The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-25
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 As result of movement to im- prove the dwellings of the poor inaug- urated few years ago by an associa- tion that numbers among it's foun- ders, Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Nor gan, Miss Helen Gould and other per- sons identified with philanthropic work in New York, four large groups of mod el tenement buildings for white occu- pants and another for negroes, in all accommodating about 1000 families, have been erected in the most densely populated sections of New York. These tenements are in the first degree sani- tary and wholesome and are amply protected from fire. Though the enter- prise was in its inception philanthropy ic so efficient has been the manage ment and so popular have they proved that to-day the owners are actually re- ceiving more than 4 per cent dividends upon the money invested.
 Ill addition to other advantages, every one of these tenements is designed and built with particular reference to secur- ing safety from fire. Said George w Fallon, secretary of the City and Sub urban Homes company (the corporate name of the association):
 "The statistics of births and deaths in our tenements are interesting In 1906 there were 1O4 births and 17 deaths An the Avenue A estate, where more than 400 children live, there were only three deaths during the year-one from heart failure one from complication of diseases and one from hemorrhage. In the 'Tuskegee' there were no deaths at all.
 This company has been working ten years Our stockholders include, in ad- dition to those already named, such names as Fulton Cutting, pr. Elgn R, L. Gould, president; the Misses Stokes, Mrs Henry c. Potter, Frederick R. Bourne, James speyer, Morris K. Jes- sup, Percy R. Pyne, Jacob H schiff, and hundreds of others. New Yorks tenement problem is vastly more urgent than Londons, yet in the English me- tropoIs more than 900 has been invested in improved homes for wage earners. We need as much here; as 1t is we have only q little over $5,0O0,0 000 As one of New Yorks most prominent men once said in this office: Your company should have fifty to one hun dred millions of dollars to work with
 Fifty thousand modei tenements for as many New York workingmen and their families would materially reduce the annual total of crime, vice and ill., ness in this city, and cut down public expenditures In this connection. As 1t Is, all that is possible is done for the children In our tenements. They en- joy life as far as we can help them to do so Play rooms, entertainments, May parties. Christmas parties, weekly gath erngs. all help to make life cheerful for them but what we do for 500 we can do for 5000"
 l Similar conditions prevail throughout the building. Every apartment Is a complete home ia itself Each has it's steam radiators, private hall and exclu- sIve toilet accommodations. Each kitchen has gas range, with tubs, sinks, shelves, closets and drawers. All the four-room flats are furnished with bath tubs. The, building is clean, in good repair. we'll lighted and in marked contrast to the usual type of east side tenement, Rentals vary from $l0 a month for two rooms to $21.5O a month for four rooms and bath.