The sun., 1919-07-12
BACHELORS SHARE
In HOUSING RELIEF
Home Needs of Single Men and
Women Enter Into New
est Plan.
ANXIOUS TO SAVE ROOM
Release of Apartments Seen il
Special Construction Is
Adopted.

Various offfcial and unofficial bodies
have talked much, and more or less
In vain about the necessity OF building
Apartments for families, but the housing
needs of unmarried men and unmarried
women Of modest incomes and n love for
hume comforts have bean overlooked. An
Il b now, these happy. or unnappy,
morta1s. so Nathan Hirsch, chairman of
the Mayors COMMITTEES ON Rent Prontser-
ing. says.' ana ft dificuit to live comfort
ably without leasing larger apartments
than they need, and at high rentals II.
he adds. q scheme can be evolved to pro-
mote the construction of apartments of
modest proportions for those who prefer
to have. or have to have, mateless nests.
Il viii release thousands Of larger apart
ments for the use of regular families.
and thus VIII contribute in part 10 the
solution of the housing problem.
Anyhow. Mr.. Hirsch's committee In
going to take up this question in q seri-
Gus way. 1t announced yesterday that
It has invited William II. SILK, represent
ing q corporation known as the Allerton
House. 1t1-147 East Thirty-ninth street,
to appear before It and explain in detail
the corporations plan by means Of
which many men and women are in pos
session Of happy homes. even though
thsy are not married
Aflerton Used n Model.
Mr.. Silk recently wrote to Mr.. Hirsch
that the Allerton HOUSE II such a sue
cess that the corporation may erect
other like buildings IN the near future.
The Allerton House Is a seventeen
story structure occupying a plot 71x1o0.
in Thirty-nfnth street. between Lexing-
ton and Third avenues. II was erected
In 1915 and the land cost less than
S135. 600 and the building S750,o00-
This Is no philanthropy" Mr.. Hirsch
said. at 10 a purely business PROPOSE
ton and the benefits to those who live
In the house are SO great that believe
It worth while for the committee TO look
further into the matter to bring 1t to
the attention OF the public generally.
IF the house Is as I arm informed.
tho problem Of housing tho male and
female who do not happen to be mar
ried, or even q family OF three with
only a moderate income. can be solved
by buildings Of this class ut q very
slight cost. A particularly interesting
feature Ii that there In no servant prob
lem gas. heat and light are supplied.
rooms are furnished, entertainment Ii
provided, and in fact an ideal homo Is
supplied All II Is necessary to do In to
go In and hang up your hat.
The prices ut which these rooms are
rented. 1t seems to me. are very small
and within the means OF the enormous
number of single men and women en-
pioyed In this city. The plot on which
Ailerton House was built was much
more expensive than plots Of similar size
could be obtained In Washington Heights,
Harlem. The Bronx, many sections OF
Brooklyn, and. of course. Queens.
Scales of Rental.
Single rooms In Allerton House rent
for So to so a week rooms with bath
can be obtained for from $40 to va a
,, week two rooms and bath for from $12
to $40 a week. Single rooms with bath.
Mr. Silk advises me, may easily be made
OF sufficient size to accommodate two
persons, and the two room suites with
| bath may be so arranged that both rooms
may be used as single rooms or as
double bedrooms for two men or tive
women"
In his letter to Mr.. Hirsch Mr.. Snk
| wrote:
"From my experience In the standard
izing housing plan I am convinced that
this system furnishes the ideal home
particularly for the unmarried man or
woman. To demonstrate our faith In
the plan we have under consideration al
this time the construction of two more
similarly built houses"
Mr.. Allerton said that In The Bronx
II would be possible TO erect twelve OF
sixteen story house of the same dimen-
sions as the AIlerton in which single
rooms could be rented for as little as -
a week. The prices OF these rooms. he
said, might vary from 81 to SO week
| for single rooms to Sc to IS for rooms
with private bath and from $40 to 81
| for two rooms with private bath.
A roof garden and a music room. both
| of which the Allerton has, wouldn't ado