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—WORLD'S AY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 19v.. Pin Way TO STEAL LIGHT, AIR AND HEALTH FROM NEW YORK’S POOR, DEATH PERIL IN PROPOSED CHANGES IN Consumption in Builders’ Greed, The proposed Tene-]| The proposed Tene- A Photographic Protest to the State Legislature—Menace ot | | ment - House Amend-|ment - House Amend- | ments will robthe poor|ments will promote of— among the poor— | Ventilation. Filth, Light. Darkness, Health. Tuberculosis. Moral improvement. Dampness. Protection against fire. Warmth and comfort. The lives of the children of the tenements. Fatalities from fire. Misery and immorality. Infant mortallty. NDER the guise of a bill to amend the Tenement-House law of Greater New York there is a proposition before the Legislature to steal light and air from the poor. These proposed amendments, born in the greed of builders and speculators, are no less than plans for the Propagation of tuberculosis, the multiplication of aenemia, the assassination of children. The existing law, giving the Tenement-House Commission control of the human hives in this great centre of population, conserves the health, strength and morals of the great majority of the community, for !t 1s from the tenements that New York must get men who will maintain the greatness | of the city. Out of monuments of filth and darkness the new law has builded At habitations for human beings. It appears tncredible that this great work stands in danger of being nullified by the hunger of men for mon. , but the danger 1s acute From the assurance of future structures for the housing of the poor incorporating air-shafts that admit air, rooms that admit Nght and stair- waya different from the twistings of a dungeon New York is confronted with the possibility of habitations that will be little better than the abodes of the prehistoric cliff dwellers. For this possibility there are to be thanked Assemblymen Dale, Wolf, Ellis, Everett, Matthews and Remsen and Sena- tore Marshal], Hawkins and Wagner. In speaking of this as a measure affecting the interests of the poor, 4t must be remembered that in New York men are poor who would be con- aidered well-to-do {n other communities. Rents are higher in this city than anywhere else on carth. The amendments now under consideration in Al- bany etrike at the health and happiness of every man who lives in a tene- ment-house, and, disguise it as we may, the tenement-house exists in Madison avenue as well as in Hester street. By the provisions of the existing law the tombs in which the major part ot New York has been living must eventually become residences, All over the city there are being erected houses with wide courts, fireproof stairways,; superior fire-escapes, excellent plumbing and, above all, capacity for alr and light when air and ‘ight are admitted. Landlords have. found that it is profitable to construct buildings in Manhattan Borough at least that give the tenants « chance to breathe and live otherwise than by gaslight in the course of the day. But in Brooklyn, where smaller apartment-houses are the rule, the law pinches profits. The owners and speculators in that borough hold that in a building three or four stories high, sheltering but two families to a floor, the wide air-shafts and other provisions for health required In the towering structures of Manhattan are not necessary, To satisfy these men, who are 0 narrow-minded as to fail to see the inevitable result of their penurious- nees, the Legislature {s asked to imperil the health of the entire city and also of the city of Buffalo, % | ures of amendment. Amazing Schemes to Exempt 33,000 Tenements from Having Modern Safe guards to Health and Happiness of the Great East Side Poor. House law was designed are foremost in opposition to the threatened meas- It is a time-tried principle of reformers that it try to take people out of darkness and dirt they will resist the\trial. The | most persistent opposition to reform in tenement-house construction came from the real sufferers—the tenants. ‘To-day the people of the east aide, the people of the west alde, the people of Harlem, with pure alr in their lungs from tenement-house Improvements, ave solidly arrayed against the theatened return to old conditfons. The Janitors’ Association, with close to 10,000 members, !s unanimous in opposition to ihe ametd- ments. There is a petition in circulation on the east side, whioh has already noarly 50,000 signatures, protesting against the resurrection of the filth end gloom that prevailed when men were allowed to bulld tenements with ¢he ddea of packing the greatest possible number in the least possivie space. Commisstoner De Forest, whose work in the ‘enement-House Commission | entitles him to consideration as an expert on tenement conditions, is opposed with all his etrength to any and all of the amendments. The adoption of one of them, he asserts, would have the effect of rendering vold the good work that has been done for the relief of the tenement-dwelling population of New York. The adoption of any of the amendments, Mr. De Forest says, would take from the supervision of the Tenement-House Commission at least 2,000 tenements in the Borough of Manhattan alone, would conduce to the propagation of disorderly houses, would sink into misery hundreds of thousands of people who have been awakenel from apathy by the light of hope of better things. ‘No class of workers for the betterment of the poor is better qualified to speak ‘of tenement-house conditions than the Neighborhood Workers of the Settlements,’ said Mr. De Forest to-day, ‘These settlement workers live among the poor, educate them and look after theie physical and mental welfare. 1 agree with theae people when they say in their circulars that these amendments constitute the most sweeping and most serious attack that has ever been made on tenement- house reform, especially those introducad by Senators Marshall, Hawkins and Wagner and Assemblymen Dale, Ellis, Wolf, Matthews, Everett and Remsen There are, I believe, others under consideration. These changes could only benoft @ few and act correspondingly against the army of the poor. All of the work tae has been done toward reform in tenement-house laws is swept away by these “The Settlement Workers represent fifty societies, I believe, in Manhatten and Brooklyn. When these workers sound the alarm due consideration should be given them. As they say, light and air and proper sanitation are rights of every one. “These bilis change the defnition of a tenement-house #0 as to exempt all uildings with less than five families, In that event those 25,00 or so that would xempt imigit be used for Immoral purposes and left without any law at all. There would be no supervision for santtation or precautions against fire. The slaw now defines a tenement-house as a building that contains more than two | famaes Prior to 1887 the minimum was three families, All this legislation would e vo! he Marshall bill 8 told of tn the Settlement Socleties’ circular as follows: @ Marshall bill would permit the erection of new four-story tenement- houses, containing as many as sixteen families, with woodn stairs, wooden floors! in the public hails, and wooden partitions inclosing the public halls, and with the cellar stairs inside the house directly underneath the main stairs, making a con- tinuous flue in case of fire. “It would permit once more, in new houses, the construction of the old, dark, nventilated air-shaft. “It would permit in new four-story buildings public halls and stairs without any windows to the outer a'r. “It would allow extensions to be built to old buildings so as to cover the en- tire lot and occupy 190 per cent., leaving no yard, “It would leave the dark interlor bedrooms. “There are in Manhattan over 200,09 and in Brook: rooms without a window of any kind and having no means of light and ventilation, “The evils of the dark halls in the old buildings are notorious, The present law affords a small measure of relief, “The proposed bil} would only make {t necessary to keep one light burning, and over 125,000 dark, interior Strangely enough, the very persons for whom the existing Tenement- that only until 10 o'clock. “The bill would permit cellar rooms to be ocoupled almost entirely under- nw w _AA Golden Calf, by Martha M. Williams. 2 Automobile Damages That Paved the Way to Happiness. (Copyright, 1908, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) | ymy divinity 1s m golden calfor rather) wae a Jersey, eligible to registry. Of) than a span-new FIBN one Js sweet and twenty, with) two golden calves.” course we never would have reg:stered, I cried at the sight— W roseleaf skin, baby dimples, pale] "I don’t understand” MacRea began, | her—stil! one can take the fact {nto ac-| rigat off to spend it before Aunty gold hair and velvet dark eyes, is! looking carefully over Polly’s head count 4n reckoning with ‘one's ¢on-| Riah could devote it to taxes, or mend- Aight on foot, and further arrayed in| "Of course you don't. goosey! Reckon | eclence | ing the roof, or putting up a monument filmy white blotched and splotched with | jT'd tell you if you did? that lawless] ‘I don’t seo what conscience has to! to Blossy, Sie would have done any of | cream pink roses, one can do pretty |YOUng person retorted. “At really fan't do with {t,' MacRae asserted, perverse>| tiem, rather than let me waste it on much as one pleasos with the qvorid|4 story—only the beginning of one, You|,ly. “Polly looked at him sldewis:. "L]clotham-she had almost persuaded me masculine, don’t know it, but I live out on the west! am not cut out for missionary work,"| not to come here because 1 had nothing Polly Trevor was proving that at \.e|FOsd, that runs smooth and straight|ene said, ‘Still I begin to perceive that] fr to wear.’ | and level for miles and miles—say, do you ever ride in automobiles?" All the strange ons Lawsone’ garden party Young fellowg, friends of the La ed about her, eager for a word| 8, demisemi-cocasionally,” Mac- ie until Mra. Lawson, who, | Res Ane Ea, still keeping his eyes iy very. a high. Polly nodded sagely: rh f , expected every man to Uke England, xp understand about the road—the tempt- do his duty, naled or rated ajl but one of them away. That one, Bruce MecRea by name, drew Polly's hand within his arm au. thoritatively and led her to a seat partly sequestered. “You are my prisoner,” ne aaid. “I shall not let you go until you tell me the secret of happiness your eyes say you have found it.” “Indeed I have!” Polly returned. “It fs to be perfectly well dressed after years of sacrificing @ fine feeling for clothes. MacKoa laughed heartily. cone lacks the fine feeling mn of it and all t the mea who own th for going over it like “M-m-m! Are you fuch things as ‘devil wagons?’ Mac- Rea asked, severely. Polly giggled. if 1 were 1 should never care to Voor Aunty ‘itah would have a dime, bul unless you keep er hear the rest.’ I dor devil me wagons permitted to say atisfled ourl- answered. “Tho atrain ful—roada, automobiles, “however will you make MacRea ething aw golden calve “Suppose ‘ he asked MT want something a little more gen-|them lung together? er Jus atid anid, “Then you must worship the god, What 1 do wh 1 bear fhenceforth, of my ‘dolatry,’’ Polly said, he deve-the motor cars, I mean. Our her eyes dancing, MacKea faced her, bis preternaturally grave, and asked; “Indeed! Only vet] me the divin- fty’s name-I never knew until to-day my capacity for idolat “I dare say you mean t) epacabrrhit confess !—Wwasi Polly retorted, dimpling rr then falling to sudden con- “lt you won't laugh, I'l) tell acne natal tanm pasture bare, you must know, open out on the road--when the cows are driven home to be millved there is always the chance of things happening. We gt many cows, but they stand us (ov ® lot—and the best of the rd Was my calf Blossom" — ‘Light begins to break,” MacKes said, dreamily, Polly pureed ber ilps. "You seem bent on darkening counsel,” she c oni, ooking out ber chia, “Poog Bjges | I must fore this is don Not every be wise—but anybody can be good the fact to heart, while I go on —— “Let me see-you broke off at som's pedigree,” MacRea #aid, blinking solemnly, Polly held up a warming finger. "Poor dear! Her ancestry and life are out of place here—I could tell you many interesting thing#—but must hurry on to her death''—— wien your understanding bde- one can Lay The fellow was a cad—he should have sent you @ thousand at less,” MeoRea eald, judicially. Polly faced him with « lveiy fish. “When m I pra uy find him," she said, “tell for him every night-as the who gave me a chance f happy afternoon,” . ix weeks diamond blaging upon her engagern: her er Polly, with a finger, neatled head ¢omfortal Baen yard In 620d st- Whi Wgbt ExiSt Under Oe, Oe, ‘|robust health, and to res tight. The bill propos ‘The bil! would do away with this. by seven families or more. “If this bill were to become law it borough of Brooklyn. "The Everett bill, “The Ellis-Hawkins bills, if enacted ground, with the ceiling only elghteen inches above ground. “The law for forty years has required cellar floors to be cemented and water- to do away with this and almply require them to be cemented when the house is over marshy ground. “The law since 1695 has required that before new wall paper 1s placed on @ wall the old paper ghould be scraped off so that If there are germs of tuberculosis or other disease dn the paper the new occupant of the rooms shall not run any risk as the Bettlement Workers say, Marshall bil] and was drawn to meet the demands of Brooklyn bullders. “The bill provides that a janitor must live ‘In the vicinity.” “The Matthews bill changes the definition of a tenement-house to one oscupled would practically exempt trom the pro-| visions of the Tenement-House act nearly ail of the 33,000 tenement-houses tn the, fs a modification of the into law, would permit the return, pracy BUILDING LAWS. eb: PET AHA Y CSO LP Fe Ser Traly WELE Deke tically, to the olf alr-shatt, which has been the cause of many of the evils of tonement-house construction in this cfty. “Purthermore, this bill would permit ence more the construction of three story wooden tenement-houses in the outlying sections of the clty."* This ts what the committee In conclusion say: “While the changes proposed are so outrageous that they should not be gtvem consideration by any Legislature, yet the influences behind the proposed legislation are so powerful and so well organised that unless friends of tenement-house reform raily to Its support there may be serious danger of at least some of these Bills being passed.” LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. 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