New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-24
Bowling Green Workers
Plan Model Tenement
in Trinity Section.
WEALTHY MEN EAGER
TO HELP CLEANUP
Subscribe $4,000 to Pay First
Years Cost of Fairgrounds
and Building RemOdelIing.

ln ;hc shadow Of Trinity Church.
and so near Wall street that million
aires cannot SEQ it from .hcir sky
scraper windows. lies Carlisle Street,
centre Of enc Of the wors, districts in
tho city. Fifty years ago q commis-
sion. including John Jacob Aston and
Peter Cooper. made a sanitary survey
OF the nci.nborhood. which said:
"Hcre arc dilaridated structures and
moulier.rg buildings more than ono
hundred years old, where the utmost
neglect Of an hygiene laws prevails.
but 70 IS not in the more acute forms
Of disease chat The poorest class o.
tenement houses exhibit their worst
effect upon the inmates. We find it in
the lax fibre OF the occupant and in
the plning and wasting OF InIauts.
These little ones so numcrousiy born
amongst this class battle for lie in an
atmosphere surchsrgcd with poison
Old Street Explored.
Apparently no ono penetrated into
Carlisle Street after Peter Cooper. for
conditions are the same to-day, only
aggravated ry time. according 20 The
members of the Bowling Green Neigh
borhooi As ociation. who have just dis
covered Carlisle Street.
These men are nearly all Wall Street
business men who have started 60
clean up their black yard" A settle
ment house is 70 &c built in remod-
elled tenement house, the gift Of an
enthusiastic real estate owner. p. 4.
Rabbit has given the association
eleven city lots at g. TO "a Washing
ton Street for y playground. which will
be opened as soon as the snow melts.
Wall Street friends Of the project
have contributed $4,000 for the first
years expenses. Among them are
Frederick ". Allen, John Berwind,
Philip Boyer, George ". Burleigh, A.
o. Choate, Grenville T. Emmett. Lewis
b. Franklin. John X. Hall. G.. Herman
Kinnicutt, Alfred l.. Marliug, Thomas
$. McLane, Alonzo Potter. Ray Morris,
Joseph Il. Seligman, james Sheldon,
Joseph X. Swan, DR.. Philip Van lngcn
and DR.. John B. Walker.
The Bowling Green Neighborhood
Association was organized one year
ago, and IL is the success of its pre-
liminary work "a described in the first
hUuuhl report IHdt mas 4eQ 10 AMBITIOUS
plans for the coming year. The assO-
citation has desk room in the Charities
Building at present and temporary
headquarters at % Washington Street.
Il is under the direction of q volunteer
secretary, Kenneth d. Widdemer.
Wall Street Men Interested.
This neighborhood west Of Broadway
has sights that beat anything slum-
ming parties can ind on the East
Side" said Mr.. Widdemer yesterday.
Nobody ever came down here but a
few intrepid explorers looking for
Turkish paste. It would have been
saved long ago II the women Of the
city had known about il. but women
never come down here. so we have had
TO call upon the younger men of inhu-
encc 70 take upon their shoulders the
burden that usually devolves upon the
women of section
The new Headquarters OF the neigh
borhood association will be under the
same roof with ordinary tenements, an
experiment very dear 20 the hearts OF
the directors They feel that settle