The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1919, Page 4

Teak ey £ te % _& Mortgige Company for nino-story |s! we PROJECTS NOW AVALABLE ~~ BUTFEW DARE PLAN HOMES jeopardize the sayings under their control by making unwise advances to builders. Clamor hele tas Landlords and Greater Money Risks Block Housing Deals, MANY NEW THEATRES. and loans to builders of owners must be mfeguarded by means of higher | rentals, In other words, tenants must pay now for the free rents over which they formerly gloated—and it is quite possible that those who now cry hardest are those who then got the @u) 7,000,000 Will Be Spent for) "Principies aftectine housing mp. Playhouses in Various | Those controlling sther items of gone Parts of City. sumption, such as food and clathin Bao And in a aimilar way, a the sieo! fee becomes taken up wo may expect ‘ Mpecuiative builders are getting|!MProvement. Speculative | bullders have been able to buy old buildings cheaper than they could put up new ones, and no one could expect an ditional supply until the old. ones should have attained again thelr logical market yalues.” $7,000,000 IN NEW RUSH OF THE- ATRE BUILDER! ‘That residential builders are hold- ing ‘k on account of uncertainties due to agitation against Jandlords is shown by tho larger number CA _ |neas projects announced and the 106 Weat 184 /treator, case with which, loans are loans again. Nearty $600,000,000 is available now for much-needed projects throughout tie metropolis, accurding to surve: _ oOmpleted to-day by the real es “and ball exchanges. Severn) loans ‘wer@negotiated during the last week, tilde for réaidential undertakings be- dg 16d by $480,000 from the City V apartments at No. Street to cover 126x102.2. & Sbtained ‘for such. operations. ~ renting agents and land-| Garages oar been prominent, but Phavtoras im all sections are urging ten- | the gurerivt movement jayplves theatres, wi fil might considered ante to sign leases extending from = ne to three years from next Oc- cober, many threatening to lease the cenants’ quarters over their heads _unleas contracts are exvoutéd within "a tow days, operators have learned {that gnousb houses will be under @ construction before July ta provide tereienly of -pew October homes for “hese who want to move, * Spectators who have been buying "apartment houses, and landlords of “the proftteering breed, with their ao- vomplices, are striving to hold back the building, movement, but there are strong indications they wil be ¢ @wept of their feet during the com- “img few weeks, They rely mainiy ‘en B continuance of the agitation imgt landlords and the chance. fiat 10s various tavestignting ‘cont Ba ri piore $4f0.000 Fordham ‘Thee tiasions will drag out their hearings corner of Fordham Road and Valen- jong enough to keep builders and HMiaminete thee weaka’ ree fenders in fear and uncertainty as to . This condition is holding up a free mgnp, Company will spend $375,000 on resumption “of constructional opera- 4“ seat house Sg Prospect Ave- those ad do nue and 16lst Street: tons on the part of In Brooklyn, John Manheimer will not dare make bullding contracts UA~ juj1a a $450,000 thoatre, to seat 8,000, ul they understand what restrictions at Matic ra Avenue and Albemarle om properties which might be Pr 1,600, the northeast corner of : She partly or wholly from their a Oe rey one cerca Let AGAINST with 1,200 seats, on eas cay LANDLORDS ‘Miatsuen Avenue, north of Tt HALTS HOME PROJECTS. Avenue. The 4 arks Amuse es “The housing situaion would right Company !s. ready to erect a $1 bad in @ proper way if thia hue and pictiire house at No. 28 Flatbush inst tandiords and profiteering venue, The estate of Chauncey ‘at stop,” ald President Marshall is planning a $100,000 thea. : Kelsey, of the Title Guatantes ‘tae for the squtheast corper of Barn- and Trust Company. “It ts an a “tdga Avenue and Macon Street. Her- nomig con@tion which must mend man Weingarten t# building a $125,000 -teelf, and everything seems favor- house, with 3,100 weate, at the north. os 4ble for # cure if the field were ,oast..cerner of Fulton Street and of outside inferferente.” ‘Howard Avenue, /The Washington “The erful underlying causes ‘Amusement Company is planning a for building aotivit; abe $100,000 theatre, with 1,500 seats, on ut the permanent and orly ef- tyaide of Washington Avenue, t solution, quite independ~ Prospect Place. ntly of the various Committees and —_—— =>, agitations,” said Chairman Alfred . Marling, of the A Counchi if Reat te Int ‘he symp- toms have been studied very care- jfully and have been unquestionably SMITH STILL UNDECIDED serious so far as the tenant- patient ON TEACHERS’ SALARY BILL have been cast aside as wholly fa Governor Is Studying Measure to BE lg rfl Petarne.| Effect on’ Public Inances, ign, State loans, exemption | taxation or other forme of pri- | or sartifie ial nlm . Gov. Alfred E; Smith, spending the 4 have carried. F Week-end at the Biltmore, said to-day ere re ene ¥ mee ‘tees he was not yet ready to announce hia FbANCES final decision én the bill for a State- resulting from oversbuilding, wide increase of the pay of public school 6 teachers, now before him for approval, He said he was studying the bill “to determine exactly its. effect on State and city finances,” ‘The Governor, who te-myffering from & severe cold which he attributes to overwork wince the end of the session and lack of sleep, said he had no plans for the day beyond @ call at the City Mall this morning and attending .he Weastehester County dinner to-night. a Binet Furnace In| Liberated France | Opened LONGWY, France, May 17.—Louts Louchoun Minister of Reconstraction, today relit the blast furna, Benelle fac tory, at to be reo ed territory In Northern ir Albert I. Lebrun, Miniatet of Blockade and Invaded Re- vaded Regions and many men promin. ent in industrial life in France were present far less necessary than homes uader resent oritical sages A conditions. ae calling for '@ than §, are under way in the Greater cit ity nd others to be started at onc will, take over $2,000,000 more. Man- hattan and Brooklyn both are speod- # $2,500,000, Three projecta in the ronx call for’ $1,000,000, three in Queens for $1,000,000. Manhattan has four big atructures under Way and more than 9 score of small ones, The 8,200-seat house for FB, 8. Moas on the northwest corner of Browdway and 1Slst Street will cost 000, The Moredall Realty Com- pany te building @ $1,000,000 theatre, wth tall offices, on the southwest corner of Broadway and Sist Street, Two Selwyn theatres at Non. 215-223 West 42d Street and Nos, 228-284 West 43d Aire tr penting 2100 and 1am, Riles a rons, Meith interests are s Y ore the w south of and Now, eat- © levels, banka, ingurance com- papiea and other trust funds cannot body building-— : POMPEIAN OLIVE OIL -—“‘always fresh” Easily Assimilated and Digested Recommended by Physi Sold Everywhere $00,000,000 FORBULONG.| “Such savings must be protected | . |--According to the agreement reached HANAN aS DEFEAT RUMANIANS ALONG DNIESTER a Forced Across River, Says Bol- shevik Report to Hungar- jan Soviet Leader. LONDON, May 17.—A Vienna dis- | patoh to the Exchange Telegraph Company says that according to a Hungarian official agency report, M. Tohitoherin, the Bolshevik Foreign Minister of Russia, had telegraphed to Bela Kun, head of the Soviet Gov- ernment of Hungary, that the Ukrain~ jan Red Army has defeated the Rou- manians along the Dniester River and have crossed that stream, the Rou- manians taking fight. BERLIN, May 17 (Associated Press). between the Poles and Ukrainians through the offices of Entente rep: sentatives, the demarkation line be- tween the two forces which have been contending in Galicia, has been drawn between Lemberg and Prze- mysl, according to @ Vienna despatch to the Vossisohe Zeitung. Lemberg woes to the Poles, while the district of Boryslaw-Dronobyoe and the reat jem A British fleet anchored outside Memel, East Prussia, close to tl Russian frontier, and the British adys, despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company quoting Berlin advices. —_~ RUSSIA BORDER NATIONS WORK FOR INDEPENDENCE Esthonia, Tettland, Ukrainla and Others Seek Membership in League of Nations, PARIS, May 17.—A complete work- ing agreement has been reached among the new nations bordering Ruala, whereby each Is assisting the other toward containing complete in- dependence, It was learned to-day. The agreemgnt was reached in Feb- ruary but was kept secret until! to- day. ‘The countries included in the agree- ment are BHsthonia, Georgia, Lett- land, Lithuania, Ukrainia aid Ruth- enia, Each delegation of represen- tatives takes turn in presiding at the Joint meetings. In addition to obtaining Independ- 00 Jonce, the mations are seeking mem: bership in the League of Nations, elthor separately or as a group. Town Near P by Destroyers. LONDON, May 17—A wireless dad. spatch from Mosoow to-day reported that @ crulser and two destroyers of unknown nationality bombarded the sion north of Ropaha, twenty-four miles north of Petrograd, without result. Re- cent unofficial despatches have reported British and French warships mobjliging at Helsingfore preparatory to an atta *k on Petrograd, which the Bolsheviki are reported to be evacuating. oniipanelaamensines AUSTRIAN INDEMNITY IS FIXED IN TREATY Famed Writer’s Son to Wed Daughter-of His Mother’s Publisher, A quick courtship, interrupted by the departure of the prospective groom overseas, will culminate May 24 in the marriage of Mary Noble Doran, daughter of George H. Doran, the publisher, and Lieut, Stanley Marshall Rinehart jr, son of Major} oa) Stanley Rinehart and Mary Roberts Rinehart, the noted American eu- thoress. In many ways the romande of the son is similar to that of his parents, ‘Twenty-three years ago Mrs. Rine- hart was @ nuree,a@t the hospital of which Dr. Rinehart was the phy ch The community of Iintere: wish the world to continue thinklng that Germany regards treaties as mere scraps of paper.” BERL Press: order of the day both in Berlin and the provinces. A crowd, estimated at 200,000 persons and including people from the frontler regions, assembled on Thursday at the Reichstag Butld- ing and adopted strongly worded res- olutions against the peace terms, The netghborhod of the Hotel Adlon, the headquarters of the Allied mis- sions, has been placed under gvard of & cordon of police, Serious rioting occurred. at Stettin on Thursday night, according to the Lokal Anzeiger. A crowd stormed the AT 12500000 (Continued From First Page.) marks ($1,250,000,000), without bond, The Allied and Austrian Peace Del- egation will meet Monday afternoon for an exchange of credentials, ST, GHRMAIN, May 17 (United Preass)—-Chancellor Rener, head of the Austrian delegation, will follow the example of Foreign ‘Minister Brockdorff-Rantzau and make a speech to the Allies when the terms are presented to the Austrians, The Austrians are optimistic apparently are enjoying themsel¥ They have no desire to communicate with the German delegates at Ver- sallls, nd ee GERMANS CALLED TO MEET TO-MORROW FOR NEW DEMONSTRATION Two Hundred Thousand Take Part in One Outburst in Berlin, BERLIN, May 17 (United Press).— Counter proposals to the peace treaty probably will be completes Sunday, it was learned from an au- thoritative source to-day. Vast meetings have been called tor Bunday at the Reichstag and else- where, to protest against signing tho | treaty, | Certain minor oMfctals declare the terms will not be accepted unlevs they are modified, | “We will not sign for the purpose | of escaping from the consequences of such @ stand,” said one official, ‘St 1s impossible to carry out the provi- wlons of the treaty and we do uot prison and \berated all uncer det tion there, and attacked the barracks. Many shops are reported to have been plundered. Rioting continued all of Thursday night, the troops in the barracks of- fering obstinate resistance. The num- ber of casualties in the fighting is unknown, ee GERMAN PRESS KEEPS UP ITS ATTACKS ON WILSON Blames the President for the Se- verity of the Peace Terms. BERNE, May 17 (United Press).— The German press is continuing its virulent attacks on President Wilson, whom it blames for the severity of the peace terms. \ “Wilson, whom we praised so much, has become a statue of brass, on the base of which may be written, ‘Germany's Executioner,” was the typical comment of the Deutache ny se. This disgraceful peace is Wilson's "sald the Taglische Rundschau, eived us, hating Gertnany with Indian hate—this man who was | re-elected President thanks to Ger- man-Americans, through the connl- vance of our foreign office. If the American people consent to such a peace all books referring to American | faith, honor and loyalty must be banned bi alt is our sohool FULL TEXT OF TREATY IS STILL HELD BACK Council of Four Said to Have De- cided to Await Ils Acceptance, PARIS, May 17 (United Press).-The Rinehart-Doran Engagement. Like Mrs. Les nc al 's Romance quainted with Miss Doran through | |im this city are not in the rent profit- business, as the books of his mother from Pittsburgh, was aide de camp Trinity Church, Ossining, and will be The ‘Treaty until learned from reliable sources. ceived by that body this afternoon. —>— mutual interest in the publishing were published by her father’s pub- lishing house, Three days before departure for overseas Lieut, Rinehart, who has become known throughout the coun- try from references to "Stan" in the wi writings of the authoress, met ss Doran, and on the mornii ome fatt t the couple became Eee ees his recent return an ear! was decided upon. Lieut. Rinehart, a Harvard man to Gen. Glenn, commanding the 834 Division, His mother was prominent in war activities in France, and his fatl who {s a Major in the Medi- Corps, Was assigned to the Sur- ie General's office in Washington upon his return to America. ‘The wedding will take place at followed by @ reception at the home of the bride at Woodlawn, Ossining. ung couple plan to make their home No, 248 ‘est End Avenue after Sept. 1. its acceptance, it was Representatives of India were re- ITALIANS GIVE UP ONE OF THEIR CLAIMS Admit Rights of Greece to Dodo- canese Islands—Consultations With House. PARIS, May 17.—It-' has refine quished her claims to the Dodocanese Islands, off the Asia Minor coast, tn favor of Greece, This ends one of the most acute controversies before the Peace Conference. Premier O~'ando, Count **»eoht Di Cellere, Italian Ambassador to tha} United States, and Cc-9| BM House of the American Peace Mission, a ° ued to-day their conferences look- ing toward a settlement of the Adriatic question, It was stated that the out- look was hopeful, but in official cireies eS ore optimism should * discour- has been requested by the fatiana that the Au trian t- vide for the retur me of the many priceless art trea: fee, Sassen ‘bv Au as booty in penvuaie Were POPE ACTS OM PLEA SENT BY GERMANS Takes Steps to Communicate With Head of the Peace Delegation. ROMB, May 17.—In response to a pe- tition from the German episcop bes- ging his good offices in securir~ @ miti- tion of the terms of peace, Pope Bene- taken steps to communicate head of one of the most im- portant delegations at the Peace Confer ance with 8 view to getting (he condi- modi fie Economy the thor Council of Four decided to-day not to publieb che full vext of the German State and City Officials Openly , Committee on "SALADA" TEA dives greatest tea-value for your meney. Yielde many mere cup —and then you Obstinate “tandierts to Peel Heavy Hand of the Tax Department. DIVIDED ON PUBLIC AID. |3?4 Split on Plan for Bond, Issue, Mayor Hylan to-day expressed his belief that the police investigation of rent profiteering will be not only of great advantage to tenants, but also will resutt in O©finging down the heavy hand of the Tax Department on obstinate landlonis. His state- ment to a reporter Gor The Hivening World follows: “The sutvey which is now being made by the police for vacant apart- ments throughout the city wil) no doubt result in aiding those who are looking for housing accommodations and likewise bring to‘ light instances of rent profiteoring. “Any Information of rent profiteer- ing given to the police should be immediately reported to Nathan Hirsch, Chairman of the Mayor's Rent Profiteerin«, and he in turn will take it up with the Tax Department in order tha the question of increasing the sessment on such profiteering land- lords’ property may be considered. “The great majority of landlords eoring class, but those do Profiteer, I am sure, will receive lit- tle consideration at the hands ‘of the Tax Department and the assessors.” POLICE MAKING DILIGENT ARCH FOR PROPITEERING. ‘The police are anaking a diligent search for profiteering under the fol- lowing order issued by Police Com- missioner Enright: "Commanding officers all dis- tricts and’ precincte—In addition to the report of vacant apart- ments required under Depart- ment Order No. 26-G, current series, you will submit on May 3, ~ 1919, @ separate report giving fal | th: particulars of all flagrant cases of rent profiteering disclosed during the survey. “RICHARD E, ENRIGHT, “Police Commissioner,” Tenants in all parts of the city are being questioned by the police as @ result of this survey, which was sug- gested by The Evening World. It is designed to drag from hiding rent Profiteers whose oppressed tenants are afraid to go to the Mayor's Com- mittee with their troubles. If the! landlords remain obstinate a recom- mendation will be sent to the Tax De- partment that their assessments be increased in proportion to their higher rentals, ‘The police questions in genera) are How many tenants in the build- ing? ‘Who is the landiord? Has your rent been increased; if 0, how much? What increase would you re- gard reasonable? Is the building kept in proper repair? Do you believe the increase jus- tied? Are you eatiafied? J ‘This information will be held con- Nidential by the committes. OFFICIAL® OPENLY DIVIDED ON METHOD OF RELIEF, Officials designated to aolve the rent problem etand openly divided to-day on the method that should be pursued, Abram I, Elkus, Chairman, and other members of the Gevernor’s Reconstruction Commission oppose @ Dian for State or municipal aid and weuld have lenders of money provide funds under the mortgage plan. Mayor Hylan and Chairman Hirsch of the Mayor's Committee are firmly against such a plan and would sup- Ply the money through a State bond tonne. ‘The two propositions were thrashed out late yesterday afternoon and last night Watchword! te the pound than have that Sih RENT INVESTIGATION = TO AID TENANTS AND CHECK ‘zs ~PROFITEERING, SAYS MAYOR’ Governor's dinner at the Metropolitan Club, attended by a large number of capiteliste who favor the mortgage if was the opening ses- Joint Legislative Commit- at which the Mayor {rsoh expressed their perma ‘The Metropolitan Club dinner was private, but Mr, Bikus made a statement later. Finanolai interests, according to expressed themsives as strongly opposed to State, Federal or city ald and averse to the Dodge dill, which permits the remodeling of old private houses iato tenements and practically suspending the new tene- tient law. ‘The chief address wes by Alfred BE. Marling, head of the Horace 8, Bly Real Wstate Company, and a mem- |t! ber of the commission. He told of & new model tenement covering only 51% per cent. of @ plot of land instead of 10 per cent. which would contain apartments ranging from $82 to $35 a month. ‘These houses are to eo aided in the building by a co-operative company with @ capital of $5,000,000, builder is to get 60 per cent. from the mortgage companies on @ first mort- age, 20 per cent. from the co-opera- tive concern on & second mortgage and furnish 20 per cant. himself. J. Morgan has agreed to join the com- pany, along with other large capital- istay The fund, Mr. Marling said, would house 4,500 families. Accom- modations for 25,000 are needed, figured that the builder can make 6 per cent. STATE AID plan, The ot Mon of bok on y Darton Mr. Bikus, to the solve \e URGED AND HIRSC' Before the Joint Legislative Com- mittee on Housing, Mayor Hylan and Nathan Hirsch strongly urged State aid and the passage of the Dodge bill, which will permit private dwellings to be turned into apartment buildings, thereby insuring housing for upward of 20,000 families next fall. After the session, beld in City Hall, Senator Abraham Kaplan committed himself Droject. As to O itate aid, the Mayor sald seine along the lines of the Fed- eral Home Law would greatly help building problem, which every one ee pg hopper’ tes aches De- fore permanent r can be obtained. ye 4 take Federal or city aid, he said, but ptr wave a Ltr Fone more practical and more q ly ob- ke did not Peirmrig whether The isfaction that you, P.| visit any of well 5 pd It is BY HYLAN building, Eke could supervise the mortgages. ould be for F the erection of Paitutiod, a ty ne pstee gi’ of the Te OF any step backward Ee, tie'law in our beusin, LUNA PARK OPENS TO. OPENS TO-NIGHT. Coney teland. Luna, Coney Island, will open its gates to-night for the season of 1919. A parade headed by the Luna Park Band. te scheduled for 7 P. M. The route will be up Surf Avenue to the Sen Gate reser-, vation and from there to Beach. 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