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34 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
THE INDUSTRIAL TOWNS OF HOSTETTER AND WHITNEY
Considerable attention has been directed recently
to Hostetter and Whitney, the two towns
which have grown up around the plants of the
Hostetter-Connellsville Coke Co., near Latrobe, Pa.
While in no sense social experiments or "model"
towns, the care that has surrounded their growth
and development has resulted in making them
ideal industrial communities. The general fea-
tures of the two towns are practically the same
as others of the kind. The company houses, numbering
about 120 in each, are of the usual type,
except, possibly, that their construction is somewhat
better than the average. The population is
of the usual mixed order and the usual social and
convivial habits of such communities are not lack-
ing. There is, however, a vast moral and physical
difference between these towns and other industrial
communities. Both were laid out on approved
scientific lines, with wide streets and
plenty of ground room for the dwellings, which
are double. Shade trees adorn the streets, good
schools and churches have been provided, the
town has its own mountain water supply, and
with low rents, cheap fuel, reasonable prices for
the commodities and steady work, there is every
reason for the inhabitants to be satisfied. The
advantages thus provided have inculcated a spirit
of civic pride among the dwellers, and industry
and progress are watchwords with them. Lack
of cleanliness, habitual idleness and intemperance,