Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-02-06
SANDS POINTS OUT.
MANY ADVANTAGES
FA|RF |ELD OFFERS
Company Saves About 200
Homes to Relieve the
Housing Situation.
SAVES RICHMOND VALUABLE
NEW SUBURBAN SECTION
U. S. Housing Corporation
Would Have Disnantled Viii
lagc When War Ended.
icy OLIVER !. SANDS,
PrrsidcBt OF American National HUI


President OF American National IBnnk.
. Billy sunday IA credited with say.
ins when The renter sings Home
sweet Homo. he is just Kidding him
SELF and scr.nad!ng the landlord"
Witty and true. and yc; FOR nity
ears home ownership has been 10
crcasing in this country 800 rapidly
hat the last census showed only 50
nor cent 81 our people under the shell
,'r or their own home. while, con-
idcring the urban population alone.
The percentage is much less. in SHINE
OF ;he large cities less than 20 per
cont.
Tho cessation of homo building
during Ia. world war added greatly
- tbs pcrplexities OF & problem III
ready serious when that war began.
Students oil the problem assert that
his country is now more than mil
lion homes short, II IS not the pur.
nOac or this article TO show why THIS
u,rnani country wide. indeed. world
T vide Is not supplied as fast as ham
irer and saw and trowcl can work;
nor TO show why {, is not fully sup
plied for Richmond and vicinity, but
rathcr to cali attention 20 "a number
of good houses available TO help Rich
rnond supply good, comfortable. we'll
built homes within reach OF those
WHO have but little moro than the all
essential determination To own
home OF ;hclr own. The Richmond
Fairfield hallway Company was or
ganized 10 buy from the government
: tn. electric car line TO Seven Pines
and the more than 200 houses built
near there by the l.. s. Housing Cor
poration. In order 10 prevent them
lrom being dismantled and sai"agea.
aud illus lost forever 10 Richmond.
a, tinno when there WAS such great
need for houses AMI electric car Naes
COR suburban development,
Increased at Sacrifice.
The Richmond Fairfield Railway
company bought these properties
from the government at a price that
las enabled i, to improve the car
M. pnd the houses At less thaa oat-
,n.rd The cost OF building now. The
village is named Fairfield. /; has
good water aad plenty OF IL, some
,hins mauy city has spent hundreds
II
s,ul without More than na!t Of
these houses. on lots seventy by 2oo
700, have electric lights, NJ: ana
cold water. baths and sewerage The
others. on lots OF an.-acre or more.
enough acreage In some twenty cases
20 make small truck or pou.tr!
farms. are located outside the sewer
district. The entire property en-
braces nearly sixty acres.
In addition 10 the dwelling houses
arc seycra, buildings adapted TO
manufacturing purposes, where TWEEN
1v-hve to I00\or more are employed.
These Buildings are located on rail-
~oal switches connecting with boih
~. Chcsancake aud Ohio and the
southern Railroads. The housing
crob!cnl is solved In advance for
nose who can utilize these plants.
There is good community buad-
ing in a park of several acres.
: God sen OILS and churches are near
,nl free sites for both are reserved
for the property, for future growth.
the electric car .i.e is being cx-
.udcd to the cent:: OF Fairfield.
This car line. the Southern Railway,
he williamsburg Road and Nine
nile Road give ample facilities for
mick transit to and from Rich
monI.
Although these houses have been
offered fer sale but short time,
and mat during the winter. MANI
q; them have been sold. Those that
vcmain unsolJ cannot possibly supply
,ba demand for new homes, but can
,,n materially to do so, and pro-
lido for ihc home seeker not only an
attractive home, but also a good in
vcs.ment. since 10 possible reduc-
,ion. in present cost OF building can
.auai the low cost o; these homes
!, their present purchasers. and
much time and money must be spent
before prevailing rents will BIO re.
GuCcd.
Now that these war properties have
h.en saved for the present use and
future growth of Richmond. attcn-
!, ,;on should be conferred on the Bag
&rinG Plant adjoining Fairfield and
NOV occupied as 4 Un!tcd states Ord
nance depot. for there is little prob
ability that it will be used pcrman-
entity for that of any other war pur-
nose. Officials Of tho War Depart
mcnt say that in about six months.
possiby longer, it will he ready for
sale. Few people in Richmond know
or realize what n splendid op9ortu-
nity the release of this property pre-
sents for the in'l%.triaI gro:.th Of
this city.
Contains 1,S0O Acres.
1t comprises $500 acres OF land
that has been cleared, weli-drained
and fenced. On this land arc $50
buildings, with Il total floor space Of
come 1000 square feet; an up-to- date
i.500-horseDower electric plant. light.
telephone and water systems with
deep wells and ample storage tanks,