The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1918, Page 11

. ( , |specimen of his class any more than s that very numercus class of ten- jants who do not consider themselves Je terms of a lease and 1 ror the manner in se and leave the land- perty, be admitted that tenants it must |do not now have the whip hand, but Advisory Coundil Officer Says |temporar. Experience shows that the Tenants Will Regain Whip | !w# of economics favor the tenant Hand After War. rather than the landlord, and there is every reason to believe that new | building will begin as #oon as the greater needs of war are met, It would seem to be more desirable r such @ paper as The Evening to expose real profiteering eo Patter of The Prening Word Much criticism has reached this of- P concerning your policy of stirring | w, wp the tenants generally to protest | rat! han attacking a class of in- against the increasing cost of rented | vestors who have been in a most un- L y fortunate plight for some time, It yaein ‘can be no denial of the tact |S"ds to reason that no auch arbi- a wht act | trary plan as attempted in Washing- deat there are landlords who might ton will be han harmful in the advantage of the situation to a investments in real long run, for ormer United States Senator Towne Recommends Nuxated Iron Says that Henceforth He Shall Not beWithout It severe met, with "hove ohe" What Senator Towne Says:— ®@ member of err of Chicago gay it to acitye former Jefferson Chicago Nuxated Tron have found it of the kreatest. benefit as —~. Lf Drmnam i ec and recu= pth as aa Minnesota's Man of Mark—the Silver-Tongued Orator Former United States Sena or, Charles A. T ade the U 8 twice elected United Statea in the United ron, and says that henceforth shall not be without ét. A. Tk ths . Towne with ich’ ta" preneribed a | mont unconsclo.mble extent. At the n) |same time we eust realize that the landlord who profiteers is not a fair To All Who Feel the Need of Renewed Energy | property and in real estate securities must be encouraged by every means Yours respectfully, | possible, | lL. D, WARDWORTH, | | Advisory Council of Real Interests. | To the tof The Brening World The New York Board of Aldermen has advised all tenants who have suffered from rent profiteering to |communicate the details of individual cases to the Alderman of their dis- trict, ‘The majority of tenants do not son that a good many Aldermen are connected in @ business way with the landlor cite my case as an illustration. I have an apartment of five rooms in the Bri A year ago when [ moved into #hese rooms the rent was boosted from $20 to $21. On the first of last, March it was boosted another dollar. On June 1, my landlord in- formed me, that he will have to in- crease the rent another dollar and expects to bring said rent up to $26 by next October. ‘This landlord gives |the old cut and dried excuse of high taxes, high cost of building material, etc. When £ moved into these rooms th: ce needed painting and wall papering. ‘The door bell has never been in working condition. In fact, the whole house needed exten, sive repairing. | From January 1 until the latter | part of February we were without |running water and toilet facilities. | The ceiling in our dining room caved in from a Heply roof. In the latter part of February the landlord patched | up the roof and fixed the toilet so it would work, but refused to repaper the walls or fix the door bell, On several occasions I requested the landlord to remedy the above diffi- | culties, but was very curtly told that | if I didn’t like things as they were I could move. Had I taken the advice of the Al- | dermante investigators and brought | these evil conditions to the attention |of my Alderman my landlord would | probably have been apprised of the fact, with the result that I would | have been told to move, Inasmuch as this Alderman conducts a plumbing establishment !n my neighborhood and does work for all the landlords | of the district. | There are probably thousands of |other tenants in the same position as I, who have to request the courtesy jof The Evening World in bringing these conditions to the attention of | the Board of Aldermen. A WORLD READER, | To the Editor of The Evening World I own an apartment house in Man- hattan, New York City, west side. In recent years my taxes have been |nearly doubled; the janitor and two jelevator men I employ, to whom I Paid two years ago $1,400, | now have to pay $1,870 per year; my coal bills jare one-quarter more; all plumbing, |carpenter, painting, papering and other work, and all materials, have largely increased tn price, in many Instances more than double, and all minor items, such as awnings, win- dow shades and cord, oil, cleaning powders, brooms, carpets, rugs, &c. cost far more than they formerly did. T am informed that these conditions Prevail generally on the west side, from x T BUY NOW--DON EVERY FURNITURE WANT. is tremendous; every design Consisting of Sofa Bed, Arm Chair and Rocker, in Mahogany,with Blue Velour; settee makes a full-sized bed; when closed is 4 feet wide. This does not include mattress. Ss Neus UNTILIORM. AT BOTH STORES Be Prepared! 'T WAIT. You can take a YEAR or LONGER to PAY. We are better PREPARED than ever to supply your TERMS are OUR TERMS; come and SEE for yourself; our CHALLENGE prices need no men- TH RD, W/ Our SELECTION is NEW; YOUR Seamless Velvet Rugs Icer Brass Bed Outfit Refrigerator as illustrated, in Consisting of br: solid oak, 32 ,Q8 continuous inches wide, lander Link 19inches deep Queen Anne Period Dining Room Suite in American Walnut 10 Pieces, consisting of Buffet, 60-inch China Closet, Serving Table, Dining Table, 48 in., 6 1 Arm Cc with slip seats of gen uine leather, as illus- Let us show you how you can furnish a Living, Dining and Bedroom— MAAS BRO Darcie Reta it flboe Benn GradePeriod Furniture AT 84™ST. & 3°°AVE a J BAUMANN &BRO dare to take this advice for the rea-| ds of therr district. I will| 42d Street to Washington Heights and beyond, and I have not heard that any material difference existe below | 42d Street on the west side. If taxes, labor, coal, materials and other articles are very much cheaper on the east side, It goes without saying that tenants should migrate thither. Wohile the cost of running my house is at least one-third more than it for- merly was, the rents have not been jand will not be increased one-half [that amount altogether. The house has been and is full of good tenants, ‘hom it is my policy to keep if I can, even though I am obliged to stand a large portion of the increased cost myself. Service Reduced With Increase in R To the Editor of The ina World: In December, 1915, when I rented apartment I signed a lease up to Oct.! 1, 1917, for the price of $35 per month. Oct. 1, 1917, my rent was raised to $40 ‘per month. During the year of 1916 and 1917 we had hall service, which meant the answer of telephone calls, delivery of mails by a competent man in charge day and night. Since the increase of rent last October t service of this man was done away with by placing the telephone switch- board in the janitor’s apartment in tl basement where we are obliged to wait for a call times from twenty to thirty minute: Letter boxes were installed in the doing away with the delivery of mail to our doors, making it necessary to trot |down four flights of stairs for our |mail, it being a non-elevator apart- |ment house. Electric lights in the jhalls are put out after 9 o'clock in the evening, making it necessary for one to take chances of being hit on ;the head by some thug or highway- |man, as the case has been several times in this vicinity. Since my occupancy of the four- room apartment in this hi my | tipping bill per year amounted t> {almost $50, thinking that I would \recelve a little better service, but find now that I am not tipping my janitor enough, by the tough way both my wife and myself trave been dealt with, Something should be done and done at once, for it is a crime to have landlords take advantage of their ‘tenants in this way at a time when {people have all they can do to pay for food to keep them alive, and am |sure that this thing 1s going to be done away with since this movement ‘has been started by your paper. | Hoping you have good luck in doing 80, M. 8. 8. main hall downstairs, Gets Increase in Rent Instead of Repairs, ‘To the Bititor of The Evening World: | The rent of my house has been $23 per month, which I have paid regu- larly for over two years, During that |time the kitchen has been painted | once, but apart from this no painting, papering or renovating of any kind has been done. The bath is out of or- der because hot water pipes which burst in the winter have not yet been fixed. The whole house is in need of renovation, Since my wife has {m- Pi ed the landlord with the neces- sity for some action the only thing | that has resulted 1s that the landlord has raised the rent from $23 to $30 a month. Because this seems unreasonable I refuse to pay it. The landlord argues that the taxes have been in- creased, but I refuse to allow him to make an extra profit of something like $65 or $70 a year in excess of that increase of taxes. To me it seems like profiteering, a deliberate attempt to extort unfair profit be- cause the war gives the opportunity. It !s time this and similar kinds of | profiteering was stopped, especially in those thousands of cases similar to my own, where we who are belng bled have sent our sons to fight for liberty and democracy on the battle- fields of Flanders. It 1s extremely difficult Just now | to find other houses to move into, and this cimsumstance is being exploited to the full by profit-seeking land- lords, What the law may be on the subject I don’t know, but I am taking the risk of refusing to pay any more than the increase in the taxes, for the attitude of the landlord implies that I have nothing to say in the matter and must pay any rent he chooses to demand, even if it pleased him to double it, Householders should get together to stop this profiteering in house rent. G, Tompkinsville, Staten Island. pe deson ieal FOUR IN AUTO UPSET. Owner, Wife, Son and Small Gacet Cut and Bruised, An automobile owned and driven by David Traffick, a wood turner, of No, 169 Hewes Street, Brooklyn, was thrown on the sidewalk lust night and over- turned on Grand Concourse, at 204th Street, Bronx, when the steering gear broke. ‘Traffick, his wife, son and a small guest—Sidney Shorick, three years old, ving at No, 651 Caulder Avenue, Brooklyn—were cut and bruised. An ambulance was called from Fordham Hospital and the victims were taken home, leaving the wrecked car behind them, — $300,000 Fire at Sidney, N. Y. BINGHAMTON, May 2 pe Sidney Novelty Works and fourteen dwellings were destroyed Satumay hy fire that caused damage of $300,000, Clifford Godfrey, @ railroad employee, suffered a fractured skull and |s ex- pected to die, The fire started in the novelty works and extended to a large group of frame buildings. The cause 1s nOwnN. Carpets leaned! PHONE PIONEER Main 6900 RPETS, DRAPERIES | Cleaned, Washed, Repaired, | Stored and Insured at Reason- | able Rates against Fire, Moth and Theft at owner’s valuation. Most modern, sanitary plant | in Greater New York. Experts | in charge of all work, which ts strictly guaranteed, i OUR 39TH YEAR. Proneer Pirrot Sure 37 to 53 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, N, Y. a ee Thirty-fourth Street B. Altman & Cn. MADISON AVENUE ~FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Thirty-fifth Street An Important Sale of MEN’S SUMMER FURNISHINGS featuring dependable merchandise at economic prices, pertinently significant at the present time, will be held to-morrow and Wednesday, on the First Floor. Men's Shirts of silk, silk-and-cotton mixtures or madras, Underwear, Scaris and Handkerchiefs, will comprise the timely and interesting assortments. Men’s Silk Shirts made of Japanese Habutai silk (imported direct by B. Altman & Co.) in a variety of novelty patterns, all in richly-striped satin effects: Heavy-weight, in plain model, $5.85 & 7.50 Medium-weight, in plain or plaited model, Ona Fe eer eo to pee Men’s Negligee Shirts Of silkeand-cotton mixtures, in attractively striped effects (with soft cuffs) . $2.65 Of madras with, woven stripes (a wide range of colorings) Fpeee wer omen oe bt, Of madras, in a diversity of designs and colorings ce ee 6 ee tO eO Of madras, in many desirable colored-striped effects . . «© + « «+ at $1.55 A Remarkable Sale of MEN’S OXFORDS now in progress, on the Sixth Floor, will be ‘4 Men's Four-in-hand Scarts made of superior-quality silk, in appealing color combinations, and featuring the wide nae 4 le ee 70c, Men’s Underwear Light-weight Balbriggan Shirts, sieeveless, or with long or short sleeves; and Drawers to match, in knee or ankle length, per garment . . . . . 68c. Sleeveless Coat Shirts of white madras; and Knee Drawers to match, per garment 45c. Men's Linen Handkerchiefs Plain, hemstitched, per doz. $3.50 & 4.90 With tape border . . per dozen 4.90 Initialed . . « «~ per dozen 2.95 Khaki-color Cotton Handkerchiefs Initialed for soldiers’ use, per half-dozen (lin box): ww HE ONC continued to-morrow and Wednesday An Unusual Offering of Navy Blue Serge Capes arranged for to-morrow, will present a very attractive adaptation of the present mode. These Capes (representing a new purchase) are silk-lined, fashioned with the full length unlined coat-front, and are marked at the very special price of 2 46 as Sen.00 The remaining stock of light-weight Coats (sizes incomplete) is on sale at the following decidedly concessionary prices: $19.50, $24.50, $28.00 Very noticeable reductions have been made in the prices of the high-cost Coats and Wraps. (Third Floor) American & Imported Parasols in plain effects or In striking combinations, in keeping with the fashionable costumes of the summertime, are featured !n the Depart- ment on the First Floor. Shower-proof Parasois of colored silk, mounted with very effective handles, may also be obtained at moderate prices, A Remarkable Sale of WOMEN'S OXFORDS now In progress, on the Second Pleor, Folding Cameras will be on Special Sale to-morrow (Tuesday) at $12.75 These Cameras are of the compact type, fitted with double lenses (taking pictures 214x414) end their ease of operation should make a very practical appeal to the amateur photographer. (First Floor) Celluloid Toilet Articles (ivory-finish) will be obtainable at special prices to-morrow (Tuesday) The sale price will include the monogramming of each article, In one of three designs, and in varlous colors. Mirrors EP ee Meee are Halr Brushes . . «. «© ¢ 2.28 Combs Poca teeter an Gow Vevey 45c, HalrPinBoxes . . . . .« 1,25 Nall Files and Button Hooks, each 35c, Powder Boxes, Hair Receivers and Nail Buffers oe a a, Oa ee will be continued to-morrow and Wednesday Safe Storage for Furs, Rugs, and Draperies | %