Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — A Model Workingman’s Town. [ARTICLE]

A Model Workingman’s Town.

A model workingman’s town is to be laid out in Pennsylvania. The Apollo Iron and Steel Company are the projectors, and the town is to be near Apollo and to be called Vandegrift. Streets bordered with grass, paved with asphalt and lighted with eleetiicity are among the features. The town will be laid out by a professional landscape gardener, and competent architects will design the buildings, which will include shops as well as dwellings. The former, however, are not to be occupied by “company” stores, but will be run by reliable private merchants. There are no restrictions or conditions of any kind excepting that no saloons will be permitted. A few unliped capes in black, white and soft ecru are imported for very dressy occasions, but the majority of chiffon lace, net and grenadine models fall above a second cape of taffeta, surah or India silk.