FLATS FOR CHILDREN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10858, 29 December 1906, Page 8 (Supplement)

FLATS FOR CHILDREN.

AMIiMUAX 11UILDKRS OPPOSED TO

RACE SUICIDIv

iVEW YORK, November 5.

The apartment house boycott formerly placed upon tenants with small children lias been so far broken down that flats with especial comforts for children liave been built m New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

A Milwaukee builder, who does not believe m race suicide, goes a step further. He is now building large blocks of highclass apartment houses, a third of which will be devoted to bachelors, a third to "bachelor maids," and the remainder to married couples. The builder announces that on the marriage of every couple who are already tenants m the male and female "wings" he will give them two months' rent free m the third block of flats.

Moreover, he will forego a month's rent for every child born on the premises, two months for twins, and six months for triplets.

"Children's" flats ltove proved a great success m New York. They are constructed with sound-proof floors and Malls, with playrooms m the basement and kindergarten schools on the roof. {Several apartment houses provide a special basement room for perambulators.