The evening world. Newspaper, February 16, 1903, Page 9

THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1905 WORLDS = HOME RR res ROOSEVELT’ .S RACE SUICIDE AS _APPLIED TO CHILDREN BARRED FROM _ALL HIGH-PR_ICED APAR_TMENGS, Je ad n Agents and Junitors Advise Men with Large Families to Move] “to the Cauritry, as Other Tenants Bitterly Oppose the Ad- mission wf Children to City “Mf President Roosevelt's ringing de- muntiation of race suicide In his recent letter pretacing “The Woman Who Tolls” is to beheeded by residents of New York City, th> rext few months! will be marked by a general pxodus to! the suburban‘ districts of all those couples in whom Mr. Roosevelt's out-| @poken criticism has wakened a tardy sense of responsibility. For every year which sees the number of dwellors in apartments and flats in- orease in New York will sce a corre- sponding diminution Mm the number of} children born, “Children and dogs not BiloWed" has comé ta be a well-rocon pized rilé in many firsi apart- Ment-hovses all over town, and real state men that it Is practically {m-| possible fér a fa | y with the Bi blical) quota wu! six or eight children to find flat accémmodations in New York. If President Roosevelt, even, were to pome here and Wish to house his family Inthe, circumscribed limits of an elght or tex’ room apartment it would requtre ail the prestige of his ofilctal position to Stain suitable lodgings for his family. | sa sarin gpartment-houses do not want ead “ Flats. chiktren. When they can help it they will not have them. ‘How many children haye you?” ts the first quesifon asked by real-estate men, owners and janitors of flats of prospec- 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 fiye Httle 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 courge of five minutes after the revela- ton, In the rection of New York, particn- larly fitted by the width of its streets and {ts proximity to Central Park for the upbringing of healthy children—the upper west alde from 'Fifty-second to One Hundred and Fourth street, where many of the largest and best apartment- houses are situated—the rule against smail children is particularly rigid. Laurie M. Smith, of Stabler & Smith, cne bf the largest al estate brokerage firms of the weet side, which handle PRESIDENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN. — Washington, None John Adams Jefferson Madison -.-.None ~-None Monroe J. Q, Adame... Jackson ....-None (1 adopted son.) Van Buren..--- 2 Wm. Harrison Tyler -....---- -None 3 Polk .--- Taylor .--.--.- there Jarge apartment-houses, In the course of an Interview with a represen- tative of The Evening World made some very interesting statements in discuss: ing the no-children rute. “There ure many apartment-hous on our Msts which do not want ¢hil- dren," he said, “Practically every first- clasa apartment-house objects to @ large number of children. The reason for this 1s obvious, They would run up and down stairs and disturb the other ten- I may. say every owner of a flat or apartment prefers to “hts house filled by small families of adults, “The objection to ohildren has been made nécetsary by the demands of pros- peotive tenants. Dhere are a great many childless married couples in New York, and as a rule these people object to Hving in a house where there are children, “Sometimes when apartments are not rented at the beginning of the season owners will refax thle 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 dn a house Wescarry on our books. When ghe wok the flat she was told by the 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 “he econ os Publlehing Ca.) yet no one hour of quirite by Daily Story OPLE taink ond, ever guessed now, for or y life, I expericuced thee apyright, 1903, hrilf Of ilove. Why should I tell the ntory to-day? You whl know when Anish, for you will guess "the awful need Thad to confide to some one the events of this day, which has widowed my heart forever; that poor heart whicti from birth Has been condémned to suf- fer! I have never been happy the uc gente of the word, and 1 now know that I never shall. At twenty-five I had not yet exper!- mnoed what it was to love and to be oved.. My whole heart and soul were poried in my work, finding in my ltwr- iry successies all the romance my nature manded.* Ine morning, as I was busy mailing ny. Tporrespondence for the day, iy maid knocked at my study door, I bid her gitar, BOG she said, as she handed Divers. there's gentleman tn wing-room who wishes to see afewmoments. He comes from York City just to have the honor the talented author of, J.B. of an Hour. a few changes to my @mole morning toilet 1 descended ‘to the draw om. The maid was right, for the man Who rose to sreet me was truly handsome, Tall of form and aight of limb, he towered far above me; while his eyes, of a soft, te Kray,’ caved down woon me in a look of boundlera admiration, “And #0 you are the author of aie Wihisperings?’ ’ he said when dnce we were seated. We talk another. followed I experienced all the sweetn' Uf @ first love, all the thrill of @ deep and burning passion, But all dreams come » an end, and my one dream of Jove found an abrupt ending when my visitor, rising, eaid: “Let me thank yo After making d on, first of one thing, then for your kind re- sation, Miss Divers, 1 will have #0 many pleasant things to relate to my wife waen I return to New York." His wife! He was a married man, and for an hour J, the cold-hearted, loved him! ‘That was ten years ago. My literary successes have continted’ und become greater and more numegous with tho years that have gone by, but iny r had ef a man who had loved another enough tation for coldness and indifference to| love has kept, pace wity'my fame, Men- datter an Bathusiast, be he) seems neyer to grow. I have and singed occasionally, | ds 60 expensive that 1 cannot deed Ht Up. I have worn a switch tor four years, but have stopped ‘Peginning of the new year, possibly my halr may grow @main; and I also brush it every and a8 you suggesicd, massage yt hy the tips of the fingers. Will or latin t by which my hair may growt ENTHUSIAST, Hints on Beauty, have some results vy this time, Try the tonic for which I give you} formula, and in the course of alx or) elght weeks, If the results are not what you can properly expect, write me again, Don't negiect sealp massage, | Hair Tonle.—Phenig avid, 2 grams; \s tincture of nux vomica, 7% grams; tine- ture red cinchona, 2 grams; tincture of | cantharides, % grams; cologne, 190 grams; sweet dimond oll, 60 grains. Ap-| Ply to the rapts of the hair with a soft) sponge once or twiee*a day. This lotion | is especially good for very dry halr, indly give me a govt halr tonic si ey your letter hould have gone Bey re M was received a rere ha been ye yourself scalp ‘Treatment for beanie oa the Bust wal hat will rea woud chin, a hay, By _Adrienne R_oucelle. A Love Story with a Strange Hero and Stranger Climax. have loved me, yet I have never been able to find one who could equal that Ipver of an hour, And to-day we have met again. Years have acattered silver in his dark hair. ‘There was a haunted look in the ey: which had not been thers before. He returned to me freed from the bonds which had once separated us; his wite 4s dead—has been dead a year—and he has come to ask meé,to take her place. But [ refused; my pride has always been sure that I could néver accept the love to make her hig wife. Moved by the agony of his yolce, I was some time withoyt answering, but my vesolution was taken, Nothing could change it, 0 I at last answered: “Lam deeply grieved that you take my refusal so muow to heart, but I can't change it. I may not be liké other women, but the thought that you had loved another, that she hed your firet Kleses, that to her you gave the best ur heart own existen: bring 4t. ad." 80 and life, would take from 2 all the bliss your love { would be jealous of hese words and seized my His eves were wild and glaring | hose of 4 madman, and when hel 4, his to though low, im. pounded ber ihat one mun loved me to madness Roosevelt’s Opinion of Ghildlessness.| Mi. “*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. “She camé Jn to see me to complain of what she thought was the fraud which had been practised upon her, and fin- tehed a very angry denunciation with the remark: ‘I am surprised that you take children In a reepectable 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? “Some time ago a man came to me looking for a fiat for himeelf and a family of eight children. I refused to attempt to find one for him. It would have been impossible. “After all, the place for large families, if the father can not afford a house, ts the country, There {s no flat really large enough to accommodate them. “Owners and agents object to a num- ber of children because they want to fill their apartments. And persons who have no children of their own do not want others in the house. After The World réporter had left the|can tell your mother that this Is the! every turn, real estate office several large apart- want other in the house.” ‘The first apartment seen was @ very desirable fourth floor, overlooking the park at No. 284 Central Park West. It had eight rooms, renting for $1,200 a year. The reporter was shown over the flat by @ very affable youn, who admitted in response to @ direct question that there were two children in the house. “But, she added in extenuation, “there are fourteen apartments— twelve of them now occupled—and there are only these two children in that one family. “They are very qujet and well-be- haved. We do not take persons with many children, and we do not care for children under eight years of age.” After confessing to three entirely mythical ttle brothers ranging in arithmetical progression from two to wix, the repotter wandered disconsol- ately forth to seek other quarters. At No, 809 West Ninety-first street, on the northwest corner of West End avenue, a wtill more pretentious apart- ment was found. ‘The reporter was shown over its ten rooms by the elevator boy and expressed with shrill accents to my enre: “You showd not think that, for it ‘was because I loved you so much, 60 passionately, that I killeg het I etarted back with the ory: “Killed her!" And this was the man I had loved! This, a murderer! Just then we wet interrupted. Two men rushed into the room, The next minule my visitor w overpowered and handcuffed. Too etar- 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 4nvaded your home, but we feared for your safety, That unfortunate man ts mad, has been mad for the last eight years. In his madness he says he loves you and that that love hae caused him to murder his wife. “Then his wife ie not dead,’ I man- aged to say “No, but his madness took such @ turn that her life was in danger and| she was competed to have him shut up| in a madhouse Last week he escaped, after robbing uard of the money he hi thought that he tum have come to you, #0 We followed bim her Phey took him away and I was alone 6 been what hé pretended to be-~| Murderer could have fergotten | but as it ix I must alwayo r mer By Harriet Hubbard _Ayer. massage treatment you certainly should ‘bathed with ulcohol, camphor and white | satisfac jodine, I fail to sve any difference In ax monthe, Do vou think this preps. ration detrimental? BG ‘The: best treatment and the most ef- fective, au far a» 1 know, for reducing | a too fle bust, Is that commended by Dr, Vaucaire, whowe tamtructions 1 | a ive you: | I do not think bathing with camphor aleohol and white lodine would haye any @ An effect } lodide of potash is one of the tngre a f the so-called eterxnal fle#h re du nut in every ease where th te fullne has been used, the results cordiig to my informants, have been sa ppointing. Vaucalre's treatment for incromeing \ end decreasing the bust has been very 1 give you the treatment |for reducing a too opulent bust, I trust lithe rea: will not confuse jt with the treatment for enlarging the bust, which | jim entirely differemt Vaucalve’s Treatment for Reducing the Bust night with Vqucaie's ointment. Rub every t such entire satisfaction with its ultra modern appointments as to promp: the chesty attendant to go In gearch of the superintendent of the bulldths. To him the reporter reiterated the assurance of its suitability, but added in 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 apartment-houses and said: “There are two on the second floor. But the thirteen other families in the house are all adult “E am afraid,” gaid the reporter, “it will not do. My mother is an invalld and she cannot bear the slightest noise, She will not live where there are chil- dren. “Yes,"’ ald the superintendent, sym- pathetically, “most people feel that way. But the two we have are very refined, Sweet children, and they have a nurse. They really make no noise. And you only vacant apartment in the house, and thet all the others are rented on two and three year leases, 60 that there is no danger of there belng any more. “This 1a @ very exclusive house, and we have frequently refused offere of in- to fill the house up with children that the other tenants would object to. It's the same way about dogs. We had an $1,800 apartment to rent some time ago, and a man offered us $3,000 year for it. But he had a little dog. We wouldn't take him." ‘These two experiences are typical of many the reporter had during the after- noon, all of them tending to prove ae a man with small children cannot fin a sujtable apartment In New York, ‘This tour of the apartment-houses In- icates that according to the rules laid down by real estate owners, children must not be born, must be born eight years old, or must be reared altogether in some huge public caravensary till they reach the age at which they have been pronounced harmless, Where, then, in New York City oan @ young man earning $2,000 or more get sultable accommodation for himself, his wite and his little family of three or four? Apparently, there 1s no room In CASTORIA| For Infants and Children, | The Kind You Have Always Bough See Zeta, Gignature of Amusements. 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JP JP Je New York for the married man earning|™y Present residence on account of al-{the gutter or old ramshackle huts $40 or more a week {f he has children,| terations in the bullding, I find it js al-|the sake of having e large “Children not allowed" meets him at Must the man who has @ family or who intends to have a family ‘60 Into the suburbs to rear his children? Perhaps by long and weary search the man earning 40 weekly may find some dwelling place within habitable limits for himself and his little brood, but for amount the suburts, the congested east ulde or the lower west side seem the only resource. In the last few days The Event World has reselved many letters from despairing parents of large famiiles who cannot find esultable accommodations in New York end actually do not know where to wrn for shelter. Gomo of thexe letters follow. The Evening World invites letters ex- pressing their opinions on this subject from as many renders as have had ex- perience in the matter. ‘To the Edkor 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 like you to put in your paper. Iam the father of five children, three boys and two girls, fine, healthy young. eters, and having occasion to move from De cbse New Principle of Removing SUPERFLUOUS HAIR.) # The Only Method Indorsed by Physicians, Surgeons, Der- matologists and Medi- cal Journals, feat benied om receipt off. YOUR MONTY RACK i¢ it fails to do | | vt W. 8. | Oth ay. and 42 Son, 183 Brostway; J. N. 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Tho question “How many children have you? is 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- creased rentals because we did not want| ¢he poor making less than half that|lem to me. It ts all very well to have children, but where can we put them unless some lewisiation is passed which will help a man to seoure rooms to live in? A RESPECTABLE MAN, To the EAltor of The Evening World: After reading the article on mar- riage by the Pres'dent printed in ‘The Evening World, I would like to been several other articles printed, all to the same point—why don't the Amer- can people have larger families? Why? Well, I will telt you why. It ts becanse if you have more then ono ehild in the family and are looking for a house or flat to live in the first ques- tion asked is “How many children have yout’ If you answer more than one you are given the “stony stare” and the door is invariaoly shut in your face. If you go to am agent he will be more polite and tel! you no children are al- lowed, or not more than one, Now, whi person going to do? Tive in Amusements. ya few words on the subject. There have for one don't see the fun of it. It the President wants to see American families let him pass a making the ee of property let their houses as they ought to do. T° don’ think the ehivdren “af fats nd Y wi worse oF, these cranks were “th Sater they are the worst kind (oa and some of them rp wilebe 9 their own, "be no no wal the large faanliy rmaneations Droperty-owners find it, and that is a long way off. & long way DISGUSTED, Béltor ing Ab int the, Jenttrenn of a Gen tral Parte | West apartment house and I write tell you wh) pare @re not more dren: ts rl sist in aking Egil mgt er come. |children. 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