New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-20

/ sasll homes of certain types and
81 are sorely needed in and about
- YAH. What the demand Graves
4. never been satisfactorily developed.
s.I,asrs have produced in numbers
..r.ss which they thought answered
4. vrsas popular demand, but they
/ sanasersiy wrong. Several weeks
8. he Tribune received letter from
Mss Al 4 x asking for assistance
/ !, xuyjsg At b decision with regard to
/. saysing problem. Miss K. was pre-
..rr to marry. She and her hus-
l.udxo-bs had saved $1,000. His
,s,sk income was s4s Miss X.
x,,.sd 20 buy a house on an initial
e.svaers of $500. The letters of coun-
ii .sss followed the publication of her
ssssst for advice showed clearly that
/, isyegopment of the city and sub
Is had been one sided, that builders
u asibyately or through ignorance
s.ss no effort to provide a great mass
! i ,seple tlst bubbIing over with en-
aasissn for homes, with houses that
al could buy or would dare to own.
"a make sure that we are correct
Il wy Deductions of the needs of the
mi masses of people who are eager
) ssa homes The Tribune has placed
B Is natter in the hands of it's read
+, for decision. What we want to
h,s is what kind of homes are most
,ssired at this time within radius
Il twenty-five miles of the city of
Ms York. What we want to know is
va. price home is desired, the num-
u. Of rooms that house should have,
sss!rer the preference is for brick,
4 Anss or stucco and where would peo-
DE prefer to live.
With this information in hand The
fribaae will then set out to produce
Kssssl homes representative of the
sypss, costs and size indicated in the
htefg which we will have received,
We sill start this experimental house
building campaign as soon as we have
tssass. grounds to be sure of the
kind d homes which many residents
Of taissily and its countryside would
like to eva. . :
Best Talent to Help
Fe have consulted the best building
klent in the section and 1t has
lsaised to cooperate with The 1rib-
su in developing the house sugges-
tins which the reading public in New
iak will make known through the
agnns of The Tribune. The Home
0sners' Service Institute, which has
ggplied The Tribune with the series
small house plans now being pub
shed, has consented to cooperate
! nth The Tribune in designing the
(saggested homes. Back of this insti-
zie are some of the finest small house
ssigners in the country. This means
let the ideas that will be conveyed
hshe correspondence will be put into
/ NATE by men who have won. their
Ras in house designing.
Henry Atterbury Smith, who is one
n the prominent architects of the city,
designer of model houses for Mrs.
|Cotneiius Vanderbilt and others inter-
|sssed in the development of attractive
and model housings, will supervise the
lsonstrnetim Of these houses and will
gee that they are erected as planned.
ne VIII also. watch the cost. Efficient
pen viii be employed to remain con-
sanity at each house under construc-
non, not with the idea that the build
vs. must be watched, but for the pur-
pose OF .checking every item of cost, so
nat at the end, Tribune readers will
asF to the exact penny, what each
isuse suggested to US has cost to erect.
Aa further check on the cost, an ex-
81 accountant will be employed to
Imlne the expenses and publicly GER
y % their correctness.
iaesc houses will indicate to the