Science and City Suburbs 



where to meet, gossip, and hearken to Nature's 

 voice, which seems to tell deep-seated secrets to 

 those who have travelled far on life's hard high- 



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road. Very gratefully has the idea been already 

 received by those who support their aged, and 

 who regret, as conditions now are, that in spite 

 of all that their love can do it cannot surround 

 them with what they feel their age and their efforts 

 and experience would warrant them in possessing. 



THE SCHEME is ON A FINANCIAL BASIS 



As I write it seems to me that these plans will 

 tend to make people believe that the scheme is one 

 for philanthropic effort, and that the majority of 

 its acres will be devoted to the cottages of the 

 working classes and institutions for the handi- 

 capped. But such a development of the estate 

 would be to nullify one of its aims, which is so 

 to plan the estate that there may be room and 

 amenities for all classes. 



Out of the 240 acres available, 55 are put aside 

 for roads, 70 for the industrial class cottages, 30 for 

 the villas of clerks and persons who can pay from 

 .3 to 60 yearly rent, 40 for shops or for the 

 houses of the annual value of from 60 to ^100 

 per annum, 30 for houses of such yearly rents as 

 will justify ground rents of ^100 per acre, and 15 

 for even more expensive habitations. The houses 

 will be built either by individuals or Co-operative 

 societies, or by a subsidiary Company ; or, if 

 sufficient capital is forthcoming, by the Loan Fund 



