2. Our Water-Supply—Detailed description: water-system, wells, cisterns, etc.; quality of the supply; limitations, dangers, and possibility of improvement.
3. Our Sanitation—Detailed description: cesspools; garbage; disposal of sewage.
4. Our Yards, Our Streets, Our Parks, Our Public Buildings—Tree-planting; fences; city fountains.
Books to Consult—Patrick Geddes: City Development. C. M. Robinson: The Improvement of Towns and Cities. W. P. Mason: Water Supply (from the Sanitary Standpoint). Shade Trees: Their Care and Preservation (N. Y. State Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 256).
The town water-supply has immense interest; study its relation to the disposal of sewage; the ice-supply, the use of filters, bottled water, and the like. Cleaning up and beautifying the back yards of a town, planting vines, removing unsightly buildings, making gardens and having window-boxes may be expanded into more than one paper. The village common, the drinking-fountains, the band-stand, the use of refuse-boxes in public places, may be discussed.
II—THE WORKING-PEOPLE'S HOMES
1. Existing Conditions—The various subjects of air, light, water-supply, sanitation and adequate fire-escapes may be brought up for careful consideration.
2. The Model Tenement—Plans, profit to the owner of tenement property, management, rules for tenants (cleanliness, promptness of payment), beautification of tenements (window-boxes, roof-gardens), playgrounds.
3. Model Cottage Homes—Possibility of acquiring ownership (building-and-loan associations, thrift clubs). Improving laboring-men's homes in villages. Yards for children.
4. The Garden Cities of England—Compare the Sage Foundation proposals in America. Model towns (Pullman in this country, Essen in Germany, etc.).