Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-13
CIVIC FEDERATION WILL
EXPLAIN D. c. ALLEY BILL
Women's Department to Clear Up
What It Believes to BE Mis-
understanding.
Meeting to Be Addressed by One OF
Foremost Authorities on Hous-
ing in Country.

With a view of clearing the minds OF
certain persons of what it believes 10
be misunderstanding concerning the
alley bill enacted at the last session
of Congress. which becomes effective in
July, 1915 the womans department OF
the National Civic Federation has ar
ranged for a special meeting to be held
at Rauscher's at 4 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon The housing question is to
be treated in a general way by Mrs.
Albion Fellows Bacon. one of the fore
most housing authorities in the coun-
try, and the provisions of the alley Dill
are to be explained by Justice Siddons
of the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia.
The alley bill provides for the en-
1arging of alleys in which there are
tains certain provisions concerning
such houses.
Questions Interlocked.
The woman's department of the Ma
tional Civic Federation is interested in
housing conditions in Washington, par
ticularly the Ellen Wilson memorial
homes proposition, and it is realized
that the housing movement cannot be
furthered until all Misrepresentation
concerning the alley bill is dispersed.
Congressional action about alleys and
the housing question are closely inter-
locked. and it is believed an effort
should be made to set those Alright
who now are opposed to the provisions
of the alley bill before endeavoring to
further the larger problem of improv-
ing housing conditions.
Mrs. Albion Fellows Bacon is a leader
in the housing movement in the west. She
is the organizer and secretary of the
Indiana State Housing Association, di-
rector of the National Housing Associa-
ton. member of the housing COM
Committee. tffe s4uthor of the Indiana
tenement house law and of Beauty for
Ashes" and other books dealing with the
matter of housing.
Mrs. Bacon has addressed scores of
chambers of commerce and other trade
bodies She is scheduled to address the
Chamber of Commerce of Jamestown.
Pa, tomorrow. and then come to this
city. Mrs. Bacon has organized in
Evansville. Ind. a company which is en-
gagged in erecting modern sanitary
houses on a -philanthropic basis.
Evansville is Mrs. Bacon's home.
Homes to Serve as Models.
John Ihlder. formerly field secretary
of the National Housing Association,
with headquarters in New York city.
has come on to Washington to serve as
executive secretary of the Ellen Will
son Homes Company. which is to erect
the proposed Ellen Wilson memorial, a
group of homes which, it is believed,
will serve as a model which will be
copied in other communities
Tentative plans for the homes al
ready have been drawn by Schenck V
Mead. architects. of New York They
provide for a block measuring 500 feet
by $50 feet. and probably will have to
be modified to conform with the size of
the square which is selected as the
site. The tentative plan calls for about
125 homes in the group; there will be a
fe~ one-family houses. but the major
ity will be of the duplex type. The
plan calls for a return of not more
than per cent to those who partici-
pate in their erection. This is specified
in an act Of Congress chartering the
company.