Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-03-02
AND STILL
THEY COME.
Pertinent Points as to Pos
sibilities of the Pearl of
The Pennyrile.
APARTMENT HOUSE.
Influx from County and Else
where Demands More
Places to Live In.
APARTMENT HOUSE.

IL SSeIIlS JIldI IHS dpdI CIlSuI DuliN
ing, of which this paper spoke some
months ago is to be go. The
building is to be erected on the
property of the owners of the san
itarium.
From what we have already
gained the plans have all been drawn
and adopted and with the opening Of
spring work will be begun. There
is also probability that a second |
building will be erected after the
first is completed.
The gentlemen who are to con-
struct the building have ample
means to carry out their plans and
every modern convenience will be
installed. The need of such build
ings are apparent to all. AS the city
is almost daily increasing in popu-
lation, and desirable sites for homes
are constantly becoming scarcer,
living apartments convenient to the
business centre are absolute needs
that must be supplied as the city be-
comes more metropolitan.
The busy man cannot afford to
live in the suburbs and allow him
self an hour to walk a couple of
miles, get his noon meal and get the
thirty minutes rest he needs to
strengthen for a half days work.
| The laboring man, it is true, can
take his dinner in his little bucket,
eat on time and rest on time; he can
work his little garden before break
fast or before his supper is ready,
have time to raise chickens and pigs.
ETC., but men generally can not do
as the laboring man or the mechanic.
Book-keepers, statesmen and profess
sional men cannot, and do not, want
to do this. Such IAN existence is too
strenuous for the average man and
Frobs one of all opportunity to read
and become informed about things
in general.
The days of big gardens have
passed. Man does not live by veg
etables alone, and if he does they
can be bought cheaper than town
man can raise them, and when the
population is becoming denser and
denser every year, half dozen
houses being on square in the
place of one, as in the days of yore,
centrally located property becomes
more valuable and the business man
wants a home where he can get to it
in few minutes, enjoy his siesta
and then get back to business "on
J time" for he has to walk as he can
not take car" No, not yet. but
later he can. Then for a great adj
vance in suburban property, but,
not yet.
For several months this paper has
given space to the great needs of an
apartment house, in which families
can live and be.in town"-conven-
int to schools. churches, ETC., with
out the head of the family having
to walk miles every day through
heat or cold, dust or mud, snow or
rain, to have some of the joys OF
home life every day without walking
himself to death.
Everybody knows that there are
not near enough houses in the city
and people are coming in from the
country and from other sections
every week, and to-day the demand
for rooms and cottages is as great
as at the end of last year.
Just a few days ago a man came
here and bought residence cen
trally located but can't get possession
of his property until next Septem-
Der, though he would gladly move
! in now, if he could. The man who
is living in the house now is uneasy
for fear he will not be able to find a
auother by September.
| Straws may point out the way the
wind is blowing. but they can't point
out the direction man can move
in Hopkinsville.