The evening world. Newspaper, October 31, 1918, Page 10

os ea ls THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1918. County Judge Frank t Young has just | Vernon as its forester. He le now overs was wou filed & decision in the widely discunsed'| "mae And, Jaet mont GITY OFFICIAL WINS POINT + action. He brought an a Jon against UNDER SOLIMER'S PAY LAW | msc arr Atun Sicha Sai ar Henn, now a soldier, against the City of 1 Mount Vernon, for his city salary, In Which he sustaine the demurrer to the defense interposed by Henn's counsel and expresses the hope ttyt his decision |may be reviewed. Henn, when selected for milftary ser- ceived when Ww. for t Bellty and we Oe oy Bd Urele am, busing bie grounde for such extra com) jon upon an act passed by Legisiature providing for extra pay to clty employees, ‘The city claimed the law that Henn invokes te unconstitu- tonal. Mount Vernon Man Wants Differ- ence Between City Salary and Army Pay. tReecial to The Evoning World) WHITE PLAINS, N. ¥., Oct. S = t interest hi 4 througho! 31 rege!) wn ahi y VAT efuiasic's THE HARD wo! 1% WITH THE for them. qualityof W i. Douglas prodoct is guaranteed than 40 years experience in makin; able profits is only one example of the constant peor ta bie 2 be pd my T - ein 5 . L. Doug! factory at Brockton, by the pledge that Le | are the best in materials, pia petted shoomakers, under the direction ‘workmanship style possible to produce at supervision of experienced men, all working withan the price. Into every pair go the results of sixty- honest determination to make the best shoes fort six years ¢: im making shoes, dating price that money can The retail prices game everywhere. T! cost mo more in Gan Francisco than they do in New York. price on every pair of shi against high Prive and anressen: qraanea aicontines Me w. tL. for booklet Mi the malls portage teak Vb Goxglea Rise Gow, Mio 'Gpark ts s Stores in Greater New York : . 146th & re7th Sts.] #859 Manhattan Avenue. 1779 Pitkin A’ ne. d sey TY 18 New rk Avenue, *#HOROKEN--190 W. St. 1-276 Ave. 831 Br My Sra Avenae, cor. ite ext marked with « & carry complete li: OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS “Little Things Count Most” Is an old and long-accepted axiom. In no way is it truer than in the furnishing of your home. It’s just that extra rug here, the odd rocker there, that makes home take on a cozier, more livable at- mosphere; little things, that we often don’t take time to notice, that make all the difference between harmony and emptiness. Never before has there been such a wonderful array of every type of furniture required in the home. Gate Leg Table “WE MAKE TERMS TO FIT” ts Jeomnees Oe Me ogany or Qua: yaks Period, in Ma- hogany and American Walnut; with drop leaf, $95.98 Plain Figure Tage on Everything Mot a» illustrated. ... Truck Deliveries Everywhere illustrated, at illustrated, at 8416-98 High Grade Empire Period Bedroom Suite in Mahogany | 4 pieces, consi: |] as illustrated ee ' Wing Side Rocker William and Mary Period, i Mah in « 1g Side Arm Chair liam and Mary Pe- » in antique ma- _ Seven-Piece Oak Dining Room Set This handsome set consists of a Solid Oak EXTENSION TABLE with heavy claw feet, 42-inch top and 6-foot exten- yeny (init. cane sion; SIX CHAIRS, with Imitation in ek and 49.75 Leather slip seats, Comp set 7 QQ-98 eat seven pieces for the low price of 1 BEA As BRO MANN & a szxinann no & SAVE ncaa aetna ori rons RENT PROFITEERING IN PLAGE UNFIT FOR HUMAN HABITATION |Tenants Had Rent Unduly | Raised for Cold “Homes” of Filth and Grime. | 1 By Willis Brooks ‘There is wide discrepancy between | the story told by Jacob Shevell, owner of the tenement house at No, 241 East 13th Street, and the stories told by a | Mumber of his tenants, not to mention the tale told to the eye by the house iteelt. T haven't the heart to invite read- ors of The Bvening World to visit this tenement. I have been through it myself. Turkish baths may purity the skin and dry cleaning renovate the clothing, but after such @ visit something gaumy sticks to the soul, giving one an inerasable sense of un- cleanliness. Whatever the health in- spectors may report—if indeed they | have inspected it—I make bold to as- ‘sort that from top to bottom the building is unfit tor human babita- tion, . The apartments on all but the ground floor consist of three pinched rooms each—a “parlor” about the size of an old fashioned hall bedroom, a kitohen perhaps half as large and a bedroom similar in size to the kitchen. There are four families on a floor, two side by side at the front and rear, and these two havea bathroom in common, if the battered and broken Nie American women are right behind the American troops in the trenches, Women nurses are now installed in hospitals 8 miles in the rear of the fighting line, Many of our American women are unable to take up the duties of nura- ing at the front, but they should know how to take care of their own at home, and for this purpose no better book was ever printed than the Medical Adviser—a book containin, 1,001 es, and bound in cloth, wit chapters on First Aid, Bandaging and care of Fractures, Taking Care of the Sick, Physiology, Hygiene, Sex Prob- lems, Mother and Babe, which can be had at most drug stores, or send 50 cents to the publishers, 668 Main St., Tl out, who are nervous or dizzy at times, should take that reliable, temperance, her! onic, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. tone down ruins T saw can be rooms, ‘The bullding rises six stories. Water 8 supposed to be supplied to the upper stories frpm-a tank on the roof ted with a pump in the cellar, jank is kept full these tenants get water, but they tell medt is sel- dom full. When I tried @ top-f tap water merely trickled, and when I pulled the broken bit of rusty chain to flush the tollet in ohe of these bathrooms it loosed about a quart of gurgling water—certainly not enough for eanitary flushing. There is piping for gas in the bathrooms and private balls, but no fixtures, #0 these parts Gre in total darkness at night, which, in @ sense, is @ mercy, since the bide- ousness of the walls, floors and ceil- ings Is then shut from viow. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN E. 13TH AND RIVERSIDE DRIVE. $ called bath- | in ‘Shi After my visit 1 consulted the telephone directory and learned that Mr, Shevell lives at No. 720 River- side Drive, This is the section in which the cheaper apartments bring upward of $1,200 a year; and Mr. Shevell’s apartments are not among the cheapest. ‘This is mentioned only as throwing light on Mr, Shevell’s idea of what constitutes proper housing for him and bis. When I called No, 720 Riverside Drive by telephone and, in my ignor- ance, asked for Mr. Shevell, with the assent on the "She the voice ap- parently of a young woman informed me that Mr, SheVBLL lived there. ‘When I finally got into touch with Mr. Shovell, telling him that séveral of his East 18th Street tenants had complained of unfair increases in their rent, he sadd the “summer prices” of apartments at No. 241 East 1ath Btfeet ranged ‘from $15 to $19 a month, the ground floor rear bring- ing $16, the top Moor (five flights up) from $15 to (front and rear the same), while other floors bring from $17 to $19. if Mr. Shevell will pardon the in- terruption, I found Mrg. Carrie M. Smith, whose husband died in the service of his country @ little more than two months ago, living in one of the rear top apartments, while Miss Rose Marcus, confined to hor bed with pneumonia, lives in the other, and each, I learned, has paid $16 a month ever since she has been there. “On Nov. 1," said Mr. Shevell, “I am supposed to give thom steam he ao 1 am raising their rent $3 to $ a month each for the period of five months, proportioning the in- crease to the amounts they have been paying during the summei RENTS BOOSTED FOR AN UNIN- HABITABLE PLACE. This does not. square with \- tices which several of the tenants showed me, those paying $16 a wonth being increased to $31 and those pay- ing fis being increased to $4. The: may be some $3 increases, but of t many tenants whom I questioned none had received notice of less than a $5 boost. “I haven't raised any of the tenants there a penny during the year,” said Mr. Shevell. “Last year,” said Mrs. Margolis, four fights up, “I lived on the top floor, rear, and paid $15. In April of this year, just when the steam was stopped, the price was raised to $16. Last year the price of the apartment lL now occupy was at first $16.50, th $17, but Inst April it was raised to $ and now I ha 1 it is to be $23." Incidentally, M: Margolis showed me her husband's she sald, ‘and sometimes can make only just enough to pay for our food. I walk many blocks to buy bread for 8 cents a loaf muse they charge 10 cents for the same around here.” “All the expenses have been doubled or tripled,” said Shevell. “My Janitor his previous out one.’ ‘Te come right down to brase tack: the janitor told me there were on! three vacant apartments in the build- That means that M miy-one tenan: increases them all $5 4 I found none who was increased any less—his increase of Income from the building is $1,260 |. Gore 4 | | | | mile gone about thie city. This ts about 9 cents a quatt. NEWSBOYS TO RAISE FLAG. A LIFETIME OF “| SUFFERING a year, If his taxes have been in-/ creased 96 cents on the $100 of valu Bre tlon, bi ee Two gold stars van Bere caer tal i year, q 0 thirty: rvice ie news. | byte ty Pere pen et bag ad bere will ralse. at 24 Street and Broad: | Prevented by “Fruit-a-tlyes ure! it in this building last winter, it can hardly take more than fifty tons In the next five months, or $100 increased cost over last year. His interest way on Sunday night, in honor of “newsles” who went to fight for their country, ‘The two represented by the Kold atara The Wonderful Fruit Medicine 53 Maisonneuve St., Hull. charge at % per cent. increase J8/ wit ery “Wuxtry” no more, but of the “In my opinion, nu other medicine id & year on his $24,000 morteage. | others, “several who have been wounded lis so good as ‘Fr ves’ for ese three chief items of increased | 414 invalided home will be on hand to| expense to Mr. Shevell, therefore, amount to about $320 a year, or one- quarter what a % a month increase of each present tenant's rent bes re Indigestion and Constipation. Among the! 2 ‘ men now| For years | suffered with these affairs, | dreaded diseases, trying all kinds of ks of (he jtreatments until I was told 1 was help in the ceremonies. guests of honor will be se successful in the city’ who graduated from the *newsies.” tion and affor Among the wounded newsboy heroes | incurable. tion at @ time when profiteers of /Sieugahy, WMusert dist and Louis Hras| One day friend told me to try trary Mee Ore Fite th explots teu ee ‘Pruiteactives’ (or Fruit Liven Tablets) their opportunities to exploit the class of people who constitute the tenantry of such houses as Mr. Shevell’s. ———_—— |, will cost rte will cost Grado B Miike by the a will rise prac- tleally half a cent, while pints will increase one cent. 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