Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-07

ton of such improved dwellings. as may combine, in the utmost possi-
 ble degree, the essentials of healthful- : ness, comfort, social enjoyment, and economy The poor through legal
 dicta In this part of the world. then excluded these receiving public aid. To all of the foregoing suggestions or
 provisions students of economics should give careful attention, for they
 have accomplished that which almost
 if not every other philanthropist has
 sought so hard to reach and failed-a
 practically immortal charitable trust
 whose benef1cient force Is not alone self-sustaining, but increase with each
 advancing year.
 The squaIor of London in the sos need not be detained by the present
 writer-and when in the midst of it came the upheaval of the invading city railways and the awakening of civic responsibility toward thes wretchedly housed. whole sections of the city were torn down and hundreds of wor- thy families made homeless or forced to resort to alleys courts, garrets and cellars which alone were within their means, so did rentals advance-and 1t seems almost providential that the Peabody millions came to the rescue just at that time.
 The trustees determined to conf1ne their efforts. for time at least, to carrying out MT. Peabody's sugges- tion of better housing for the worthy poor. These were included between the paupers and families whose heads earned not exceeding S7.50 per week These foundations have never been modified and the consequent broad and stupendous success can be quick ly indicated In 1864 block of tene- ments of 112 rooms was built in the Whitechapel district The next yea another. but in a different location was erected with 632 rooms, and others have followed in various sections of the city with all permissible activity year by year, until there have now been constructed on twenty-four nent tenement buildings and 300 cot tages, all of stone. iron and brick these structures contain 14,312 rooms, all high, light and airy. with modern able to the time of erection.
 There are large cleanly play-yards for the children. All the early blocks had good laundry, toilet, bath and hot water facilities in common with pri- vate coal ranges. gas and running cold water. In the latest large buildings the lavatories are private, which of course, is true of all the cottages. to which fulIsize bath tubs are added In American English. all of these larger buildings are composed cf single rooms or flats. with coal ranges, gas, and running cold water, and with access to continuous hot water, to Q good bath and a suitable laundry.
 Comfort For the Poor.
 There is garden back of every cot tage. a shrubbery patch in front and besides these there Is a small plot in a large common garden allotted to many, this last at charge of some seventy five cents a year. Coal is supplied at $500 per ton through shrewd business mana cement. Out of the weekly wages of the head of the family-which ave ragged last year s5.43- but fifty-seven was taken in rent, room by room, while the average rental of all the flats, cot ages and rooms was but $1.26 per week. There are sS6 single rooms, 2,736 apartments of two rooms 2033 of three rooms. while but 151 have as many as single room Is fifty cents per week, the highest eighty-three cents. For two -ooms, the lowest is eighty-se seven cents, the highest $1.5o For three 'ooms the lowest is ninety five cents l md the most expensive s1SS For a 1 lat of four rooms the least asked is l i1.S8, and the most expensive brings 1 ;2.13. The cottages, of five rooms. | ,ring from s1.96 to S245 per week-and l hese are near the heart of the city.
 Now one must add fourth, at least | o these amounts which include all the 1 axes. before he can procure such ac- | .om m odationS. everything considered | elsewhere in London, and the oDserva- 1 ion of the directors of this vast enter 'rise, housing population Of over I 900 souls, the average is to the fleet that it is better for these people 1 whose morals industry and conduct are equired to be of high order, to pay his relatively small rental than it is to | i've them their quarters gratis, and it l B certain that it is better for the trust or in spite of the fact that the total 1