Part 8

═══════════════════════╤═══════════════════════╤═══════════════════════ Year │ Value of Property │ Rents Collected ───────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼─────────────────────── 1896 │ $10,500.00│ $466.70 1897 │ 18,705.00│ 1,001.17 1898 │ 20,048.90│ 1,709.91 1899 │ 30,386.13│ 2,567.43 1900 │ 35,965.27│ 3,187.08 1901 │ 39,160.27│ 3,381.36 1902 │ 42,493.85│ 4,142.85 1903 │ 39,213.18│ 5,271.45 1904 │ 49,564.21│ 4,772.40 1905 │ 47,789.95│ 4,962.36 1906 │ 60,807.20│ 5,688.09 1907 │ 62,496.53│ 6,339.89 1908 │ 68,285.41│ 6,346.70 1909 │ 82,474.35│ 7,455.12 1910 │ 109,530.19│ 9,254.92 1911 │ 148,216.13│ 11,623.13 1912 │ 180,012.95│ 14,149.92 1913 │ 181,347.78│ 15,295.08 1914 │ 210,031.83│ 17,585.60 1915 │ 228,031.83│ 18,444.74 1916 │ 276,026.63[5]│ 24,672.50[5] ═══════════════════════╧═══════════════════════╧═══════════════════════

Footnote 5:

Includes value and collections of the Philadelphia Model Homes Co.

PHILADELPHIA MODEL HOMES COMPANY

THE RETURNS FOR 1916. (See pages 60–65.)

Total Possible Income from January 1st, 1916 to Dec. 31st, 1916 $6,144.00 Unlets 124.35 ————————— Total Net Collections $6,019.65

EXPENSES

Repairs $265.35 State and Federal Taxes 120.27 City Taxes, 1916 779.97 Water Rents, 1916 382.50 Insurance, Fire and Liability 75.97 One-half of one month’s rent to tenants 129.40 Interest on $43,550 at 4.4% per annum 1,916.20 Depreciation 500.00 7½% Commission on Collections 451.40 ————————— $4,621.06 ————————— $1,398.59 Cost of Lot $10,332.50 Cost of Houses 53,217.50 —————————— Total $63,550.00 Cash Invested by Octavia Hill Association $20,000.00 On mortgages at 4.4% per annum $43,550.00 Net Percentage on $20,000 invested by Octavia Hill Association 6.6%

Reports of the Philadelphia Housing Association may be had from the Secretary, John Ihlder, at 130 South Fifteenth Street. A list of Low-Cost Housing Developments in the United States, carefully annotated by Mr. Nolen, is given in the pamphlet entitled “A Good Home for Every Wage Earner,” by John Nolen, Sc.D., City Planner; published by the American Civic Association, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C.

INDEX

Agency properties, 71, 74

Agnes Irwin School, 44

Alms-giving; deprecated by Miss Hill, 15

Alpha Pi Fraternity, 44

Amsterdam, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17

Animals on premises, 37, 38

Artisans Dwelling Act, 15

Ashes, 84

Association, the Octavia Hill: Its function, 8, 9 Its name, 11 Its history, 21–75 Its scope and field of effort, 77–102 Its financial returns, 103

Ayres, Alice, 16

Babies, 33

Bachelors, 74

Bath-tubs, 34

Berlin, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17

Boy Scouts, 19

Bricklaying, 8, 32

Browning Societies, 11

Building Association, Benevolent, 22

Building Inspection, Bureau of, 34

Burial Grounds, 17, 19

Cadets, 19

Carpentering, 8, 32, 66

Casa Ravello, 33

Catharine Street, 33

Chaucer, 20

Chicago, 21

Civic Club (Philadelphia), 21, 22, 25, 31

Clark, Mr. and Mrs. E. W., 43, 44

Collins, Ellen, 17

Crane, Walter, 16

Crenshaw, Nathaniel B., 22

Croats, 21

Dancing, 34

Deptford, 16

Dinwiddie, Emily W., 34–39

Directors (of the Association), 26

Dividends, 26, 60, 103–106

Doctors, 33

Dundee, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17

Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 16

Edinburgh, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17

Emergency Aid, 66

Fairhill Street property, 31

Feld, Frederick C., 27, 65

Flag-raising, 51

Flowers, use of, 18, 34, 44

Fox, Hannah, 22, 34

“Friendly rent-collector”: her function, 8, 18, 77–93, 104

Front Street, 43

Games for children, 14

Garbage, 38, 84

Gardens, home and school, 14, 59

Garrison, Miss, 27

Germantown, 51, 52

Gifford, Edith Wright, 22

Girard Estate, 72

Glasgow, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17

Good Neighbors’ Club, 43

Gould, Dr. E. R. L., 77

Graveyards, 17, 19

Hampstead Heath, 16

Hardware, 101, 102

Head, Mrs. E. L., 52

Health, Board of, 34, 40

Hector Macintosh Playground, 33

Hill, James, 11

Hill, Octavia Her “legacy,”, 8 Her life and work, 11–20, 26, 77, 94

“Homes of London Poor” (Miss Hill’s book), 17, 18

Houses, various types of, acquired by Association, 28, 31

Housing Association, 40

Italians, 33, 38, 59, 92

Jenks, Mrs. William F., 22

Jews, 21, 28

Kingsley, Charles, inspires Miss Hill, 12

Kirkbride, Mrs. Thomas S., 25

Kyrle Society, 17

Laborers, 38

Landlords, 39, 83

League Street property, 31, 32, 33

Legacies, 71

Legislation, 39, 40

“Letters to My Fellow-workers” (Miss Hill’s book), 18

Lombard Street property, 31

London, Octavia Hill in, 11–20

Longstreth, Mrs. Edward, 31

Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 17

Ludington, Charles H., 74

MacMillan’s Magazine, 16

Mahomet’s coffin, 7

Manning, Caroline, 40

“Massenhotels,”, 21

Mifflin family, 43

Miller, E. Spencer, 37

Model Homes Company, Philadelphia, 60, 104

Mothers’ Club, 33

Multiple dwellings, 7

Music, 14, 19, 34, 51

Naudain Street, 66

Negroes, 33, 66, 93, 95, 104

New houses, building of, 72

New Orleans, 21

Nurses, 33

Office force (of Association), 27, 102

Old Swedes’ Church, 32

Open spaces, 15

“Our Common Land” (Miss Hill’s book), 8

Painting, 32, 66, 94

Parliament, Hill, 16

Parrish, Helen L., 26, 31, 34

Pemberton Street, 43

Pembroke, Lord, 16

Penn, William, 44

Personal workers, 39

Philadelphia: City of homes, 7 “Under the Lid”, 21

Philadelphia Model Homes Company, 60

Philanthropy, 25, 26

Plastering, 8, 32, 66

Playgrounds, 14, 19, 33, 34, 51, 52, 60

Plumbing, 8, 25, 32, 37, 85, 94

Poles, 21, 51, 91

Poor laws, 17

Privy-wells, 96, 105

Properties, classification of agency, 71

Red Cross cottages, 16

Rent-collecting: duties of “friendly rent-collector,”, 8, 18, 77–93,104

Rents, 18, 32, 33, 34, 52, 65, 71, 75, 93, 103

Richmond (Kensington), 51, 59

Royal Commission, 17

Ruskin, John: his assistance in Miss Hill’s plans, 12, 13, 14

San Francisco, 21

Serbs, 96

Seventh Street, 33

Sewage, 37

Shaen, Mrs., letter from, 14

Shakespeare Societies, 11

Shick, Robert P., 34

Singing Community, 14

Slovaks, 21

Smith, Southwood, 11

Social Science Association, 15

Southwark, 16, 33

Starr, Theodore, 22, 31

Starr Centre Association, 33

Stock, issues of, 26

Summer school, 33

Superintendent: his work, 8, 9, 94–102

“Sweating,”, 39

Sweden, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17

Taylor, Frank H., 25

Tenants, 18, 32, 33, 39, 65, 72, 77, 83, 84

Tenements, 7, 37, 39

Tibet, 38

Trust, National, 17

Tunlin, 101

Types of houses, 28

University of Pennsylvania, 44

University Settlement, Women’s, 17

Van Gasken, Dr. Frances C., 34

Veiller, Lawrence, 37

Vienna, 21

Volunteer service, 27, 72

Whittier Centre, 66

Wilson, Alexander, 32

Women, Employment of, 11

Wood, R. Francis, 26

Woodward, Dr. George, 33, 37

Workman Place, 43

Yom Kippur, 38

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. P. 78, changed “the signal for a fusillade of questions, petitions, complaints” to “the signal for a fusillade of questions, petitions, and complaints”. 2. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 3. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 4. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.