New York’s Improved Tenements 
large sink and drain board, large dresser 
with shelves, closets and drawers, plastered 
hano-ino- closets instead of wooden wardrobes, 
o o 
gas range (no rent or deposit to he paid), (|uar- 
ter meter (no deposit to gas company), and 
storage closet in basement. All ionr-room 
Hats have private baths, d'he saving to the 
tenant from having steam heat, hot water, and 
the use of a gas range for cooking and ironing 
is an important advantage. In the buildings 
of this company there is no suggestion of 
dark bedrooms, dark kitchens, dark stairs, 
narrow airshafts or other detects such as were 
the curse of the tenement house population 
before 1902, and whose depressing, disease¬ 
breeding consecjuences are still telt in many 
of the buildings erected before that year. 
I'he company, in hoping to attract a tar 
greater amount ot capital to its tenement 
house building enterprises than is at present 
employed in them, has not ignored the claims 
of moderate and small investors. It must 
be admitted that, on the whole, model build¬ 
ings of this kind tend to occupancy by a 
higher class ot tenants than under the old conditions, 
but by the provision for two-room apartments the best 
and cheapest accommodation that could be made 
for the poorer class ot wage-earners is now offered. 
ALFRED CORNING CLARK BUILDINGS 
West 68tli and 69th Streets, New York 
movement tor housing reform. It helps to make 
homes tor those who prefer suburban life, and the 
City and Suburban Homes Company has made 
admirable provision tor this growing tendency among 
the better paid class of 
wage-earners. Its exam- 
■ pie is being followed, 
and promises large re¬ 
sults. ( 3 ne great obstacle 
to the indehnite increase 
ot suburban homes has 
recently been removed, 
and It is difficult to ex¬ 
aggerate the importance 
ot that tact, lletore the 
construction ot the East 
River and Hudson River 
tunnels Manhattan was. 
It is only by the 
much larger exten¬ 
sion of such privi¬ 
leges that any widely 
satisfactory results 
can be attained. It 
may be truly said 
that, although the 
housing ot city wage- 
earners in suburban 
cottao-es is not 
o 
strictly a part of the 
city tenement house 
problem, it is an im¬ 
portant result ot the 
Flooi Plan Allred Corning Clark Buildings 
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