Show 1 b I I r r DOINGS S T TfllY C IT9L Th IR Employes to Found Bungalow Town I t 1 1 Although not nt all WASHJNOTONAlthonJh 1 Utopian In any of their Ideas nor Intent upon carrying ont a sociological ° d experiment a group of officeholders s In tho capital most of them government govern-ment clerks has practically completed plans for the execution of ono of tho most novel schemes In tho history of real estate trading In tho capital Tholr primary object Is to escape the burden of paying rent In tho city and to substitute suburban life for urban life and with this end In view they Intend to found a bungalow town in which the limits of cost of nearly everything necessary to household t upbuilding and maintenance will bo I held to tho lowest possible level Just whore Bungalow Town will bo located has not yet been definitely c determined but It will comprluo an i area of 15 to 20 acres convenient tot to-t some of the suburban trolley lines This land can now bo secured at a > cost not to exceed 1000 an acre and when It Is subdivided there will be no effort to secure profit upon tho money c Invested because the purchase will bo distinctly a cooperative affair and each participant will bo entitled to his share of tho Increased value of tho land Incident to the placing of improvements + im-provements In tho section This Joining of Interests In the ac quisition of property Is In Itself considerable con-siderable of an Innovation In WashIngton Wash-Ington but by far tho most novel feature of the proposition lies In the building restrictions In n tnajorlt 3 of tho newer suburbs assurance IE given to tho purchaser of each lot that the character of tho section will always bo maintained by the wilting of n covenant Into his deed that cacti house hullt In tho vicinity shall cost not less than a stated number of thousands of dollars In Bungalow Town this proposition will bo exactly reversed for It will bo specifically provided that no bungalow shall cost In excess of 1000 This will reduce tho maximum expenditure of each property holder to 2000 because It will be provided In the original subdl vision that each bungalow must be surrounded by ono acre of ground Subsequently It will bo permissible to further subdivide and build additional bungalows although at no tlmo will tho projectors of the enterprise permit a house to stand upon less than one half acre of ground Bungalow Town will make Its nearest Imitation to a sociological colony col-ony In Its purchases of supplies of all sorts from tho outside world In tho first place there will bo cooperation coopera-tion In buying tho land and then there will bo a determined effort to save expense ex-pense In building by the lotting of contracts to build the little homes In blocks of two or more to each contract con-tract When Bungalow Town Is settled set-tled It Is proposed that tho womenfolk women-folk shall Join In the formation of n central purchasing committee so that all forms of food stuffs and supplies may bo secured at wholesale rates |