Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-02-09
MODEL T6wN SCHEME
"DETAILS OF oNE TO BE BUILT At
klNkORA, N. J.

Large Manufacturing Firm Plans
Paradise For Its Employees Which
VIII Contain Several Useful Fea-
lures For Towns to Copy.
Suggestions Of value as to the laying
out of towns are contained in the fol-
towing article about a model city which
Is to be erected by large manufacture
ing firm:
John A. Roeblings Sons company,
Trenton's great wire and iron manufac-
turing corporation, is to build at Kin
kora, ten miles south Of Trenton, \. j.,
a private town for the housing Of its
employees, says a Trenton dispatch to
the New York Herald.
Arrangements have been completed
for the erection Of three wOrkingmen's
hotels and nearly a hundred private
dwellings, in addition to the big hotel
and the half hundred houses already
erected. These buildings will be used
exclusively for the housing of the COM
pany's employees who will work in the
new rolling mill plant soon to be put In
operation at KinkOra. The building OF
the mill and the completion of the town
will represent an outlay Of more than
q million dollars. All Of the work Is to
lie done in less than year.
Paved streets, private water and gas
plants, electric lights, schools, churches,
a library and other adjuncts of a mod
ern city will be provided by the EOeS-
lings, all for the use of the working
men. None of the property will Be
sold, and all Of the houses will be rent
ed at a very moderate rate.
Provision will be made within the
limits of the Roeblings' city for the
housing of loo workingmen and their
families at the start, and more houses
and additional hotels will be erected as
the demands of the place may require
In the new hotels the rates Of living
will be SO moderate that men who
work with the pick and shovel will be
able to live in them and keep well
within their means. The cOnveniences
will be strictly modern, and special at
tention will be given to the sanitary
arrangements.
For the married men of the bosses
and skilled mechanics class model
homes of various sizes will be erected.
These houses will be substantially
built of brick and stone. They will be
equipped with all modern improve
ments. The hotels and other public
buildings will be lighted by electricity,
which will also be used on the streets.
Electricity will be produced on the
place, and gas may be manufactured
there
The new KinkOra will be the ROeb-
ling City Beautiful This has been
provided for in the laying out of the
town. Each Of the streets will be 100
feet in width, with ample sidewalks.
All houses will be erected well back
from the curb lines, with grass plots
in front Trees viii, be planted on each
side of every street, and each house
will have its own flower beds and
shrubbery Each house will stand
alone, with plenty of air space all
around it,
The new town will be provided with
a complete system of fire protection,
including pressure mains, water to be
supplied from stand pipe eighty feet
high. This is already built and is in
the very center Of the town. Another
important feature of the town will be
a street cleaning department. Great
care will be taken in the sewering of
the place, and no mosquito and malaria
breeding pools will be allowed to exist.
The whole place will be governed by a
code of rules yet to be formulated by
the corporation. and persons who re-
fuse to abide by them will be excluded.
The Roeblings in the expenditure Of
this vast sum Of money to provide
cheap and at the same time delightful
homes for their people believe they
will be repaid in that they will secure
better results from the labor employed.
If the experiment proves success 1t
is likely that the idea will be extended
there and developed in other places
where the Roebling plants are located