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NEW YORK HOUSING. are being organised. There is a room for perambulators in the basement and an out-door play- room on the roof for the children.

THE LAVANBURG HOMES EXPERIMENT.

HOMES FOR THE POOR.

"White Collar" Classes, Though the two schemes which I have described are the most in- interesting and important in certain

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GREAT DAM BURST IN CALIFORNIA.

AWFUL CALAMITY. In an article which appeared

New York. A calamity befell the "Morning Post,'

Lady respects, affecting as they do the California in the early hours of Walston, described how certain lives of the lower paid workers, the morning when the St. Francis labour organisations in New York, the homes of the so-called "white Dam, part of the famous water had entered upon a large housing collar" classes, meaning clerical system of Los Angeles, burst and scheme for the benefit of wage- and other office workers, in con- a huge wall of water swept down earners. In the following article tradistinction to the labouring on the sleeping communities that Lady Walston describes another man, are also receiving much at- lay in the path of its destruction, scheme which has been carried tention at the present time.

as briefly telegraphed to the Many naw apartments out under an endowment, and

are "China, Mail" at the time.

which is designed not to make being built for this class in Upper Already 100 bodies have been

New York. but perhaps the recovered where the flood waters profit, but just to cover expenses. Thomas Garden Apartments in entered the Santa Paula and

The Lavanburg Homes are a block of six-storey apartments the Bronx district are the most Santa Clara rivers, but the death

Here Mr. Rocke- total may well number 500, while) situated in the lower East side of noteworthy. (New York, and in one of the poor feller has advanced the money so the damage to property is in- 1 fest and most congested districts, to assist people of moderate calculable. The money with which they have He has limited his return to 6 per first attributed to an earthquake, means to acquire good homes. While the occurrence, was at been built was given by the late cent. on his outlay, for land, build-it is now believed that seepage F. L. Lavanburg, and while the scheme is not expected to yieldings, etc., and he intends to with forced a portion of the hill flank- any profits, but will just cover ex has been retired. The property give way, water poured through draw after the preferred stocking the west end of the dam to penses, it cannot be considered a then will be controlled entirely by the breach and under its pressure

the tenant subscribers, every the eastern wing collapsed. thing being done on a puroly, busi ness basis.

charitable one.

This block of buildings is shap- ed like the letter E, with two airy asphalted courts, so that a maxi-

The

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useless, for all the inhabitants of troops were rushed to the scene, but their efforts are regarded as San Francisquito Canyon are be- lieved to have perished. Among the people known to be living in the path of the mighty avalanche. of water are 25 families who had their homes below the dam and a working camp of 75 employees of the power station.

mum of sun and air has been price from four rooms and a bath These flats vary in size and secured. There are 113 flats, and at £1,200, the total monthly the rooms are well proportioned, charges being £12 16s, which the living rooms being about 10ft. covers stock subscriptions, includ- by 17ft., and the bedrooms 9ft. by ing 6 per cent. interest, as well as 10ft. Each kitchen has a gas upkeep, taxes, etc., to six rooms, range, a built-in refrigerator, cup- two baths, and a sun parlour at boards for china, etc., two £1,940, while for this the month washtubs, sink, and a service lift ly charges come to £20. to the street. The bath-rooms buildings are of brick with stone are fitted with a medicine chest, facings and pleasing in appear and there are two built-in cup-ance. They surround a central boards in the apartments, which garden very attractively laid out, vary in size from three rooms but the actual planning and light- and bath, to let at 30s. per week, ing of the rooms are not as good inclusive of heating, to five rooms or as practical as in the less ex-another fatal, landmark in the and bath, at 42s. The rooms are pensive apartments I had seen. painted in washable paint, they are centrally heated and lit by work" is not attempted here, play- Though "community and social electricity, and there is a con-rooms for the children have been stant supply of hot and cold water provided, as well as an outdoor laid on.

playground, and there are special "comfort rooms" for mothers and babies.

Sélecting the Tenants.

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Here our guide was an thusiastic young Russian Jew, who had done much social work amongst the poor. On my inquir- ing as to how tenants were select- led he told me that out of more than 2,000 families who had ap- plied for rooms, the grounds on which they were chosen were as follows:-

I. Income. Roughly speaking it is calculated that 25 per cent. of their wage should be expended on rent. That is to say, that to live in a 30s. apartment a man should carn about £6 per week; if it is less he could not afford to live there; if more, he must get something better.

II. Standard of living in.re- gard to cleanliness. This is care- fully inquired into, and unless the conditions are found satisfactory the applicants are not accepted as tenants..

II. Children. Only couples with children are taken, but not more than two people are allowed to share a room.

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The Southern California Edison! crushed cement, and the fate of its 50 employees is still uncertain. City in Darkness. The collapse of the dam is but

in the past three years. long series of troubles which have hit the Los Angeles water system Angeles had a warning of the im- Los pending flood when all lights went out in the city after midnight. The flood waters have forced a suspension of the coast traffic be- tween Saugus and Montalvo, the Southern Pacific tracks between these points being destroyed.

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| Fillmore, which lay directly in the path of the onrushing waters, are believed to have been destroyed, but it has been impossible. to establish communication with them. When dawn broke over the stricken región only a small stream of water told the tale of the tragic hours when a wall of water two miles long and 50ft. high had swept through.

The full toll of dead is not ex- pected to be known for days, Wreckage of every kind is strewn for miles along the canyon which winds picturesquely among the rolling hills to the north of Saugus. Orchards, garden pro- duce, and live stock were swept away.

Los Angeles. The death-roll is now estimated at 400. A thou- and volunteers' trudged through the thick yellow sand which now carpets what was a pretty valley, searching for bodies.

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