Show 1 0 MW I 1 MIKE NIKE t DS AROUND THE F co vo ue owners and Woul du much towards 01 art lant aaa also would laha enhance ace value NO ULM W It hout ai biby viby N by was aa the back yard eer ei er invent ed wb need there be a it rear and a front to a bouse house and why have most duties two rears and no front the rear oc of a house was originally designed aa as a place where coal was delivered where waste was removed and where deliveries from tradesmen were made out but la city homes the garbage and the ashes go out the front door end and deliveries are made there in fact it by necessity has become the back door and what ie Is the baat yard usually a rua place blah for weed weeds to crow grew a place for b to accumulate a place to hang out the wash a breeding place tor for mosquitoes and flies illes and an eyesore to about half the population of tenants who day by day month mouth after month mouth have to look out upon it so arites a the title insurance nevis aws if ever anar one baym the penalty for A elo 1310 it Is Is the owner of real estate rea res identical Ident lal ial property who la Is carrying the burden of the back yard how ilow doc does tho the owner of such property pay the penalty and cat c u at be escape it hear rear rooms bring leas less income than street rooms because fat of existing conditions yet why dot not make rear rooms front rooms and correspondingly increase the income from residential property 7 take for example a block of houses running from one avenue to another belinc up to each other there are arg about thirty four bouses houses twenty feekin feet in width there is a stretch of open land between the two rows of bouses houses about feet long lone and approximately feet wide let us imagine it if we can that the owners of these seventy pieces of 11 Q A DESOLATE ISM X YAKU property got their henda together and deeded that the ifould place this vacant space in th tho D bands hands of two or three or ore fire of thedr number as trustees fur for a it period of five years each contributing P to the cost and that fences be torn down doun rubbish cleared up tip mi ani 1 the plot turned into a minia minla tare parl anti playground la In hort short the rear of theme dowses hou 4 become becom thu the front 1 hit hat woul I 1 bappel count ina aa lie the number mii uter of rooms facing the baal fard yard ai about the same aa as ahw e fating the street and that there la Is R difference in the rental income of about 20 per cent it would be safe to that by making malang euch such a chainge cu inga the income of the tho artar anni facing our min liture paric park would brin brins in nil an additional inouye of 2 per t L at in tit esa of their usual rental pallie which on the entire property would show nu au increase of possibly from froin 5 to 10 ter per cent not into consideration the income would not such prop artles always find occupants in prefer ence nee to others that could not offer this attractive feature would wo we not bo be nn na ideal playground for the c children hildrea taking them from front the street etl with lib dangers jot such re efford afternoons and evenings to the occupants of the room men and women who must pass the greater part of their summers it n the city the average nummer summer population in the severity hot boi sis ss does not fall far short of 1000 persons dy by renting a portion of the sp i for the privilege of serving ke L ere cre n and soda fountain drinks thera there would be sufficient income from the privilege to more than pay for the upkeep of the plot any step that will help make city life mora attractive wilt help to maintain values does cot not this offer a remedy for one of the cause causes of decreasing income from rooming prop artles in certain cities t |