Workingmen's Homes: Essays and StoriesJ.R. Osgood, 1874 - 182 páginas |
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Página 124 - Mr. Hale Dear Sir i Write these few lines to let you know that i am Well and hope you and your family are the same i have been west onwards two years i have been living on a farm since i came out here i have clothed myself and laid up my money i have been geting $ 250 a year i have thought of buying a farm and takeing my mother out here if i thought she would come i like this state very well the reason is that a poor man can get a home in a little while if he 'uses his means proper more so than...
Página 81 - I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only. There is a sanctity in a good man's house which cannot be renewed in every tenement that rises on its ruins...
Página 83 - I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be, within and without...
Página 82 - ... fondness, and diligent completion, and with a view to their duration at least for such a period as, in the ordinary course of national revolutions, might be supposed likely to extend to the entire alteration of the direction of local interests. This at the least ; but it would be better if, in every possible instance, men built their own houses on a scale commensurate rather with their condition at the commencement, than their attainments at the termination, of their...
Página 82 - ... honour, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.
Página 82 - ... material things that they had loved and ruled over, and set the stamp of themselves upon — was to be swept away, as soon as there was room made for them in the grave; that no respect was to be shown to it; no affection felt for it, no good to be drawn from it by their children ; that though there was a monument in the church, there was no warm monument in the...
Página 84 - America and elsewhere, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in all general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force relating to...
Página 174 - Every tenement or lodging house shall have legibly posted or painted on the wall or door in the entry, 'or some public accessible place, the name and address of the owner...
Página 146 - Though we have a population of 10,000 people, for the period of six months no settler or citizen of Vineland has required relief at my hands as Overseer of the Poor. Within seventy days, there has only been one case among what we call the floating population, at the expense of $4.00.
Página 146 - During the entire year there has heen only one indictment, and that a trifling case of assault and battery among our colored population. So few are the fires in Vineland that we have no need of a fire department. There has only been one house burnt down in a year, and two slight fires, which were soon put out. We practically have no debt, and our taxes are only one per cent on the valuation. The Police expenses of Vineland amount to seventy-five dollars per year, the sum paid to me, and our poor...