. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . lled, of large size, from mo-tives primarily philanthropic, has been less fre-quent in the United States than in Great Brit-ain. The best known and earliest are the HomeBuildings and Tower Buildings, which wereerected by Alfred T. White in IBrooklyn; thefirst named in 1879. The erection of these build-ings, which have been financially successful fromthe start, was an epoch in the cause of tene-ment reform. It led indirectly to the tenementh
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . lled, of large size, from mo-tives primarily philanthropic, has been less fre-quent in the United States than in Great Brit-ain. The best known and earliest are the HomeBuildings and Tower Buildings, which wereerected by Alfred T. White in IBrooklyn; thefirst named in 1879. The erection of these build-ings, which have been financially successful fromthe start, was an epoch in the cause of tene-ment reform. It led indirectly to the tenementhouse law of 1879. The most recent model tene-ments are those of the City and SuburbanHomes Company, of New York, of which L. Gould is president. Great Britain.— The movement for housingreform in Great Britain has had a somewhatdifferent direction from its American counter-part. The evils there have been more largelyslum conditions than those resulting from tallbuildings and unventilated and unlighted particular evils of the tall tenement prac-tically exist only in Edinburgh and English and Scotch effort has been. si o -a > V — c - us - = ?= « S ° ° = -2 = _ o rt o u b .. O _>* O £ ^ ii *C o 2 o i S C ^ CO o. o o oS5 -^ TENERIFFE — TENNESSEE directed mainly toward the demolition of iinsani-tary areas, and more recently, the erection ofmunicipal tenements by the city governmentsthemselves. These movements, at first localand authorized under local acts, such as theGlasgow Improvement Act of 1866, and the Liv-erpool Sanitary Amendment Act of 1868, havebeen made general by the Housing of the Work-ing Classes Act of iSgo, and many slum areashave been destroyed and municipal tenementsbuilt in their place, notably in the cities of Lon-don, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool and Edin-burgh. Tenement house regulation in GreatBritain emphasizes the same general subjectsand follows the same lines as American regu-lation. Limitations upon heig
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