New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-27

! In last Sundays issue il was incor.
reetly# announced that The Tribune
would build seversl small houses fer
the purpose Of determining the actual
business conditions and costs to-day.
TIE announcement should have
stated that The Tribune had arranged
through the Home Owners Service
institute, as building counseiors, to
have constructed these sample houses,
subject to the decisions and require
snents of It's readers, as shown by
their correspondence to The Tribune.
The plan is to have the actual
building done by local contractors
familiar with conditions and labor in
the immediate vicinity Of each house
site. Our readers were appealed TO
for aid in determining IN what price
home 10 desired, ca number of rooms
required, CD of what materials the
houses shall be built--brick, frame,
would prefer to live within a twenty
fve-miie radius of the city of New
York.
Tribune readers must determine
what houses will be built. The re-
salts and experiences, favorable and
n1fagorable, as construction pro-
gresses, will be published from week
to week in The Tribune. This should
indicate to the builder what is wanted
by the home buying public to-day.
The home seeker will learn just how
far home building dollars will stretch.
This unique cooperative educational
effort grew out of an attempt by Miss
A. l.. X. to secure advice from
. Tribune readers in arriving at de-
cision on housing problem pur-
chase of $1,000 home on an initial
payment of $500, with a weekly income
of s48. Answers to Miss K. az pub
lished on this page, were 50 conflicting
and confusing in their recommended
tons that, when an appeal was made
to The Tribune to supervise the actual
building of several experimental
houses for the benefit and guidance of
It's readers, including Miss X, The
Tribune responded
We are depending on our readers
10 determine the cooperative con-
addressed TO the Real Estate Editor
Here are some Of the suggestions thus
+ far received:
Wants Six-Room House
To the Real Estate Editor OF The
Tribune.
Sir: Allow me to compliment YOU on
the building plan and thereby ascer-
tain the costs OF several small repre-
sentative houses in the metropolitan
area. This will be Of inestimable
value to thousands, who, like the
writer. are potential house owners
First, as to the house itself. | would
suggest that it be built Of whatever
materials may be proved to be the
most enduring and lowest in upkeep, in
proportion to the first cost. In other
words, / would desire an Economical"
house, and therefore would want an
element of permanancy included in its
cost.
Secondly, would want not over six
rooms, because of tho inability to keep
or afford help Three bedrooms up
stairs and bath, with three down, a
living room, dining room and kitchen,
would constitute our ideal home.
First of these rooms, by all means,
comes the kitchen, for it is there thar
so many women arc compelled to spend
too much time and energy at present.
This tour idean kitchen should have
dining alcovc, for there can be no
aispute as to the steps it saves and
the work it eliminates, Next it should
have room for-though because of
their cost they need not be installed
at once--the various labor saving cleo
tricai devices which are now in ex-
istence, such as the dish-washinr ma
chine. washing and ironing machines
and the combined gas and electric
stove.
The living room is of next impor-
tance and should be we'll lighted,
spacious and have fireplace. 1t should
not be entered into directly from the
porch--ask any wife--but should be
of small hail. in which there should
be place to hang ones clothing.
The dining room may be passed over
lightly if it be we'll lighted easily
accessible from the kitchen and lust
! large enough for the occasional use
to which it may be put.
The bedrooms should all be conven-
lent to the bathroom, because of
winter and possible illness. One should
he large enough for twin beds, which
seem destined to become ever more
{ popular. The others, for the children
or guests, need be only large enough
10 escape looking cramped
small attic, with the possibility of
finishing part OF it into a~room. is
necessary as place for storage.
OF course there must be a porch or
this house, for it is there that one will
1 wish to spend the summer evenings.
The roofing should be the most eco.
{ nomlcai You can find as determined bv
first cost durability and low fire in.
surance rates
The cellar? Surely cold room and
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