The evening world. Newspaper, June 13, 1918, Page 13

tory artic other counters may @ change his “lemon” for a “white el }phant” upon the payment of The ceeds of the ba handed over to the War si mows Wash "© cross “Lemon crove. Heale Skig] oe” Unione Basar Veataré B.D. D.. the erentest of s':in remedies ar 18d Street, are planning a] Pewian refusces. = OM reese theme kin aMictions that d Cross bazaar, to be held —-—— Rave mad. your lifes burden het in. audttoriam and school play- Night Service to Bond Bayers, tolerable .tehing. burning nd dircom: jay, June 14, and Satur-] An office of the Liberty Loan Associa- afternoon and evening a noted artlat, ederer, has eared cases pronounced incurabis. ‘ ent painting of |» for payments of inatalments on first boitie is eusranteed to br! Liberty bonds bought on the partial peyment plan The new office is on he econd floor of a building between JA2d fd tad! Ktraota and wif be'Spen| Rents Are Boosted and the “Lemon | evening s wel Saturday after *, © ele: | noone. a1 of Samuel V.! 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You doubtless | know that the cost of maintaining real estate has grown a heavier bur- den each succeeding year. Coal, la- bor and supplies have increased con- stantly, to say nothing of taxes. We dislike to advance rental charges, but in selfédefense it 1s the only redress which we have, and we only in fair- heas are asking tenants to share par- tially with us the burdens imposed upon all owners. As to the decora- tons in the apartment which you oo- cupy, we will, of course, do only what is sbeolutely eapontial end, necessary. “If I do not hear from you by June 15, 1918, I shall offer your apartment for rent without further notice.” ‘The renter of this apartment, three rooms, was paying $39 @ month for it last October. There are about sixty artmenss in the building. If the me ratio of Increases holds good in all of them, the owners will recelve about $6,600 more revenue a year, He can't see where labor at this apart- ment house has gone up very Fee | when the elevator men were displact by elevator gins, who got less money, : : A TENANT. $3 a Jamp ta The Rent Jw THE, BRONX, To the Battor & The I believe you take a correct view in recommending that if we could get the Aldermen to act to prevent this extortion of high rents, as it was done by Congress in the District of Columbia, it would be a great bless- ing for the people at large. f know that on Fox Street, in the Bronx, and adi throughout that sec- tion, rents have been raised three timés in the period of nine months, $3 each time. In my neighborhood they have raised from $3 to $5. We had! no hot water nor steam and we suf-| fered torribly, especially the children, | Families with four and five children had to live the whole winter In the kitchen and Inhale the poisonous air of the gas stove. The majority of them caught cold and were | with pneumonia, They have r our rents during the winter, but why |do they raise renta in eummer and make m leanes 80 a8 to force us | into sion? | | BRONX TENANT, | N. Y., June 8, World | No Clty of Ret Mast Pay | To the PAitor of The | Landlords have | rents gradually each year since the war be Various reasons were as- | signed quite nelf-satisfactory, but i mainly because they could do it and wanted the money. Now we are at war. Every citizen of aug respons!- | bility Is being taxed, and properly, to | the utmost of his resources to meet | Government needa, in helping to win t In the nature of things ybody must incidentally expect 1 | pay more for most things, but nobody ! should be vietimized deliberately to, satisfy anybody's greed The shortage of mortagae money land butlding money stops new build. , ing and confines tenantry to quarters that exist. This afforda landlord opportunity, which apparently have set to turn to their own avarice a vengeance. So in heart- srogard of eauity or public con- fon a achedule of rates deen made from 15 to 25 per cant. | shove the mites for leases expiring next October. and the tenant I left no recourse, They may have Hmited | choles of apartment and can move, | but of rates no choice, Plainly. own ara and aronta have got together and fixed thines to sult their greed, and there vou are Why shonld tenants be made to pay all the axtra expense and hares hich the war b a to Iandlorda® You, and more, nh omore, Why shonld this class of eltizens. sor thelr proner loads upon their alre idden tenantr? Shall not authorith inavire inte particular line of war profiteering or | lotims of this sort of levying mi enroge coun and force! asue? | nants are betne given from ten to thirty days to sien up or eet out on the street, of rthat is what it ammunts to | Ts there no city of refure for | the hard puthl! anta? WW. 8. | The Other Side, the Filthy Tenant) “Who Beats It With the Kent.” | To the Kaitor of The Frening World | As I have been a Jer of y ur] | valuable paper ever since I learne |how to read, which is now about] twenty-five years, I would like to say @ word about the rent question and/ present an example of what owners and agents have to tolerate. J ai | the agent of two new wx-family brick Apartments, completed about nine months, in a nice neighborhood, and 1 have raised the rent only $1 @ month | per apartment I had a party who vacated yester |day evenin beating it” with th |rent. , | When I went to the vacated apart }ment, I never entered such a filthy | Place in all the fifteen years or mors jE have been in the dusiness, Borides the destruction, it will cost at least Hed to replace and repair the prem ; ines, This apartment rents at $19 © |month, If these kinds of tenants a allowed to continue they will bring Ilegue wherever they go. (ha SELF-DEFENSE PLEA‘ Notified the Tenement House Depart- ment and Health Department of this eondition. RP. M. Brooklyn, June 9. expense, anece fo taxes, &e., I believe the future rent the Bombay Can Give Ooot-- ntal New York Rent Rate Tips. ‘Te the Kaitor of The Evening World: Apropos of your interesting cam- Palgn against overcharges of land- bespaay 1 heceived a letter from Bom- + India, this morning, which eon- tained the following lines! “The Government has just passed the Rent Bill whereby the rapacity of the landlord was checked and which investment lords? A TPNANT. New York, June 9 boy, thereby cutting down another | ¢¢ Allowing for an tnoreased allow. | owners for increased | will show an increased profit to the Owners of over 10 per cent. on the May we learn, through your efforts, What an amount ought to be berne by the tenants, according to the In creased taxes imposed on the jand. | YO BOTTOM TO TRUNK YARN. Say Doctor, This Prescription Works Like Magic”—Physician Explains Why Nuxated Iron | Quickly ag a the Strength and Energy of Mei?) an A i} Brings Roses. to the Cheeks of be | Nervous, Rundown Women, Over Three bar mean: back "te what thoy w had to be PUL! Amertcan Express Official Dentes Py og 4 f 1916, and all excess rents since that |OWners Mast Handle Own In Fature ire Taking time (were to be applied to cominy| OFficinis of the American Express Nuxated Iron “a! rents.” Com f w sreath am ta. os. And we have had a notion that Hom. jat 4 ned In Bomton an . a i still had some cyclen to travel tol which quiet hed her@ to the ef eave geish up with our advanced clviliza-| root that. prot jon AB Columbia University, June 11 ely Suspects Extortion. To the Editor of The Dveeins World : The house is located in West 171st Btreet. It is a walk-up, five floors, each floor consisting of two 8-room apartments, two 4-roam apartments and two 5-room apartments, totalling aix families to a floor. There will be an increase of 10 per cent. equal to the amount of $120 a Les te | or $1,440 @ year. The agent notified us Aine 7 regarding the increase and the answer must be turned ip by June 16 “races elise wou be je also notified ua there wou! Every community bee @ w no repairing done. The owners are és leo going to dispense with the hall. ving’ POP? Wonder how he makes pany, the expiani have been dispensed with and ¢ atairs alone, “It seems & hame to eit down oh he breath out of an earl said Robert FB. Cowl compeln me to ‘nay tha’ In the story is the Boston di $e A UNIVERSAL CHARACTER, From the Atchison Globe.) . 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