The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-12-12
MRS, RUSSELL SAGE
HAS MODEL SUBURB
Practical Plan to Improve
Conditions of Men with
Moderate Salaries.
TO OPEN IN JANUARY
Good Homes for New York
Toilers Can Be Bought
on Easy Payments.
TO OPEN IN JANUARY
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the bettcrment OF the living condition
of the person. who Is compelled to live
on moderate salary. Will go into ef-
feet shortly after the first OF the year
when the Sage Model Suburb at For
est Hills Garden. Long Island. will be
thrown open to settlement.
Here the man with large family
and modest salary will be able to
purchase home by easy monthly
payments. Those persons unmarried
who are seeking comfort away from
the crowded city, will find comforta-
BILE quarters In specially designed
apartments at reasonable rates.
This new scheme Is but a part Of
the great practical philanthropic
work that is being carried on by Mrs.
Russell Sage with the enormous for
tune amassed by her late husband.
The work Is being attended to by the
Sage Foundation Homes company. a
branch OF the Russell Sage Founda.
ton.
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
remotely related to charity.
The Payment Plan.
When person wishes TO buy one of
the houses, a small initial payment
will be required, and the remainder of
the payments will be arranged for on
q scale running from $25 month up
ward. Those who do not want to buy
ono OF the houses built by the COM
pany, lots In the model suburb will
be sold under restrictions as will bind
the purchaser to erect home i'm keep
Ing with the other houses in the vii
lage.
The site of this model suburb is To-
Gated about nine miles from New
York and is laid out on tract of lag
acres.
The proposed suburb will be similar
In design to the English types OF gar.
den cities. with detached one and two
story houses. parking and an abund-
snce OF trees.
One distinct departure from the u.s.
ual suburban development found in
tho plans OF Forest Hills Gardens Is
that three sides OF the square which
Will surround the railroad station are
TO be built up with apartment houses
not furnished with kitchens. These
non-housekeeping apartments will be
rented out by single rooms or in suites
OF two. or as many more as are de-
sired. 10 tenants who do not desire to
rent or buy houses In the model sub
urb.
Has "viIiaoe Green"
Eve designed these buildings" said
Edward H. Bouton. the vice president
and general manager OF the suburban
company. "for the use of self support.
Ing men and women who under ordin.
airy conditions in the city are forced
to I've In boarding houses and hall
bedrooms. and for families who for
one reason or another do not want to
keep house. There will be restaur.
ant on the ground floor OF one OF these
three buildings which will open into
= garden. and the garden will border
on the village green!"
This village green" will be anoth-
err distinctive feature of the new mod
el suburb. around which II is hoped
the village activities will center. The
non'housekeeping apartments will be
connected with each other and with
the railroad station with covered
bridges. 80 that the commuter in this
model suburb will be able to go direct
from his apartment to his train with.
out any such inconvenience as the
comic weekly dash over the muddy
suburban roads. A tall tower has
been planned as an added architec.
tural feature OF the apartment houses
which will surround the station
square.
The Sage Foundation has already
appropriated $1.250.000 for the devel-
opment Of the suburb. apart from the
land purchase on which there was
close to $1.000.00 spent Besides this
another 100000 will be appropriated
for additional street development
About fifteen hundred houses will be
built In the completed suburb. and as
Tar as possible. the company is plan.
ming 10. sell the homes only to persons
who expect TO live In them: that Is to
soy spectators will not be welcomed
and character. as well as reasonable
financial responsibility will be investi-
gated before sales are made.
A ousinsss Venture.
Although. according to The trustees
the vcrtare Is q business one, /, also
has a distinct educational purpos, Ia
discussing tbs side OF II, Robert De
Forest. vice pre- s,dent OF the Russell
Sage Foundation I'D:
Mrs. Russell Sage ard those whom
she has associated with her In the
Foundation have been profoundly i'm
pressed with the need of better and
more attractive housing facilities in
the suburbs for persons of modest
means who could pay from SIS a
month upward. In tho purchase of a
home. They have thought that homes
could be supplied like those in the
garden cities of England. with some
greenery and flowers around them.
with accessible Fairgrounds and re-
creation facilities. and at no apprecia-
Die Greatsr cost than 10 now paid for
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