The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1920, Page 3

‘WHENLAW BARRED CANADA FROM AIDING HOME BUILDING CANADA CHANGED THE LAW . Governmént’s Housing Adviser. Combines Idealism and Utility in Laying Out Residential Sections —Says Bronx, Queens and Staten Island Should Be Utilized. , - By Martin Green (Sta Correspondent of The Evening World.) OTTAWA, Ont., Sept. 22—The City of Ottawa andsnine other cities and eighty-one towns and villages in Canada Nave gone into the real estate business, Some of the communities have bought tracts of lang and are lending money at 5 per cent. to citizens desiring to purchase* lots and build-fhouses, Other communities are lending money for the con- struction of homes to citizens who already own lots or have saved enough money to buy fhem. Under present laws the dity of New York cannot go into the real estate business, and the sentiment of the building industry and all its a'lied interests is decidedly against municipal housing in any form. The laws uf Canada were also against municipal housing at the close of the war and the — and banking and insurance interests opposed munici- nnn ISTIOE WARNS TENANTS AGAINST UNFAIR LEASES omposed the ombarkation of the State cnatilipapoei Spiegelberg Also Says Perjury upon the sea of municipal housing | Bow admit that there may be some) good the by Landlords Is Much Too Common, idea. Private utlding enterprise ip relatively busier i Canada to-day than in the United| States and tho busiest centres of private bullding enterprise are those im whioh the municipal housing proj- oct has been extensively adopted. he coer AND UTILITY COM- INEOD IN CANADIAN PLAN. ‘The most ambitious municipal hous- ing scheme in Canada, has been launohbed by the City of Ottawa, | which is about the size of Albany in population, area, ratiread importance and manufacturing, and !s heavily populated by Government employees “hose incomes average about $1,600 year, The city borrowed the money ; this acheme and for other hous- enterprises from the Dominion vernment. yhe Canadian housing plan com- woes idealism with utility, and the bulk of the idealism is furnished by Mr. Thomas Adams, Housing and ‘Town Planning Adviser to the Cadna-| Frederick Splegelberg-yesterday dur- dian Government, whore reputation] ing hearings at the Seventh District as an expert in his line ta interna-| Municipal Court, 125th Street and St.| tional. Ib spends part of each yeat!Nicholas Avenue. A landlord at-! in the United States, and ts familiar tempted to force a tenant to sign & th housing conditions in Greater lease in which he could get the tenant New York and other New York cities,|out for any cause whatever in five| In the spring of 1919 a private de- days, +There were other restrictions velopment company was trying to such as tho undesirability clause, sell lots in a 22-acre tract in the) which merely required the landlord suburb of Rockville.) ‘The tract {a to amsert the tenant was “undesirable” situated on high gerund, commanding |!n order to get him out & view of the city and the Parliament | the lease the tenant would waive his buildings and the mountains. It is) right to compel the landlord to prove about ten minutes’ walk from the| him undésirable as is provided by the terminals of two street car lines, and| rem laws» of April 1, 1920. the’ street car ride to the heart of the| “Such leases are utterly unfair to city requires about ten minutes, the tenant,” sald Justice Spiogelhers. The development was laid out in| “These leases aro drawn up by attor- the old-fastdoned way, with straight |neys for the landlords and it is’ nok streets cronsing at right angles, and | Wonder they favor the property own- the average price demanded for lots/er's side of it. Leases Ao absolute was around $760, The Housing Act, |one sided.put the tenant it the me passed immediately after the armi-|of the landlord. stice, gave the city of Ottawa power| “As long as landlords are permitted to condemn and buy this tract, but|to draw their leases they will favor condemnation proceedings proved to| themselves of course. There a be unnecessory. By advice of Mr.|great many leases providing that no Adams the city bought the twenty~|repairs be done; I have even heard two acres at G&G00 an acre, of some which specify®he number of Mr. Adame ahd his staff then pro-| persons who can live in the apart. eveded to lay out the site with the|ment; others call for ail kinds of extra idea of preserving the trees gnd the | charges—for telephone, gas stoves and topography, His plan called for one | on. It's about time some one drew main boulevard throngh the property |* Janse, for he, tenant. and winding roads for the service of Splegelberg has be lowe the householders. The city put in] ing dispoaseas petitions f ‘Landlords’ leases are unfair to |tenants. When a tenant signs such leases as are being offered by property owners to-day he is letting himself in for @ one-sided game wherein the landlord can do just as he wishes about a good many things. Some one ought to draw up 1 model lease which | would give both sldes fair play.” This statement waa made by Justice ey are Tuastice a0. { sewers and water service and gas,)oommitted by landlords seeking to aA to| force tenants out, Paul Brunobor and electric lines were extendgd to| free \uuanie dul. vinth Aven the plot before ground was broken for the first house. By the end of August, 1919, 60 lote had teen sold to Government em- see Of an apartment house at d Seventh Avenus, swore ina disp petition that Mra, Alfred Greenwood had not paid her rent of $23 due on} September 1g. She did pay the rent Poyees, and work was begun on sixty | on geprember 46, and In the afternoon houses costing from $2,500 to $4,000. | of ¢ ‘ swore out & war- Later contracts were let for eixty ad- net ae for non ditional houses, and 120 will he com- Fa menne, waa made of the, mole, and pleted “before winter nets in. There |) 0° 0 Apt ict Attorney, where are 168 plots in the tract, and all ha been sold at from $450 to $600 a lot. The remaining forty-eight called for by the mane will be erected next year. LINDENLEA ABTONISHES THE | INVESTIGATOR, ym company with Mr, Adams and Mr, W. D. Cromarty, architect of bureau of advice, I visited Lindeniea, as the development is called. I'm telling no lie when I say that even jn its uncompleted state, encumbered ‘ax it is with piles of buliding material and with the roads only tyails through the woods, it knocked me a twister When the project {stinished, with three and a half acres devoted to little perks, children's playground and wad- Wontinued on Fourtgenth Page) » he question of perjury was taken up. ! Bruno+ Mrs. He imposed costs of $10 on sky, Which was given to nwood. hou8es | bor | Gre “So much of this haraasing of ter }ants ia coming into court that some- thing must be done to stop it," sald Justice piberg, "It is getting to be practlee—this ng ments, I shall look ly Into every case." James O'Sullivan, attorney for the! Mayor's Committ who appeared for the tenant, sald: “Tam going te District Attorney's office and! this case, The whole tdea of landlords and lessees who do this sort of thing ls to force tenants out or | compe them to pay more rent. And} the worst of it ts they get away with |} it sometimes, Iam going to see this case through. é | h6id-up band. ’ NEW . YORK Is URGED TO ADOPT CANADA’S HOUSING PL |Two October ‘Weddings, With Comely JNDGES WOULDP Brides, Interest New York Society USS oe Lesnem Peon Rn ueeer Miss Porter and Miss Lesher Will Become Mrs. Hamill and Mrs. Barstow. ‘Two , weddings of interest to New York society have been set for next month, Ono of thede im that of Mise | date, Katharine Delano Porter, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs, H. Hobart Porter, to Robert Lyon Hamill of Chicngo, It will occur in the afternoon of Oct. 9, in Trinity Church, Hewletts, L. 1. There will be @ reception at Lauder- the country home of the bride's parents at Lawrence The other wedding is that of Miss Madge Lesher, a daughter of Mr. and Mra, Raymond Lesher, to Charles $ Narstow jr, in the chantry of St Thomas's Churoh, this city, in the af ternoon of Oct, 16, At the ho the bride's aunt, Mrs, Sewall [i man, © small reception-will be held, THREE: ARE KILLED, THREE NEAR DEATH IN GANG ATTACKS pan hie ic Brooklynite. Fatally Shot as He Plays Cards and Another Is Stabbed. Three men are dead and three others in a critical condition in hospitals to- day ag results of @ fresh outbreak of gang warfare, violent private settling of gru ges and the repulse of a motot The fights tok place in Brooklyn, Manhattan and. Long Island City. Five men ran into a Jay Street, Brooklyn, grocery and fired two shot into Daniel Street, who was playing cards fell dead with a bullet in his br and another in his neck In cgnnection with iillen of No. 129 Prospect | this homicide the police arraigned Charles Don- nelly, No. 182 York Street, and Will- jam McArdle, No. 1293 Decatur Street, before Magistrate Walsh in Adams Street Police Court on a charge of murder ney were held without bail until Friday for exam- ination, Shortly before this murder five men ttacked Thomas Montague of No. 178 Nostrand Avenue in Adams Street, not far from the police station, Mont wan taken to Brooklyn Hospital critical condition, with several stab wounds in his body. Recently he de fended his wife trom an attack of | thugs in Bridge Street, shooting oni man and shot himself, ~The stabbing was considered a se quel to the first attack. The police suid they believed the sume five mer | Street, Long Island City, | uken | That ; : eae shot Gillen and stubbed Pasquale Grieco of No. Montague. 48 Fygth and Frank Mirro of No, 88 Fourth Street were to St, John's Hospital in a dying condition after being shot down while resisting six automobile bandita who were trying to hold up twelve men in Tony Dogigiio's saloon, West Avenue and 17th Street, Long Island City, The bandits rede away after firing a volley which laid low Grieco and Degiglio, “Andrew Fopplano of No. 2211 86th Set, Brooklyn, was standing in front of No. 19 Baxter Street, Manhat. tan, last night, talking to a girl, when a man called him aside. Angry words were heard and the stranger's fist [stretched Fopple~> on the sidewalk. Foppiano's skull was fractured and he bam Hospital and later >. AMERICAN BEAUTIES | ON SHOW IN LONDON ® Is, Artist Hoppe Will Put] Their Pictures on Exhibi- tion There. FE ©. Hoppe, the artist-photographer who picked the twelve American Beau- tes from those submitted by readers of The Lvening World, railed yesterday | for England on the Aquitania. As time was so short h tings for th decided lo postpone sit- portraits of the} turn at the of | time net | it ppe took with vive hing We Ar na |died a fow hours Ihter in Volunteer Hosplta, George Sherlock of No, 60 Bast 117th | treet died in Harlem Hospital early | to-day. Shortly before midnight two men shot him while he was at Firat| Avenue and 114th Street. The mur-| derers fled. Sherlock was taken —te | « | Tragic Ues before his departure | nounced that they would be pul on ex. hibition in Landon nest mouth, it te able that wome of them will appear fran exhibition wh will hold inj a Fifth Avenue . r Mine Hotma to aend her a tn any other winner exp have changes of address before the time Mr Hoppe returns Type of Houses Canada Is Building ~ For Factory Mechanic WOMAN LEAPS OFF BRIDGE, 1S SAVED BY TROLLEY ROADWAY BURDEN OF PROOF ON THE LANDLORD United in Approval of Gover- nor’s Plko to Check Rent Gouging: At thet? meeting jn the library of the Ninth District Court, Madison Avenue and 59th Street, Municipa: Justices expressed, without exception, approval of Gov. Smith's recommen- fation that the burden of proving the Juatioe of rent Increases should be put entirely upon the landlord; they were livided as to the wisdom of his ecommendation that summary dis- ponsess proceedings be sumpended, Every one agreed something must be done to avert the crisis of Oot. 1, when disposseas warrants In New York are expected to aggregmtegmore han 100,000. Presidents Justice Aaron J. Levy said: “I think the Governor tm ab- solutely right when he recommends that the burden of praot be put upon the landlord, The 26 per cent. clause caused much confusion and misun- derstanding. Many tenants never Understood {t and. therefore were not aware of thelr rights, Let the land- lord prove he tn justified, if he wants 4 1 per cent. raise or a 100 per cent. reine, The tenant will have a pight to refuse payment ungil the landiord an proven to the sa@®faction of thr ourt that his demands aré juatified. And it's a very gocd idea too—it sim- lifies matters, stn the matter of dispossens, I do not favor doing away with that pro- ceding altogether, because it would end to hinder the building of houses and more houses, after all, Is the cure for this bad situation. time ago The Evening World adve- cated a plan whereby a preliminary investigation should be held in each \isponsens case; and if it has merit permit It to come Into court; if tt has not, throw it out, I am in favor of this" Justice Harry Robitzek anid: “Le the landiord prove the justice of an, pres | Borough President Connolly Lends Car to Aid Victim, Hurt in 20-Toot Fall. Borough President Queens lent his motor Connolly of to. y to take to hospital a woman, who had sought to kill herself by leaping from walkway of the Queensboro Bridge but seceeded only in plung ne to the trolley twenty below, She was injured seve The woman was Susan Jo: ould say no mor mut the feet way, a hen hat she was ish and was “ of living.” She iu in the Metropoli+ tan Hospital on Blackwell's Island While President Connolly was driv- ing from Manhattan to Queens he came acregs Policeman Connolly of B leadin, roudway. thi he had found her on the trolley tracks over the separated them and had managed to get he ht from The fence which the roadway woman had a severe. gash on ad and her neck had ‘ly wrenched President instant! toppedl hin car, had the woman lifte nto it and Instructed the chauffeur © take her to the elevators which cad from the structure to the bland Gow. Then he got'on a trolley und resumed his journey to sland City After reaching his office Pr ‘onnolly told an Evening Wo that he that had aid nhc been from the oridge by 2 companion with whom whe walking, She did not * whether the companion wes a man ¢ Prat HOUSES Sonr “= TORONTO HOUSING COmmibsionm HE houses shown above are types of the homes | munities as haa been done in Ottawa the city of Toronto is building and selling to the r Ty ches mechanics inher ftictories Toronto are high and the housing needs are urgent 60 pt ares pa no attempt has been made to build a beautiful com- adian citles, Whe Land vajues~in , of building homes ing needs she will proceed t The city raises the money it lends and other Can- 4 Toronto catches up with her hous- develop suburban tracts to citizens desirous by bond issues, woman alonm| The policeman said that | in Toronto| increase he asks, It ts right that hi should, becausé he has the figures. nder the present law the tenant 1» required to prove the injustice of any raise under 25 per cent. is he going to get the figures to do it? but how. MISS JEAN PETTIT IS se Wee the TO-DAY THEBRIDE OF| wir irene stoware. duuatier of this city, ts to be married te John BR. Alger this afternoon in the home of - her parents, No, 125 Riverside Drive, Only relatives and a few intimate = MIS SALLY SEAN PET TIT... O by esaeewes Wedding Is at All Angels’ Church at 4 o’Clock This Afternoon, Miss Sally Jean Pettit, daughter of Mr. and Mra, Franklin Pettit of thi city, will be married at 4 o'clock this afternoon to Donald Sheldon Roger son of Edward 8. Rogers, a banker of Lee, Mans, at All Angels’ Churoh, Went End Avenue and Sint Street, ‘The best man will be Ralph Wayeott, who was at Williams College with the bridegroom. ‘The maid of honor will be Mise Klitabeth Eastman with the Minses Marianne Ogilvie, Ruth Pettit, Florence Kelsey and Mra, Henry Eyre as bridesmaids, Marion Rogers, a niece of the bridegroom, will be the fowe: girl, ‘The ushers are Wellington Smith and John Deely of Lee, Mass; Gamuel Rhephard of Lancaster, N. ¥.; Lolceater 8. Pettit and Franklin Pett Jr The Rev. 8. De Lancey Townsend will con- duct the service. September offers you many objects er utility at substantial Reducti tions —— Rhine Occupant Very Costly. PARIS, Sept. 22.—Frederick Francots: Maraalthe Finance Minister, said to- day the #xpennes incurred through the Khine occupation were estimated at the end of March to have reached 18,» 000,000,000 franca. The amount paid by Germany on account was 13,088,000,000 marks by the end of July, the equi lent of 402,000,000 franca. Fifth Avenue at 35th Street Established 1879 \ Goy, Smith's suggestion thia. “In dlaponsens cases 1 wtill matntain grant three-year atays, If the mew inw would comprise thin feature 1 think the courts would have adequate power to deal with landlords who seek tho disponsess to get more Justice George L. Genung sald | “Putting the burden of proof on the landlord is a good idea, It ls a wise move, When a landlord asks for raise tho tenant can say to him, ‘Show me,’ and the landlord will have to do ao, "Lam not well enough acquainted with the Governor's recommendations on. dispossens proceedings to expréna remedies courts should have the power to| Men's Winter Suits MADE IN OUR OWN SHOPS 45.00 .50:00 55.00 and up to 90.00 EST & CO. men's clothing is distin. guished by its fabrics, its an opinion, but you may say I am always ‘or securing justice for the tenant," Justice Adam Christman said: “I think both the Governor's recom- mendations are excellent, and are a remedy for the crisis which would otherwine await us on Oct. lL A din-| ponsens proceeding whould be aliowed| to stand for these causea only: Vroven upcexirability of the tenant, because tho landlord wishes to occupy | the prem himactf, and for mon- payment of rent, It's a wise plan to PUL the proot of rent rawes entirely The A) be less upon the landiord » John Methering ndorse both Qugs maid It haw the hould prove the justice of ¢ Disponsens pro ceedings beon greatly abused ind Tam glad hé haa taken stops to hedify them or muspend them in cer- tain “casos, Landlords use them murely “to get rentals from | present or future eenantn, that this misuse stopped.” mn Ellen | sadiord prov justic demand for more money | nant can refuse to pay where | andiord cannot cofvince th that he needs the money. I the di proceeding whould not be al stand where it is, being used an a hammer to Ket more rent from a tenant Justice William J. A. Caffery sald vernor has shown great wis bis recommendations. | Siw wt ay with summary pro ings ex for non-payment of rent, ur and wh the andiogd Wishes to occupy the prop ert meelf. And let the lantilord prove In every can justice of hie demands for noy Justice Edgar J uer sald: "Gov- ernor Smith is right in his recom: mendat that the 4 of sum rick Splegelbere mald: © piasage of «law which y with summary proceed only @ sult for rental proceedings.” _ A lore inte acroas fragrant felds, Down Kast,” (uh Mi ‘Thansim, Today, nee nd per 14 unite aver “Way tailoring, its low prices, and its patronage. Made by Best & Co. and sold nowhere else. McCutcheon’s Men’s Gloves of Cape Skin and Mocha E are proud of the reputation our gloves have earned. 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