Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III .WHERE SHALL THE HOUSE BE? Where the wage earner or salaried man may live will always be largely determined by local and often accidental circumstance, and freedom of choice in this matter will vary directly with the ratio of excess of receipts over expenditures. For the city worker, when any choice can be exercised, the question whether he may occupy an urban or a suburban house will usually be answered on the ground of individual preference. If the latter choice is made, there are sure to be half a dozen suburban towns, widely separated from each other and offering very diverse attractions, yet in equal relation as to time and cost of transportation to the office. The certainty of congenial social surroundings; some aspect of rural life especially appealing to the individual taste; possibly even the relatively greater convenience of one terminal station over another or the relative frequency of suburban train service — on somesuch ground the choice is usually made. Yet with these more or less sentimental considerations we are not wholly concerned. It is rather the question of " site " in its technical, restricted, and physical sense that occupies us. THE SITE In considering the site of the suburban house the following points which affect residential values should be given the most careful attention: 1. Transportation facilities between the district in which the proposed house is situated and the office. 2. Relation of the house itself to the railway station or trolley lines. 3. General character of the neighborhood in which the house is situated, and the general relation of this to the nearest manufacturing district, if any. 4. Character of the traffic on railway and trolley lines, if nearby. 5. Condition of the street or highway on which t...