The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1911, Page 4

BLOCK IN PANIC WHEN BOM IS ‘THROWN OFF ROOF Eighth Black Hand Explosion in Month Drives Thou- sands From Home. WINDOWS WRECKED. Police See Missile Circle Across Street and Fall in Front of Tenements. ‘The eighth Black Hand bomb since Aug. 1 exploded at 1.45 tis morning In front of Nos. 211 and 23 Chrystie street. | Windows and fanlights were shattered. | The block is one of the most densely Populated in New York, and thousands | of terrified dwellers leaped from their | beds and poured 1 mell into the! street. The explosion was’ heard for! nearly a mile around. | The ground floor of No. 212 18 ocous| pied by the East Sito Meat Market, conducted for four years by Frank Rosenberg of No. U7 Delancey street. The explosion broke a plate giass wine dow and the fantight, and numerous other windows in front of the building, | which {s a six-story tenement, shelter ing eighteen famill In No. 211, @ five-ata.y tanement occu- pled by twelve families, ix the saloon of co, Benne end at A plate given window was broken here, a side ‘ight wrecked and other windows shattered. More windows were smashed tn No. 216, across the street, which was twice pre- viously been the object of bombs, | Policeman Martin, of the Eldridge Street station, was on the post at Hous- ton and Christie streets, a stone's throw 4 talking to Deteotives Sheppard 4 Hanley, when all three saw an ob- ject circle across the street, apparently from a roof. Martin thought it a “pigeon,” the vernacular of the dis trict for newspaper-wrapped packages of garbage. The object struck the sidg- walk between Nos, 21 and 213 and ex- ploded with a terrific detonation. HUNDREDS IN PANIC DASH DOWN FIRE ESCAPES. In a moment the nelghborhood was in & panic, Men, women and children rushed from every doorway, jumped from low windows and came half falling down a hundred fire escapes, Frenzied men began shooting revolvers into the air to summon the police, Thousands poured into the street from neigh) blocks, Unable to restore anything like order or drive the frightened people back into thelr quarters, the officers called the reserves from the Ridridae, Mulberry and Fifth street stations be- fore undertaking an investigation, Search revealed Ittle In the way of evidence. All the scuttles were oven that led to the opposite roofs, ‘the officers belleve, however, that whoever threw the bomb wore rubber. shoes which were removed on re-enters ing the building. No footvrinis could be found in the moisture on the roofs nor any indication which way the pers petrator had fled, The street was de- werted at the moment of the explosion, Rosenberg nas had no Black Hand letters of late, he says, Taree years o ha Feceived a demand for 31,0%, which he was ordered to wrap up and toss under the up-town elevated station at Ninth avenue and Fourteenth street. He notified the police and put a decoy package at the place specified, tectives watched until one came, Rosenberg says he hai had no de- mands since and no Black Hand mea sakges. / Allano, one of the partaers of the saloon firm, declares positively that neither he nor elther of his partners received any demands. Eight bombs in one month ts a new local record. The bomb of this morn- ing, if 1t was intended for Rosenberg's place, makes the fourth since August 6, that has been thown at butcher shops It also makes Christie street a clos rival of the notorious 300 block of Kast Eleventh street. DRAWSACROWD BY TRICKS; TAKEN ASTHIEVES STALL Policeman Schrether avenue i | | of the Bedford klyn, came early | to-day upon several persons who were starting, transfixed with curiosity, at « man who was lying on his back on the sidewalk of Bedford avenue, about two blocks from the st station, The man's right pendicularly above hit head and he was whirling a shallow derby hat on it. Tn his arms he was hold nail black oat which he wa easing affectionately wile he murmu: E dearing words to it. Gehreiber ran to a telephone and called ar ambulance from the ern District. Hospital. Dr, Gurtov an- sewered the summons in a brief examination geons hurry A convinced ¢ the prisoner was nor in any sort of dgiirium, they searched him, In his pockets they found pawntickets accounting in all for more than $200 worth of small jewelry of the sort pick- pockets and sneak thieves take. He up: he refused to tell his name and address, Magistrate Maurice Connolly in Manha me court held him for a we the police 4 chance to find out more about him, The police think he may be a ( of @ Variation of clent profe sion of gathering upon while light fingered cou work, to thy lous of said crowds, Persons who might have been in the crowd to-day are ber that Bo ~ | Clearly egy Qh LUTIE RIENCE EA Eopemen THE EVENING ar PANDOM SHOTS AT BIO GAME AND SMALL BY W.P.MSLOUGHLIN. OUR GRAVE AND LEARNED uniersity presidents—to wit, Dr, Eliot of Harvard, Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California, and Edmund Janes James of the University of | Ilinols—are already on the track waving the rde flag of danger against football in the colleges. This is one of the yearly eruptions against a strenuous sport with which all the world is familiar. Jt comes earlier than usual in this year of Ismists and theorists, The four gentlemen named have subscribed to a broad- sido in which it Is stated that In the atx yeara from 1905 to 1910, inclusive, there Were 11% deaths and 9 injuries due to football all over the country. The compiler doesn't give the total number of youth engaged In games of football in each of those deaths was infinitesimal, and that in many cages boys in poor condition, 11 tral and badly developed, were among the victims—the very possibility that the foot- ball rules which went into effect last season aimed to prevent. I have known men to drop dead ctimbing the stairs, and they were in no need of hurrying, at that. Wowk! the four wise men quoted above abotieh “I.” tralns? ‘There are scores killed yearly in auto and aviation accidents, Speeding and flying are at present largely pastimes. Would the professors ordor airships to | cease flying and autos to be put out of business? Certuiniy not, but they would try to regulate them so as to eliminate, as far as human ingenuity could accomplish it, all elements of danger. Why not do that with college football? Why not abolish “mass plays?’ Then the whole prob- lem will be solved? Boys will kick ball. They will skate where the ico is thinnest and bob-sted where the sledding is most dangerous and climb our on the tree branch that is most likely to snap, as long as boys will be sent into this world. They won't take to ring-a-roney, skittles or London-Bridge-l Rot for all the professors on earth, ILE the Society for the Pre-jaimost at the door. enon of Cruelty to Animals} It has had Its trial. i ‘alling-Down, ‘This ts an) somenret Ae soos WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26 1911 WURPPRA.WUPPA! BillisH VISTOR “FYPECTED TO HEAR | NEWS ABOUT WAR i —— ‘Donald MacMaster, M. P., Eag- erly Questions Ship News on Landing To-Day. ' | rs. It he did he would tind that the percentage of Says the Labor Troubles in o | England Are Not Yet Completely Settled. Donald MacMaster, M. P., a passenger Victoria of the | Hamburg-Amertoan line, which artived at noon to-day, eagerly inquired of the they boarded jthe vessel at Quarantine if there was any late news about war. He was asked jon the Katserin August (ship news reporters wh \1€ England expected wa: | “That depends on what has happened replied Mr. MacMaster since I left,” judicially. “I am free to say that I ex- | Dected to hear some news of moment on landing. “At the time I left London it wai understood that France was to take a decided stand against Germany's do: mands and had asaurances of outside support. I have arranged to remain in America two months ago and I expect to hear something of a definite nature on the French-German dispute before I am rea’ to go home.’ “Our great inventor, Thomas A. Edi- son, says war {s improbable in these timea because of the proxtess of inven- tion of artillery, ammunition and air- ships,” Mr. MacMaster was told. ‘Tell your Mr. Edison," said Mr. Mac- Master, “that, great as is his reputa- tion as a actentint and inventor he will add immeasurably to his fame if he can invent anything thet will put an end to war. There ie no intervention is busy gathering up the hungry | It has proved itself to be literally the horde of cats and dogs that gorge them-|rankest failure known tn history of solves on the contents of the garbage] street cleaning. now exposed in the streets for] But Ble Bill Edwards saye the plan fevoral hours during the nights, what ts] works well in other countries, the Mayor doing to put the gathering] Quite true, I suppose. But my expert- in the goslight out of ex- ve that there is very little for the garbage receptacle when the people over there get through with the: So the comparison doesn't fit, Bill, tivity of the dogs and cats in In itself a striking argument to keep the garbage under cover until just the time that the wagons to collect it are will make good, as we say in sporting circles, ‘The lovers of the undying art of Maticuffs supposed that Senator Jim Frawiey's intention in urging the creation of an athletic or boxing commission ‘was to place the sport in this State on clean a basis as possible, By “clean” {s meant that the law through its commission would eliminate fake fighters, Dut an end to the boxing career in the Empire State at least of a pugilist who would y down" to a less skilful rival for a consideration in order to help the “dub” to secure a money-earning reputation,» or to “double cross” the men foolish enough to lay their money on him. It was hoped that the possibility of a boxing club manager to gather in a lot of easy money by iffening” a referee sv as to foorle the fans would be absolutely safeguarded against, and we all sald “hooray!” ‘That was before the commission wi made public, But alast T can see the dream dissolve as a whiff of smoke in a gale. In the first place, moat of the new boxing rules conflict with the main clauses of the act that gave birth to the Commission. That in itself le: the fleld open for unending contention, But we will give the rules a chance for a try-out. ‘The selection of the Commissioners by the Governor was not a well-balanced Dit of work. There is too much of the amatetr and too little regard for the Professional element of the ring. Jim Sullivan is the only one of the three familiar with the professional game—Jim used to don the mitts himself wanast upon a time. I don't think he for ring manoeuvres yet) But neither Dixon nor O'Neill has the knowledge necessary to At him to tackle a sport that is ever bringing up knotty and acrimonious contentions, Some man—& patron of the ring familiar with those who have the game in their grip, afd with those who contend for the big purses to-day—should have peen put on the Commiasion, But the Commission itvelf sought to rectify the evil, It chose as its secretary Charley Harvey, who knows more about the ring and {te vagaries than any man alive to-day. Charley has been managing and ts still managing a stable of boxers, and some of his men have done tricks at times that were mighty eccentric, to say the least, But maybe he'll give up his Interests in boxers or boxing clubs now that the new job is within his grasp, although I don't see why a man with a falrly successful stable of scrappera. should nacrifice his possibilities for @ measly $3,000 a year, But mayve Charley does, And maybe Jim Frawley does, They are said to be able to see around @ corner in the dead o’ night lke a Senegamblan bat. lz WILL BE A TREMENDOUS SURPRISE if the new boxing commission organized for business and its rules OMETHING SHOULD BE DONE the bouts and lamenting the disappear- ance of the Irish boxer: as goo ax the Commission gets | ance of | bah bes " working, if it wants to be on the], cl ty way,” sald h ‘prevent such flascos as that| “We have scraps, and good ones, toa, to prevent Te We bellove in these things in New Or- a and Cyclone Thompso8 | jeans, but we de met tet week before last, and its companion In or bull con, That means ‘oer fights crime, the bout between Papke and|in New York-—I wish € had longer to Sailor Burke the other night. I have |stay--you have @ great city, worth any been steadfast in my criticism of Papke|™an's while to travel any distance to! r since Ketchel put him away, IT visit. The scraps are good, the drink- > in Pittsburgh meet up with |10& Is fine and the eating incomparable, aw Pape in Pitshucg b in |E miss the chile concarne and the Freni Lewls, the Terrible Tineanner, In atmosphere, but these missing links A six round “go” with six-ounce gloves. |were more than compensated “for te Papke whaled Wille In all atyles of the | other things that I saw and experienced art for three rounds, And Wille, who/that are novel to New Orleans was just getting over one of his wae war one of the novelties?’ 1 ulars, was barely able to stall through, | #aked. Then I saw Papke's concerted FC s4 ies feel hope nd puzzled look came in his va Hegel he while waw still worrying; Comes from the ‘G: because he wasn't able to keel his mi over, Lewis banged one to the jaw, and from that moment the so-called terror wes minus his goat. One more round jand Lew would have finished him, | Sallor Burke and the same Lewis also | met and the Sallor was in the doldrums, there was no class in either] | Papke or Burke, and, notwithstanding | this, they are put on as champlonahip \ocaltbre for middleweight honor G City Mall Janttor, who, Tam tould, House’ district." ROM THAT PARADISE OF SOM F NOLENCE, Brooklyn, there comes & gasping !nvocation to fame in the following letter; WURRA WURRA; Will you Kindly states in the col- uumns of your valuable paper, {f tt is bowsible that a young man twenty- If} three years of age this Christmas Klaus and Papke and Burke and Cy-| that has always been in good phy. clone and Lewls and the rest of that| sical condition from birth unill this crew were locked: up in a loft, and) very date, and always an athalete, |Jack Dempsey and Dominick McCaffrey] {y in reach of starting a puguilst | popped in atop of ‘em-—but what's the| corenr Truly y ! irs, use of talking of such @ serious aubiect} Frooklyn, N, ¥, FRED C. TILT. as death where every one around is Fred, you'd have some HERE COMES AS THE SUN RAY or condition that I know of now to keep nations from fighting each other. Jacob H. Schiff, the banker, was an- other passenger. Mr. Schiff spent most of his time in Europe away from the wreat centres of population and was looking for information rather than dis- cussing it. SAYS BRITISH LABOR TROUBLES ARE NOT YET SETTLED, “We heard by wireless,” seid Mr. @chif, “that the railroad strike in Engiand hal tesn settled, Hven with a basis of settlement agreed upon the situation is not cleare|, to my way of thinking. Wen [£ left “ngiand the country was in the throes of a desp- seated labor outbreak based upon con- ditions of long standing. These con- ditions cannot be remedied offhand. consequences The of the ratirosd of excessive heat and scarcity of rain. The crop prospects are very poor. It ls expected that large quantities of sup- piles for the people of Great Britain will ve required from the United States this winter, “My information is that underlying conditions in the United States are fa- vorable. The recent decline in stocks was the result, I believe, of unjustified and unwise attempts to advance the prices of stocks earlier in the year— speculative manipulation in the face of the destructive decisions in the Stan- dard Ol) and American Tobacco cases. “Moat of my vacation was spent in Germany, wh I noted considerabie industrial and commercial expansion. Labor in Germany is evidently satis- fied and the country’s wealth Is on the inere “In Germany the law and Govern- ment favor plain industrial combing tons, Trade and commerce are eu couraged and not harrassed or stified by vexatious governmental methods. I believe we can learn considerable from careful study of German economic methods and particularly from the man ner with which Germany deals with labor problems,”” CONFIRMS REPORT OF BUILDING A HOTEL IN LONDON. Fred Sterry, manager of the Plaza Hotel, with his wife and two daugn- ters returned from a@ visit to Londo: Mr, Sterry confirmed the report cabled from London that the Plaza usotel Com- pany is to build and operate @ hotel in the British metropolis if plans at present outlined go through, ve will probably bulld in London,” aid Mr, Sterry. “A alte has been ee- lected but not acquired. Mr, Harden- burg, our architect, remains in London to complete the details, It ts quite likaly that the hotel will be under way within @ short time.” The Kalserin Auguste Victoria carried every enger she could accomma- date. “The officers’ rooms were given jover to passengers, and at meal hours the dining saloon could not accommo. ate the throngs. The great rush was due to the strike In England, which prevented English vessels from sailing last week, and sent hordes of Amer- feang hurrying o take the alre | y crowded German boats, —_——>_—_- BIG GIFT FOR EMPLOYEES. | AM the employees of the Alexander |Smith & Sons Carpet Works at Yon- kers who have been ten years or more with the company tom equal to ten per cent. of thelr wages for the six monthe ending June 30. About one thousand persons particl- |amount distributed must be about $40,000, Ww “ Relieve me, singing “Wille diMoulty moving up In the pusiliatic Profession, where pluck and skill and T in the gloom the news that a Kansas highbrow says that he has discovered a method by which the courage count matertaily. I say this Judging entirely from your epistolary esire to tell Hes can be suppressed, Let him come e and Ti give him effusion, The syntax, orthography etymology are #0 bad, Fred, that you draw & tear of sympathy 1 realise | h & chance to test his method. Let him| how you have wasted your time think- try it on the Bureay of Muntetpal Re-|ing of the emoluments of the prize |wearch, If he wins be can name his|ring when you should be making pot: | own price. hooks and hai 8, | ater Go to night school for a whil IKE ROONEY, sooretary to the|-rhen get a job as a plumber's helper and Mayor of New Orleans, beealthe first thing you know you'll ing asked by detectives if they missed anything. ” amongst us secing what @ great buying a home in Flatbush, where all city looks like, Se has bees taking in the formerly great ere corralled » Fred. | had been employed for twenty |more received $1,600 each through th | will of Mrs. Emily Cochran, a daughter | of Alexander Smith, j ne ne | Drowned Digging a Fit. While a pit was being dug to-day 1823 Ocean avenue, Brooklyn, at in vi it from an adjoining pool lyn, who was digging the pit, drowned by the rus of water, BANKER SCHIFF IS BACK, r to the Continent to | y received checks pated in this sharing of profits, and the Two years ago all the employees who to-day, the thin wall of dirt separat: gave Ferdinand Semie of Sixty-firet be | street and Fourteenth avenue, Brook- Rose Stahl Hippodrome. &@ Viennese operetta by Leo Fall. her the official the Kateer. The Marquis de Revaillac, who i found to be the author, belle’ learns his mistake after he has been cast will be Julia Sanderson, Elizabeth Firth, Florence Morrison, Frank Mou- jan, Will West, Pope Stamper and Gtl- bert Childe. eee Rose Btah! opens the Harris Theatr formerly the Haokett, evening in “Maggie Pepper,” for her by Charles Klein. position of cash girl to that of assistant buyer In the sult and cloak department of a big Now York store. Then she is made confidential adviser to the pro- ae and finally becomes engaged to im, ®rederick ‘ruesdell, Grant Stewart, Lae Kohimar, J. Harry Benrimo, Hei bert Ayling, Beverly Sitgreaves, Elei nor Lawson, Beatrice Prentice and others, eee The Hippodrome opens on next Satur- day evening with a new series of spec- tacles under the title, “Around the World.” The big production was con- ceived and invented by Arthur Voegtl! written and staged by Carroll Fiemin; musical numbers staged by William J. Wilson, and music and lyrica supplied by Manuel Kiein. “Around the World” has for its theme the adventures of a party of travellers making the grand tour, idea affords scope for the introduction of seventeen sets of scenery, water effects in connection with the Hippodrome tank, besides the ballet and many special dancing and einging numbers. Two hundred animals will take part in the pageants of “Around the World.” oar . At the Irving Place Theatre John E. Kellerd will appear in “The Merchant @f Venice’ on Monday and Wednesday mights ard at the Wednesday matinee, ia lamiet” on Tuesday and Friday nights and in “Macbeth” on Thursday and Gaturday nights and dSaturd: ee returns to the Astor Theatre on Monday night, The cast will include Irma La Pierre, Winona Shannon, Marie Heys, Willard Louis, James Manley gad Willers 3. Lyons. ‘The Manhattan Opera House begins its new season on next Saturday night with “The Deep Purple” as the attrac- ton, eee New features at the Folles Bergere will Include a revised version of “Gaby,” with Laura Guerite in the principal role. . Mile, Lydia Lopoukowa, who has not been able to appear with the Russian dancers at the Winter Garden for a week because of a sprained ankle, wi!!! be back in the ballets Monday night. Lina Abarbanell in “Madame Sherry" begins @ week's engagement at the Grand Opera House next Saturday night. Tolstol’s “Resurrection” will be played by the stock company at the Academy of Music. “Girle” will be the offering of the stock company at the Prospect Theatre. The Big. Gaiety company will be at 4. Columbia Theatre. “he Merry Whirl" moves to the Mur- ray Hill Theatre. Miner's Highth Avenue The: will have “The Cherry Blossom At Miner's Bronx Theatre, "The Broadway Gaiety Girl" will be the attraction Ben Welch's Burlesquers come Hurtig & Seamon's. VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS. “The Apple of Paris," a dramatic pantomime devised by Emma Trentin!, to hall, George Lauder and com- ond a and Farmer, La Vier, Polk and Ruby and Gus ‘s “Bama Bama Girls.” | PARKS AND BEACHES, ‘The bill at the New Brighton Theatre, Brighton Beach, will include Frank burnt . Lydia py in songs, Willard Simms and company tn “Fiinder's Furnished Flat,” |Jouly, Wild and company, ‘and company, Hoages and Ruby Raymond, At Pallsades Arnusement Aborn Comic Opera Company will make “The Mikado."’ - ie |MANHATTAN POLICEMAN Emergency Call Takes Squad to Wallabout Street. Polieeman John Marone: street station up at the Clymer Brooklyn, on @ cha men had answered an emergency cal to the m and Wallabout street, w! re it Ww of persons living in that section, ONALD BRIAN bogins a etellar career at the Knickerbocker The- atre on Monday night in Charles Frohman's production of “The Siren,” The So-called siren is Lolotte, cousin of Ba- silos, Minister of Police, and through tries to discover the writer of anonymous letters attacking he has been betrayed by Lolotte, but extied from Austria and then pardoned by the Emperor. Among others in the on Thursday written Maggie ts @ keen-wittod, self-reliant young wom- in, who works her way up from the In Miss Stahi's support will be “ ced at Hammerstein's, with ; ie eee in the leading role. ‘Other | fourteen-year-old Morris Berkis of No, features will be Consul the Great ust Kighteenth street Tempest Pol fupebit at ad ane ome workmen had carried a fifteen- Howard, Ber! “leoot ladder to the Nineteenth stree and Kins, Ghd WAT ROCHIA'e Ate ce the building when 3 reached the ‘Among others at the American Music| gcene,"” he said. “A boy was at the Haji_will be Harding and Hart, Stuart | second-story window, and the flames B, Pat-} the Five Musical lite farewell production with @ revival of | |" LOCKED UP IN BROOKLYN, |showster against tie next to the lowes Charged With Intoxication After of the Leon- | ard street station, Manhattan, is locked | the firemen arrived, so I beat ft after in| of intoxication, He was arrested after a squad of polices nborhood of Franklin avenue | received Two New Plays Next Week and Hippodrome Spectacle “The Siren” Will Bring Out Donald Brian as a Star— Comes Later With “Maggie Pepper’— “Around the World” Will Reveal Its Wonders at the BOY AT FRE TELS HS MODEST TALE Held Short Ladder From First to Second Story While Youth Came Down. ‘The modest hero of the doft building |tire at Fourth ave and Nineteenth street, who disappeared without giving his name last night, {t was learned to- day, is Daniel BYbwn of % East One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street, an out-of-work truck driver, who just happened to be pass the burning building. His courage saved the life of were creeping around from Fourth ave- nue, The firemen had not arrived, ‘I said to put the ladder to the first story window and I would go up, for} one of the men had just jumped and broken his leg, The workmen advised e not to try, as the ladder was too short | “Before I started up I yorrowed a po-| Heeman’s club to smash the first floor windows, for 1 had a plan to get the boy. Crawling over the first floor win- dow sill, I managed to clear out one of| the window panes, Through this 1} |swung my left arm, and with my right) arm I sent the ladder on up to the s ond floor ledge, supporting It with my rung. “That kid wasted no time in getting down, and I pulled him in at the first floor ledge. Then I restored the ladder to its original position and sent him flown ahead of me. He was the last out of the building, and by this time I gave back the policeman his elud,"* Two men who escaped death by leap- ling from windows on the top ‘loor ave 1} recovering in hospitals. ‘hres others slight ‘nfuries, one being @ fireman, The fire cleaned out the top ported a man was threatening the lives floor of the bullding, dotng $1,200 dam- age. HERO WHO RESCUED . BEGINTORASE HOME RENTSIN GROWOED ONE The Lack of Transit Facilities | Starts New Period of Old | City Congestion. TENANTS FIILL HOUSES. Owners Want Official Aid to} Keep Costs Down Pending Subway Construction. | Rents of homes in old city centres} Will be higher this fall. Realty men say that rents will rise a| lttie every year wnt! there are new! rapid transit subways to scatter the| Population over cheaper lands, Few ‘acant flats of any kind will be found ‘art of winter, Congestion | to become acute in one or.two more years, Growing population, with its larger housing needs and expanding business. are ths direct factors in the rise of throughout central districts, though they are only part contributor to the entire situation. Important con- siderations are higher taxes, the whole- sale destruction of old houses, the ex- austion of avaliable vacant site increasing value of land, the far gre lays demailed fur new structures as @ result of revised building law re- quirements and the tendency to reserve the best sections for families that are able to pay the highest prices. WILL NOT RAISE RENTS OF OLD TENANTS THIS YEAR. No general rise in rentals of old houses is contemplated by owners, but the average rents paid in al! central sections will be higher as a result of the replacement of old structures with much more costly houses and the abo- ltion of the free-rent system. Old ten- ants who stay in their homes will not have to pay more this year, but the av- erage will be raised by the additional sums charged to new tenants. Recently completed structures In old centres return several times more ren- tals than did the houses which they ve replaced. It has been the custom of owners in both new and old houses to give one or two months' rent free as an attraction for desirable tenants. The demand for apartme: #0 great this | year with the increasing pressure of Population that the free-rent custom will be eliminated in nearly all of the more popular districts, In compara- tively outlying sections, where from two to four months could be had a year or two ago, It will be hard for prospective tenants to get @ full month, and many will not be able to get a half month. This abolition of free rent will add from 10 to 2 per cent. to the income yield of the property, thus raising the average rental by just so much. In ome of the northern parts of Manhat- tan and through the Bronx landlords EY been In the habit of giving their old tenants @ month free each year. ‘They will not do #0 now, as a rule. Ab. SERIOUS JVERCROWDING IN CENTRAL DISTRICTS. Operators and investors have been buying flats and apartments of every ype this week to discount the coming | congestion, They that the rate of| progress with new rapid transit pro- jects does not promise speedy lef and that three or f Tu years must pass with- out housing conditions growing steadily more crowded in central sections, ‘This means an assured income from such Properties, with a good chance of an actual advance in rentals for both old | and new tenants, before the subways could be finished for operation, because the rapid rate of population’ Increase indicates that fully 100,000 more persons each year will be crowded into old Manhattan home districts. Building statistics will be no new housing accommod: tions for the additional jon. More old homes are being torn down than the new ones replace. In fact, the new structures are designed for | families ¢ much higher rents | than the families that hav housed by demolttion of oid This {s crowding the poorer manses into a steadily diminishing home area, and their competition with each other for sultable living accommodations tends in itself to make their aver higher, This movement 1s expected ti be accentuated in a marked i during the coming years until the new subways shall be in operation URGE LEN'ENT CONSTRUCTION OF RESTRICTIVE LAWS In view of the threatened congestion ana possible hardships of higher rent- als, with les# healtnful ouarters fcr that there the poorer wage-earners, real estate interests are seeking to postpone until after the completion of subway @¢n- struction any further pressure from Increased taxes ‘e App taf pith tions, ‘They say that realty ow! must get the Increased costs directly from tenants. City officers have de- layed rapid transit work for two or three years upon various technicalities, thug maintaining conditions that are leading to dangerous coniitions, end it Js held that they are morally bound to construe the laws as broadly as possl- ble in such an emergency in order to lighten the burdens for which they have been largely responsible. Rntiding Code revision and much fe strictive action by Tenement House and Building Departments should be post- poned, {t {s argued, until congestion of population can be prevented or re lieved. Suburban builders want more freedom in their operations for housing families in the cheaper typ? of dwellings and flats, Owners want to protect thoir Property and tenants from fire or dam- Age to health and safety and they are ready to take every reasonable pre- ition, but they do not feel kindly toward @ multitude of patented de- vices which are being ordered by the Such added out- ‘arious departments. lays seem to be entirely unnecessary in the large majority of cases. They must be paid for In one way OF @n- other by the Owners Lelleve that this method of Increasing rent by city Interference should be abandoned during the pertod of population overcrowding while the subways are under construction, Builders In the outside rapid trai zone are doing what they can to hor the overflow and to provide homes ¢ those who are forced out of central districts by higher rents, Flats are spreading fast through all of the nearer suburbs, Small private dwellings are woing up In great numbers in further Fections where land is cheaper ee MURDERED FIVE IN FAMILY THEN KILLED HIMSELF. German Fugitive From Justice Shoots Wife and Relatives—Po lice Find Man @ Suicide. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, Ger- Aug. 2%.—Murders of five persons man who cem- Were reported to- day from the village of Rendel, in the Province of Hei jaseau. A man named Gunderloch, a fugitive trom Ju tice, returned from London to the house of his father-in-law in Rendel, where his wife was living. 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