Show HEIR 1 HOW THE if QUAKER CITY TO ca 01 V e DOMESTIC RR 4 A G 40 10 P in an all attempt to solve a great domestic c rob em the board of city trusts in philadelphia has undertaken the erection of a model town within two miles ot at the geographical center of ph tula this A community om la is to be ba supplied with heat and light and hot water from a common center and aho item ot of ren rent t Is to cover total cost of these conveniences briefly the plan Is to 0 o give every family interested in the enterprise a separate an ami 4 distinct home of the very highest character at tho the very lowest rental and to apply the greater economic principle of concentrated power with a view to reducing the cost of heat and light and hot water to the minimum the chief purpose of this novel experiment peri ment Is to earn increased revenues for the girard estate stephen girard in his will stipulated that not an inch of land owned by him at the time of his death should ever be sold an and the board of city trusts which represents the city of philadelphia the girard estate and eight or ten tell other estates of a quasi public character ig ie forced to utilize to the best possible advantage miles of land in undesirable situations in and about philadelphia and other miles of land in the anthracite th region the capitalized value of the girard estate Is now in excess of and the income Is far greater than the demands made upon the estate looking far into the tu ture the manageri ma ina of at the board at 0 city trusts argant lo 1 tiNt ha time when the coal croper jr properties oper ties owned by ile 1110 estate will no longer yield fabulous roy allies aides and when the barren acres of ground in n south philadelphia must be made to yield more than farm rentals and it Is to provide revenues with which to maintain girard college at its present standard that this model community Is to be established the alio general plan proposes 1200 houses like hire those common to philadelphia delp hla all of which hi chare are built with a view to housing five people to a house bouse these houses will rent tor for from 33 to 41 a month including heat electric light and hot water the tenant w will na have to pay for gas and tor for the present will have to use gas tor for cook ing the board of city trusts cannot go into the gas business because of the fact that the city of philadelphia controls the exclusive right to own and tease lease gas plants within the boundaries of the county were it not for tills this the houses would bo be furnished with teas gas free as well as electric light heal beat and hot water thirty six of these houses have already been completed at seventeenth and porter streets and 97 are in the ourse of construction the commer clai elal problem to be solved by these 97 houses is whether or not a thoroughly desirable class of tenants can be induced to move into the neighborhood of t seventeenth and porter streets near which Is a large foreign settle settlement and the location la Is not favored with strictly first class transportation facilities tho the present thought Is that tho the homes will be so attractive in construction and equipment that hat respectable vilecta spec table ble alleles all ill lea lles now lying living in more deser des lr paints of thol iha win will take mp ip with the now new idea of community management and thus change the of the whole neighborhood prof robert ellla ellis Thomp thorn phoc sou of the boya high school has mado made a study of operative cooperative co housekeeping and community living tn in all parts of 0 the world and big idea Is that oil all the problems of at lomoth th economy will ultimately be calved by br just such a plan av a this now proposed by the be board of city trusts intended to lo include nil all of tho the necessaries of a domestic household mr idea said prof thompson is that women should bo be emancia emancipated ted that chilt they should not be burdened duties that lliter fere with their mahor calling I 1 consider co nalder housework and cooka ag sa as s a sciences and woman has not ft a scientific brain Il fles caldee idee this she Is too often apt to give us ua what wo vye like and not to have all labor should tw and tl it la iq the lack ack of skilled labor that la is ai at the bottom or our domestic difficulties so you can bee nt once my iny idea A central kitchen tot lot every certain number vt of houses where the most leI chefs wilt will be D employed alt all food will be bought at prices and thre thorp will not be the ho individual ran chah living wo 80 high vt ona iw defaut hame at aia fio ai M N ae 16 h houses oil ses should be in direct connection with this central litchen Ll and could order as they please within a certain limit such operative cooperative co kitchens have been run for the working people I 1 in n ber bergen en norway for more than two cell centuries tortes but my idea does not stop at the kitchen I 1 would have all the houses heated from a central plant the hot water supplied the same way pr or heated by gas and a constant staff of oe professional servants always ready for a call window cleaners point painters ers walters waiters and nurses all would be there when wanted As for the actual cleaning could I 1 carry out my ideas I 1 would have a great exhaust engle engine bulit built tho the elty city with pipes C connecting fi with every house and smaller pipes to every room thus when clean ing was to be done the pipes would be opened and with a small easily ha handled U tube the entire room would be cleaned and the lust dust carried all the way out of town I 1 would clean streets in the same way and have the city io BO dustless dust lesa that people would come into town for a breath ot of fresh air when asked if the plan had ever been tried successfully prof thompson said yes yea they are succeeding with it in new england where tho the very lamps lampa in the houses are cleaned by women experts and filled ready for use then too in mobile the last place one would look tor for such advanced ideas they have the co opera tive five living well started mrs charlotte perkins gilman who has devoted much time to this subject advocates not only operative cooperative co housekeeping but operative cooperative co lives she prophesies largo nurseries in which trained nurses with the mother feeling would be ba in charge and where the frivolous and ignorant mother could leave her child and free from anxiety on its account could learn to 0 o love it it all women should in her estimation have a career all 11 household a abold expenses should bo be shared share d zd abid th the 0 old fashioned idea of at supporting a wife should be done away abuy with |