have nothing in common. The plan, which was devised by the present writer, was intended to eliminate all the unpleasant features of tenement houses as they exist in other cities. A good range, with waterback, is placed in the kitchen, and each flat has a well-lighted bathroom, with hot and cold water. The following photographs and drawings will serve to illustrate this type, which has proved very popular. The Washington Sanitary Improvement Company has built 200 houses upon this plan, the Washington Sanitary Housing Company 40 houses, and various builders who have copied the plan at least 1,200 more. The first eight houses of this type were completed and rented by November 15th, 1897, the four-room flats renting for $12.00 or $12.50 per month, and the three-room flats for $9.50 and $10.00, with a rebate of one month's rent every year to tenants whose apartments have not required any repairs. In the houses built by the Sanitary Housing Company the cellar is omitted, and, as the dividends in this Company are limited in its charter to four per cent, it has been possible to give the tenants the benefit of still lower rentals. The three-room flats on Van street southwest, shown in Figure 9, are rented for $7.50 per month, and four-room flats at $8.50. Each of these flats also has a bath, with hot and cold water. All are occupied by colored tenants.

Owing to the increased cost of land, of material, and of labor, the Sanitary Improvement Company in subsequent building operations was unable to give rentals as low as those fixed for the houses built in 1897. But the Company has recently acquired a large square of land in Southwest Washington at a very moderate cost, and has commenced building houses of the same type, which will be rented to colored tenants at $3.00 or less per room, including bath and back yard, but without cellars. The Sanitary Housing Company will gladly continue its building operations as soon as additional subscriptions to its capital stock can be obtained, but in the present state of the money market it is difficult to obtain subscriptions to a four per cent stock.

The latest floor plans of the Sanitary Improvement Company are shown in Figures 13 and 14, and the specifications for these houses are given in full for the benefit of those who may wish to copy them.

Specifications of the labor and materials to be used in the erection and completion of twenty-nine two-family houses facing on One-half street between M and N streets southwest, for the Washington Sanitary Improvement Company, according to plans prepared by A. P. Clark, Jr., architect, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C.

GENERAL.

May 22, 1908.

The contractor to take out and pay for all permits; locate the lots, walls, fences, etc., by official surveys at his expense, and perform the work in accordance with the regulations and ordinances of the District of Columbia.

The plans and specifications are intended to co-operate and things shown or mentioned in one and not in the other are to be executed the same as if shown or mentioned in both and are intended to include everything requisite and necessary to the entire finishing of the work, notwithstanding every item necessarily involved is not particularly mentioned.

The contractor will make all of the houses complete in every respect as may be shown on the drawings or mentioned in the specifications, and everything applying to one house of the same class.

The drawings of the floor plans, and the details indicated are only for the purpose of showing the type of house of each respective kind. The details of some of the houses being omitted for the sake of brevity and to avoid needless repetition.

All of the work to be delivered at completion in a perfect and undamaged state, the houses to be thoroughly cleaned, floors and glass washed.

The contractor will insure the buildings for at least the amounts paid on the contract from time to time, and the policies to be made payable for the benefit of whom it may concern.

The contractor will give a bond for the performance of all of the conditions of the plans and specifications and contract.

The contractor will state in his proposal the cost for additional foundation work as follows:

Excavation per cubic yard.

Concrete per cubic yard.

Brickwork per thousand.

The contractor will make estimates on each block of houses, also for fences, as follows:

First, according to the plans and specifications as drawn and shown by Sheets No. 1 to 6, inclusive, 10 and 11 which provide for the buildings to have red brick fronts, 13" party walls and back porches of wood.

Second, the amount to be deducted if the party walls from the first story up are built 9′′ thick instead of 13′′.

Third, amount for rear fences and gates, of wood.

EXCEPTIONS.

The owner will furnish and set the following:

Ranges, stoves and gas fixtures.

EXCAVATION AND SODDING.

Excavate for foundations of the sizes and depths required to carry out the purposes of the plans.

Fill in around walls and tamp the earth in solid and grade from the buildings. The space below the first floor will be cleaned out level and free of all debris. Remove surplus earth and deposit same on the eastern half of the square near South Capitol street.

Sod the entire parking spaces with good clover and grass sod on bed of rich soil 3" thick.

The rear yards will be graded.

CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS.

Lay concrete foundations near all walls, piers, etc., as indicated on the plans 12" thick, composed of one part fresh natural cement, two parts clean sharp