as many as twelve; other colored dots indicated the prevalence of typhoid fever, diphtheria, etc. The maps also contained upon each block a statement of the number of people living there, so that the student thus had opportunity of weighing all the conditions that helped to produce the epidemics of poverty and disease. The maps as they appeared in the exhibition might well earn for New York Gity the title of the City of Living Death.

The exhibition was planned and developed to prove to the community the fact that in New York City the working-man is housed worse than in any other city of the civilized world, notwithstanding the fact that he pays more money for such accommodations than is paid elsewhere, being compelled to give more than one-fourth of his income for rent. That this was proved, no one who saw the exhibition could doubt. Photographs illustrating the worst housing conditions and typical housing conditions in over fifty different large American cities were exhibited, and there was no city in the United States where the working-man was not infinitely better off in this respect than he was in New York.

The exhibit of model tenements included photographs, architectural plans, and tables of statistics from the very many model tenement companies in London, also exhibits of the work carried on, both by private corporations and by the municipality in Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Salford, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Paris, Rouen, Lyons, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Copenhagen, and other European cities. The tables of statistics were most complete, giving nearly every item of interest connected with such enterprises, from the size of the rooms to the character of the tenants and the amount of profit upon the investment.

The study of model lodging houses showed the development of the lodging house in New York City from the worst type of lodgings in the police stations up to the more recent and admirable municipal lodging house and Mills Hotels; similar work carried on in London, Southampton, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Copenhagen was also shown, as were the very large number of places where employers and private companies had built model small houses for working-men in suburban districts.

THE MODEL TENEMENT COMPETITION OF 1900

In connection with this exhibition, the Tenement House Committee of the Charity Organization Society authorized an architectural competition for the best plans of model tenements, upon lots of a size 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep, 50 feet wide by 100 feet deep, 75 feet wide by 100 feet deep, and 100 feet wide by 100

feet deep, under conditions applicable only to the city of New
York at that time. Over 170 different architects took part in this
competition, and the result was that many excellent plans were
submitted. Four prizes were awarded, the first being a prize of
$500, which was awarded to Mr. R. Thomas Short, a New York
architect. The object of this competition was to arouse interest

among architects in the scientific planning of tenement houses, the
Committee feeling that a large part of the solution of the tenement
house problem lay in this direction.

The exhibition contained many other interesting and instructive
features, and created the most widespread interest, and resulted
in the introduction in the Legislature in 1900 of the bill authorizing
the appointment of the Tenement House Commission.

HOUSING CONDITIONS IN BUFFALO

BY WILLIAM A. DOUGLAS AND WILLIAMS LANSING