The system of separate dwelling-houses for every family is in itself promotive of greater morality and comfort, but the opportunity
Cochran truthfully said, - "People who own the soil naturally feel that they have a greater interest in the community, in its welfare, peace, and good order, and they are fixed more permanently to it as a place of abode and the laborer or mechanic who is working to secure or pay for a home is inspired with more ambition than one whose abode is in tenement-houses, which can have no attraction to any man or his family. In addressing the Social Science Association of Philadelphia, Mr.
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The making of debts is not generally to be commended but to a moderate extent in the purchase of a home, where full consideration is received, they are not only commendable but tend to stimulate energy, and the money thus paid is better secured against loss than if invested in any other manner.
Persons of limited means, mechanics and laborers of industrious and saving habits, can by small monthly or quarterly payments in a comparatively short period become owners of their own homes without waiting to provide all the money before purchasing. Cheap homes are the want of the million they not only reduce the expenses of living, but the people become owners of their own homesteads, and once having an interest in the soil their local and business interests become more closely identified with the city's welfare, making her population more permanent and at the same time contributing to her revenue. Louis during the last few years, and it is also the best guarantee of her future prosperity. To this fact more than any other may be attributed the rapid growth of St. Louis than in any city in the United States having a population of one hundred and fifty thousand. Building lots thus situated can be bought and comfortable dwellings erected thereon cheaper in St. Cheap homes can now be furnished within easy access of business, shop, and foundry, on finished streets, with gas and water, on or convenient to street cars. But a new and brighter era has dawned upon her. When the heavy business was transacted chiefly on the Levee and Main Street, the choice residence property was drawn within narrow bounds and held at high prices and before sewerage and drainage had transformed vast acres into choice building sites, before railroad transportation, steam and horse, had equalized values at remote points from business centres by furnishing cheap conveyance to and from all points within the city limits, cheap homes were not easily obtained in St. There was a time when this was not the case, and rival cities offering greater inducements in this regard were largely benefited thereby. In furnishing cheap, comfortable, and healthy houses St. The house represents capital, and it costs the owner as much to live in it as it does the lessee, in either case the net rental being measured by the net interest the money would produce. Next to provisions in the cost of family expenses is that of house-rent, or, differently stated, the expense of living in one's own house. Louis being located in the heart of the Mississippi valley, in which are produced immense supplies of breadstuffs, meats, fruits, and vegetables, accessible by fifteen thousand miles of navigable rivers, with her grand network of railroads penetrating all portions of this vast valley, furnishing quick and cheap transportation for all the products of the soil, it must be apparent that at no other place in the world where labor is remunerative can staple provisions of the same quality be furnished cheaper than at St. Black, Hall's Ferry Road, Near Baden, St. Town of Carondelet - Scale 700 Feet to the Inch. Warner, General Manager.įirst Baptist Church Building in Missouri. Lindell Hotel, Corner Washington Avenue, Sixth Street, and Lucas Avenue.
Louis Co., Mo.Ĭustom-House and Post-Office, Corner Eighth, Ninth, and Olive Streets. Louis Cotton Exchange, Southwest corner Main and Walnut Streets. Jaccard Jewelry Company, Northeast corner Fifth and Olive Sts. Humphrey & Co., Northeast corner Fifth and Pine Streets.įamous Shoe and Clothing Company, Northwest Cor. Charles Streets.ĭodd, Brown & Co., Corner Fifth and St. Wear, Boogher & Co., Dry-Goods, Sixth and St. William Barr Dry Goods Company, Corner Sixth, Olive, and Locust Streets. Simmons Hardware Company, Corner of Washington Avenue and Ninth Street. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, Corner Thirteenth and St. The Belcher Sugar Refinery, Southeast corner Main and Ashley Streets.
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