Leidsch Dagblad
- The Third Lustrum of the Christian Mixed Choral Society "Halleluja"
- Arson on Behalf of the Municipality
- General Netherlands Millers' Union
This Leiden daily's page mixed civic ceremony, municipal housing policy and trade news. A Christian mixed choir marked its third lustrum, or fifteen years, with a round of speeches from the local Christian Workingmen's Union, its Sunday school, its sick fund and sister choirs, complete with medals, a bandolier and coffee and cake. The paper reported that the city had burned two of its own wooden emergency houses at the end of the Magdalena Moonstraat: built after the war with a 90 per cent state subsidy to rehouse slum-dwellers, they had become vermin-ridden and worthless. And the national millers' union elected Mr. Das as chairman, briefly discussed a report on electrifying windmills, backed windmill preservation unanimously, and voted to join the association De Hollandsche Molen.
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The Third Lustrum of the Christian Mixed Choral Society "Halleluja"
…his merits and, with the approval of those present, presented him with an insignia. Numerous further speeches followed, containing congratulations to the jubilee society. Mr. Kuivenhoven spoke as adviser and also as chairman of the Leiden branch of the Christian Workingmen's Union, Mr. J. A. v. d. Reijden as former chairman. On behalf of the Sunday school run by the branch, the Leiden Ring of Christian Choral Societies, the branch sick fund, and the sister societies of Zoeterwoude and Lisse, Messrs. L. Zitman, G. Goedhart, A. Stikkelorum, M. Wessel and A. Tibboel spoke in turn. Mr. L. Zitman presented the choral society with a bandolier on behalf of the Sunday school; Messrs. Kuivenhoven and Van der Reijden each accompanied their speeches with a commemorative medal. That these speeches were each time followed by warm signs of approval hardly needs mentioning. The chairman responded to all these congratulations with a speech testifying to grateful appreciation. Meanwhile, friendly ladies offered refreshments consisting of coffee with pastries, lemonade and wine. The secretary, Mr. C. Gijsman, then gave a witty report…
Arson on Behalf of the Municipality
…people who travel a great deal and may therefore run more risk than others of becoming infected can protect themselves against that disease in this way.
Arson on behalf of the municipality. In the post-war years, when the housing shortage was making itself acutely felt both in this municipality and elsewhere, and the local council did not know where to house the inhabitants of the Wernershof, 't Paradijs and other absolutely uninhabitable hovels, it was decided to build a number of wooden emergency dwellings on a site at the end of the Magdalena Moonstraat, between De Vliet and the Rhine-Schie Canal. The State provided a 90 per cent subsidy on the building costs; the municipality supplied the land, made up the remaining 10 per cent of the building costs and also took care of maintenance. Most of the homeless could be accommodated there and were, for the time being, in better circumstances, above all as regards space. At first the occupation went reasonably well, but along with the disappearance of the fresh glow of the wood, neglect also set in among most of the occupants. Not much was spent on upkeep, and more and more some of these dwellings came to be in a terrible state of neglect. For the worst of them no cleaning could help any longer. Vermin had penetrated the wood to such an extent that no salvation could be expected from disinfection, and the badly battered interiors could not even be made serviceable as a warehouse or storeroom. All these dwellings, each of which may well have cost f 1000 in total to erect, are or are becoming completely worthless, and the question had long been raised: "how is one to get out of this decently?" Now that a block of two dwellings has recently become vacant, the council thought it advisable simply to burn them, which was done this morning. Together with the workmen who after…
General Netherlands Millers' Union
…and subsequently elected chairman. Mr. Das accepted both appointments, so that he is retained for the Union, which may be considered of great importance, especially at present. Next on the agenda was the Boonstra report on the electrification of windmills, on which views were exchanged only briefly, after which further consideration was adjourned to a following meeting. After this, Mr. J. W. E. Schrijver of Nijbroek made a plea for the preservation of the windmill in Holland, with which the meeting unanimously agreed. In connection with this it was decided to join the Association "De Hollandsche Molen" in Amsterdam. A proposal for the Union to organize an exhibition relating to mills, in both the mechanical and the historical field, was referred to the board, to investigate the possibility and desirability of such an exhibition and, if possible, to prepare it. Finally, Mr. G. J. Honig of Koog aan de Zaan gave a lecture on "Wind and Milling Rights", which was followed by a lively exchange of views. — If we wrote yesterday that there was extraordinary interest in the elderly bridal couple who at the Town Hall in…
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Who paid for Leiden's wooden emergency homes, and why was the city responsible for them?
The article gives a precise division of costs: the State paid 90 per cent of construction, while Leiden supplied the land, paid the remaining 10 per cent and took on maintenance. That arrangement fits the framework Dutch housing policy had followed since the Housing Act (Woningwet) of 1901. That law made housing a genuine government responsibility for the first time, yet it was carried out by the municipalities rather than by the State. This explains the article's logic: the paper calls the Wernershof, 't Paradijs and similar places 'absolutely uninhabitable hovels', and it was the local council that had to find somewhere for their residents to go. At national level, from 1920 a Chief Inspectorate of Public Housing carried out the State's executive tasks in this field. When the paper presents the burning of two ruined houses as the answer to the long-standing question of how to get out of the matter 'decently', it shows the other side of that arrangement: the municipality, responsible for upkeep, was left to deal with stopgap post-war buildings that had become worthless within a few years.
What was De Hollandsche Molen, the association the millers voted to join?
The millers' union's decision to affiliate with 'De Hollandsche Molen' in Amsterdam linked a trade body to a preservation movement that was only three years old. The association had been founded in Amsterdam in 1923 under the chairmanship of Pieter van Tienhoven, with the aim of halting the large-scale demolition of wind- and watermills then under way. Writing in de lage landen, Lutgard Mutsaers states that its founders set themselves to inventory every mill in the Netherlands and to resist demolition. Crucially for working millers, the association at first sought to preserve mills for their economic function, not as monuments; only after the Second World War did the emphasis move to historical and landscape value. That early orientation helps explain why a union of practising millers could unanimously endorse J. W. E. Schrijver's plea for 'the preservation of the windmill in Holland' and treat affiliation as a practical step, alongside a proposed exhibition covering mills from both the mechanical and the historical side.
Why were millers debating the electrification of windmills in 1926?
The Boonstra report on electrifying windmills, which the meeting discussed only briefly before adjourning, concerned the technology that was undermining traditional wind power. The spread of electricity into the countryside during the 1920s made wind-driven drainage, which depended on unreliable wind, superfluous, because machines could now work whenever needed. The pressure was not new: in a piece recalling a 1913 appeal to save a Rotterdam mill, Mutsaers notes that one owner after another had already been installing an auxiliary motor. Preservationists did not respond with nostalgia alone. Mutsaers writes that De Hollandsche Molen itself launched a competition to improve the efficiency of mill sails. Read against this background, the union's agenda holds together: postponing a decision on electrification, calling for the windmill's preservation, and joining a society that at the time defended mills for their economic function were all parts of one response to technological change.
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Het 3de Lustrum van de Chr. „Gemengde Zangvereen. „Halleluja”.
diens verdiensten en overhandigde hem met instemming der aanwezigen een insigne. Daarop volgden nog tal van toespraken, inhoudende gelukwenschen aan de jubileerende vereeniging. De heer Kuivenhoven sprak als adviseur en tevens als voorzitter van de afd. Leiden van den Chr. Werkmansbond, de heer J. A. v. d. Reijden als oud-voorzitter. Namens de van de afd. uitgaande Zondagsschool, den Ring Leiden van Chr. Zangvereen., het afdeelings-Ziekenfonds, de zustervereen. Zoeterwoude en Lisse spraken achtereenvolgens nog de heeren L. Zitman, G. Goedhart, A. Stikkelorum, M. Wessel en A. Tibboel. De heer L. Zitman bood de zangvereeniging namens de Zondagsschool een bandelier aan, de heeren Kuivenhoven en Van der Reijden lieten hun toespraken ieder van een herinneringsmedaille vergezeld gaan. Dat deze toespraken steeds werden gevolgd door hartelijke teekenen van instemming, behoeft nauwelijks vermelding. De voorzitter reageerde op al deze felicitaties met een van dankbaar erkentelijkheid getuigende speech. Inmiddels boden vriendelijke dames ververschingen aan bestaande uit koffie met gebak, limonade en wijn. De secretaris de heer C. Gijsman bracht vervolgens op geestige wijze verslag uit
Brandstichting vanwege de gemeente.
nen, die veel op reis zijn en daardoor wellicht meer dan anderen kans loopen besmet te worden, kunnen zich op die wijze te gen die ziekte beschutten. Brandstichting vanwege de gemeente. In de na oorlogsjaren, toen de woningschaarschte zich zoowel in deze gemeente als elders nijpend deed gevoelen en het gemeentebestuur alhier niet wist, waar het de bewoners van het Wernershof het ' Paradijs en van andere absoluut onbewoonbare krotten zou huisvesten, werd besloten een aantal houten noodwoningen te bouwen op een terrein aan het eind van de MagdalenaMoonstraat tusschen De Vliet en het Rijnen Schiekanaal. Het Rijk verstrekte 90 pct. subsidie van de bouwkosten, de gemeente leverde het terrein en pastte de overige 10 pct. der bouwkosten bij en zorgde tevens voor het onderhoud. De meeste dakloozen konden daarin worden ondergebracht en kwamen voorshands in betere conditie vooral wat de ruimte betrof. In het eerst ging de bewoning nog al, doch tegelijk met het verdwijnen van den nieuwen gloed van het hout trad ook de verwaarloozing bij de meeste bewoners in. Aan onderhoud werd niet veel besteed en hoe langer hoe meer kwamen eenige dezer woningen in een vreeselijken staat van verwaarloozing te verkeeren, Bij de ergsten zou geen reiniging meer kunnen helpen. Het ongedierte drong dermate het hout binnen dat van desinfectie geen heil meer kon worden verwacht en de inwendig zeer gehavende verblijven zelfs niet meer dienstbaar zouden worden gemaakt voor pakhuis of bergplaats. Al deze woningen, die ieder in totaal allicht f 1000 aan oprichting hebben gekost, zijn of worden geheel waardeloos. en de vraag rees al lang: " hoe zal men er met fatsoen afkomen? " Waar nu dezer dagen een blok van twee woningen leeg kwamen, achtte het gemeentebestuur het raadzaam deze eenvoudig te verbranden wat hedenmorgen is geschied. Tegelijk met de werklieden die na
Algemeene Ned. Molenaarsbond.
meerd en vervolgens als voorzitter gekozen. De heer Das liet zich beide benoemingen welgevallen, zoodat hij voor den Bond blijft behouden, wat vooral thans van groot belang mag worden geacht. Aan de orde kwam het rapport Boonstra over de electrificatie van windmolens, waarover slechts kort van gedachten werd gewisseld, waarna de verdere behandeling tot een volgende vergadering werd verdaagd. Hierna hield de heer J. W. E. Schrijver, te Nijbroek, een pleidooi voor het behoud van den windmolen in Holland, waarmede de vergadering zich unaniem vereenigde. Besloten werd in verband daarmede zich aan te sluiten bij de Vereeniging " De Hollandsche Molen ", in Amsterdam. Een voorstel om vanwege den Bond een tentoonstelling te organiseeren met betrekking tot de molens, zoowel op werktuigkundig als historisch gebied, werd in handen gesteld van het bestuur om de mogelijkheid en de wenschelijkheid van dusdanige tentoonstelling te onderzoeken en indien mogelijk, deze voor te bereiden. De heer G. J. Honig te Koog aan de Zaan hield ten slotte een lezing over: " Wind - en Maalrechten ", waarop een opgewekte gedachtenwisseling volgde. - Schreven wij gisteren, dat er een buitengewone belangstelling bestond voor het bejaarde bruidspaar, dat ten Stadhuize in
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