The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1906, Page 3

i’ 4 41,000 PERSONS TURNED | OUT OF HOMES IN 4 YEARS | | Twice as Many More to Be Forced from Old) Homes Soon to Make Way for Pro- jected Public Improvements. Within a period of about four years there has been taken our of the centre of New York a population of more | than 41.00 pe ran r equal to the entire cities of Little Rock (Ark.) | or Elmira (N. Y.). Some of this is ake way the Pennsylvania Ratlway improv within an area extending only from vicinity of Sixth avenue on the east to Tenth avenue ou the west. and & Thinty-tirat to Peirty-third and south, comprising some: 810 houses, occupying about 24 city lots A peculiarity intense desire of Inhabitants to re hood of their old this landlords streets have been to ralee @lnost to sul) thems othe mimo Fooms per fiumily has steadily dwindled ns in new buildings or in d buildings has steadily ) raising the incomes of prop- ‘ders by leaps and bounds. af 2 of increased val muy de e eitse Property in Kiehth aveny fourth str Whose assessmem within four years has increased from $17.00) to $43,000. Great Raise in Rents, Men i take amily ten ment-houses whe nte would erace $15 per month aed Merely rates to $20, thus «addin: pev the Income It 8 a common taunt of che Westerner oF the Up-State man to tell the native | New Yorker that the ouly reason thinks Gotham is such wonde ace, where everyuiug is done with a| op, skip and a jum optomisim Is bred | to Manhattan Island, the advice that further West thi To this the hut that he does not ail here in good { y repli have to go West—it's od New York, And so it’ ts. Imagine now hot the wires would be from the West <r up the *Btate, if some day the jdest’ ine habitant of a town of three thousand woke up to fnd that all that was eft of the place was the Al tepos Sraphy. what all of his three thousand Relehbors had moved along tho line and that the old familiar ‘vy been razed by a wi Mm It Hapoens Here. Yot that same thing hay York in a single ni the evicted "pers: thousand, but in fr C8 OC We ulation of a few city loused ten and twelve tho! the case of the condemnatt roach for the William ridge, rough Delancey street. | Of course the ienants of the houses been warned In tiple time to seeic : DUE they put sto Ehoy were al’ fred out th a ange ‘aye And the city of ten thousand was no ad only number where tarce new There are hundreds and hun trod cities or towns in this State nat ure Froud to boast of ten thousa; youn support a newspaper, a couple en, n few hotels, salvons and: ot Jeast two drug stores and dry-goods emporiums, ne People that “were housed in that eas: elde section and compelled to leave it, represented. in numbers one-quarter of the pop: Of the Btate of Nevada. n° Population The latest of these Titiputian that faces the inevitable end ‘part of the town in. West ‘thirty- Street, between Ninth and | tumvel pe | plexton of a. doze fered about 1200) pe | Every | city. avenues, where there 1 hundred families! or abou: nd Jor Ons. They hi tl the of March to get out, but they are going to Nght the tunnet inanagenient and when they do ko, It will all be done in night, Houses Torn Down. it tne age 5.000 residents of me neighborhood had to move too, made a fight against the ylvania tunnel, Dut the houses were Iterally torn “down over their heads. It all happened so suddenly that a Westerner avho had been visiting rela tives in one of the tenements went buck cured of the idea that country he bad cone fram wns the only place where t Jo things In a hurry Nhe strange part of all this fast mov- Ing business is the fact that it is almost ntinually Kolug on Wherever there ta new improvement. Take for in- the tunnel under econd to Thirt rat avenne. The of the property irst avenue and nee the other end fanhattan at Tulety fourth ts and F Ne hougit a! ast side of alo put out about 200 tenants in a hurry, Altogether the Pennsylvania tunnel alone has changed the political com- stricts and soat- me over the town third of ewrr.ed country That was when the MeKane threw Gravesend ns and elected. Uen- or sent them to Brookl; in. region ef the new improve ew York Central there were about 5,00 persons sent to other purts when the work of tearing down building! from Fort rty-elighth street wits begun houses Included tenements, Iaces and private residences, had to go. More Must Get Out. new bridges the population With and the political complexion of the town will be changed agaln, All of the how the line of the Manaattan Bridge. minates at the Bowery and. ¢ st. one of the most thickly populated parts of tha ety raged. It will be the same with the Blackwell's Island Bridge, that terminotes at Sixtieth street. In all, with new parks that aré con- templated and with the wiping out of Lung Biock, in Cherry Hill, it 1s esti- mated that’ when New York has her next wholesale moving day there will be & hundred thousand affected, and that Afferts at least 20,000 votes. What will beco problem. town, In a They do not want tn go many instances * There t anv room on the lower east side. landlord in the Grand, Canai and Kast Bradway belt clear ° to the East River has a wait- ing lst. The tenants never move from. that ection of their own will. ‘They are either evicted for the non-payment of rent or forced to give way before needed improvement. In every case there {is always a fight in which the residents lose. The wholesale moving was started with the first of the small parks, when the old ramshackle buildings in Mul- berry Bend were torn down. There were four thousand, five hundred person: in that small area, It was at the time the scene of more crimes than any other section of the city, There is an agita- tton on now to wipe out Chinatown and scatter the Mongoiians all over the If that project ever 1s accom. plished, there will be ten thousand whites forced to seek new quarters be- sides the Chinamen. eet ACT 1 But Father ni 250. more gladi did that. Aim At WORLD: Father essays to dem nicely they ure a, Ver apent iy than he i} Noow | finds a competent Nurve. in charge’ of thi DM Siatherineking “Ups SUNDAY Jf ture of lost ‘sleep. e of these people Is a} up| their Living| pends upon the politics of the district | ; Where they have lived for v | | aa Torr SETN CINFESSES 10 $4300 000 BOND FORGERY Will Be Sentenced on Wednesday for This and Other Crimes. Assista: District-Attorney Garvan admitted to-day that Charles Augustus Seton had made a complete confession to him in regard to the forgery of $4,300,000 worth of the bonds of the Nor- folk and Western Railroad, The confes- sion was obtained in the Tombs by George Dougherty, superintendent of the Pingerton Detective Bureau, for wham Seton sent through his attorney, C. E, La Bouttlere, Seton admits in Isis confession that he originated the scheme for printing and floating 500 bonds of the railroad. They were to be sold in London, Paris and several large cities of this country. Seton admits that he forged the name of the Chairman of the Board of Dir- eotors of the road, as well as two sig- natures on the bonds, He declares that Samuel J, Humphreys forged the name cf the treasurer, and that Douglass Smith forged the name’of the secretary. Cleveland, two in’ Philadelphia, another in the continent. All’ were refused. In each case the person who presented them was ‘not such @ man as the bank cared to do dusiness iwith, As soon as it became evident that the bands were known Seton says he went t on saloon on Broadway and Forty- fifth street, and burned a quantity bt | to them, He ‘also burned a number in the furnace at his home, ‘It is now thought that none of the bonds are in circulation. T. €. P. Calmey, who was used by Seton to negotiate the bonds, was to- day sentenced to four and a half years in Sing Sing Prison, He was convict- ed several weeks ag> of selling a can- celled bond to'a Wall street firm. He has been concerned in numerous shady erirkadthns, but as never before been caught. K Seton will be sentenced by Recorder Goff next Wednesday for his part in the swindle of the Galveston and Hous- ton Railroad, by which he netted about $6,000. At ‘the same time he will plead guilty to his connection In the Nor- folk and Western forgeries. FOUND HER LOST SON DEAD IN A DREAM. Mrs. Gerrity Carries Out Vow of Revenge on One Who Lured Him from Home. Mrs, Annie Gerrity, of No. 125 Jack- son street, Brooklyn, to-day brought about the arrest of'a toy named Robert Wright, dor whom the polfce had been locking for ome time. Last May Mrs. Gerrity’s boy Thomas and the Wright boy ran away and joined a circus, In November Mrs, Gerrity had dream that her son had boon von over and killed by a toain in . She got the to. tole gre to Pittsbsine and fearned that & Yaa ee ey the team. She went {o° Bitisburg wid found the body. of her gon in the Adams: street. court t Morgue. . Since then she has vowed vengeance ‘upon the older lad, who Induced her boy to run away. met him at ‘Broadway and ford avenue last night and attacked him with an um- brelia. Then she had the young man arrested ‘ang it. turned out. dn the y VAST IMPROVEMENTS COSTING MILLIONS EVICT WHOLE CITIFS FROM THE HEART OF NEW YORK EPEmRR Westside 10,000." | AT MULBERRY, PARK. 500, 2 Manhatten Bridge 10.000. 3 WiHamshurg 8ritge10,00q PMV Central RR AI00, 3 Brackive77s Id. Bridge/o.g00 7 PENMRR Eastside 2,000, Mulberry Bend Park... Pennsylvania tunnel (west side) Pennsylvania tunnel (east side). New York Central terminal.. Scattering “improvements” . Blackwell's Island Bridge Manhattan Bridge New city parks.. North River tunnels WHY 150,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN OR Williamsburg Bridge approach............. WILL BE EVICTED. 12,000 4,500 10,000. 2,000 8,000 4,500 | 110,000 The Borough of Queeas, with the un- led portions of Brooklyn Borough, is making preparations to accommodate a | homes and, 3 with | of population of 15,000,000 reople, plenty of elbow room for all. This will | not strain the space at all, but the task been denuged in most instances at their acreage by the sale of lots until uney have Jost their attraction us country cording to the promises the advertisements with Which they are liverally plastered, are soon to be- ome centres of tenement population. The Borough of Queens has GRADUATES OF SCHOOL NO. 80 ARE LOCKED QUT Find DoorsClosed Against | Them After Organizing | Alumni Association. PLANNING TO MAKE HOMES — Smiassecition FOR 15,000,000 PEOPLE. ‘Tremendous Movement to Build Up the Unset- | tled Section of Brooklyn and Queens Boroughs and Give Great Population Elbow Room. Mayor McClellan to-@ay came to the rescue of the graduates of Public School No. 9, at Church and Bedford avenues, Flatbush. ‘he indications are that at its next meeting the Board of Educa- tion will pass a resolution that vill Keil the system of red tape at present in vogue in that department. The subject jg one that has aroused all Flatbush and one that appeals to every one In the en- tire city. The different district superintendents, as well as the majority of principals, [have for a long time been fostering a | Scheme to establish alumn! associations, and many of the public schools ul- | ready have such organizations. School | No. 9, which has been in existence over thirty years, started out with the same idea about three weeks ago, A is so mighty that people have not been | (res of vacant land. and the people | | cine was called by some of the | that has made the old prophets of pros- | perity sit back and quit saying: “I told | you so."" | They never did tell anybody so, nor | anything lke it. If the most confirmed | optimist of Long Island City in the days of Pat Gleason had predicted the ex- tension that 1s now going on, with the attendant antics of the real-estate mar- ket, he would have been retired from his favorite seat by the groggery stove to a quiet in Bloomingdale, But the Boom Is There. Yet the boom is there, and where it will finally land no man to-day is bold enough to say—that 1s, if he knows anything about the situation, The wave may go higher, and it may not. Conservative men say it has reached the limit, while others think it Js at highwater only in spots, Mr, Howlth, general real estate agent of the Long Island Railroad, and also In change of the real estate interests of the Pennsylvania system on Long Is- land, said: “Prices have taken such peculiar turns that it {s almost out of the ques- thon for any man to give a safe opinion as to the future. Acreage seems to be out of all proportion to lot values, and lot values have taken such leaps that no man know what will happen next. ‘We feel that values have discounted improvements for many years to come, Dut if this is true, there is no reason to end that there will be any back- movement. I venients will certainly catch up with values, Seen, pass them, even wh are apparently most overloaded.’ This estimate comes from. probably the most impartial source available, as the intereste which Mr. Howith repre- sents have no lands to eell and no in- nereet in booming any section above an- other. Old Mansions Out of Place. In many seotions it 18 @ hot contest between residences and: factories, with honors easy as to which will get the best of It. Mies of old village streets have been ‘traversed by city improve- Iments, and the old mansions that sat back among the trees have been gradu- ally encroached upon until they look | ate em have been lace. Many” or ae fate offices, and about turned into real-estate all of Two of the bonds were uttered infable to grasp it in an orderly manner, | with plenty of elbow-room. and | and the result is a boom in real estate | | | | | | claim that it will house 15,000,000 people, it is being cut up into lots and placarded with numbers, getting ready as rapidly as possible for the incoming population. Here and there acreage property 1s yet to be had, but the price has gone up into the air, Real estate men say that this is due In great measure to profes- | sional trading and speculation. Whether this is true or not, it is a fact that in many cases lots can be bought at a cheaper rate than acreage property in the immediate section, and pessimists | pomt to this asa sure Indication that the boom hag reached its limit and that prices cannot advance hhigher for years to come. What Started the Boom. The boom In the entire section seems to be general and along every possible Ino of improvement. ‘The electrifying of the Long Island much to do with It, but It has had no more influence than the projected. tun- rels fom. Manhattan, of which. there three now building.” here are also. the four bridges— Brooklyn, Manbattan, Williamsburg and Blackwell's Island, which are responsi- ble for separate lines of developn Tho three great tunnels now bulid- Ing aro restricted to passenger tramic exclusively by the charters under which they are boing built... That isto aay, two of them are by their charters, and the third—the Belmont Tunnel, through Forty-second streefl and’ across Hast River to Jackson avenue, In Long Island City—wili be if It is finally decided that Shas 2 franchise, At present wonatr ion’ is gold on under ‘the ‘old Steln- ay tunnel franchise, which has been declared void. Nothing definite can be learned about éhis tunnel, except that it is being Dutt, and ‘that it will have its Lon Island ‘terminal at Jackson avenue ani Arch street, where it will connect with the trolley ‘lines for the northern gec- tion of the Borough of Queens, covering all the territory from Long Island City and College Point to Flushing. Belmont controls ail these lines and agents ate promising direct ‘through trolley connection with Manhattan lines at Grand Central Station, ‘This is the motive power behind one part of the Not Confined to One Section. No section can be picked out and pointed to as the booming portion af the city. All are booming and all about alike. Gver 40,000 acres of land have been surveyed, platted and street plans Tald. out, with grades fixed in the Bor~ ough of Queens alone during the last two years, Borough Presilent. Cas» - dy secured the passage of a bill two years. ago allowing the expense of this work to be met by tihe issue of corpor ‘Stock Instead of in the budget as and he spent in the two years in this before, tearly hal€ a million dollars them are for sale, but they haye work, ¥; 3 RM eae ae Railroad has ‘had | | younger members and postal cards were | sent to the older ones, many of whom graduated twenty-five years ago and now occupy tmportant positions in the | business world. ‘The first meeting was a success. Some of the teachers were there, but Mr. Huntley, the principal, was conspicuous by his absence. ‘An adjournment was taken to the! following Friday, and then the alumni association, aver 100 strong, crowded } around the doors of the school-house. | ; They found the doors locked, The ' [Janitor refused to open the door, He, did this, he eaid, by the orders of the principal, ‘This did not daunt the! others, who held their meeting ont- side the grounds and in full view ot the public. It was decided to meet again last Friday night. { Graduates Get Busy. ! ‘Then the graduates got busy. They saw the District Superintendent, who heartily indorsed tho proposition, and sald thet tf they would get the neces- sary blanks wxking for a permit he. | woutd see that they got the school. When thehy got to the Board of Educa- fon they obtained a document that had to be signed (yy 80 miny names that it would take a long time to attend to. ‘The resul: was that the permit was not ready. On Friday night over two hundred members of the association assembled and again found the doors locked. This tke there were many of the old mem- bers—men and women—in the crowd, It was openly asserted that the doors had been clomed against them because at the first meeting they had elected William L, Sprague, a former principal and now principal of Grammar School No. 137 as an honorary member and had tenored Mr. (Huntley, the present principal, All wore amgry, and the Erasmus Hall High School ‘boys who had been grad- vated from No. 90 were rently in- tent on binding the janttor, getting fato the achool and holdine their meet. ing, anyhow. Wiser counsel, however, F fcomebaily whoute Let dow nto see Rather Woods! Uather Woods ts tustor of Hy Church, @ Viock away, There isa got bweoonial schoo)-nouke there, und all murched down to eve if they could not us go} jy Crows | this school-house y lef schools could bj Ket accommodation that REFUSE TO ANSWER Nudltoriuins He elsed apethe ero wa tae| Officials of Mutual Reserve, It Is Said, Objected to Ques- tions Before Grand Jury a merry twinkle in lis) eve and then said: “Come on, [ will tix you anvhiw." | He then iighted up the connecting rooms on the lower floors of the school- house and sald: “Any time you want uu can have it, pro- iding, of course, that {t 18 not in use. You need not worrk about gas pills. 1 will attend to all that. You ure heartily wweloome The facts of the case were stated to the Mayor to-day, and in reply he sald: “I will guarantee that they got. thelr permit ina hurry, ‘That ts all Pwant to bas A about this at ap odee t Was suxgested t> the Mayor that /mmoned such trouble In twture could be avoided! j heyy or vt ngerek ee ao by the passing of a resolution by the President Frederick A, Burnham, Vice- Board of Education that all graduates President George Burnham and George wave the use of the p Eldridge, of the Mutual Life Reserve building at all times when not in use Ineurance Company, in the investiga: er et Ra RN Miey te cece en tion of charges of larceny made against The next meeting of No. 4's Alumnt (ei Hate ot SHaL company Oy Semnes ee ssoctation has been scheduled for "The 1 March 9 dn the echoolhouse.. "Hie order cana Jury, by Asudstane District-Atore oO | hattime be *Tine 1 ney Nott and it 1s understood refused | nswer certain questions put to them. argued. a | “Whey were excused, Dut aubpoenaed to pear A I At th still FIRE AT BETHLEHEM. ernest ie qaonsone ssfa a be taken, it is asserted, to o them Valuable Military Plana Destroyed | to answer. at Steel Worka Blaze, |‘Srhe Investigation Into the affairs of SOUTH BETHLEHEM, Pa,, Feb, 2¢,—| {hls company ty the Grand Jury will be completed by Wednesday, when ft Ls The general office building and part of |expected presentments will be made, No. 2 machine shop of the Bethlehem | : saday, entailing @ lose of aoeut care | Robbed of $4,000 Cash. to-day, entailing a loss of about $200,000 im property and valuable records. The| MILLVILLE, N. 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No pianos so celebrated as the Waters are sold at such low prices and on such easy terms. Call and see them or send postal for catalogue. | Horace Waters @ Co. 134 Fifth Ave., near 18th St. Three 127 West 42d St., near Broadway. Stores; Harlem Branch (Open Evenings). 254 West tasth St., near 8th Ave. | dd. Constable go TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH IMPORTANT SALE OF ce] English and French Cretonnes 1,500 yards, formerly 35¢ 20c yard 3,900 «50 25c “ soo 14 650 35c 1,000 “ -78¢ and 80c 45c *