El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-12
The Russell Sage Fund Pro
vides Them With Cosy
Cottages Cheaply.

| New York, N Y, Dec. Zone of the
most practical plans ever devised for
] the betterment of the living conditions
| of the person compelled to live on a
/ moderate salary will go into effect
/ shortly after the first Of the year when
! the Sage model suburb at Forest Hills
/ Garden, Long Island, will be opened
I to settlement.
Here the man with a large salary
! and a modest salary will be able to pur-
chase a home on easy monthly pay
| ments. Those persons, unmarried, who
are seeking comfort away from the
crowded city, will find comfortable
quarters in specially designed apart
ments a reasonable rates.
This new scheme is but part of the
great practical philanthropic work be-
ing carried on by Mrs. Russell Sage
with the enormous fortune amassed
by her late husband.
That no person who desires to take
up his residence in the model suburb
will in any way be considered an OBJ
ject of charity, is made clear by the
trustees, who say that the scheme is
strictly a business investment and is
not to be considered as being even re-
motely related to charity.
When a person wishes to buy one
of the homes, a small initial payment
VIII be required. and the remainder OF
the payments will be arranged for on a
scale running from SIS a month up
ward. To those who do not want to
buy one of the houses built by the
company lots in the model suburb will
be sold under such restrictions as will
bind the purchaser to erect a home in
keeping with the other houses in the
village
The site Of this model suburb is To-
Gated about nine miles from New York
and is laid out on a tract of 142 acres.
The proposed suburbs will be similar
in design to the English types of gar
den cities. with detached one and two
story houses, parking and an abundance
@ trees
Ore distinct departure from the usual
suburban development found in the
plans of Forest Hills Gardens is that
three sides of the square which will
surround the railroad station are to be
built with apartment houses not fur
nished with kitchens. These non-houSe-
keeping apartments will be rented. out
by single rooms or in suites OF two, or
as many more as are desired, to tenants
who do not desire to rent or buy houses
in the model suburb.
The Village green" will be another
distinctive feature of the new model
suburb, around which it is hoped the
village activities will center.
The non-houSe41 eeping apartments
viii be connected with each other and
with the railroad station by covered
bridges, so that the commuter will be
able TO go direct from his apartment to
his train without any such inconven-
fence as dash over muddy suburban
roads.
The Sage Foundation has already ap-
propriated s1.25O 900 for the develop
ment of the suburb, apart from the land
purchase. on which there was close to
s1.00e0O0 spent. Besides this, another
100000 Will be appropriated for addi-
tional street development. About 1909
houses will be built and. as far as pos
sible, the company is planning to sell
the homes only to persons who expect
to live in them
These promoters have adhorred the
repetition of the rectangular (.
block in suburban localities where land :
contours invite other street lines and
have decided that buildings of tasteful /
design. constructed OF brick, cement or !
other permanent material. even though |
of somewhat greater initial cost. are
really more economical in their dura- I
bility and lesser repair bills than the 4
repulsive, cheaply built structures I
which are too often the type of New 1
YorkS outlying districts.