The story of the world a thousand years hence

VII FLOOR IN MANSIONS

Reading edition

ALL the apartments of the Co-operative Mansion are elegantly furnished and equipped with sending and receiving radio sets, private bath and musical instruments, if the occupant desires them, and every man, woman and youth does the cleaning and housekeeping of his or her own apartment which makes for general domestic order and cleanliness. There are janitors for tending to the Public Departments.

Every man, woman and child has thus a private apartment at which no one calls personally unless specially invited by the occupant. When the occupants feel socially inclined, they then either go down to the public parlors or other public gatherings or they invite congenial friends to call at their private apartment—their real home. There is also an ample supply of fine spare rooms and other elegant accommodations for visitors and sightseers who are permitted to visit a day or two at intervals.

I believe that no habitation has ever before been designed which has so many elevating influences, so many high-class conveniences and such interesting and influential sociability as this unique Co-operative Mansion offers to every one of its inmates whether owner or visitor.

32As the Reader will notice, every room is really an outside room having at least two large outside windows in it. It is, indeed, designed, built, and operated on the refined principle of complete self-ownership in ideal democracy; on the basis of health, wealth, freedom and happiness.

33ONE HUNDRED COTTAGE SITES

(Fig. 5)

A diagram of a rectangle (B). In the middle is (A) a public squate. At the outside corners there are four (E) public parks. Along the rest of the outer circumference of the rectangle there are one hundred (D) cottages in rows, fronted by (C) Walks.

This drawing shows how the 500 members could live in 100 family cottages on large residence lots located around a large public square instead of all living in one Co-operative Mansion. (A) is the large square on which the public buildings—store, school, power station, playgrounds, swimming pool, theater, etc.—could be located; (B) boulevards; (C) walks; (D) 100 cottage sites; (E) public parks. The size of the public square would depend on the width of the residence lots.