Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1936, Page 16

sl THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1936. BEN WEBSTER’S CAREER. The Admission? B2 » tenements that soon became as bad as the old ones. The stranger enter- ing through glorious Golden Gate soon runs afoul of Chinatown, with & population of 15,000 within 12 blocks. (Copyright, 1036, by the North American —By EDWIN ALGER Lf WE MAVEN'T AMY GAME, MR. WINLEY, BUT WE AMAY HAVE A CHANCE TO MAKE NOU THE SUPPOGING | WERE TO ADMIT. I'M GERALD WKINLEY- MOLE OM THE NECK, MONEY BY THE PECK! AH,JERRY, DON'T GTAND THERE AN DENY DON'T YOU REMEMBER JERRY, AG A LITTLE TYKE AT THE ORPHANAGE AND | CAME ON YOUR MOLE BY ACCIDENT NEARSCONPLETN Cincinnati Housing Project to Accommodate 1,000 Families. The Federal housing program’s progress and its social significance are discussed in a series of 10 articles, of which this is the sev- enth, by a veteran newspaper man who traveled several thousand miles to inspect the housing proj- ects in many parts of the United States. BY WILLIAM C. McCLOY. Floods and cold weather did their best to delay the construction of Greenhills, the garden city 412 miles north of Cincinnati. Not until late Spring was the work finally under way, with more than 1,000 men on the job. Since then the project has | gone forward by leaps and bounds. It should be finished before the end of | the year. By helping to relieve the most | serious housing shortage Cincinnat: has ever suffered. Greenhills' first | benefit will be conferred upon that | city. Ten per cent of all Cincinnati's | homes are tenements, and these tene- ments house 30 per cent of the total | population. One thousand fami will be able to find homes in Green hills, and the number may be in- creased in the near future. | The new town has been laid out | upon 966 acres of open rolling coun- | try, bounded on three sides by wooded | stream courses. that of the other Greenbelt towns, cal. The surrounding country is The girdle of fields | ool and trees may be a bit broader than ! planting. And for that reason we | have but the reason is purely topographi- | utilities in the streets. garbage collections, ONE DAY, HOW_THEREAFTER \'D ALWAYS = have attics and 93 per cent will have basements. Sewer depths and under- lying rock preventing the remainder from having these. Eighty per cent of the families have garages. The stress laid on rear yards at Greenhills is interesting. Although abundant space has been set aside in the community for parks and play- grounds, the rear yards will not be llowed to become storage places for oxes, barrels and automobiles, or meeting places for tradesmen and de- livery boys. Rear Yards For Living. The regional director, A. L. Miller, explains the plan in this way: “Garages will be close to the street instead of being placed in the rear ards. This will allow the full rear ard to be used as a ‘living yard'—in he sense that we speak of a living for recreation, gardening and installation of all Ash and tradesmen’s de- planned made that way, and Greenhills is the | liveries and similar services are con- gainer. | fined to the street side in order to The entire tract of 5,930 acres has | make rear yards accessible for living been planned by competent town | functions. The best rooms of the planners so that every foot of land | houses, living room, dining room and I'MILLER meets the demand for may be put to the best possible use. Near Job Opportunities. While it has natural beauty was chosen largely for its near employment opportunities. 50,000 industrial jobs are available within a half-hour’s journey. No high- ways cut through the town, but the community has easy access to Cin- cinnati and, by way of the Hamilton pike and Springdale road, to Mill Creek Valley. Upper Mill Creek Val- ley is one of the most important man- ufacturing centers in Southern Ohio and its industries are gradually spreading toward the new garden city. Bus lines are to link Greenhills with Mill Creek Valley and QCin- cinnati. Each Greenbelt town has its own special distinction. Greenhills fea- tures basements, attics and rear yards. All of the single houses there will Director of Safety Garages His Car Over Labor Day By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., September 7.—The director of public safety should know the best way to be safe over Labor day, if anybody does. Therefore, says Col. John A. Cutchins, Richmond safety di- rector, “I'm keeping off the high- ways. “The best place for anybody's automobile is in a garage until Tuesday.” “Versailles.” Black or brown suede with matching patent; blue or Vintage suede with braid trim the best bed rooms, will face on the yard.” All Greenbelt towns have a variety of material used in building the houses. Some of the houses at Green- hills will be constructed of brick, stucco, combination of brick and stucco and cinder block and asbestos siding. Their good taste, their | esthetic excellence is marked. We re- call that Cincinnati is the home of the famous Rockwood Potteries—first | in the United States to make art ware exclusively. About 15 per cent of the Greenhills houses are detached. The other units are to be arranged in groups for two, three, four, five and six families, and {in apartment houses—the whole ac- | commodating 1,000 families. Each | unit has living room, bath, kitchen and from two to four bed rooms. Electricity may be used in cooking. Each house will have its own heating ! plant—generally steam. Laws of Ohio Govern. All walls are to be soundproof. The | more than 100 years that Cincinnati | has been a musical center have left | their mark. Nowhere is next door's | radio blare less welcome, apparently, than among the descendants of the | ! generation that followed the baton of | the late Theodore Thomas for many years, The laws of the State of Ohio will govern the enterprise and it will be run, like the other Greenbelt towns, by a non-profit making corporation. | The entire project will cost $8,750,000, |and the Cincinnatians hope to make the mortgage for 60 years. The total cost of the land $1,567,126. Under the direction of C. H. Trask, resident engineer, more than 2,000 workers have been employed at Greenhills this Summer. Unskilled workers work 100 hours a month at 1 $60.50 maximum. 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In a little book, | the fire, in 1907, when that city had “Tomorrow,” young Howard put forth |a chance to replace all its burned- his own ideas of an imaginary civili- | down tenements of the most wretched zation, and chief among his high |types with modern, improved build- in the vicinity. The skilled men re- ceive from 80 cents to $1.37!3 per hour. The Greenbelt towns are half American and half British in origin. But they ought to feel at home in the Middle West. They were first thought of there. In 1871, a young English stenographer, Ebenezer Howard, was working in a Chicago law office when the great fire broke out and a large part of the city was destroyed. The experience prompted him to ponder long and deeply upon the possibility of building a city free from the risks and dangers responsible for Chicago's destruction. About the same time, he happened to read “Looking Back- Glorious New Styles!? 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