Identifier: electricrailway531919newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ng more than 28shillings ($7) a week, and evenin these days of increasedwages the rooms are not opento anyone who earns more than£2 ($10) a week! Yet despitetheir low wages, many of the substantial than frame houses common in America.The views on this page give a good idea of the typesof buildings erected. The Glasgow municipality now has in prospect ahousing scheme which involves the provision of 7000dwellings at Govan, Bellahouston, Mosspark nearCorkerhill, Gilsochill, Coplawhill, Cathcart Road, Mary-hill, Kennyhill and other suburbs. It is intended toerect cottages and tenements of three to six apart-ments, each house with baths and sculleries, andattached to cottage garden plots. Nor is this all, forthe municipal ideal is 47,000houses at the rate of 5000 perannum. Each district of Glas-gow has already had its exist-housing accommodationstabulated, and an estimate wasmade of the number of housesof different kinds requiredin accordance with the eco-nomical potentialities of the in-
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APARTMENT HOUSES AND TENEMENTS WITH MODERATE RENT ERECTED BY THE CORPORATION OF GLASGOW tenants worked on the other side of Glasgow 8 to 10miles distant. To use the expression of a Kennyhilllodger who was interviewed later, they dont mindspending extra cuppers for the privilege of livingin a section which is still in the open country. A visitto Kennyhill disclosed neat stone houses with tiled halls,toilets on each floor for every three tenants and washhouses in the yards. The rooms were fewer in numberbut larger in size than would be found in a poorer-typeAmerican flat, and the structure;- is a whole were more habitants. Glasgow knows it has slums and is anxiousto get rid of them. In fact, to judge from the Decem-ber election posters, the main differences between thecandidates was as to how far they were willing to goin voting for housing measures and low rents, andthe present tendency is toward renting future buildingsat pre-war figures with the deficit to be divided betweenthe state

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