The evening world. Newspaper, June 6, 1918, Page 10

A ete -See Renee a adie aes tate eee Cg -SPERCENT. BOOST -ANRENT DEMANDE ‘BY THIS LANDLORD Wis Plea of Increased Ex- Penses Disproved by Reduc- tion in Janitor’s Pay. Biter of Tho Brentng World ; your editorials on the subject of formed that another raise may be profiteering, your points are pected Oct. 1. Made in a masterly manner, but there f@ one phase which I have failed to pte in any of your writings, and fe the fact that the general Hemt Now #45 no fm building during the last two Years has caused am increase in de- that buildings whieh two y with a large waiting list Weady to move in at « minute's totice. pp This factor has increased the income most houses from 12 to 15 per cent. @ the 10 per cent. raise in most of ® year ago, making on an aver- % per comt, increase in the earn- Of these houses. have just received notice from my of another 25 per cent. raise, my rent, to take place on Oct. 1, ith @ motation that I must sign my before Jume 20. This will con- @ 60 per cent. increase in the ernings of this houns, ‘Mew, in the name of all that is fuir, @ you consider this necessary to moot a smal) tax increasy? As far $. building materigi and labor is , We have had no repairs on since it was built two they employ no service . Goes On Just the Same, ‘Te the Rititor of The Drening World ; Balp us in this rent profiteering, so | state my troubles also. we been paying thirty dollars per month for three rooms. On a shert notice from tho owner I will too. have to pay thirty-four dollars ), whioh is a very increase. Agure it about 18 per cent. There only one janitor and his wagos © not eon ralged. There bas bee repairing. We nearly frose last from four to eight vacant “ ents, are now fitied to thelt rooms (ratiroa | are unfortunate enough to own them: $4948, whton ts an tnorense of 3811 over that of 1917.) \| Expect Third Ratse in Rent or Oct. 1. Te. | Interest of the poor, has again taken | up the people's cause about rent prof- |iteering ae it did in the gas fight a few years ago. T have read in the Evening World several complaints against rent pro teoring, but the case I want to call your attention to is worse than all others, I live in a five-story tene- ment house, where there are three enamts on each floor and a number of stores underneath, the house being on upper Fifth Avenue. On Feb. 1 all tenants were raised from §2 to $5, 0M April 1 another raise of from $2 to § wae again imposed upon the poor | tenants, | The excuses given wore the war and | the city tax rate. We are now in- A TENANT, New York, June 3, 1918. (The increane in taxes this year on the property above referrcd tu was $258.) ‘The Bening World artment house riments, three on each » two front and one across the contains a The ‘front apartments 4), the rear ones four. The front apartments rented from October, 1917, to October, 1918, for forty-five dollars ( per month, leased for @ year, Those rents have beon raised to $52.60 per month from | October, 1918. ar apartments rented at |per month and have been inorea: from § to $10 per month. ANTS WHO OBJECT. West 112th Street, June 4, 1918, | | (The property above referred to ad not have ites valuation in creased this year; the tnorease have five 2 sed | . tawes was $187.) | Appeals tor Inveatigat of West 10th Street Conditions, — | ‘To the Kiitor of The Brening Word: __ I have followed with interest your action in the matter relating to in- crense of rents. Should you feel inclined to investi- wate what I regard as one of the saddest cases 1 have known of beau- tiful property, being allowed to de- terlorate whilé rents bave been ad- vanced, your reporter will find ma- terial for an article by visiting this property in West 10th Street | The beauty of the place when com- | pleted in October, 1916, caused us to [take a three-year jeuse, leaving a tb to Ket rid of the care and vexa- of the help question. Now the is far from beautiful, lected, rental prices adva ced protest# of tenants not heeded WILLIAM W. | West 10th Street, June 6, 1918, Would Modify Tenement Depa ment Regulations, ‘To the Editor of The Kyeo ing World's | 1 have been reading the letters you | have published about the greed ot landlords and would like to call your | attention to one way in which’ the! high rents might be greatly reduced. | f There are many well built, well ventilated houses in @ parte of the city, and especially in rooklyn, that are positively a white elephant on the hands of those woo ifferent The houses I refer to qre houses thac 9 NOW Classed as Ono or two-family uses. ‘These are no longer desit- are compelled to advance your rent te four hundred eight ) per | Tate salary a daughter's hi | ly 8 and my dau ‘s have | net been raised, but still we are pay- ing on eome things double. Another ferer of Wash n Heights. ; 4 TENANT. ‘Woat 180th Street, New York City, June 4, 198. ‘The above Jo ecteed on a valvation ‘of "3185,003 The tax rate wag then thée dasia the tax Wilh war 37. In 1918 the valuation was reduced to $180,000, and the tag rate was increased to 2.36. On thie basig the tax vill amounted tu ‘HOW TO GET RID OF RHEUMATISM “Frult-a-tives’ ’Pointthe Way to Quick Relief VERONA. “1 suffered for a number of years with Rheumstiom and severe Pains im my Side my and Back, caused by strains apd heavy lifting. “When I had given up hope of ever being well again, « friend recom- mended ‘Fruit-a-tives’ (or Fruit Liver Tablets) to me and after using the- first box I felt_co much better that I continued to take them; and new 2 ac eajoying the best of health. W. M. LAMPSON.” 0c @ box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 250. At. all dealers or sent on receipt of pries, by PRUIT-A-TIVES Limited, OGDENSBURG, N. Y.—Advt. ScientificDentistry My Roofless Plate Jerome Richards of Elizabeth, N, J, able, for they are too large to bo! practical for only one or two fam- i and could easily accommodate one or even two families more, The moment an owner attempts to rent his house to three families, what happens? Why, tho Tenement Depart. ment steps in and by its arbitrary, senseless set of rules und regulations compels the landlord to quit in despair. | Who 1s the gainer by all these ar- bitrary and ironclad regulations? It must be the owner of a high class apartment. It is surely not the ten- ant who {8 having his rent raised re- pentedly, and it is not the owner| o ts having his taxes ratsed yearly with no prospect of getting any ro- turn’ whatever on his investment, | any one doubts this, let him ask any | Brooklyn real estate dealer or any He will receive the same reply. They will tell you that it is ho use to even consult them, for tne | ement House Departm will} make you spend so much money that it will not pay you to bother with tt. As you are now interested in the fight for lower renis, won't you through your paper bring this matter before the public and the legislators and have this injustice remedied? If you do this, you will have the ever- ele | gratitude of many despairing prop owners of useless real estato and will, I think, have gone a long way toward curbing the greed of the avaricious landlords. ONE WHO DESIRES JUSTICE, ——»——_—__ {Notes in Society Miss Vida Ravencroft Sutton has announced that the special play and dance at the Country Playhouse at Harmon will given to-morrow night instead of Saturday, Ladies of the local Red Cross will have charge, ‘The receipts will go to the Red Cross, bullder. 3 be Mr. and Mrs, Frederick @. Cowper- thwatt of Ridgewood, N. J, have an- | nounced the engagement of their daughter, Mins Dorothy Cowper- thwait, to Lieut. Arthur Lawrence | Borart, U. 8. I, non of Mra, Louis | Announcement has been made of | the “engagement of Miss Katharine | Sperry Dean, daughter of Mr. and | Mrs, William Beach Dean of Larch. | mont Manor, to Ensign John Gibbs | Alley, U. 8, A, son of Mr, and Mrs. Alexander Bryan Alley, also of Larchmont Ma: | Mise Bernice Desores Despres, | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac | Despres of No. 562 West 113th 6treet, | and Bernard Kempner of this city, | were married at the Rits-Carlton Hotel here yesterday afternoon, Miss Edith *Braun, daughter of Mrs. Frederick Braun of No, 1a9 West Téth Street, and Reginald De| Witt Smith, Ordnance Department, U, 6. Ay were married at the homo | of her mother yesterday afternoon, ‘The marriage of the Rev. Martin | Luther Canup, pastor of the Inglish Lutheran Church of the Epiphany 126th Btree(japd Madison Avenue. 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Dining Table, 48 in., 6 ft. extension; as illus. trated, | | ce Wood | Ailing Men and Women— ' Here Is Convincing Evidence What the Electro Medical Scientists Can Do For You. Scores of New York and Brooklyn Residents Gladly and Voluntarily Testify of Their Remarkable Return to Health So That Others May Learn of This New System of Treatment for Chronic Diseases of Men and Women—Special X-Ray Examination and Demonstration Treatment Loe om | walk five to ten miles with eas ; Meee “also wish to state that the methods pits ny, ¥ seem Sn | practised by The Electro Medical ; . M A : Scientists are very much different from those of others who tried to help me previously and 1 believe their success depends very much upon this fact. TL earnestly recont mend the sick to them.” JOSEPH 44 Marshall St MILLER, Poughkeepsie, N Merchant Cured After a of Suffering. |. Davenport, 14: KF, Sard Street Tells w Mr. Davenport writes “I have been an extreme sufferer from chronic indigestion years, I had many sleepless nights and any- thing I ate caused me great dis and much suffering. I consulted seven well known Brooklyn physicians and was told by one that I had a tumor and another said I had an abscess, Another, a very prominent stomach specialist, told me that I had an uleer in my intestines, and to make certain } took 85 X-ray photographs and showed me where the ulcer was located, advising an immediate oper: ation, L was within three days of going to a Brooklyn hospital to have this removed, but after serious thought I did not like the iaea of the surgeon's knife and went and eon sulted The Electro Medical Scientists, ind T thank the day T did, for in two months’ time T have been permanently ind can truthfully state that 1 never felt better in my Iife than Ido at the present time. 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January 29, 1918, of every man and woman, rich or a poor, It means comfort, tong life, Traveling Salesman Much Improved. »piness, sound sleep, good diges ts Statement Telle How He Is i tion, a clear head, and content: awe | Meing Rapidly Restored to Health, joy to be alive, | Vo the Public | “For a long time I suffered from Jeatveme nervousness and pains tn the jshoulder, My sleep was poor and {! way much bloated up with gas on 1 was afraid to eat what mach, thers relished and was almost con. jstantly hothered with indigestion, particularly while traveling on the Jroad. Reading how chronic suffer lors were heing erently helped towaras j better health by Electro Medical |Scientists, I thought possibly they might be able to help me also and it and placed my case before ther efly, L can say they gave me mucit ef almost at the start, and aince banished all my ble to stomach distress, and Tam no |resume my duties Again as @ travel ine salesman. Tam very thankful to | the Electro Medical Scientist GUSTAVE LASTER, 1384 Washington Av ¥, Virtually every scientific appliance MARIA KOCH How to Reach New York and device of proved merit for the] the use of my fingers. One day Tread Breoklyn OM + [treatment of disease is ut the office] of the Electro Medical ¢ scutes ead ‘4 ae of The Electro Medical Scientists. In| though I was doubtful of their ability! Both the New York and Brooklyn fat any patients who have con-/to help me, I went and consulted them] offices of The Electee Medical Scten- jsulted doctors and specialists in both] at their offices and decided, after due] tists are very conveniently located, : [Europe and America, and who are in| thought, to place toyself under their] The New York aftee ge ituated at positions to know, declare the Electro Ido not regret it now, for the] 134 E. 36th St, corner of Lexington Medical Scientists to have the finest] pain is gones I can use my, hands| Aven Brooklyn office {s situated \ Jand most scientifically equipped| again, I sleep sound, eat weil, and| ato epont Street, well known as offices of their kind in America, In) have gained several pounds in weight] Columbia Heights, At both office reality it is a liberal education for! and feel fine all around, 1 hope this} the entire corner buildings are o est inen and women to inake a tour of/ testimonial may be the means of let-| pied and devated ee the exeluse, Jinspection through these wonderfull ting others know of this new ayatem| treatment ce ate sick. In Brooklyn offices for the healing of the sick.|of treatment which has done so much| the surface cane ai transfer te the Physicians and others are actually/for me after everything else seemed| Montague Stnect Car, which ' ivocled at the! wondertulienuinmenttta tae! _ MARIA KOCH, within a few steps of the offiee wns {instatled, and it is a pleasure to hear 72 West 105th St.. New Vorte, NY, from the Subway and Blevatea’ “i lnatanthre s their gratitude for ; tions at Borongh The great benfit they are daily receiv Resident Speaks Very] ;.. minutes’ walk HOUR eyo ng and the happiness and health that! Highly of Electro Medical Scientists, is being returned to them, In other lth After Many Yeary of Office hours, as announced, are; | words, The Flectro Medical Scientists} Pil Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays" ' but organization of highly traines | days. Fridays, 9 A. M. to 6 p M; ‘ . Iphysicians and spectalists backed Sunday, 10'A.M. tol PMS . thousands of dollars of the Al i Consultation, advice and exam ‘, “ greatest medical app lances for th | tion, including, where required, Fles, ¥ clief and treatment of disease, | scopic X-ray examination, Chemiegl tm physicians of vast exper phan jnalysis, Blood Pressure ‘Test and ere being absolutely na Inconye | Dr. F. R. Ward, Medical Director , ence whatso ver tp. the ey te E |The I Hest Medical Scientists, to the oman, arrangements being mac sick and ailing who eall upot He has extended this offer Roe: ve sufferer a chance to know Among the ailments treated b ! ft eet if Mesileat Seientists an ment with the daietey Madival felen-| thenat fealene uptions oa) | tists after hearing they Were doing 40) swollen glands,” goute neat ] 1 . . stheni, much to assist the ill to better health.| jaundice, vertigo, ay Fe At that time I suffered very much! stomach’ pases’ pall epalee Scene, / rom catarth of the und throaty! goitre, heart Weakness, heey & q with difficult breathi S weg and blo r re, | high ea neve hidne Ht, » insom Raee tine etn rere mie liver complaint * j Hes oe ae A A ASSIS ablGMd alls A AMM AA imme nay ne a Te ee