Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1891 — A la Bellamy Style. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A la Bellamy Style.

Some prominent Chicago business men who reside the fashionable suburb of Evanston have organized and paid $16,000 for four acres in the latter place, on which they will soonvrect a hotel, homes, club house, etc., to be run on the co-operative plan. There are to be eleven residences surrounding a central court, with kitchen, laundry, eto., all lighted and heated by a central plant. The system of cooking is to be ad libitum, so to speak. That is, tjat© central kitchen will cook for all as each may order, and so each family can be as exclusive or as co-operative as it chooses. Each of the eleven families pays $3,000 at the start, which insures private ownership of its own residence and a twelfth interest in the corqmon plant. It is evident that mauy advantages are secured; the building can be done cheaper, the provisions can be had on better terms and better preserved, all the washing and care of grounds can be similiarly cheapened, and much can be done by machinery that in single

families must be done by hand. Other gains are obvious. The experiment will be watched with great interest, and if even partially successful will incite many to imitate it, as they can avoid any errors due to want of experience. ,

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