Review of reviews and world's work . ion of passengers and food. Not onlywill an ideal combination of transportationservice with house construction be securedby this plan but very marked economies willbe effected in such matters as plumbing, wir-ing, and the use of cement. Mr. Thomas has offered the use of his cement-poured house patents without royalty. The inventor and the architects and en-gineers associated with him in working outthe estimates of costs state that the savingsin construction and maintenance will makeit possible for a man to live in the countryat the rent now paid fo
Review of reviews and world's work . ion of passengers and food. Not onlywill an ideal combination of transportationservice with house construction be securedby this plan but very marked economies willbe effected in such matters as plumbing, wir-ing, and the use of cement. Mr. Thomas has offered the use of his cement-poured house patents without royalty. The inventor and the architects and en-gineers associated with him in working outthe estimates of costs state that the savingsin construction and maintenance will makeit possible for a man to live in the countryat the rent now paid for second-rate cityapartments, and enjoy all the benefits ofelectric power, light, gas, heat, hot andcold water, sewerage, irrigation, vacuum forsweeping, power, mechanical refrigeration,telephone, and message and parcel de-livery. That large class of workers in our largecities who are now commuters will naturallyutilize the Roadtown, since it will give themmany of the advantages that they seek in the BUILDING HOUSES BY THE MILE. 703. ELBVATION ELEVATION SHOWING ONE SIDE OF ROADTOWN. I. country, without depriving them of libraries,schools, churches, or theaters. To a greateror less extent the Roadtoun commuter willbe able to combine light farming work withlabor at the city desk. town effect a great saving in the cost of liv-ing for individual families but the possibilityof distributing power from one end of thestructure to the other will make feasible theintroduction of various industries requiring In the saving through the distribution of individual hand labor or the use of light ma-food supplies much is claimed for the Road- chinery. Each house will be supplied withtown system. The purchase and preparation a motor, to which a machine of standard sizeof food will be by wholesale, and meals will may be readily attached. Among the indus-be ordered from serving centers conveniently tries that are likely to have a place in thelocated. It is proposed to make deliveries by homes of R
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