Show Slums Out Liverpool City Council Razes Insani Insani- tary Dwellings and Spends In New Ones Liverpool The Liverpool The greatest movement In any city in the world for the purification purification cation of the slums slums is in progress in Liverpool More than insani InsanI- tary dwellings have bave been demolished and remain to be dealt with About of the dwellings have been destroyed by private enterprise to make room for business premises while have been cleared away b by the municipality There has been I IJO graft in it Th The city has put up 2170 dwellings on the site of a greater portion of the houses which were swept away by the municipality and on the other sites required for like purposes More than courts and alleys mainly slums have been cleared out of existence and in their places now st stand nd wholesome dwellings for the occupancy of the poor About has bas been spent in this work of demolition and reconstruction More than persons chiefly former denizens In the destroyed sections sections sections sec sec- are housed in simple comfort and under sound conditions in these ne new net buildings The operations are In Inthe inthe inthe the hands of a committee of the city council The plans now under way provide for 80 houses of four rooms each of three rooms and of at two rooms No single-room single tenements will v be bo constructed The dwellings will contain 1480 rooms TV are will villi be bea a recreation ground The rhe net annual tax for the hous housIng housing ing lug reforms is less less' than one cent on the dollar No such work has been attempted in America owing to the cry social socialism I ism m which has been raised in Ne New Nett NewYork York and other large cities clUes The Trinity Trinity Trin Trin- It ity church corporation which is said to have a similar plan in mind in dealing dealing deal deal- ing with the future of Its dwelling dwelling- house tract on the lower Jower West side in I New York has had forwarded to tc it a full report of the progress of the British British Brit ish enterprise E Experts pelts from all over Europe say the Liverpool plan for housing the poor is working well |