The evening world. Newspaper, May 18, 1918, Page 5

THE &B ’ PLANNED AS BASIS FOR NEW LAWS TO PROTECT TENANTS President Smith, Acting on Request of Evening World, Calls For Reso- lution to Start Action Against Profiteering Landlords. Acting upon the request of The| purchasing power of money has do- M eee creased as the result of war inflation, Mveaing Werld, Aldermanie Presson’ line income don tar investieiats Alfred B. Smith this morning aia | ne has decreased, Xe K FMR Of plans for a sweeping Aldermanic | this, the estates, institutions and in- probe of the entire rent situation |vestors generally whoso sole income ; i m |!8 derived from real estate rental i Shp Sit.“ Eivery PUSaS Of MAANST | nia thee AVAMlUSIS meena veduoed rent situation in the five boroughs| pom 3 to 60 per vent. will De investigated In proof of the prevailing condition, Assistant Corporation Counsel | President William T. Ropes of the New York Butlding Managers’ Asso- |clation, in co-operation with the Real ate Record and Guide, obtained ating statistics for tho past year ten big offlce buildings in tho |district south of City Hall. The fig- ures up to the spring renting season were: Nicholson tnformed the Aldermanic President that the City of New York. | through its Board of Aldermen, has a right to investigate the rent s uation. This power is granted in on of the sections of the Home Rule Law, enacted in 191 hat the board may n 1 wate “any matter of public concern,” | voreerreue IN RENT FOR 10 BIG cut that !t may further issue sub- BUILDINGS. poenas compelling witnesses to pre- | F 1017, 3 bg Ih sent themselves and produce records. | 970,800 $817,481 6 at Accordingly President Smith di- ected Bernard L. Shientag, his per- | “%),," sonal examiner who has been {nvesti- | 0" et m gating the rent situation, to draw up | Ja Comme On * is certainly ny this I resolutions callig @ Aldermanic tn n lord iry. ‘These resolution: Il be sub do so, and sam quiry, ‘These resolu will . ha Coanin Greene mitted to the Democratic and Repub: lian leaders of the Board of Alder men who are to be asked to confer with President Smith in his offic Monday afternoon, There isn't tho | tne xlightest doubt but t ne leaders | will heartily agree to the Practically every Alderman in th ias been appealed to for redres buildings, onstétuents whose rents have b going table refers, employ much help outrageously increased during the last|and wages have increased twenty- ear or #0. five to fifty per cent. in tho last few The inquiry may last weeks and| years, he wealthiest and the humblest prop-|NO WAR PROFITEERING HERE, ty owners will be called. | SAY REALTY LEADERS. Speaking of his resolution President! «Our investigations sho Smith said; “The Home Kule law | President Laurence MeGuire of the! toruism in N says the Boer dof Aldermen may in-| Real Estate Hoard and United States | vestigate all matterg of public con- | Realty and Improvement Company, corn, That ts @ pretty sweeping pro- | (pat 2 vigion, but high rents are just Dow @5 | populous section of the country. War- great matters of public concern &%/tlme money rates are proverbially other phase of the high cost of high, and surely a 6 per cent. return iving. on investme is not exorbitant. “Ir the Board of Aldermen goe Prices of living neceasities ba his probe at all it will go to the very gone up, and ft fs only fair that land-| get paid b ‘ath. It will spare no one who is) lords should get a fair price for their as threatened to in the fall again. sown $1 801,699 $1,408,622 fifteen years, I kn 18 $1,008,054 7.025" B8,108 that you will start |landlords at once, g) A inquiry. | N vhich the fore- | As arent pay years ago I mo equity. Why shou be revelations of @ thorough Inquiry | Advisory Council Neal Estate In- | vouki form the basis ior ie tion | tereata, ‘recently erested Prenidawe ofl hat would protec of rent- | the Chamber of Commerce, and other| payers against dit jords. Lt) realty leaders declared that the gen-| gust not be @ustrued that relieve there should be an inw jom regard the general run of |; ords as protiteers, Such is not ase. An inquiry will ¢ ide who are air and who are not fair Don't you think rent being paid on es tig"-| and lenders was to prove time protiteer to t rea m and hot wat ear's difficult g, but, nevertheless, | st seed y from unfair discrim- it nation because it is the city's main} ton we will adm st it in some rs they rubbed For insta New York |*2Ure® of revenue and its market | “f' In this prop d action ie tho |Yalue must be preserved in order to| others ity will be following rapidly tn Uy’ | bulwark the financial foundations of daetiaghyd steps of Congress, which ba jut fey | {Be munictpality, this being particu-| sti sumed supervision over The tsiators |lafly Urgent because the city's bonds joa” us Golub! pation al 168 a iwracr | ate regulated by its borrowing power, | Or _— beep seapieee ry ee a hin prop. wh in turn is figured from it« r lesso © tre pie y valuations. rty, based upon a fixed valua Mena fore oon ith due allowAana® for deprecia Mass of uptown apartment houses agurance, & as such as F, R. Wood-W. H. Dolson The most important provision of Pll. ine ‘ ° an ° A norte Mv ashinigton ny, Slawson & Hobbs, Pease ‘ i man, Douglas L, Elliman. & rentals is as follows and Thomas O'Reilly, de- re quest was met by much of the gas b I ought to pa the answer was, ct your two doll your rent for will be a rs of the great he inspection of the Rent Ac estments, would be highly satisfa: rator or his authorized agents, shi sry in Now York. They doubted if ng the rents charged and paid, 1n- y could convict any owner of \Whing the names of the tenants OF) profteering, They said that such enters, and also an ttemized holdings had been selling In the mar- nent of the taxes and asse ket for several years on practically a hereon, the cost of airs and ma tenant, four tena {sf or extortion? |that the operating costs, with fixed ant time v ght, heat, water charges, averaged fully or more than| {ia nmesent tim ther service, furnished, 8) half of the gross, leaving 6 per cent. | 1:000.000 of o vel] as a proper allowance for da-|for net return, ‘Investors or opera. | SimY Who have priation or non-occupancy, No tors who get a larger percentage are ps shall be considered by the Ren |horrowing much of their capital on | ininistrator in fixing tho rent of pron-|mortgage and are thus taking great matrimony and si homes, which they Does this real orty which does not appear in such|chances with thelr investments: ma rey Bi Ike margin operators in Wall Street stocks ‘A straight increase of 10 to 18 per in rentals would not give own spat HIGHER RENTS ASKED |een aa mush from their’ protertica ta 10 MAKE UP LOSS IN joer Fey ru Deore ene war many of the grea OFFICE BUILDING INCOME one eiad'iaiin Roe: 8,5 any investigators t ascounts. forward in “war tl Fy Tam myoe¢ w dollara on the eve m-] of the tenants, wh! | Landlords Insist They Are Not Prof-|*™"4? ™xe Ba taeomapiet hones ore fteering—Would Welcome Rate | the BAttar of The Brening World: 5 C Allow me to commend you on your \ Fixed by Congress editorials regarding the profitecring | How Rent Im Ratsed ; ning Se ew York landlords claim they are| landlords, I am living in a six family & * ofiteering, They say costs of| house in Ridgewood, Queens County. | 7™ t PAltor of The F not profiteert faster than renta| T® taxes were raised 35 points last| 1 ¢ all kinds are rising faster thar | year, which meant tn the neighbor- | 1#m as !t is to-day and that their not incomes average! hood of $36 to my landlord. He ap your suppone, ft amalier than the before-war totals,|tho rents on May 1 to the amount of| year, and t hey call this unjust bocause the r per year, which I think is very | eel te unjust to the rent payers, In fact | YOU and s4 ums from other forms of investment average higher than they did beforo jidgewood have done the same. |1t doesn’t bother us. war, In other words, while the A CONSTANT READER ‘ en cater shal Seat oi ; he Brooklyn, May 16. cel any yoars after t at year, aad eee beg to Inform you t The Fiimay “Heat” Subtertug: Bronx Landlord) of] been raised by How's that for ¥ New York, May 16. Jon to say that yoll must give hir Sooner or later To the Editor of The Evening World: 4 n vi by Ma 1 youtl discover In your column headed “Letters |* "hair vetore, the From the People’ I wish to make a or be will r complaint, The landlords and agents | rent and a fabulous sum and have caused much| asked to where suffering among the families, Wages | the lease that I m have not been raised and therefore |py May 15, | was these families are suffering, |answer. 1 have r The excuse that has heen made ts | fully, and can fin coal and the high price of the same. | that effect, June The rent w feel comfortable was given. Rents | written me abrog: |{s now necessary and now the plea| May 15, and no at VENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1918, ALDERMANIC RENT INQUIRY ‘AMERICAN MARINES MARCHING CHEERILY TO THE FRONT AMERIGANS SHOW O'S MARINES (READY TO MARCH TO THE FRONYV LINES Nic INFORMATION, | girl why the pitcher o nprove the But that plane y,” which conditions of |to my request. And I have been a ONLY AT > two things, being picked up THATLETIN. . WIE TRADE HUSBANDS ourt, Giving Frank W. Miner | cent Decree, Scores Action Taken in West. [should be taken up by rid at once. No coal Injunction Amainst Increases. of The Brenine World | This rent-boosting carnival at the ny submarini would get us to end It a down bafore reader of The Evening poor man has to deny | | wealthy and benevolent Amer marine and § {ty to stop this profit Bonds and Thrift Stamps. er called upon to contribute to We waved at >» weak to stand up IDADER LOR FIPTE ing conditions | suddenly bec | Army Headquarters, which is playing | to-day l why Sheuld «a Tenant What He Doesn't Gett NEW YORK ‘To the Editor of The Evening World ' I wish to thank for your fairmindedness i the landlord and tenant. |my own case I can 14/hand information as w York ( ed into an ew York rentais are really on| flat, and have paid my rent promptly a lower basis than those in any other jon the first of each month, in advance. |T always have considered tt was not! 1a handkerchief, pected of every man loves on and was able The piker, howev envelops fimself in a smoke screen respectability, nad kept my is the man who | TOO WEAK TO SEIZE LIFE PRESERVERS. r moved war es, higher cost of labor Supreme Court Justice Joseph construction, its 15 to 25 per cont when the uy er has filed an opinion in the ered a boat chester County |connection with the action for a dl- Frank W. Miner of | remember asking for a drink and The skipper would let | sips, but he creased five to ten per cent matting wate | us take on! vorce brought by thorities put iato effect, by wh their disposal, prohibiting until further mittee to inquire into the ness of existing rentats, and be given | to grant appeals fer determined are paid up to the passage of the bill or law. ve us biscuits but we couldn't chow | 1 asked for p and it almost seemed that my disapproval “made out” a tenant pay for some- thing he has not got? shoved things between my until our clot ripped off and blood rushed into ‘ore he earns his has of the defendant her husband ts that] Politics ree was granted tion brought b un absolute diy six toes from gangrene My feet turned blac didn't set in, “Every machine from the sear from a station on t Or what guarantec guilty of profiteering, uo mutter why | commodities ax well ay other deal-| 0° Wat Ruatan ve may ba era in or owners of living necessities.” |! Case of fire or “There isn’t any doubt ut what] Chairman Alfred E. Marling of the| month's rent will be r the landlord and agree to I bellove, just. iy another golden opportunity World to further ¢ self to the hearts of a long FRANCIS 1 US, FLYER ADRIFT 4 DAYS WITHOUT ANY FOOD OR ORK (Continued from Fir: should meet the tena “The paintiff did not answer or ap nose Wh” | oral seentiment among large holders|¢®¢h month, In my pa all war-|m paying in the w er months for plaintife t# cone Reno ts invalid pigeon had home trols and destroy the coal situa- has no binding will the court nize tt for any “The defendant on the day that she Vebruary | obtained » Dec, 11 he was detach: n with ay sehen hi wal alr static rning all day in order to k ing children warm uested, pay for the gas consumed resident of this Stone's mother, NELSON MORRIS SOON TO LEAVE FOR CAMP Must Give Up His $1 a Year Job for $30 a Month in On being Info: husbands | within a few ho The defendant and S« same day. | ht left Reno | lifornta, where | 1 and wife, | son with them, but from now | apartments month more," hree dollars px on the same day for ( they now reside having plaintift's whole time, I had a craving for canned peaches |LAPPED UP RAIN THAT FELL ON PONTOON. ‘Twice a drizzle came on, wetting t! pontoon. We turned on our stomachs and lapped up the moisture, but the paint came off with 10.—That all persons letting Fes As regards the tax pr Het »-day that a 7 per ¢ lowing fc nerease eal estate shail be required to keep © ome Pate ie hxea heel owing for an ace » 4 to ¥ | gg BAP % y Con- ndlord has a rig nooks of account, open at all tuDies 19] Pres aa a fale Feturn on ree landlord ha cerned the | plaintir, | Y in-| $30,000 valuation $4 per head on eac defendant 1s the wife of the floors to the building, or $84 a month, The marriage {s now about to be sev making $1,008 a year Is this patriot: plaintife ts entitled to the judgment asiced for, a divorce in this State.” SOLDIER IS SENTENGED TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON | Lipphard Stayed Away F We can also Iisten to scarcity of buildings, also bullding 10 per cent. gross rental basis and ps ‘This 19 al | | CHICAGO, May 18,—N Chairman of the Board of of Morris & Co, who has been called Ison Morris, ger men in up just so much | » aiso have the same @ eligible for “Our Itmbs grew numb to time the wreckage from torped @hips would pass, cult tins came close enough to #™ for, but by then In our weakened state we knew that we would drown !f tried to get them. “We did haul tn a broke it open. amount of men who we Camp Grant in th Morris 18 In New Once two full bis have not done, warrant lvisers to come ment, to which he was n he applied f » Washington, Fstate Trust and its Slept on Duty Punished. WRIGHISTOWN, hard | the unfortunate worker who s tryins nu tt nd |to help hts country ¥ third tin @ sonally, kept ontinually erinding ery day we saw cc distance and vainly w 1 am not al was the punishment of Private rick F. Lipphard by yhard lived in Camden and note for themselves the temper to use at night, n may lead later and we lost all track of time. realized how easy {t wae for a au marine out - > SIX-CENT FARE ALLOWED, Eleotrio Line Our watches stopped | mp four months and then n placed un bis court martlal ral Years, Andrew Holland, @ negro, 6 of landlord. sign a lease her portlight the orew we the majority of the landlords {n/a little thing like t turned away, he thinks we are Germans, your rent has so and 80 much." | hope she does," they'll send ~ — BREAD CUT HURTS GERMANS. in the Bronx at 178d Street to Tre-|pective tenants. Wh mont continue to raise their rents to| the office of my landic CORN ron EVERY TIME- says (30664, when its in the form of u POST TOASTIES ‘MINE raised, but no heat to| stated. I requested t ssorver must were raised again May 1. No heat) notice that I must was paid M BRITISH COUSIN WHAT BASEBALL Is Army and Navy Teams Open League Season in London— Sims and Biddle There. LONDON, May 18.—A history-mak- ing battle te being fought on English soll this afternoon, It is between the Army and Navy Headquarters toame—the first regular | league game in England in the history of baseball, the army, the navy or any other history Admiral Sims agreed to damonstrate literally that he “has something on the ball by pitching the first one over, Major Gen, Diddle, command. ing all the American troops in Eng- land, promises to catch tt- he had not forgotten how. Then the regular | ball play great crowd of Englishers hod baseball is played and what kind of liows play it, One American, who has been here twenty years, talking to his English | partner before the game, sald “I suppose tt will bo like the game I sow in the Middle Ages, when I witne d Artie Latham and the oth champlonship Hrowna, i spent the afternoon explaining to my uldn't hit the rs were to show tl bat." ind the base lines, The Hritish Red Cross and other British charities will receive the en tire profits from the Anglo-American League season, in which four Amert unand four Canadian clubs will play 2 fierce schedule, ked by thirty 1 business n It waa rumored that the army team was packed with “ringers.” Anyhow, five total strangers arrived yesterday afternoon from a certain aviath hey are all ball players who mo atgached to the | Mall, and was app Street, Inst night He was seventy~ two you old. Mr. Martin came to this country from Ireland with his brother, Bernar@ Jy Martin, when he was two years old, When eleven he had to go to work. first as a boy in a law office and tat ag A street car conductor. He ran away from home to enter the Civil War with the old New York Volunteers, known as Hawkins's Zouaves. After serving in the fleld for a year he returned Lore as a clerk to Gen, Dix to handle the draft riots, He had ‘\ccome interested tn local politics in New York, joined Tam- many Hall and In 1869 was appointed secretary to Theodore Connoliy, Reg- ister of New York County, From that he became clerk of the Board of A'termen in 1872, the first anti- ‘Twoed boa.d In the meantime he had risen tn power in Tammany Hall, was a district leader and Chairman of the Executive Committee, the friend of Richard Croker, Mr. Martin was made President of the Police Board In 1893, and the following year the Legislature authorized the invest led by Senator Lexow, into the of police graft, Mr. Martin we: perhaps the most sensational investiga- tion ever conducted in this count While graft wax shown to be the rule in the Police Department, Mr, Mar entablished his entire innocence. # a witness and | mt to object to eny ques- tions put to him. Mr, Martin had a # Charies I. Mu fous quarrel with jer of Tarnmany inted City Chamber lain ‘by Mayor McClellan upon the death of Patrick Keenan. Later he retired from the leadership of the Twenty-sev enth, in 1907, and from the chairman ship’ of the’ Executive. Committee of Tammany Hall, His name had been mentioned as @ Mayoralty candidate but he refused to consider tt 126th St., West Fur Safety Store Your Furs NOW in the Koch Dry Cold Air Storage Vaults THY LINE.U Delloney, sa Kroewer, ‘if ». Ratanson, p ¢ Puller ¢ilarverd MES J, MARTIN DIES; Rose From Horse Car Conductor fo Place of Power in City James J. Martin, who rose from a conductor of @ horse car to be a powe: In Tammany Hall, and who was Chair man of the Executive Committes of Tammany from 1892 to 1898, and Presi- dent of the Board of Police Commis- ioners during the Lexow Investigation, dat his home, 192 West 48th WAS TAMMANY LEADER | On the premises. i Yes —We Store Cloth Overcoats and Suits. Separate Vaults for ‘| Rugs and Draperies Utmost Protection Against e, Moth and Theft F At Moderate*Cost | ( Phone Morningside nent © Y BELL-ANS |Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Druggists tefund money if it fail CHARITY CONEY Special Military and CHARITY. eh en VAs As SIMUL ISLAND An LLY CAUDAL AMAL AMAL MAILER Naval Events Daily. For daily programme see newspapers. The business Island will donate ten per cent. men of Coney WZ of their gross receipts during the week to the Red Cross Fund. Visit Coney Island next week and h War Fund. elp swell the oie. ney ne <eapeeepiaeitamtsiitaaiaainiinaiaiasaitiaiinnacniieiaimms tail -