The evening world. Newspaper, February 16, 1903, Page 8

1 ee THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 190% ee won LDS = HOME ~~ —— ROOSEVELT’ S RACE SVICIDE Je ad ood Agents and Janitors Advise Men with Large Fami to the Cauritry, as Other Tenants Bitterly Oppose the Ad- Pad '' mission of Children to City Flats. /Mf President Roosevelt's ringing de-; children. When they can help it they munttation of race suicide in his recent “The Woman Wao letter pretacing Tolls” 1s to be heeded by reaidents of will not have them. “How many children have you?" is the first quesifon asked by real-estate men, iNew York City, th> rext few months) owners and janitors of flats of prospec- “iwi be marked by a general exodus to the suburban’ districts of all edupies in whom Mr. Roosevelt's out- @poken criticism has wakened a tardy eense of responsibility. * Bor every year which sees the number lef Gwellors in apartments and flats in- ~»rease in New York will sce a corre- sponding diminution m the number of} vehildpen born, “Children and dogs not vaito ’ has comé to be a well-r "s ‘fixed rilé in many frst apa ‘@ient-houses all over town, and ¢ estate mén say that It Is practicaily cal {m- wpoesible for a family with the Biblical) quota 0! six or elght chiliren to find {Mat accommodations in New York. If President Roosevelt, even, were to ;jpome here and Wish to house his family a,the, circumscribed limits of an elght ‘or te room apartment it would require Sill the prestige of his ofilctal position to! ‘Obtain suitable lodgings for his family. ‘gf, @partment-houxes do not want thosé }tive tenants, ‘Are there any children in the house?" is the query which greets | them on all sides from possible lessees. Sometimes the owners or thelr repre- sentatives are frank enough to tell the unfortunate parents who confess to four or flye ttle boys and girls that they cannot afford to have them in the house. More frequently they raise the rent a few hundred dollars a year in the -| course of five minutes after the revela- ~| tion, | In the section of New York, particn- HHarly fitted by the width of its streets and its proximity to Central Park for the upbringing af healthy children—the upper west slde from ‘Fitty-second to One Hundred and Fourth street, where many of the largest and best apartment~ AS _APPLIED TO NEW YORK CIGY: + JP od CHILDREN BARRED FROM _ALL HIGH-PRICED APAR_TMENGY, PRESIDENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN. — Washington, None 4 6 John Adams.-- Jefferson --+--- Madison -..-None Monroe ..---None J. Q, Adams..- 3 -None dackeon -- (1 adopted son.) Van Buren.---- 2 Wm. Harrison. 2 Tyler ---.---- 2 Polk .------- None Taylor -----..- 3 these Jarge apartment-houses, In the of an Interview with a represen- © of The Evening World made some very Interesting statements in discues- ing the no-children rule. “There ure many apartment-houses on our sta which do not want ¢hil- dren," he said, “Practically every first- clasa apartment-house objects to a large number of children. ‘The reason for this {s obvious, They would run up and down stairs and disturb the other ten- ants. I may. say every owner of a flat or apartment prefers to have “hts house filled by small families of adults. “The objection to children has been made nécersary by the demands of pros- peotive tenants. There are a great many childless married couples in New York, and asa rule these’ people object to Hving in a house where there are ren, ‘Sometimes when apartments are not rented at the beginning of the season owners will relax thie rule in order to fill their houses, But many unpleasant complications result. “A lady came to see me a short time ago who had rented an apartment in a house Weecarry on our books. When she wok the flat she was told by the houses aro situated—the rule against smail children is particularly rigid. Laurle M. Smith, of Stabler & Smith, |cne bf the largest real estate brokerage firms of tho west side, which handle owner, in response to her anxious in- quiry, that there were no children in the house. After she had moved in she discovered that there was one child in the bullding, living on the floor above rc ‘Ohe Dream of an Hour. 4 A Love Story witha Strange Hero and Stranger Climax. Tepe yright, 1903, by Dally Story Pubiirhing Cay) “After making a few changes to my OPLE think me et No one| smale morning tollct I descended ‘to ever guessed how, for one hour of] the dre room. The maid was right, y life, I expericuced the exquirite ‘ehrlll of love. Why should 1 tell the tory to-day? You wh! know when 4 Yinish, for you will guess ‘the awful ‘need Thad to confide to some one the levents of this day, which has widowed iMiny heart forever; that poor hoart whicti from birth Has doen condémned to jter! I have never been happy ti the ‘Puc sense of the word, and 1 now know “phat I never shall, "At twenty-five 1 had not yet exner!- enced what it wns to love and to be “aoved.’ My whole heart and sou! w * Batled in my work, finding in my Mtwr- “dry succesties all the romance my nature Bs nded, \ Yporrespondence for the day, my ” Bae cnockes at my study door, ae oa OA few moments. He comes from "e Whisperin; ‘at the card. It read: "J. B. 2 morning, as I was busy mailing I bid 4 she said, he handed ag a anter, ae as she hande vere, there's a gentleman in “drawing-room who wishes to see Pity Just to have the honor author of, for the man who rose to greet me Was truly handsome. Tall of form and suralght of limb, he towered far above me; while his eyes, of a soft, tender Keay,’ axed down upon me in a look of boundless admiration, ».“And so You are the author of ‘Loves * he sald when énce we talked on, first of one thii then another, Yes, during the hour which followed I experienced all the sweetness of a@ first lo all the thrill of a deep and burning pasion, But all dreams come to an end, and my one dream of love fe dan abrupt ending when my itor, rising, me thank you for your kind re- Miss Dive 1 will have so many pleasant things to relate to my wife waen 1 retu to New York,” His wife! He was a married man, and for an hour I, the cold-hearted, had loved him! . ‘That was ten years ago. My literary successes have continued” and become greater and more numegous with tho years that have gone by, but iy repu- tation for love has kept pace wWity'my fame. Men ee Ayers ‘ond * seems hever to grow. I have| Try the tonic for which I give you! i pooed and singed occasionally, | formula, and. in the couyse of alx or : Bi 4s @0 expensiye that I cannot) eight eks, if the reaulte are not what i ada ft Up. I have worn a switch tor}you can properly expect, write mea four years, but have stppped|agatn, Don't neglect soalp massage, ‘he ‘past eginning of the new year possibly my halr may grow It every. and I also brush : ith the tips of the fingers. fF ian |. or ointment by which my hair may bh Vsmade to Brow! ENTHUSIAST, fk BS pry your letter ehould ha’ ‘J yasearer ty. MH was reo j wes ln Burope. das you suggested, massage will Windly give me a good halr tonic im have been siving yourself scalp! the have some results dy this time, .| Hair Tonle.—Phenle avid, tincture of nux vomlca, 7% grams; tin ture red cinchona, % grams cantharides, cologne, 190 grants; sweet dimond oll, 0 grains. Ap: Vly to the roots of the hair with a soft is eapecially good for very dry halr. Treatment tor Reductug the Bust, Dewy My ayer: . a ikindly “hat 7 ust; also's ‘Goudie enim. 2 hav coldness and indifference to | tincture of sponge once or twied*a day. This lotion |\ Roosevelt’s Opinion of Ghildlessness. ‘*But the man or woman who deliberately avoids mar- riage, and has a heart so col id as to know no passion, and a brain so shallow and selfish as to dislike having children, is in effect a criminal against the race, and should be an object of contemptuous abhorrence by all healthy people.” —————— the apartment she occupied. such entire satisfaction with its ultra “She camé in to see me to complain of | modern appointments as to promp: the what she thought was the fraud which|chesty attendant to go In search he had been practised upon her, and fin-}#uperintendent of the bulldths. tehed a very angry denunciation with the remark: take children In a respectable house.’ “Possibly she was so angry that she did not realize the words she was using, but I have no sympathy with ments of that kind, so I sald to her: ‘In what kind of a house do you expect children to be taken, madam? To him the reporter reiterated the ‘T am surprised that you| 28surance of its sultabiity, but added) Grant ......... 'n a carefully anxious tone: “Are there any children in the house?’ A pause followed the question, at the end of Which the young superintendent looked up with an alr that seemed to imply that accidents would happen in the best regulated epartment-houses “Bome time ago a man came to mej and said: looking for a flat for himself and a “There are two on the second floor. family of elght children. I refused to] But the thirteen other families in the attempt to find one for him. It would| house are all adults,” have been impossible. “After all, the place for large familtes, “E am afraid,” said the reporter, ‘it will not do. My mother is an invalld jf the father can not afford a house, is} and she cannot bear the slightest noise, dn the country. There is no flat really|She large enough to accommodate them. “Owners and agents object to a num- 1 not live where there are chil- dren. “Yes,"' eald the superintendent, sym- ber of children because they want to| pathetically, “most people feel that way. fill thelr apartments. And persons who| But the two we have are very refined. | New York Ge ete chdese of (hele oWa\ dd. Hot |bwese children; add they Uhrs)e HOW Giolor scovaia Geet Ie tence crite: want others in the house. They really make no noise. And you PRESIDENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN, Fillmore Plerco ........ 3 Buchanan ...None Lincoin . Johnson .....~ > Hayes Garfield Arthur -......- Cleveland scene Benj. Harrlso::. McKinley ..... eonneaaown Roosevelt .. “Children not allowed" meets him at ‘After The World réporter had left the|can tell your mother that thia is the| every real vatate omee several large apart-|only vacant apartment in the house, andl rami TOE DES rare cia Woe N68 want other In the house.” that all the others are rented on two and ‘The first apartment seen was a very|three year leases, @o that there Is no desirable fourth floor, overlooking the|danger of there being any more, tt No. 284 Central Park West. It park “This 1a a very exclusive house, and had eight rooms, renting for $1200 ®|we nave frequently refused oftere of in- year. creased rentals because we did not want ‘The reporter was shown over the flat\t, #11 the house up with children that by ® very affable young woman, WhO | the other tenants would object to. It's ‘admitted in response to a direct question |the game way about dogs. We had an that there were two ohildren in the house. : “Bu she added $1,800 apartment to rent eome time ego, and a man offered us $3,000 @ year for it. in extenuation, | But he had a little dog. We wouldn't “there are fourteen epartments— twelve | ¢ake him." of them now occupled—and there a1 ‘These two experiences are typical of only these two children in that one| many the reporter had during the atter- family. noon, all of them tending to prove thaf “They are very qulet and well-be-|a man with small children cannot fin' haved. We do not take persons with|» gu{table apartment in New York. many children, and we do not care for children under eight years of age. After confessing to three entirely mythical Mttle brothers ranging arithmetical progression from two to| years old, ix, the repofter wandered disconsol- ately forth to seek other quarters. At No, 809 West Ninety-first strest, on the northwest corner of West End avenue, ment was found, The reporter was shown over its ten] w! rooms by the elevator boy and expressed By _Adrienne R-oucelle. have loved me, yet I have never been able to find one who could equal that lover of an hour. Fi And to-day we have met again. Years have scattered silver in his dark hair. There was a haunted look in the ey whith fhad not been there before. He returned to me freed from the bonds which had once separated us; his wife 4s dend—has been dead a year—and he has come to ask me,to take her place. But | refused; my pride has always been mire that I could néver accept the love ef x man Who had loved another enough jto make her his wife Movea by the agony of his yolce, T was some time without answering, but my vesolution was taken, Nothing could change it, 6o I at last answered: am deeply grieved that you take my refusal so mum to heart, but,I can't change it. I may not be like other women, Bul the thought that you had loved another, that she had your firet ilies that to her you gave the best of your heart and life, would take from my own existence al! the biss your love ould ‘bring 4t, £ would he Jealous of the dead," He arm. Mke* those poke hi these words and selzed my wild and glaring madman, and when he 80 His eyes were of him, though low, sounded ber that oné mun loved with shrill accents to my ears: “You should not think that, for it was because I loved you so much, 60 passionately, that I killea her I started back with the ory: “Killed her!" And this was the man I had loved! This, a murderer! Just then we wer interrupted. Two men rushed into the room, The next minute my visitor wa overpowered and handcuffed, Too #tar- tled to cry out, I remained transQxed to the spot. But one of the men drew near to me and sald: “You must pardon the abrupt way we {nvaded your home, but we feared for your safety, ‘That unfortunate man is mad, has been mad for the last eight years. In his madneas he says he love: you and that that love has caused him to murder hie wife.” © “Then his wife is not dead,” 1 man- aged to say “No, but his madness took such a turn that her life was in danger and was competled to have him shut up madhouse Last week he escaped, robbing the guard of ail the Money he had, We thought that he nus. have come to you, #0 we fallowed ip here ey took him away and T Had he been what hé pretended a murderes—I could have fi but as it ix I mus Beauty, By Harriet Hubbard " Aver. sage treatment you certainly should | bathed with ulcohol, camphor and white | satisfactory. jtodine. 1 fail to see any difference in six months. Do you thin Le Eincke Mba We Bee ‘The best treatment and the moat ef- fective, au far a 1 know, for reducing ja loo Rewhy bust, is that commended by Dr. Vaucalre, whose instructions 1 give you 1 do not think bathi alo and white tod any appreciable effect | Tod of poteeh la one of the tngre ai ‘ allied eterxnal fleah re vit in every eere where the white fullne’ has been used, the resulta. jecvording to my informants, have been disappointing Vaucalve'’s treatment for incromaing and decreasing the bust has been very with camphor. © would have he. sy 1 give you the treatment |for reducing a too opulent bust, I trust the readers will not confuse it with the |treatment for enlarging the bust, which in entirely different. {” Vaucalve's Treatment for Reductng the in} must not be ‘This tour of the apartment-houses !n- @icates that according to the rules laid down by real estate owners, children born, must be born eight or must be reared altogether in some huge public caravensery tl they reach the age at which they have been pronounced harmiess, Where, then, in New York City oan @ young man earning $2,000 or more get suitable accommodation for himself, his fe and this little family of three or four? Apparently, there is no room In CASTORIA| For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bough! VAUDEVILLEE 14th Bt. Theatre, near 6 eA Mate. Wea 2 |ANDREW MACK to bis ma 1 Last’ WEEK, The Bold Soger Boy, Sas of Commencing Monday Matinee, SAR Ber wit Go colored’ rerorites r Wi ni OND MONTH. ‘St, (Geo, Ade's WittyMuvical Success, ~ Matinee To-Day. Samm Devere's Own Co. ‘Wey BIJOU.) MARIE CAHILL in NANCY BROWN. TO-NGHT BELASCO THEATRE’ 5%" NEW YORK. CLOSED TO-NIGHT nd To: Mereow HOLS NING WuEDN SDA wiliahena | y EVE 5 WALKEK MIN DANO icy." Amusements. Cl RCLE ‘its tata. II ! Stai wet’ SULTAN OF SULU, |: family or who intends to have a family 0 into the suburbs to rear his children? Perhaps by long and weary search the man earning 0 weekly may find some alde or the lower west side seem the only resource. In the last few days The Event World has recelyed many letters on despairing parents of large families who cannot find suitable accommodations in ‘New York end actualy do not kgow where to turn for shelter. Gome of these letters follow. The Evening World invites letters ex- pressing their opinions on this subject ¢rom aa many readers as have had ex- perience in the matter. To the BAkor of The Evening World In reading in your valuable paper President Roosevelt's comments on the danger of the American race becoming extinct, I want to say a few words on the subject of rearing children which I would ike you to put in your paper. 1am ths father of five children, three boys and two girls, fine, healthy youn, eters, and having occasion 10 move from De Miracfe New Principle of Removing SUPERFLUOUS HAIR. The Only Method Indorsed by Physicians, Surgeons, Der- matologists and Medi- cal Journals, Bent seaied on receipt of 61. YOUR MONEY PACK i¢ te fale to do all that in claimed for et | | oly. . 196 Broadway Jungman, 4020 | BMPIR He te st THE UNFORESEEN | Annie Russell in Mice and Men, NEW SAVOY TH. nee. 6.) GARRI K THE, $15. M me Souvent i THEATRE Hamlet et Ty Tha Gi with the Gren TO-DAY CRITERION Th POWERS” | Vv gent Olntment—Arise — MADISON SQUARE THEA. 2h: eto Bway tol, ¥ grams: Anite asi | Tax Ave. JOT 8 Mat Pia'y, Se. | Bromine, 815 Ma aay a Saluda (iste Seng Caen wen WOUNK EN OLD KENTUCKY, jet" TE EARL OF PATE, gi iy ee bgtiods Alum a eran EDEN | vor intitsy NAW AROURE, ' R, Weway BBN Be iM Sg aigd yee | ual et ve ect biter foes, | WEST END~—THE VILGE POSTAMSER Ee Momtintnt is for all who have aaed aid Yor the same disAgurement ioe EAST LYNNE. 3” aye Wi ans Be dwelling place within habitable limits for himself and his little brood, but for the poor making less than half that amount the suburts, the congested east BABLEM } By + RONBO & - PAL Vian (hair, ase H GILMAN my present residence on account of al- terations in the bullding, I find it js al- most imposstble to get a place to live, notwithstanding that I am highly re- apectable and well able to pay rent. Tho queatton "How many children have you? fs always asked, and when told five, the agents nay, We are very sorry, but we cannot rent you a place." This has now become « serious prob- lem to me. It ts all very well to have ohildren, but where can we put them unless some lewisiation is passed which will help a man to secure rooms to live in? A RESPECTABLE MAN, To the Editor of The Evening World: After reading the article on mar- riage by the Pres'dent printed in The Evening World, I would like to say @ few words on the subject. There have been several other articles printed, all to the same point—why don't the Amer- tcan people have larger families? Why? Well, I will telt you wiby. It ts because if you have more than one child in the family and are looking for a house or flat to live in the first ques- tion asked is “How many children have you? If you anewer more than one you are given the “stony stare” and the door is invariaoly shut in your face. If you go to an agent he will be more polite and tell you no children ate al- lowed, or not more than one, Now, what is @ pereon going to dot Live in Amusements. HUBER’S 14TH ST, MUSEUM. | Kitamura’s Troupe of 7 SY JAPANESE ACROBATS. | Prot, Miett’s Dog Cireus, | . German One-Man Band. Leonora, sword Midget Cop.Boxer Dwart J. B. Burke &! TWOTRE 3,8, Patse | He joved Her.’ Lole Bryant’ & Symons, Chas. | Rennalds, dion Pictures | METROPOLITAN OPERA-HOUSE, Grand Opera Seaxon 1908-1908. the direction of -Mr, Maurice AT SB. ort r Ved. 18, at 8 Feb.19, $90 (Spec Pr). Das We red 20, at ¢ at? ERN 21,00 7.90 (Pop Prices). .Die Walkare | WEBER PIANOS USED. HERALD | kya, 8.16, Mat. Sat, 2.16. SOUARE THEA HE DR Wolt Rapper = M Pickwick.” PRINCESS, W way & 29th %, Rye..8.90,Mats. ‘Thurs, & Sat., 2.90. AMELIA BINGHAT CO. THE FRISKY MRS, JOHNSON. 1 GASIN A CHINESE HONEYMOON, ‘AUST heingold OTRILA 1 Eve. 81h. Mats. Wed. @ Sat | U 1TH 8T., NEAR 3D AVE. CONTINUOL! £0 AND 9) CENTS HICK BY & NELSON, TOURISTS" TRIO, JANE COURTHOPE @ Go., GILLAMAN & MURRAT i PAULINE MORAN, 1 RITA REDMOND, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14:h 91, @ trying Piaow, IFLORODORA fh Mats. Wed.d Gat 2 Bvg.,815, | BROADWAY fra Saath PECIAL MAT. WASHINGTOD fExey ™ Siver Slipper. MAVBSTIC oa", SUisiaateel A WIZARD OF OZ. “ts 3 Matinee atoward 4 i TorDay: | Jordan & Cr | > 7 2D > ATIERICAN fi.05 2" | Mat, dally The Sporting Bel ase, | Seat Wh TH i the gutter or old ramshackle huts fer — the sake of having @ large ‘mage e for one don't see the fun of it. It the President wants to see American families let him pass & making the owners of property let thelr houses as thi ht to a0. I don't ey ous think the children of to-day. are bad as some. worse or, in as these cranks were in thelr day. they are the worst kind to and some of them have grown chi of thelr own, ‘There. will be po soli of the large family question uni DS a tags or fin an and I t isa way off. DISGUSTED, To the Biiitor of The Evering Ws 3 4 1am the janitress of & Central Park West apartment house and I write tell you wh dren: It ts because our ts Will ime sist in making the boast No allowed,” and because folks wou rather come to flats where there children, When a family with, comes we can't take them. So wi familice seo that they must have, fewer ehildre; ey want ve York they have nb children or move £o jersey: I 2 To the Rditor of The Evening A 4 am a with j band earns a good salary. ment. veally handsome rent the owner or the tenan' ail inst who welcoming them? a families for not ire. G, BR Amusements, Why Not Proctor’s? To-Rratew. RESERVED EVERY AFT. & BYE. vi 8 CONTINUOUS Val ence . Lacari a Jarkson Fey fan WAY OF THE OWA 4 QRUNSI, {ieee Roe poe DALY'S tz 63 THE }¥ MUSICAL PLAY, ” BILLIONAIRE” $YKE$ WEBER & PIBLDD'AVS° front? oa TWIRLY-WHIRLY ‘THB STICKINESS OF GEUATING., ‘THM MUSICAL ABSURDITY, DROADWAY Manhattanin sven werancy L MAR § te MAGDALA BENCHE RESURRECTION Brooklyn Amusements, is MONTAUK JULIA MARLOWE “AN THB CAVALIER Mat.Daily OLUM EI AM 7 OLIVER TWIST, Next Week-—RESURRECTION. GRAND | ADESPERATE CHANCE iid, Maines aa iis |i? 3 é ence Reed, All Favorites. %