The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-26
GARDEN CITY PLOTTED BY
 RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION
Homes For Families on MOder- ate Salaries - Forest Hills Gardens a Business Invest ment

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 New York, Nov. 25-The Russell Sage Foundation announced today the early opening of a garden city, sim liar in design to the English types which are being copied all over Flu rope. It will be called Forest Hills Gardens, at Forest Hills station, near Jamaica, and will be nine miles in distance and thirteen minutes in time from the Pennsylvania Terminal at Seventh avenue and Thirty-fourth street, New York, by a new line of the Long Island Railroad through the East River tunnels. It will combine one and two-story houses in blocks with detached houses. most attrac- lively laid out with parking and trees, designed to meet the needs of families on moderate salaries whose homes in New York are pretty generally re- stricted to the dreary discomfort and homeliness of the lyrical flat mid way between the tenement and the higher priced apartment.
 The following outline of the founda- tioa's plans is taken from a statement issued by Robert W. DeForest, the vice chairman:
 Forest Hills Gardens is a business investment of the Russell Sage Foun- dation. It will be conducted on strictly business principles. for fair profit. Houses will be built, sold and rented. Lots will be sold under pro- tective restrictions intended to ensure to their owners and to adjacent own CTS the residential advantages of the neighborhood. In it's business pur- poses Forests Hills Gardens does not differ materially from other Long Is land real estate enterprises. It IS not a charity It will not be managed as a charity. Whoever deals with 1t, whether as tenant or purchaser will be expected sto pay fair value TOT eV- erything received.
 Notwithstanding this emphasis on the business side of the enterprise. a distinct educational purpose exists Not but that the Russell Sage Foun- dation might wisely and properly make a pure business investment of this character. but that a business invest ment with an educational purpose is more appropriate.
 Mrs Russell Sage, and those whom she has associated with her in the foundation, have been profoundly im- more attractive facilities in the sub- urbs for persons of modest means, who could put from twenty-five dol lars a month upward in the purchase Of a home They have thought that homes could be supplied like those some greenery and flowers around them. with accessible playgrounds and recreation facilities, and at no appre- ciably greater cost than Is now paid for the same roof-room in bare city streets. They have abhorred the con stant repetition of the rectangular block in suburban localities where land contours invite other street lines. They have thought, too, that build ings of tasteful design, constructed or brick cement or other permanent ma terial, even though of somewhat great CT initial cost, were really more econ omical in their durability and lesser repair bills than the repulsiyer cheap Iy built structures which are too often the type of New York's outlying dis tricts They have hoped that people of moderate income and good taste, who appreciate sympathetic surrouno- ings but are tied close to the city Dy the nature of their occupation, might find some country air and country llfe within striking distance of the active centers of New York
 eff these expectations can be req lized at Forest Hills Gardens the Sage Foundation will accomplish several objects. It will provide more health fuI and more attractive homes to many people. It will demonstrate that more tasteful surroundings and open spaces pay in suburban develop ment, and thereby encourage 1m1ta- tion. It will encourage more econom- icaI methods of marketing land. It will secure an attractive income for the foundation.
 Forest Hills Gardens is a tract of 142 acres. It has been laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, as landscape architect. Its architectural develop ment is in charge of Grosvenor Alter bury. It's adviser on the practical business side is William E. Harmon of Wood, Harmon & Go. Edward H. Bouton, president of the Roland Park Go. of Baltimore, Is its vice-presl- dent and general manager. Associat- ed with these gentlemen on the devel- oprnent committee are John M. Glenn, general director of the Sage Founda- ton, Alfred T. White and myself, two of the trustees. Careful and compre- hensive initial layout; attractive, sub- stantial, durable building; experienced management. are the keynotes Of the enterprise No initial outlay has been spared on roads, water supply, sew CTS and other fundamental features which make little show above ground.
 Lots of various sizes and var1- ously located on paved, severed and tree planted streets will be placed on private sale as early in 1911 as pos sible, on which buyers may build their own houses in harmony with the -o-o.av rIo, of dauelOnroant