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Show 1 HE PRINCE OF WALES AS A LANDLORD PROVES A SUCCMj copyriRfii. aviv, ty Public Lvdeer co. ' s : "N, 1. " ' - - ' 1 'I families. The Chamber of I Hiately appointed a eommitCT-J "iron, to make further inZf' "port a plan for a llevlaUDt -. 1 tions. ""litiM Although the situation h , , 1 bad ,n Worcester as in ' "'" "factureratf I general meeting determined tt 1 imt allow matters to reach J would seriously affect ljv ' 1 These men were the same thaX ! 1 ing together luring the war " "1 ganization in this civic move'J""1 ":" 1 "ted partly to the habit of 'I formed during the war in Wor'''' public- spirit was developed to ; 1 degree and the city made an enn.M tion for its record in all bray "M On June 5 the corporation I and it was planned to erect liv11! having accommodations for tl each, at a cost of about Si OM has progressed to the Point .'1 land has been purchased and , contract has been let. W r!' fl of Roston, was selected as aJ! Leland was vice president of tt 1 States Housing Corporation t:"l largely under his direction that th "l ment operations were carried on tt the country during the war. 6arM ALTHOUGH the house, are b v. I tenements, they are to be design and are in no wise ta hideous "three-decker" type , New England. The plans show tkll dharming efFect can be procurta family house, which has been is J!! .&, justly criticised in the past CbT'4 best residential section of the cuj U land has been purchased, and Hie fo il of bouses are being built there. similar to each other in deaip, bet J is given by having one house face n,."1! while the next one has the lone aide rM parallel to it. Many beautiful tree, Tj tract have been preserved, shrubs and Ij plots will be developed for each idSj owner and ivy will be planted to trt.1l the outside walls. Roofs and 8hutter,L,I green, blending with the shrubbery a the effect of green against tie white 51 In locating the houses, the mrjJJ has been influenced by the desire u : J them at convenient proximity to ft. if manufacturing plants, at the same fc.jj in desirable neighborhoods. For K -1 reasons it is proposed to build only is p J and no plot containing less than sen ' J averaging 5000 feet to a lot is cail In one location three and one-ii; , J have been bought. Each group ml irql character of its own; that is, eater" J signs and texture will harmonise, a; -J work toward the development of a kJ mcnt of model tenements. I The first contract calls for the fcJ erection of sixty -five houses, which J -vide 195 flats of five and six rooms eadl an evidence of the local interest aid the aJ rideuce felt by the people of Woasail i the new corporation, the manager that he has already received about Bci ' plications for the purchase of taehnsal : Preliminary estimates show that u i?.ed cost will approximate $600 pe: sal . Rents will vary from S24 to $33. I The board of directors of the eorpotis.il composed of men connected with the local 1 manufacturing plants of the city. I 1 i Many of the homes are about the oval and are blessed with open spaces In the center of England's metropolis rpiIE world is in a great turmoil a tur-moil tur-moil which is only a natural part of the readjustment after the great war. There are strikes iu every corner of the globe New York, Seattle, Berlin, Paris, Belfast, Liverpool and London. Granting larger wages and shorter hours does not 6eem to be a cure for this general discontent of the working class. Their demands are no sooner granted than they are out again on another strike for greater privileges. The men and women of the working class have had a change from their former lives of drudgery. Heretofore, stupefied by generations gen-erations of direst peverty and squalid living, they have accepted whatever was given them without complaint. The men are now coming com-ing back from army life, where they have had, not shorter hours and larger wages, but free, open-air living. The wouien have been working at munitions and various occupations oc-cupations where the housing has been taken care of by the government, and they now know something better than the crowding and dirt of pre-war times. Master minds of Great Britain have realized real-ized that the only cure for working-class discontent is a comfortable, decent, clean home for every workingman. The housing bill which is the result of this realization is now the topic of the hour in England. THE Prince of Wales is one of the men of today who have worked out a practical plan for this ideal and succeeded. He owns a comfortable amount of property in Ken- :n.iAn ;. fU Vioarf if T.nnrlon find The houses are both dignified and f) p jH t jL t r t-fC"l F mm I " It, small boy toddling along and talking to a ftf lflw V- ' -"H'-"';'-Tr. -J ' very large orange which he carried. I Bku ".vT1 'vv ' '1 .' X 11 stopped to' play with him a moment, and his 7fi . y ) TTtK, J3 1 mother came up, carrying a basket of provi- LjL r B!! .'SCSp '''--Jl ' f' MI sions. We fell to discusing the virtues of BjT--. ' f'''xV II S the prince's houses sfnd flats, and she asked i . I 5 Mr Vr i' STr me if I would like to see the inside of her Ljo"" Cv V I 1 flat. The door opened on the ground floor Bjji t 'Hi I A fts xyf dtf into a hallway about four feet wide aod m ' 1 ' ). ' " y vj J .a fifteen feet long; to the left the first door- 'S. y t'ir.'' V way opeued into a bedroom which w.i-- about "i 'J1.. J nj"v ' 9 '' twelve by ten feet nnil had one large win- U , , 9 1 V-' ' x dow. 'J'lie room contained n double bed. I gX t n ,JJV dresser, rlo-k and several chairs. A few U J v,,' f"ef furllier nlong th hull was the other V M ' bedroom, nine by twelve, containing n dou- f. iji, " atastL ''illJbj'" VOrtlr N ble bed, a crib and n dreuer, Here tberi i! 4 . ' t i i ' ' was also a window which took up hnl. of the if T ' 'IT I back wall. At tbo end of the hall we mine l X. to the living foom-kltchtn, Whicb. is ten by . " I The houses are both dignified and handsome takes a keen personal interest in the comfort com-fort and health of his tenants. He is able to do a great deal because he is content with a much smaller return on capital expended ex-pended than are most1 landlords. It is usual to look for a return of 6 per cent, but on tho Prince of Wales's estate two-thirds two-thirds of this figure is considered sufficient. Most of the houses on the Kennington estate of the Duchy of Cornwall were built , about the year 1800, 60 that during recent years they have been rapidly qualifying for removal on the score of old age. Many were pulled down aod two or three hundred new ones put up in their place before the war stopped building activities for the time. Kennington is a closely populated town area, in which anything resembling tbe garden gar-den suburb would be quite impossible and out of place. A glance at the rebuilt portions of the prince's estate proves that long rows of houses Deed not be monotonous, overcrowded over-crowded and insanitary, for they are healthful looking ami picturesque. It is significant sig-nificant of the prince's enlightened attitude that none of the dwellings is more than three ivories high ; be is no believer Id the great blocks, floor after floor, seething with humanity, hu-manity, with which some landlords attempt to squeeze much money out of little space. The mortality in such high tenement districts dis-tricts goes as high as 200 deaths per 1000 during tbe first year of life and extremely high during the following years. The little ones stay io, not wishing to climb the hundreds hun-dreds of stairs any more than necessary. The result is that they have all the weaknesses weak-nesses bred by indoor life. At Kennington there are no skyscrapers of this sort, and attention is paid to providing pro-viding such open spaces as are possible in a crowded city like London. Home of the property overlooks the Oval, and so gets better air than streets provide; the site of another block of buildings was not rebuilt, but turned into an open space, and in several sev-eral cases the rows of bouses are arranged round airy squares. Tbe houses arc both dignified and handsome, the squalid look so familiar in London streets if quite absent, sod fine might almost say that the prince's tenant houses, from a pictorial point of view, compare very favorably with the prince's own Ivfjndon home Kuckii'gliam Palace. T IQOK a tiiirn cut. ftp Kennington. which is not far from the renter of London, and )ne square from the tram line I en me upon :he most picturesque little village I have feD in England; a little community nil by tsetf. 'be hats and small hOUMI of brick ind tile are built mound (hi square, idling lack ten to fifteen f-et from the lldtwalk, delicate balconies, enriched paattlf, lialits-Taded lialits-Taded ptfapata and columnar porches give id air of refinement, which wholly dissociates hem fiorn the lern-mcnl. find givvt tbiMU the lomMy aspect of the upper-class Kngllsh-onn's Kngllsh-onn's own hoiine. My observation! v.eie. interrupted by a H 4 How the prince laid out his property for home attei In tha heart of London, planning for sunlight and air small boy toddling along and talking to a very large orange which be carried. I stopped to' play with him a moment, and his mother cnine up, carrying a basket of provi-alons. provi-alons. We fell to discusing the virtues of the prince's houses a'nd flats, and she asked me if I would like to sec tbe inside of her flat. Tbe door opened on the ground floor Into a hallway about four feet wide and fifteen feet long; to the left the first doorway door-way opeued into a bedroom which was nbout twelve by ten feet nnd had one large window. win-dow. The room contained a double bed, dresser, desk and several chairs. A few feet further along (he hall was the other bedroom, nine by twelve, containing a double dou-ble bed, a crib and n dresser. Here there was also a window wbkdi took up IwiK of tbe back wall. At tho end of the hall we came to the living j-nom-kitohen, whicf is ten by fifteen feet, with a window four feet wide. Hern there was a large table, a desk, nu merous comfortable rhnlrs and the Movo built in the wall. linck of this was the cllUtry, about, eight, by ten. with the copper for boiling the clothes and tables for pre paring the food, doing on toward the back door T found the bathroom on one side and I be coal scuttle on the other. The garden at the hack door was about twenty feet squnre, with different kinds of (lowers making a horde: around it. The whole house was quite neat and tidy, but my hostess felt that she must, make apologies for its condition, wiving that she was pie. paring to go away fur n holiday. After spending the rest of the morning bilking uf housekeeping and holidays, she asked ma if 1 would like to go to the school with her to get her other little boy, wdio was fmir years old, nnd then come, back to lunch. t told her that I should be delighted, and so wn went and found the otbar fat and curly haired little boy. SOON after we returned, the wholesome dinner, consisting of beef, potatoes, salad, rbubarb and cuatard, wai on tbe table and be will go down to the estate with bis agent and pay house-to -house visits a ng his two thousand tenants. When calling Inform til like this OB Home Bur-prised Bur-prised housowilc he goes iuto I Vary room nnd makes a thorough personal inspection of the home. Tenants are encouraged to complain of any detective point, and though, out of politeness, they have been known to gloss over tho irritating ways of the 1(1 tehee range and so forth, sooner or later the truth COmea out and the matter is remedied. There are still more houses to bo pulled down and rebuilt on the estate, now that the wnris over, and as soon as labor and more particularly material! are forthcoming forthcom-ing iu sufficient numbers, a serious start w ill be made, A more progressive land bud than the PrlUCt of Wales, and one who care, more deeply for the welfare of his tenants it would be dUBcull to Sad. Discontent . strikes, riots nnd revolutions ,-iow whore the homes arc miserable and I he nubile houses are full. the hungry .vouiigsterrf ale beartil). I thought .1 rather u good meal for workers and ah kid her how much it. cost. She tig-mod tig-mod that il. came to about three, shillings shil-lings -seventy - two cents. This led me to inquire about the rent of the houses and lints. My hostess told mo thill SOUle of the Little houses rent as low-as low-as 'la ttd ylM-i) u week, lucludiug electric light, and none exceed 1 1 (B,01J I week inclusive of rated and tuxes. The average rent for a lint or collage consisting of living liv-ing room, scullery and (hi bedrooms is from J0h io 12m ($.2. fill to .$.'!. (10) weekly. Most of the housed have bathrooms. Boon nfler lunch I bid her good by, feeling that here there wuh surely one contented working family, Ivecenllv the prince spoko In public on housing and visited notorious slum arena; iu mony ways he has shown tluit he baa a grip on the subject nnd a keen in tore I in il. Him own tenants can testify to ihi". foj two ur throe times a voir |