The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-01-03
MAY BE USED DOWN EAST
Letter to. Kenosha Homes Company In
dicates That the Kenosha Method Is
Gaining Reputation in the
American Metropolis.

Women from the East are taking in
terest in the plan which Kenosha has
evolved for supplying homes for her
hundreds of workmen in this city and
the latest inquiry received by the Ke
nosha Homes Company is from no less
a parsonage than Mrs. John D. Rookie
Teller, Jr., who as chairman of the
housing committee of the Young Won
ems Christian Association of the
National War Work Council of the
Nationa Board Of that organization,
is anxious to secure data on the
Kenosha methods.
This committee is engaged in sup
plying homes for the large number of
women who are attracted to the great
cities of the East Recently it appears
that they have struck upon the plan
Of having the women, many of whom
are in occupations formerly filled by
men, purchase homes and the Kenosha
method has been suggested as one
which without financial burdens en-
ables even those Of small means to Sc
cure homes Of their own. 81 have
heard =, writes Mrs. Rockefeller in this
letter from New York city, "that you
have been very successful in solving
the problem of providing homes for
your employees The letter closes with
request for data on how "homes grew
up over night almosto in Kenosha.
Tb;a 20 4bo e,o4 ;nc+onoa xr7haro ,xro,,,
en- have taken an interest in this work
of Kenosha and has caused no little
surprise among the officials of the Ke-
nosha company. It is evidence of the
increasing part which women are TAX
ing in the great work of the nation
especially since the war has depleted
the ranks Of the men and has made it
almost necessity for women to look
after the hundreds of girls who come
to the industrial centers. Mrs. John
Rockefeller, Jr., is well known in the
East for the part which she has taken
in women's activities and has for
several years been recognized through
out the country as leader in the
Y. M G. A. work.
This is not the first recognition which
the Kenosha housing plan has received
recently. Less than two months ago
representatives Of the Kenosha Homes
Company were asked to attend the
National Housing Convention in Chi
cago and explain in detail the plan
used in Kenosha. Several weeks prior
to this convention a letter from the
Royal Housing Commission Of Victoria,
Australia, brought word to Kenosha
| that the fame of the housing plan of
this city had crossed the Pacific and
would probably be put into effect in
the British province. This, however,
| is the first time that women have evil
denced an interest in the plan and if
the plan "passes mustero as Keno
shans have no doubt that it will, the
usefulness of the Kenosha houses from
housewives point of view will be
demonstrated as fully as the business
plan which has made the Kenosha
housing system so widely known.
It is thought probable that members
of the committee from the East will at
some later date make a personal inves-
tigation Of the houses constructed in
Kenosha and the financial plan which
made them possible Whether this hap
pens or not it is not little sffeatler in
the city's cap'' that New York women
have come to Kenosha to investigate
one of the plans which has made it a
well known city throughout the nation.