishly visionary, or for that matter,
New York of ten years from now. i be-
leve that the whole of Queens bor-
ougn, now some OF II a dreary waste.
Will De built up with apartments and
tenements."
AIr. Stewart recognizes the fifteen
mile belt as the limit of tenement
building not in the remote, but in the
immediate, future Building is today
FAR more lively I'm Queens than in any
other borough.
Yet half within and half without this
borough. the zone of growth Of the
New York OF ten years from noW." "A
single man, W. X. Vanderbilt jr,, is
combining I'm one country estate an
area approaching and likely to become
two square miles.
Ii Is dimcult TO speak accurately Of
Mr.. Nanderbuts holdings. because
agents are constantly conducting "a
"stll hunt" for more homes TO add 20
the twenty or more that he has cleared
of their dwellings and inhabitants
amid scenes as melancholy as those
chronicled Of The Deserted Village"
few days ago his acquisition of 10
additional acres was announced. APP
prOXimately Mr. Vanderbilt WithhOlds
from settlement one-twenty-hfth part
of the entire tenement zone Of 1910
1920. Half of this land is within the
city limits
State st thus. one mile nearer city
hall than Getty square. X0nkers one
man has for his personal use the equiv
aleut of 200 long blocks with their
streets and avenues. This land would
hold:
Character of Homes. No of People.
on haif-acre plots. In Villas. 10000
6o-foot plots in detached houses. 1900
In small block houses. ....-.-.... 100000
In Brooklyn 3-story tenemeuts.... 100000
I'm model Manhattan teuements j. 600 900
No one wants 90 see big structures
five and six stories high repeated in-
definitely upon Long Island, but Com
missioner Stewart prophesies a tene-
ment future for the region about Mr..
Nanderbit's place. And the more zeal
ously wealthy men hold back big areas
OF land from settlement the more keen
win be the necessity for the tall tene-
ment.
Besides the estate Of Mr.. Vanderbilt
the hfteeu-mile zone contains the spa
cious country homes of William Gould
Brokaw W. r.. Grace j, +. M0rgan's
son-in-laW, Mr.. Satterlee, and Of the
entire Great Neck colony. Upon this
beautiful peninsula can already be
seen reproduced the condition of hud-
died poverty cheek by iowl with space
enjoying wealth, which Is on Manhat-
tan island so piuful a spectacle.
Scarcely less sharp are the lines drawn
iu the Hampstead colony" most OF
which is less than twenty miles from
city hall. and which occupies fat land
splendidiy adapted for subdivision In
Great Neck already as is Increasingly
the case in all the fashionable villages
on Long Island there is practically no
room for the poor mans home. There
is none at AN for the man who is nell
Their rich nor poor. TO is grudgingly
recognized that there must De room
for the day laborer who serves the
rich. The ordinary cOmmuter Isl not
wanted. Fortunate. indeed. are those
villages like Jamaica and Huntington,
where he stiu is welcome.
Owing o. the euCrOachIng waters
north and south the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
belt I'm the limits of New York state.
including strips of Westchester and
Nassau counties contains surprisingly
little uuOCCupied land. I'm this belt the
country estate becomes al-important
AT Manhasset Mr.. Payne Whlney is
repeating w. X. Vanderbilt jr's. exc
ample and eXtnguishing q quiet farm
ing community whose natural develop
ment would be I'm suburban homes Re-
Gently the addition 90 Mr. Whiney's
holdings Of the Rogers farm Of 127 acres