Show JERUSALEM 14 1 4 NOW HAS SLUMS resolute effort is to DC be made to improve the H ausing conditions tn in the holy city the jewish population of J Jau salem has baa increased from about to not les lees s than out of a total of including people of other races religious organizations besides the jewish have built fine mansions but nobody has done much for tho the improver improve ment of housing or laying out suburbs the result being rows or of wretched slums between the great stone churches and other costly buildings now however a practical scheme for extending uie the philanthropy of sir moses Monte montefiore flore toward which some was collected in england as a memorial has been established tais has baa been expended in the erection of suitable buildings tor for the poor lave five suburban colonies having been label with from sixty to seventy houses each now a new project has baa been started in england of forming a new garden suburb outside Jeru jerusalem in which the houses bouses cau can be let to this th better class artisans artl sane who can afford a rent of 40 or 60 a year TI the e balo acre of ground and the house thereon Is estimated to cost coat not cot 1000 IL all tho the garden can be planted with flags olives and garden produce from the sale of which the occupy at can make maka a little lii comy |