. A ten years' war : an account of the battle with the slum in New York . of the Federation of Churcheshad found the churches, schools, and othereducational agencies marshaling a frontageof 756 feet on the street, while the saloonfronts stretched themselves over nearly amile ; so that,rsaid the compiler of thesepregnant facts,Fsaloon social ideals are mint-ing themselves m the minds of the peopleat the ratio of seven saloon thoughts to oneeducational thought. I It would not havebeen easy to find a spot better fitted forthe experiment of restoring to the home itsrights. The Alfred Corning Clark
. A ten years' war : an account of the battle with the slum in New York . of the Federation of Churcheshad found the churches, schools, and othereducational agencies marshaling a frontageof 756 feet on the street, while the saloonfronts stretched themselves over nearly amile ; so that,rsaid the compiler of thesepregnant facts,Fsaloon social ideals are mint-ing themselves m the minds of the peopleat the ratio of seven saloon thoughts to oneeducational thought. I It would not havebeen easy to find a spot better fitted forthe experiment of restoring to the home itsrights. The Alfred Corning Clark Buildings, asthey were called in recognition of the sup-port of this public-spirited woman, have beenoccupied a year. When I went throughthem, the other day, I found all but five ofthe 373 apartments they contain occupied,and a very large waiting list of applicantsfor whom there was no room. The doctoralone, of all the tenants, had moved away,disappointed. He had settled on the estate,hoping to build up a practice among so many;but he could not make a living. The plan. 5 s ° I 5 I W -I u S Q 6 THE TENEMENT: CURING ITS BLIGHT 86 of the buildings, for which Ernest Flagg, ayoung and energetic architect, with a very-practical interest in the welfare of the OtherHalf, has the credit, seems to me to realizethe ideal of making homes under a com-mon roof. The tenants appeared to takethe same view of it. They were a notablylcontented lot. Their only objection was tolthe use of the common tubs in the baselment laundry, — a sign that, to my mmd,was rather favorable than otherwise, thoughit argued Ul for the scheme of pubKc washhouses on the Glasgow plan that has seemedso promising. They were selected tenants fas to trustworthiness and desirability on that |score, but they were all of the tenementhouse class. The rents are a Httle lowerthan for much poorer quarters in the sur-rounding tenements. The houses are built(around central courts, with light and air in\abundance, with fireproof
Size: 1371px × 1822px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublisherbostonhoughtonmiff
