The evening world. Newspaper, May 15, 1918, Page 18

She Gey eWorld, ESTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Published Dally Mxcept Sunday the Brees Publishing Company, Now 63 ¢ | 65 Vara Kow, New York. ZDR, RALPH P enident, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER! In, Becretary, 63 Park Row, MEMBEL OF THD ABSOCIATED PRESS. ted Prem ie exctusively, enpitled to the jum. tor reubiication of Tl newy Aamretehioe ewetstae ee ee ee TelMerntes ‘cedlted’ sh AL" baper end™aleo ete "iocal ‘uews publlaied berets soe NO, 20,721 VOLUME 63. ONLY FAIRNESS AND EQUITY. OBODY believes every landlord in New York City has suddenly become or is about to become a profiteer, Many prope owners and lessees are conscientior figuring how can share increased expenses fairly and equitably with rent pa there, however, are not. Just as economic disturbances resulting from the war were seized upon as a pretext for boosting prices of food and other necessities faster than and far beyond the inevitable economic rise, so rents in many quarters are being arbitrarily marked up to, figures calculated to secure the landlord a substantial extra “war profit” over and above his additional expense. When a tenant who bas been informed that $500 is to be added to his rent next year finds that a determined stand on his part speed ily reduces the threatened raise to $200 or even less, he naturally con eludes that there is eomething more in the air than a carefully and justly worked out economic advance of rentals | Bo it remembered, moreover, that if New York apartment house! tenants are not in a state of mind this spring to sympathize deeply} with their landlords, it is in many cases the landlord's fault. 1 famine could have been pre-| Not that last winter's cold and cc vented by the landlords. But the indifference and lack of initiative} shown by many of the latter when it was a question of meeting emer- gepey and doing what could be done for the comfort of their tenants, | did not lessen the general suffering. A sample of the mood in which landlords must expect, at the| present time, to find New York flat dwellers confronted with a raise| of rent, is the following from a letter written by an Lvening World reader in reference to one of this newspaper's earlier editorials on rent profiteering: “I pay $62.60 per month for five rooms and have been notified, have other tenants, of ap increase, There are | fortynine families in the place, | “Telephone tolls have boon raised this month from five cents to eight cents each. There arc three unrepaired ¢lectrio Mghts tn my apartment which have burned out by reason of short ciroults due to defective wiring, flames rising to tho ceiling each time, The plumbing ts old and cold water drib- bles through ft. In the morning there is not enough for | flushing purposes. | “There are two radiators. During the first week of the | | | cold spell one was out of commission. The other g evi- | dences of heat at about 6 A. M. and 7 P.M. At those times the temperature of the apartment rose to 41 degrees, the high- est figure reached in five weeks, “The elevator boys left at Christmas time because they got but $25 per month. The tenants walked for several days. Water pipes burst {po nearly all apartments, One which burst in mine was not repaired for two months, “For three nights last week the hall outside my apartment | was not lighted. Three times this winter the elevator bas | —y 4H fallen. “The list is not exhausted, but the situation ts indicated.” | | Tenants have their grievances. Landlords have their burdens, | » | All justice demands is that, at a time when war is putting pe rx IR heavier loads upon everybody, the rights of the tenant shall nct| ‘/4 4 x be the first to be forgotten, while the landlord is permitted to| transfer his ENTIRE added burden to the tenants’ shoulders, | PLUS a hundredweight or so besides for extra profits’ sake. New York is not the only community in the country where the profiteering landlord is at work. ” , i + ) me to marry him, ¢ The District of Columbia is in the nature of a specially protected Ronn inKtaa a’ atieeae! reservation watched over by Congress and three Comn t f the forts in the Bay issioners ap-| of young, homely instead of h en trothal we took the subway up tolin that, even tf it cost more than | shovel.” Nepal fas se teayae undying fame } , - , : ‘ [some, and uninteresting instead Of) big Bronx flat. Lemuel had not in-|six certs, than to pay more for car! “I can't say as I am Milling my ee Keay o e President. . hing fitcanine i ; | a t. pointed by the President, Yet in Washington profiteering in rental tuscinating. For in time 1 should| ¢oMned bis flock of our impending |fare on tho atreet cara!” snorted Gus.|Thritt Stamp books on the tipe I'm|°® American seamanship we a resul has reached a point where Congress finds it necessary to come t9 tha! J°¥e &8¥ one who loved m | marriage and the announcement that | "Yes, elf, sooner would T buy a dlp-| getting these days," remarked Fred,|, The Philadelphia was the most : ft ‘i ih Nestled Z ab Roger Flem the principal of our| 1 was to be their mother brought an|per, one offthem tin lizarda!”* | the sporting barber. “All the young|!mportant ship in the third fleet, un- rescue of tenants with legisiation fixing a just and legal basis upon! school, and bis wife, had been very | uproar, “Flivver, fivver, and “Tin Lizale.'| tellers just coming into @having 1s|4¢F command of Commodore Preble, which rents shall be reckoned w » war laste Kind to me. 1 often visited them and) ‘The eldest girl, Biten, declared in| That's what you mean, don't your") going into the army, where they'y | 4nd ita loss to the small American Sow York wants x 7 romped with thelr two dear babes | my presence shoe would never stay in|asked Mr. Jarr, | get the pernicious safety rasor babit,|Seet was @ serious one, She was ew York wants no more Mrs. Kleming sald It was really P=} her father’s home with a stepmother.| “I understand myself, and that's| Besides, I seen some of them Blue|PUTsuing a Tripolitan vessel when ne Natal tenant ihac thetic that a 1 ehil- | | dren as much The quickest way to arrive at a fair system of figuring caus And L agreed with Mer that will put a stop to landlord profiteering in this city under cover i sti : had nev of war exigency is to have an open-handed showdown of the facts. ° #Y of ber f ot failed t | Rounding Up the Loafers! AD come to the conclusion that at the age of thirty I could no longer be ay particular in my choice of a hus- band as I was at twenty, and that unless 1 wanted to re- main single all my Ife it wou! be wive to w ept the first usked man w ven if h Mthy, « rn match-maker marry | EDITORIAL PAGE Wednesday, May 15 My Matrimonial Chances) The Jarr Family Recording the Experiences in Pursuit of Love of a Young Girl of Thirty. By Wilma Pollock \ Copyright, 1015, by The Press Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening World), Romance of the Aged Lover and the Broken Vow. of By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1018, by The Prons Publisbing Co, (The New York Evening World), HE neighborhood business men's| Jewelry in realty these days. association was in conference at Gus's cafe. ler's Beefsteak Studio modest style. So his courtship con- | holding for sisted mainly of long, tiresome even- | he said, “th ‘4g8 at my home during which [| going to let the railroads charge more | noise ¢ike a carpenter.” tried to make myself care for him. | money to ride on them, which, if you| Stein, the iceman, was heard And when he finally proposed, even | don't count accidents w at the Government {s/n cantonment building by making I would not have had tho heart to| high cost of living. What I say ts,|he wouldn't be accused of grand lal do so. For he and his motherless|let the railroads charge what they|ceny every time he sent in bis bill, rns needed me. And I knew [| want to, 1 don on them.” should love them all dearly and they | would of cours love me. But I was|I ride on the street cars and I| bootbiack. 1 thought I should b pect of marriage. at the pros-|I would sooner ride around on 4h) make-a da beezness good!” However, I prom- | icicle.” And 1f you could get your second and The proprietor third mortgage, what would you do was | for labor? Any man that can whittle “I see in the papers,” | stick is getting his §7 or $8 a day kills people} murmur that if people knew what if I had felt inclined to refuse him, |on the train wrecks, will add to the|he ha@ to pay for his tce wholesale “What we want ts lots of sunshine “I say it too,” remarked Gus, “but/to make good times,” sald Tony, tho “When It no rain, every- ot as riotously bappy as I always| wouldn't stand for paying #lx cents. | body gets a shine or a polish and that “What we need ts plenty of rain,” Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Coprright, 1918, by The Press Pubilahing Co, (The New York Evening World), “The Sphinx Is More Chatty and Confidential Than a Mar, ried Man in His Own House—And No Statesman Was | Ever’More Loth to Commit Himself.” M' BELOVED, hast thou a little “politician” in thy home?” For lo, a8 cautious as a diplomat in a newspaper interview, #0 18 @ seasoned husband, when questioned by his wife. Behold, it mattereth not upon what she ques tioneth him—it is all the same to HIM! For, bh avoideth a direct answer as skilfully as a cat dodgeth ®@ garden hose, She saith unto him: . “Thinkest thou that I am becoming « trifle TOO stout, my Beloved? Yea, wouldst thou advise to diet?” And bo squinteth at her, and replieth cheerfully, saying: * “Ob, no! For I do not ADMIRD a ‘atick,’ but a ‘plump’ woman.” She saith unto him: “Dost thou approve of the new tight skirts, my Beloved?” And he answereth warily, saying: “Ob, I fancy they'll look all right on YOUI” | She saith unto bim: “Wherefore dost thou stare at yon woman? Yeas, dost thou thisk , the color of her hair {s the REAL thing?” And he answereth hastily, saylug: | “WHICH woman? For I had not observed her,” | She saith, “What dress shall I wear to-night, my dear?” | And be answereth wisely, saying: “Thou lookest good to ME in all of ‘em” She saith unto him: “Thou art an whole hour late for dinner! WHERE hast thou been And he answereth mechanically, saying: | “Why, where dost thou think? Attending to BUSINESS, of courses She saith unto him: af “And how many libations bast thou taken, In the course thereof?” And he replieth, with virtuous reproach, saying: “Why, my dear! Do I LOOK as though I'd been drinking?” She saith unto him: . 4 “Whom didst’thou meet at the golf club to-day?” | And be answereth evasively, saying: “Ob, nobody worth mentining. Just the usual crowd of boobs.” She salth unto him: “Wouldst thou care to invite Mother for dinner, Beloved?” And he answereth unfiinchingly, saying: “Have I ever refused thy familly my hospitality?” She saith unto him: “How go thine affairs in the ofce, now, mine own?” And he clutcheth his pocketbook, and answereth, cautiously, saying: “Oh, so so! But war-times are—war-times, Little One,” Verily, verily, the Sphinx {s infinitely more chatty and confidential, ¢, than o married man in his own house. And no statesman in war-time ¥ was ever more loth to “commit himself,” nor more fearful of “incrim- » inating” himself than a man that talketh to his own wife. Yet every normal husband wondereth pathetically why he is “mis- understood!” Selab. How Our Torpedo Boats, Got Their Names By Henry Collins Brown a Copyright, 1918, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ’ The Decatur fered a perfect disguise. She was se- to ee second year's war with Trip- lected as the main attacking ship ol! was destined to be one of |#84 was named Intrepid in honor of a her mission, her boats, the most dramatic in the his psa nal F uate, wi ‘ ; 20 e o party. tory of our young PAYY: Among} Whey ateered. directly for Ole ail those whose names are well known, /°07 Benen ine ship and who participated in the stirring Be dase ileeine ‘ea 7 aera events of the year were Lieut. Isaac . 1 ir Hull, later to be in command of the Reehord Saar the day before, Constitution in her famous battle| ‘HOY asked permission to tle up to i 3 the Philadelphia for tne night. with the Guerriere; Lieut, Somers! Wien the boats were nearly in con- sal fe ‘ . Lieut. Stewart and Lieut. Stephen| 7 [ised Lem that I would become his] "You mean a bieyele, don't you?” sad Albert, the atrect aweeper—| Decatur, ‘The latter was destined to| “ct Suspicions were at last aroused wife. And then naturally he ar-|Mr, Jarr inquired, |"good hard rain that will clean| achieve fame by hie spectacular feat and the cry of “Americans” rq. ranged to have mo meet the children, She vowed she would Ond work and enough for me," replied Gus, vo by herself. “Never mind what I mean, but I'd| things up. Just @ little rain only of burning On the evening following our be-|rather buy a flipper and ride around makes mud for a guy to sweep and Devils, the Frenoh soldiers, and while | he Fan on a submerged rock, sounded through the ship. It was tob late. The Americans swarmed up the side and were soon on deck. S80 com- plete was the surprise that moat of the crew of the Philadelphia fled over the side of the vessel, and the few that were unable to escape were im- mediately killed or thrown overboard to swim for thelr cruisers, which w anchored close by. bsg the Philadelphia under Combustibles were now put tn place and in @ few minutes the grand olf “It's the meatless days we had that] they are first class fighting men, they| The ship was soon at the mercy of |silp was in flames in @ dosen a wld she, “think of the} makes evorytt " remarked | set a bad example raising whiskers,” |heT enemies, Bainbridge and all of raat ons rhe attacking party made y of my little brothers and sis-|Bepler, the “People ain't! “yoy petty tradesmen make me|t:® oMcers, with part of the crew, ee asaney, but not before giving 4 got strength enough to do their work] trea!” interposed Mr. Jarr. “You|Wese taken ashore and brought be-| threo hearty cheers for their gus " > “We had very- | This brought iad i ibe Gk | “And what of your promixe to our|on meatioss days, and work not being |taly qs though the destiny of the na- | fore the Pasha. “We had lost every. | is nro! ent fusillade of shot from and figures. Le Masatnat pe pres | mother never to marry again until|dono what Is paid for makes times|tion depended on business conditions | thins: gaye Balodridge, us Wink yaniave ais bor Favored by a alight Tis Beacine ‘World: lnvites : eh baat aeag | the children aro old enough to take | hard.” peing excelent with each and all, We OP OUF DASTD AAD OVER Dart Oe cane Wore cota en ee e Evening enants and landlords alike to \\"! jcaro of themselves?” Elen de-| “But this time of the year in the| That's what the 1. W. W. call ‘claga| that was ts -0 ae Peach of alee Nee ee come forward with any data that may help to show how rents Ae Raine ue she Inviteq | Manded of her father spring people should not eat meat,|conaciousness' but I am conactous,| When Stephen Decatur unfolded a) (My) 1 and ot 8 An was iced 7 I table daterminad es ak i \d found for} Poor Lem extolled my virtues and|they should eat 1co groceries, |fully conscious, that there ts no class plan to invade the harbor of Tripoll| | | iy 4 Ana we success of thie this time can be equitably determined, ee eerhnl ie vorg{implored Elen to relent, But the|cheap for cash, mit wesetables,” re-|to it whatsoever.” |and cut out or destroy the Philadel- | PP nay at auch to the reputation Larue eter ng paiesy . over, Constance Ald my solicitious| Ute mother was resolved not to let) marked Muller, the grocer “Them 1 W. W. fellera ain't so|phia, the reply to his call for volun- aoa hin ein Arrests abroad. Ne}. Letters From the Pe le tri 1 should have ) Koxer's | 0 intrude, ‘The rest of the children, | “Besause you got a lot of wege-|bad,” remarked Slavinsky, the gia-|teers was Puli bey APY FOODORRO ORT ed ihe Geen ckading Toulon, “ : eople Uncle Lem & » man for you, |taking their cue from her, eried in|tables outside your store you say|zier, “From vot I hear they emash| every member by as SARS buld and daring pity ae othe most A Landlord's Trouble, 1 n as well as Bhakee “Uncle c od, ‘“ig| chorus, “Wo don't want a new 1" remarked Mr, Bepler sarcasti-| winders and everything, Smashing, BY & stroke of luc’ Med native ketch | was Stephen Decatur, Ad Suen 1 of The Evening World ’ BES Ceres proteply ROE ¥2U it he is{mamma, We won't have a new |cally |winders gives work to a lot of had been ao eretiterean ene riers | name 18 borae by one of our tomaee § editoria u nccune the land ic ees vood as gold and sa wife itke| mamma.” “You should insuit wegetables!"* re-| people.” and in her Mediterranean rig of- | boats, lord of profiteering in rent, HOW wis cf lislian origin, cca es | you," | Even so T knew I could overcome |torted the grocer, “Don't you sell} "I quit you cold!” sald Mr, Jari fe se Se aeeeaisl y age Man, can bo easily established A girl can a stimate her| thelr prejudice, But Lemuel's cour-| soup greens", |"Zeu'ase ® busch cu ‘are | What reat Canals Have Cost savings in a two-far houne, : ’ opinion o the age fa althou 0 ” ve or ten cents’ w yalked ou! jou! ying | ” pe Manca fue ental gat, which his moth: e' opinion of y e kind | 4s bim though be assured fh or ten nts’ worth of | And ne wines pray N engineering difficulties overcome achievement, pet bull a. 88 simatin care edi wan Italian, and hie tether, of man they pick as ber husband, |me his heart was broken, soup greens, what profit is in that,| what he owed. and in cost of construction, the |Gensely populated <aghult, ‘Brough g, invested my savin 1 ie & he ie, y ate * vhet met Le arvey ) ~ a i riled t bute 4 | = ee te ’ a - ’ ccoupying the jowor floor with my Hhe was dorconded| ANd when J F I % fr. : * ed Pater i : Smyrna | POOR Ane: | Fenaiie CANA! Manas Ob tne BeAe war nce ane Mentioned tn the wife and two children, renting upper ‘7°™ ! an Homilit" that “lived | had & A Pt ARTE re rir prea First African Explorer. mince in wenstahion? YG PVD." said the little maid of! of the world’s great artificial water- | Canal, better une, Haleor Wilhelm floor of six rooma for $20 per m MURA Pe ous one aaiek ¢ HE first organized attempt to} upon: = twelve summers, “overy| ways. The appropriations made by|Canal, which is wiaty mites ‘he, Kiel The city now values this house at ned! He wa : dish and | auplore the intarlor cf aéeice Don't cast any phar Maus G0 to! morning when Iam c-'ng to|Congress for its construction | connects $6,100, tax facet year homely ont ten ne ef a more was made by Mungo Park, who {2hcaks on vewetables,"” remarked | 1.40) the boys catch hold of m. and| amounted to something like $350,- | Sees ope Sion mariana’ Hin ber y an " irecie aptoctny sn renetng tet eatl on hin tnitiny voyage to the eget i bullaing trades | #188 me.” 000,000. Of the other “big ditches,” |standpoint of naval erees re ry rT on widower® wi ve children, ra atl Al vO! yndition of the building tr: vepern ; Ph some, {here Ia fire inwurance, Necessary re Peete tar tatenn exit ie Dark Continent 128 years ago. HeliK Yao. tt wouldn't take an onion| “Well Zeneh” replie’ dad, looking| the Buss Cankl, connecting the Medle jestimable vaiue to Cowan, Mf of ai of mort 4 Hf of age. ohurne: Raavan roonthl ah m ver his newspaper, “Why don't you 4 Re ¢ ° jongest canal { Peeal money invested’ in, how : 1 ankod mysol at waa the best | Tetur veare and seven months lt make you cry. With all the loons | OveF Perens Agi reED ’ | fares tn 1889, cost about $100,000,000. |the Erie Canal, #67 miler in"? ere ia the profiteering Aus bargain 1 could hope to make in the ' ne explored & conte’ | money. put into ty Bonds, you | ae ee arated and cast ber even! Tae, wenchester Ship Canal, in-|finiehed in 1834, Ite ner, tm ? A BMALL OW? German. gyatvimontal m Dut remember. @ section of Afrion never before) 6. get a second mortgage, let a . nugurated by Queen Victoria tn 1894,| Improvements, | was 983,600, owners » Of Bngliahuier “ j white man, although he| © ' |1e 36% miles long and c..t $85,000,000, | has been winerpades wy ‘thy +4 aye apolqnn Was Not a German. of Avi lo pinoy prigin, abl hed ries ie mY PERO © let no chance | ¢, main purpose, which was|fione ® third mortge! even for “wt aig one mornin: eaid hewi-, it connects heater with Liver: |Harge Canal, which may” J, To the Ratton af The Brewing World Norman or Frentp blood tn hie vel eroape me I en aged Lom to oa pel of the River| building a row of moderate rental’ tatingly, “and they n't chy pool, making a port of the big in- | solve America's war-time Now 1 maa tuat the Germans ky, 1 RwADER, Me could affard to woo on ip Nisan P Date—whiee Come under ene Bend of mnei''Ontcame enald. dustrial city, wes « remarkable! tation problem, f : .