Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1914 — START THE GARDEN SUBURB [ARTICLE]

START THE GARDEN SUBURB

Residents Should Haye a Proprietary Interest In That Ideal of Dwelling A new city cannot every day be willed into existence. A “garden suburb” has been found easy where a garden city has been too difficult. It is essential to the success of the plan that the people who are to live there should have a proprietary-inter-est in it A company is formed. A 5 per cent dividend is looked . .spy. Homes may be rented. Profits in excess of 5 per cent arp returned in shares to a tenant in proportion to the rent paid until his. share capital equals the value of the house he occupies, which thus- becomes htaown. After that, if profits from other rents and other enterprises and from the development of the “suburb” still accumulate, the tenant receives his share In cash. The garden city is not an experiment It is a fact The garden suburb is not an experiment. It is full work. The old world' has shown us what we can do.'