The evening world. Newspaper, June 11, 1919, Page 4

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RICH .AND POOR HIT. |Most Brazen Offenders Will Be Summoned Before May- or’s Committee. il | A cursory study by the police of ‘the rent profiteering of the past fow |months in this city shows there are |thousands of cases of flagrant rent | boosting for which the owner can | show no reasonable excuse. In every precinct of the city an in- vestigation has been made by the po- |Mee in an effort to uncover those re- \sponsible for the recent complaints of | tenants. At the behest of the Mayor's | Committee on Rent Profitesring, the uniformed force has turned In reports Flagrant Cases of Profiteering of its own observations, based on {| |comptaints received at the various ket | Silk and of white Hy. revealed Velvet and Failie colors ‘he coat linings f plain or dotted silk of exquisite testave. The Values Are Most Extraordinary This special sale will be held on our 4h floor. Ww" Serrated SLL Ce TM in the 1 sme 1020: TT a OO T=) A Capital Offense ten instructions in preparing prescriptions. If for i ay Saee eared Se prepied es | OT OT station houses. The police, at the time of the in- vestigation, were collecting data on empty houses and apartments, and the inquiry into flagrant cases of rent profiteering was an afterthought. Thus, in many of the precincts, the reports are incomplete. The data, collected by the police, however, piainly show that the rent profiteer has fastened his tentacles on every section of the city, in Brooklyn, in the Bronx, on the east side and in Harlem. Poor and rich have been hit by the raise of rents. The police returns show that the property owner has im- posed his demand for more money on those who pay as little a $10 a month for their rooms and on those who Day $4,000 or $5,000 a year for apart- ments, From 1 per cent. all the way to 140 per cent. the raises have been imposed, and in innumerable cases the rents have been jumped, within the last few weeks, 50 per cent. or more. The Mayors Committee is now tabulating the returns from the vari- ous precinct commanders and intends to summon the most brazen of the property owners, with a view to affording relief to the tenants, ONLY MOST FLAGRANT CASES ARE LISTED. In the order to the precinct com- manders for the investigation, it was emphasized that only flagrant cases be reported, so that the list now in the hands of the Mayor's Committee has -Your Opportunity to Help the Boyhood of America. 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Cases of an increase of $1,000 a year in rentals, while uncommon, nevertheless are to be found in the police returns. For instance, Capt. Edward O'Connor of the East 88th Street Station reported that wealthy residents of his district were aghast at some of the rental jumps to which they have been subjected. Capt. O'Connor cited the casé of No, 1261 Madison Avenue, a high claas apart- ment house, in whicn tne tenante, occupying nine rooms, had their rents raised from $2,200 a year to 3,200 and from $1,900 a year to 2,400, In the same district Capt. O'Connor received complaints from tenants of No. 1038 Fifth Avenue, a six story brick @partment houi with 6, 7 and § rooms to an apar ment, in which the rents have re- cently been raised from $2,400 a year to $3,600, Another case of a $1,000 increase per year was discovered at No. 3 East 85th Street, where the occupants of the twelve room apart- ments found themselves compelled to pay $4,000 a year instead of the previous $3,000, Residences, apartments and flats felt the increases, Storekeepers who had built up a well-paying trade after years of occupancy, according to the police returns, found them- selves forced to submit to increases sometimes far beyond the possi- bilittes of their business. James Jaffe, for instance, has reported to the police of the East 104th Street Station that, whereas he has been paying $55 a month for his store at No, 1676 Madison Avenue, he has been notified to hereafter pay $85. Capt. Brady of the East 104th Street Station reported that there were many similar cases, but that the merchants, fearful of losing their trade and livelihood, had put up with the tremendous rent increases im- posed and were submitting in silence born of fear. HOW SIXTY BRONX TENANTS ARE ENRICHING THE OWNER. Sixty tenants, according to the police of the 46th Precinct, Third Avenue and 160th Street, will enrich the owner of Nos. 1228, 1232 and 1236 Webster Avenue, about $2,160 in the mext year as the result of his raise of rents. Capt. Lantry of the 46th Precinct reported that a recent raise on ten- ants of No, 7738 Kast Léth Street brought the jump in rents of that property during the past five years to over $12 a month, which the ten- ants can ill afford From the Bathgate Avenue Station Capt. Jeremiah W. Maloney reported many complaints of tenants, At No. The same jumps were com- plained of in No. 1826 Trafalgar Place. In No. 1815 Croiona Avenue the six and seven room apartments were raised from $27 and $33 as high as $39'and $45. These raises, accord- ing to the police returns, have all been imposed within the past six months and in some cases have in- volved successive raises with only @ short period intervening. | Capt. John 8. Routh of the High Bridge Station reported in several |typewritten pages what he termed | flagrant rent raising in his precinct. In Nos. 7 and 9 Tremont Avenue, for | example, the rent raises varied all the | Way from $9 to as high as $18 addi- |tlonal, and tenants complained tha for, even in an era of rent boosting. , had their rents raised in sums rai ing from $10 to $23 a month, and in \other flats and apartments the owners | imposed a $10 raise on every tenant, |although they had raised the rents only a few months ago. The police of the 56th Precinct, at | 229th Street and White Plains Ave- jnue, assert they have found the record boost in rentals this far dis- covered. Complaint was made by a woman tenant of No. 3318 White Plains Avenue that her rental within the past four months has been raised from $22 a month to a jump of p about 140 per cent. §| COLUMBIA pa ee Three distinguished COLUMBIA AND HARDMAN, OFFICIAL AGENTS FOR BOY SCOUTS a ad an pele rr mer A 2 433 Fifth A N (herve toad nu bea oe THOUSANDS OF RENT CUCERS © ARE LISTED BY GITY POLICE; are not the only .places which have |‘ the increases were entirely uncalled | | In No, 2455 Grand Avenue six tenants | NORA Clear as @ Bell” 23 a month on Feb. 1, 1919, and on jay 1 had to pay $55 a month for her apartment. Capt. A. C. Halse of the 424 Pre- at 177th Street and Haven Ave- n the Sixth Inspection District, reported that complaints of rent profiteering were general within the boundaries of his precinct. “There is no doubt in my mind that the complaints are founded upon tacts,” he says in his official report to the Chief Inspector, “and that the owners and agents of apartment houses are bleeding the tenants to a merciless extent.” The cases of rent boosts reported by Capt. Halse follow: at W, 18M Bt... i 122 W. 1080 Bt... Jas, Musee. . 851 W, 1600 8t,..D, Reberteon 949, : 514-6 W. 186th Bt. . Meehan... 865 W. 170th Bt. ..3, 6, Maxwell #25 W. 170th Bt.0. A, Adrian, ; i Ht WHERE PEOPLE PAY MONEY FOR LITTLE OR NOTHING. Capt. Patrick F. Gargan, in the West 125th Street Station, which is in the Sixth Inspection District, reported that a tenant at No. 611 West 127th! Street told him the rent on a threo- room rear apartment was raised from $35 to $40 a month last October under ment, the tenant said, had been painted and cleaned only once since 1915. On May 10, 1919, the tenant was notified by new owners of the bulld- ing that the rent would be $50 from next October and that the lease must be signed by May 25. The Captain of the 88th Precinct, in ‘West 135th Street, which is in the Sixth Inspeotion District, reported the case of a tenant who rented for $16 a month @ three-room apartment on the third floor qt No. 233 West 133d Street, without heat or hot water, but with the understanding that hot water would be put in. After three months’ occupancy he was notified he would have to pay $24 a month, and he has yet to get the hot water. The agent is given as James T. Albright of No. 2214 Seventh Avenue, In the same precinct, at No. 2254 Fifth Avenue, the rent for a five-room apartment was raised on May 1 from $25 to’ $37 a month. Similar increases were made for two other apartments in the same house. The owner is as Bowen & McLeai No. 42 Wee {36th Street. aeagte ‘The 23d Precinct in West 30th Street in the Third Inspection District, re- ported an advance from $45 to $65 in the rent for a six-roofiyapartment at) No. 150 West 86th Street. i} From Capt. Ma’ w McKeon of the 57th Precinct list of un-! usual rental fume were reported in| the Kingsbris ‘Terrace section. In ‘0. 2612 University Avenue all the tenants, occupying three or four room made material in<reases in the rents, and the tenants b ve filed many com- plaints with the police, Capt. Edward Gallagher of the 10th Inspection District in Brook- lyn reports that in the 68th Precinct there have been dozens of flagrant COPLEY A popular Soft Collar Bold at the better shops Made by ‘ DELPARK, Inc. | New York, U.S.A. EDISON "Diamond Disc™ names—each giving definite promise of artistic performance. 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The 97th Precinct, in Wilson Ave- nue, Brooklyn, in the 15th Inspection Distr ried an increase from | - in eee of apartments n @ four-story double frame build: in Knickerbocker Avenue. nd The 6%th Precinct, in Avenue G, Brooklyn, in the Lith Inspection Dis- trict, reported an Increase from $11 apa brick tenements in New Lots Avenue. FORMER MILLIONAIRE DISPOSSESSED OF HOME Hoadley, Once Owner of $15,- 000,000, Loses House in East 82d Street. later organized the International Power Company and whose wealth was at one time estimated at $15,000,000, was for- mally dispossessed to-day of the resi- dence at No. 18 Bast Sd Street. City Marshal Peter J. Gaffney served the warrant and trucks of the BEneum- brance Division drew up at the curb- ing. Mr. Hoadley, who has been living at HOUSING PROBLEM BARS (DECENT LIVING, SAYS ELKUS Man With Lowest Wage Must Be Looked After, Asserts Head of Reconstruction Board. Speaking of what he calls. ‘tenants’ turnover Abram I. 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