250 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



We have seen the practical organised result 

 of all this in the rapid formation of the Garden 

 City of Letchworth with its 3818 acres, 

 Kenilworth with its 1000 acres, Bourn ville 

 with its 525, Port Sunlight with its 350, Wood- 

 lands with its 127, and Ears wick with its 120. 

 An economic idea has been sown, and out of 

 it has arisen the modern "garden village." 



These are all highly capitalised schemes, 

 dependent chiefly upon one or two large 

 industries taken from the towns and planted 

 right out in the country. Besides these, there 

 are indications recently of the townsman with 

 a little capital setting out to start a new life 

 in the country, and forming those small -holding 

 settlements which are recruited almost entirely 

 from the towns. They, however, have had 

 very little effect in emptying the congested 

 slums of the towns. That is a problem we 

 have yet to settle, and one which cries aloud 

 for immediate solution. With railways owned 

 by the State and lower passenger fares, con- 

 gestion might be easily relieved. Indeed, it is 

 only through State control of transit that our 

 town workers will ever be able to live like the 

 Belgian urban workers often happily do — 

 twenty miles out in the country. 



