733

Date 1912-10-22

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TRAL PARK or, Block 23,- 1600: *r on Highland St, ol, 1650. HERALD 22, Block 10, 1000, Block 21, 450 each, ck 14, 1200. Terma, eck 2, 850 per pair, OSEDALE lock 3, 4000. Terms ock 8, 3200, Terms, OWNSITE station, 25,000... acres of nice level Redeliff at a bars Nand see me about rty in all parts of CURTIS le Stables Drivers, Saddle s for Sale, (EAVY DRAYING. for Sale. McCLAIN PROPRIETOR 5. FOLLIS ting Co. ONTO 8T. sand, Coal Graver a Speetalty, Horses for sale at mas. 4 ws i LYON CTS FOR TEAMING ) EXCAVATING land for Sale, io sox guene Ne alm. Re egete etree Germany How the Old Houses at Reasonable Rentals Position in States and Canada, (Financial Post.) o-Lgwn planting as a phase of the great WOVEMEnt toward the conser- vation of resources has only begun to attract notice on this continent in the last few years, and is not today looked generally upon as a possible factor In the solution of the great economic problem of high cost of liv- ing and the consequent poverty, but rather as fad instigated by groups of wealthy and possibly unselfish men with a profound regard for the beautiful. As a matter of fact this conception of the movement was fair- ly well deserved ten years ago. How- ever, the fact that it received very little support while it maintained on- ly aesthetic ideals 's a good reason for supporting it now, that is if its new idedls are more practical. The Success In Germany. Germany has been the home of the movement and the greatest advances have been made there: chiefly, no doubt; because the people gre accus- tomed to considerable interference on the part of government-which of course is one of the greatest draw- Dacks to the extensive application of the principles of the movement in communities. The peo- ple are educated to tolerate the se- Yerest kind of medical, sanitary and olice inspection of all kinds so that they have tuken naturally to expro- priatory legislation. As a result the Free. Cities of Frankfurt-on-Maine and Hamburg have remodelled tnetr cities: in such a way that they occu- PY remarkably small area, that is every effurt has been used to con- serve the available areas and real es- tate values are correspondingly low. Furthermore, slums are almost un- known as we know them, and while the absence of. any marked degree of Poverty can scarcely be attributed to town planning policies, at least, it is true that the better health of the people is larg ly due to the efforts of the town councils, The English Position. 4a England a broad basis of legis- lation has been established and It on- ly.remains for the policy to be work- ed out: The present government has) TOWN PLANNING PROBLEM One Solution Offered The Garden Cities of England and ance: ALBERTA ORNAMENTAL IRON COMPANY, LTD. Visit the following Redcliff Industries and satisfy yourself of their import- REDCLIFF BRICK COAL COMPANY. REDCLIFF CLAY PRODUCTS COMPANY, LTD. Redcliff s REDCLIFF MILL AND ELEVATOR COMPANY. Pay Roll In six months Redcliff s payroll will reach the noteworthy total of: 83,800.00 per Month This is not speculation, but an assured fact. oe HAT Seefeatedteateagontesteatestectectoatesteat estecedtetoste ds seatectices me steofeeteatods Countries Are Providing land taxation and of municipal gov- ernment. By an act of 1909 it was made pos- sible for any town or. rural district to prepare a schemo to be submitted to the Local Government Board, of which the Hon. John Burns is presi- dent. The proposal here receives the disinterested criticisms of the great- est municipal government experts in the world and then fs placed before the other local governments affected. By this means, city or town can look ahead and has a definite machin- ery to hand for getting-ihto negotia- tions with the surrounding local gov- ernments. Stich an arrangements we) venture to think Would work wonder- filly well in the rapidly growing cit- tes of Canada. If the city of Toron- to, for instance, desired: to lay out a plant to include the surrounding villages and local governments with tha hope that one day the city would grow to inelude:them, under this sys- tem there-would be no possibility of local jealousies: and so forth inter- fering with the plan. Furthermore, it it were a bad plan the city would almost be certain to be made aware of the fact before any harm were done, The Garden Cities. However, the great. bulk of the work 0 far done in England bas been accomplished by: private effort. The Garden Cities of Port Sun- light, and Bourneville, for example, are admliiisterea by- the Sunlight Soap Co., and the Cadbury Chocolate Co,, respectively, in the interests of their employees. The former place houses between five and six thous- and workers, but returns a deficit of about 25,000 annually, which the company is willing to regard as a fair priee for the increased efficien- cy of its employees. Bourneville pays Its own. way, but the purpose ts the me and it is probable that the em- ploye s get higher wages and ps igher rents, At any rate the real estate problem is solved once and for all. The Garden. Suburbs of Hampstead ly lack the charitable element In the taken the matter up enthuslastically nd lnked'ft up with the aystem of former places. They are owned and Heath-and Letehworth almost entire- Redoliff s population will increase accordingly. Think it over. are limited toa five per cent. divi- dend rate. Any balance over this Fate goes back to the tenants in Some) form or another. Hampstead Heath is half an hour from the centre of London by tubes and provides com- fortable and beautiful homes for city clerks and high class workmen at the astonishingly low rental of from 6 to 8 per month, It has been estl- mated that in comfort, appearance, and transportation facilities this sub: urb equals 50 and 60 suburl America. Planning in America. It is in these ways that England is attempting to solve the housing problem, to eliminate speculation, and to evade the high cost of living. In America we baye scarcely as yet at- tacked the problem. It Js true that) in the United States something like) one hundred million dollars is being spent in town planning. However, It) ts noteworthy that nearly all of this is being spent in the laying. out of park systems which is indeed a) grand work, but must of necessity in- crease the city s area (as much as one-fifth sometimes,) and so com peste the. transportation problem and the cost of living: In Canada the problem is coming to receive practically no official machinery for instigating such a policy. The mun- icipal administrations are by their nature almost incapable of initiating advanced Jegislation, The creation of new spending departments is extreme ly difficult-in our ities where the) Tapid growth necessitates vast an- nual expenditure for what are con- life; town planning is still consid- ered a luxury. ..The Toronto Civic Guild In Toronto the Civic Guild Is at- tempting to educate the people and the city-officials up to the-adopting of ome kind of a definite policy. At cating the creation of some kind of a Parks Board which will have the pow ets of a commission to Initiate and carry throug adefinite policy without the entanglements of red tape and publicity which surrounds the actions of the city council. At pres nt 1-2 mill ig. set aside for park purposes. At the Increased rate of assessment this will amount to nearly 200,000 next year: It is hoped to double this tem worthy of the city. In Ottawa the Street Raflway sidered the necessities of municipal of English and Canadian investors in the present time, this body is-advo- allowance, giving nearly 400,000 an- nually to the proposed 'board. This amount could be capitalized 0 as toy provide between eight and nine mil- Mons capital for the buying of land for park purposes which could grad ually be developed into a park sys- Right here at home is YOUR opportunity. No town or city anywhere will make you as big and quick profits on your investment in business or as Redcliff. Its destiny is assured; its phenomenally rapid progress, due REAL SUBSTANTIAL SOLID GROWTH and that which is only the result of a a bom. By buy at.the present low prices. : The Stoner Agency Redcliff is the Place, Watch Redcliff Grow----6,000 i in 1 191 3 STILL. ANOTHER THE FIFTH NEW FACTORY FOR REDCLIFF WITHIN A MONTH Another modern manufacturing plant has been added to Redcliff s growing list of important industries. Construction o' operation will employ over two hundred men, will be commenced immediately. This latest big industry, (the name of which will be announced anced by James Hargrave and other prominent and wealthy Medicine Hat and Redcliff is the Fastest growing town in Western Factories Now in Operation eal business men. The following have been secured for Redcliff within the ae big ones are on the way every one an emphatic endorsement of greatest manufacturing centre. H. MUNDERLOH CO., MONTREAL: Largest glass mantifactur ers in Canada, REDCLIFF ROLLING MILLS AND BOLT WORES. THE DIAMOND FLINT GLASS CO., TORONTO. WALLOFF MOTOR COMPANY. THE NEW BRICK PLANT. (Name to be ganonnoed ina few These five new plants will employ twelve hundred men. to its wonderful natural resources, is focusing the gttention of those who can disctiminate between. e time now Never ae will you be able to, f a new brick plant, which, when in fal Redcliff?s Needs Redcliff requires more Houses to accommodate the flood of stantly pouring in the demand is ae every day: iate and pressing need for: 300 NEW HOUSES. BOARDING HOUSES SKILLED AND UNSKILLED oa eae in a few days) will be fins new con-, Tone ie aoa LUMBER YARDS. STORES OF ALL KINDS residential property employees. A similar. project is be- ing talked of amongst the civil ser- vants and wil depend largely for its success on the Service obtainable on the nearly completed line of the Ca- nadian Northera. The Toronto Housing Company Four years. ago the Toronto Civic Guild made a study of the housing problem in Toronto and its report was-so-optimistie that it has resulted in the forming the Toronto Hous- concern ite independ- ent-of the Guilt This company has yecured a site amounting to about Zive acres of vecafit. land on Logan Avenue, and tuerefore well situated trict. - Ninety-elght workingman's houses are to be built on this land with the Intention of providing homes at a-pheaper rental than s obtainable in the ordinary way, The stock of the company is:limited in the matter of dividends to-eix per cent, which the promoters think is a moderate sie on such an invesomtnet. They figure that this Imited rate of pro- fits together with the fact that build- ing om a large scale should reduce the present rental on Such houses. This theory is borne out by the statement of an English architect in foronto only last week. He told Th Post that he is organizing a company. to do just sueh work as this all through Canada and s of the opin fon that sucha company employing expert engineers and. architects. can uunderbid the stiall bullder and still make a very sub tantial profit. At any rate he has fnterested a number, his scheme. On the other hand a prominent To- ronto builder t6ld the writer that he does not think the company can car- ry out its promises, and that they will find the difficulties of getting Ia- Hbor-and.material.in large quantities greater than they imagine. Canada s Problem. It is cetrtainly true that conditions in Canada are entirely different to those in the older countries, but it is equally true that we are coming to realize that the real eState prob- jem 4s-one of the fundamental ones of our industrial development and it cannot be too often emphasized that our. high cost of living is keeping: the best kind .of labor out of Our country. A pfoposition to widen Te- raulay Street, Toronto, and a-great section to the north city at present almost imited owners of automobiles because of the, congested condition of Yonge Street, revolved little encouragement from serious for an el cted official to cape with, 88 to proximity to the fuctory- dis- - necessary had political aspects too At any rate the problem must- be tackled at an early date, and it ty doubtful if the natural shape of the city will admit of a successful sys- tem of tubes. The situation should be a lesson to Western cities to look ahead and attaek their transporta- fion problems a little in advance. In America so far we have not looked on town planning as a good adver- tisement for the. individual city, It is possible that-before any great re- sults can be accomplished we shall have to institute some such organi- zation as the local government board England-sehich can give a coher- ence to the movement throughout the country and to some extent take It out of the field of mumicipal politics. LONDON BOBBIES of Them Ex-Farm or Country Most Laborers Mechanics. People usually imagine that the London bobby is an ex-soldier. This, Mr. Jame H. Collins writes in The World's Work, is not nowadays the case. If an enquiring tourist walked down into Westminster some fine Monday morning, he might come across a line of seyeral dozen young) men drawn up at a big barracks, They. are husky fellows, and have eg ctechehenepett Leooeote oereereeeeges: .tions of fie British people were up- During Mount Lyell Disaster Jack Botan Relig His Place to Married Man. Hobart, Tasmania, Oct. 18. Witt the reeovery of sevefal of the miners reseed from the North Mount Lyell mine, comes a story of great hero- ism, a tale showjng that the tradi- held duritg the greatest mining dis- ye aster in the history of Australia. Included in the forty-two bodies was the remains 6f a hetd; x young man named Ja k Bolton, who gave 5 up bis life in oMfer that married , man might be allowed to live. According to the gleaned from the fortunate man who e Was thus saved, Mr. Henry, Irving, sj. Bolton has secured a place in the sf cage which was ready to be hauled +t to safety at the time that the dis- sf. astrous fife broke out. Nevertheless +f. he immediately gave up his place to Irving in order that the Tater might st. be allowed to live to protest his wife a and family, When the search party stumbled i. 4 Across the hero's body tonight, they Just been brought up from the coun- try, Most of thera have been farm lab-' orers or country mechanics. Some have never set foot in London, and the majority know little of the town. f This is the weekly batch of recruite for the Metropolitan police foree. Tn four weeks they will be constables in uniform, posted somewhere fn Lon- don, and ready to direct people to any part of the town, Not so long agy the London police were recruited chiefly from the army. The training being military, dis- charged soldiers were preferred, and the ideal jpollceman was a showy six- foover, In whose vast appearance was embodied the Majesty of the Iaw. To- day, however, the search is for men Of average yheight, with the agility, stamina and balance of the athlete, The mafesty of the law is upheld by toaehing them the law a Gotinitry men ure preferred, becatwe they are wot familfar with the artfut dodges of the city youth; and haye y As most of our customers are aware, we deliver a large amount of lumber ae building material. ies We are contemplating increasing our hauling power and would welcome expert advice, as to whether, in Medicine Hat, it is cheaper to use horses or motor power. eaver Lumber Co., Limited Sheds and Yards on Factory and South Railway. hone of his false. sophistication, They, come: with min s penta snspection: the city officials, possibly on good krounds,. although ft bas been sal t operated by stock companies which propeses to Dulld model ettx.for Its ' that thie problem of buying the lan S The Dally Nows deli by rigs a month. i ee 166. E. W. STACEY, Local Mgr.

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