Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1916 — HOME TOWN` 4 Helps [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME TOWN` 4 Helps

GARDEN FOR EVERY HOME Two Hundred Workmen's Cottages Erected in a London Suburb Ars So Planned. Two hundred and four cottage residences in agreeable contrast with the ordinary working class home have been erected at West Ham, a suburb of London, says the Telegraph of that city. The houses, which are built in blocks of two or more, have bright and artistic frontages of various designs, with tiled roofs. Each cottage has a garden at the rear, and there is ft small front garden, except where the house faces one of the grass covered open spaces for which provision has been made. The forecourts are paved back and front. All the roads on the estate are 40 feet in width, and the distance between each group of houses is such as to Insure ample light and air. Fifty of the houses are three-roomed with scullery; 124 four-roomed and 30 five-roomed. Rents, inclusive of rates and taxes, are 6 shillings 6 pence, 8 shillings 6 pence and 12 shillings a week for the respective types. Each house Is provided with a bath, copper, cooking range, gas lighting and indoor lavatory. Wardrobe cupboards are supplied to each bedroom, and there are meat safes, with outside ventilation, on the ground floor. No effort has been spared tq render the interior of the buildings commodious and as cheerful as their external surroundings.