The evening world. Newspaper, January 12, 1921, Page 10

= Sa. wy 7 we Ruts, alte aa THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1921. RENT RAISE NEAR, first call was made at Payson McL. j driver to call a policeman, and Police-| reached the hospital it was found that Fie EE NN TE TW GET PLACE 4 Merrill Company, No. 9 Bast 44th | wae Porat and heen 4 of Gre _ 394 | besides the oa st ped Li nf or > ef reo! itation were taken t it, Whe he a fractures ull, ni ~ ” 4 2 re ekauley, twenty-six, No, him and the police have bee able Prieee—Unality—Serne 3 oy ¥ Teemlanen aparunence: ae et oxi East (3th atreet: ‘a Ruraion, When he to Tear how he recelved tt E RHA Mgcy 4 Cor Mactions | Kee : a ; -) ’ f Or Si | i “You won't have much trouble get Leaped in Front of “L” Train— = = —— ie : ting @ place,” he maid, “If you pay ' nq a — ee ; Bowen oem a. Yoeci accues” tots oe ee Bl LU AVO USO AU AARON USL 10/071) , t i] to be had, especially around this neighborhood.” Pocket. \ _ Per Cent. in Two Years, It’s No Problem at All. | NO PIKERS NEED APPLY. a For These Two Rooms, Bath ~ and Kitchenette Are ‘ Good Enough, > $x2 "|. If you can afford to pay as much as "7 $8,800 for an apartment you will have reer ‘B difficulty in finding a place to live in New York: The town Is full of va- ‘as high as you want to go. And the ‘tragedy of it is these same flats would ® year or two ago. “Phe fact is if you are still renting eountry or “one-room-bath-and-kitch- @mette” in an “old-fashioned made- over walk-up.” There is no actual | g@arcity of apartments in New York, ‘But there is a scarcity of moderate and reasonable rentals, “Any man who can pay more than $3,600 a year for an apartment need Bot worry—he can find lots of space in New York,” gaid Douglas Elliman of Douglas Elliman & Co. of No, 15 East 40th Street, “There are lots of those @l4-fasbioned houses made over into rooms, bath and kitchenette—in there are too many of them, They | Bevo fallen by their own weight. 1) Ite safe to say, when gauging the | Featal of an apartment, that it has een increased about 100 per cent.— ~ @ematimes a great deal more, some- a less. The man who now pays @ year formerly paid $5,000 or apartments at high rentals. any more now country. There nothing in town for him unless he ly into one or two his reach. t They have cui the icious gouger who insisted upon month to tenancy and ralsed ‘Month. Stopping of this alone justifies new laws. if it had not been for the Lord knows what would have jt there is another side of it. The have to some extent inconven- the reputable jandiord and rea! man, and many believe they have hindered building, which they probably have, But their net good ts ‘on the housing situation. [I way if Salary Has Gone Up 500 Cant agartmonts from that price up to ‘Dave cost you in the vicinity of $1,200 gm the $1,200 basis your best bet is the West 68th Street, six rooms and bath $3,600; No. 1 West 64th Street, seven rooms and three baths, $5,000; No, 125 Hast 72d Street, s.x rooms and two bathe, $4,500; No. 103 East 84th Street, six rooms and a bath, $4,000; » O84 Madison Avenue, six roms tw baths, $3,500. “AIL these are clevator apartments he added. “And I'll tel you thw, If some of the prices are not right make Us a reasonable offer and it will prob- ably_ be accepted. Jaines Kyle & Sons, southeast cor- ner of 60th Street and ’ Lexington Avenue, were text asked for a iist The young woman in charge of the lat said: “They had quite a few old houses made over into two rooms, bath and kitchenette,” She offered two rooms and a bath at No, 104, Lexington Avenue for $780 a year” mont, walk up; No. Avenue, three rooms and a walk up, old house, $1,200 a year; No. 662 Lexington Avenue, two rooms and bath, old house, walk up, $1,500 “How long haveryou been in the real estate business?” “Oh, a good long time,” she an- swered, 7 “When do you expect rents to come down?” “Oh, I don't know—not for a tong time, I guess. You seo there Is no building.” THIS REAL ESTATER THINKS RENTS ARE DUE TO FALL. Richard W. Kaiser, clerk In charge of the rent list at Albert B. Ash- forth's, at No, 12 wt 44th Street, furnished a list of seven apartments. “I'll tell you," he sal ‘if you hang off for six weeks or you can get something cheaper, [ think. And these prices I am giving you are ail subject to a reasonable offer. Yes, T think there is going to be a drop in prices, and if you hold off a while you will be benefited by it. “There are lots of apartments to be had, there's no worry about that; it's the prices they charge. The town has lots of vacant high priced apartments.” He gave the following typical list: No, 853 Seventh Avenue, eight rooms and three baths, $4,000; No, 103 East $4th Street, seven rooms und three baths, $5,01 No. 50 West 67th Street, six rooms and three baths, $5,000; No. 139 Bast 66th Stregt, elght rooms and three baths, $5,200; 100th Street and Riverside Drive, ten ‘rooms and three bathe, $5,000; No, East 60th Street, eleven rooms 4 four baths, $6,000; No, 130 East 67th Street, eleven rooms and three baths, $7,200, “In one of these apartments they | one lowered the rental by $1,000 use they have found it difficult to rent,” he said. “There are lots of furnished apartments for rent and people are anxious to rent them, so you'll find them easy to rent if you want one.” ‘ And it did seem easy. He had a card drawer full of furnished and un- furnished. How easy it would have been in the good old days, when you could get a decent place to live for $1,200 or $1,500! The clerk at Douglas Gibbons & Co., No, 62 East 48th Street, who has a list of about fifty furnished apart- ments, discovered the anxious in- quirer was from The Evening World and would not give him a let for publication, “We have only sublets,"' he said, “and you can say (n your paper there are plenty of furnished places to be bad, but don't quote me.any further than that.” The rent man at Cross, Brown & Co.'s, No, 18 Eant 41st Street, recom- 463 Lexington bath, It was a back apart-| People Who Want to Build Pay High Interest for Money and Bonus Too. “The money lending institutions of this city could, if they would, relieve the h ing shortage almost immo- dintely,” said Justice Jacob 8. Strahl, sitting to-day in the Sixth District Municipal Court of Brooklyn. “Thelr demand for heavy bonuses for build- ing loans is preventing the erection of many apartment houses in this city. He cited as a typical case in sup- port of this aswertion: "One of the most enterprising builders of Brooklyn yesterday told me that he was ready and anxious to build apartment houses, but that he | could not obtain the money on terms that would permit him to make any- ithing for himself, The best offer he |could get from any money lender was 6 per cent, interest and a bonus of 10 jper cent, On these terma the lender ‘would let him have $70,000 on a $100,000 building proposition, but the 110 per cent. bonus demanded would jeat up the $7,000 that he expected to make on the building, so he gave up the project.” Justice Strahl said this was only one of mapy similar cases that hud come to his attention. | “Another cause of increased rents chargeable to the banks is their do- mand for the reduction of a mortgage when it is renewed,” the Justice con- tinued. “The courts generally hold that rents which give landlords 10 per cent. on their investment are rea- sonable, Of course, every reduction of mortgage adds so much to the landlord's equity on which he is al- lowed the 10 per cent., so the tenant has to pay the difference between the 6 per cent. on the full mortgage and the 10 per cent. allowance on invest- ment.” I. R. T. IN BUSINESS AND NOT IN CHARITY That's an Official Answer to Com- plaint of Reduced Service in Brooklyn, i The Public Service Commission will hold an open meeting a week from to- day at No. 49 Lafayotte Street to give Brooklynites an opportunity to be heard for or against the present non- rush hour local subway service on the two legs of the Interborough system in Brooklyn. For a week past, between the morning and evening rush’ hours and before the rush hours in the morning and after the eyening rush period, the Inter- borough ten-car express trains on both the Seventh Avenue and the Lexington Avenue lines terminated at Atlantic Avenue, while the balance of the two routes ‘to Junius Street and to Fiat- foush A’ have been served by five and th local trains, giving what it practically a shuttle service, ‘esterday Deputy Public Service Com- missioner Donnelly of Brooklyn took James S$. Doyle, operating engineer tor Mr. Hediey, to task and ordered the 1 R. 'T, to remedy the local non-rush hour ‘service immediately. Mr, Doyle pleaded for time and said that it wae not economical operation for his cor- poration to run half empty ten-car ex- prvas traing out on two routes. He pointed out that a five-car toc) service from two outlying points to Borough Hall, where Manhattan boun passengers change to the New York ex Hendet, fifty yours old, No. 195% 54th Street, Brooklyn, this morning face! tn front of an approaching trair th Street and Now Utrecht Aven. L" Station and was killed instantly. in the letter Hendel urged the agent to Investl- gate the business at his barber slop, which he declared would not supp, any increase In rent. 4 waa held up on shout twenly minutes Thy ither delay ‘when Frank oO 426 61st Street, Brovkiyn, fell tracks at 59th Street and Wighth Av “L" Station, An approaching train w stopped in time to save O'Connor's | He was troated by an ambulance eon for outs and bru! | FAILING TO DIE IN | | | wax thy ue TUBE, HE USES KNIFE Russian Twice Tries to Kill Him- self, but Is Finally Subdued by Police. As a subway train rounded the City Hall loop at 1 A. M. to-day, Motorman Hays saw a man lying acrgss tho track with his head on the rail. He stopped the train, got out and shook the ms and asked him what the idea was. aaid the man replied he wanted to dir Dr. Haiken of Volunteer Hospital war called and said the man had a poasibl: fracture of the ai He started with him to Bellevue Hompital, and at 14th Street the patient suddenly pulled a | penknife and tried to cut his throat. He and the doctor fought all the way to| 19th Street for possession of the knife. but all the doctor could do was preven! the ‘man from seriously slashing him ne Finally Dr. Haiken shouted to t POA Reg. Trode Mark January Sale of Household Linens Reductions of 15% to 3314% j bol accordange with our plan to make this the greatest January Sale of our history,4we have made the above reductions from the already moderate prices prevailing through- out our Household Linen Depart- ments. Especially is this true in our Towel and Bed Linen Department where we are offering, for the month of January only, many values which we have been unable to give for a year or more. James McCutcheon & Co. Fifth Ave., 34th and 33d Streets : ENT its, then, submitted the’ following NFY LENDERS With a lotter tn hin pocket pleading ithe Oreaten ? ; it for inapection: with @ rea! estate agent not to rfise his “ i No, 12 Hast ath Street, eight Set k Eee deca be hes of Linens Dey rooms and ono bath, $3,000; No, 140 in America’ saphena a WAS $42.50- ‘ clothing. money you ever spent. NOW $17.50 That's the way a manufacturer of high grade men’s clothing has cut his prices to get rid of 1,800 suits and overconts. These clothes are being sold right off the factory floor at 39 W. 19th Street, and that is why, in spite of all cut prices sales, these clothes ate the best values in New York City. . Besides this $17.50 value there are about 1,600 additional suits and overcoats from $14 to $39, which were formerly WHOLE- « SALED at from $28 to $58. Come up to the Twelfth floor and buy a trade-marked brand of You will get the best suit you ever had for the least Open 9:00 A. M. to 6:00 P. M. Daily. Saturday until 4:00 P. M. STYLECRAFT COMPANY, Inc. 39 West 19th Street, 12th floor. FUR COATS and Small Furs At Greatly Reduced Prices A collection of furs, in which QUALITY is the outstanding feature, is offered at re- markably low prices—in some cases at one- half the usual price. Beautiful skins have been skillfully. matched— newest designs have been artistically carried out—and silks of exquisite texture and design have been used for linings. Half Price Coats Wild Cat Coa: 36 inch, trimmed with Rock Opossum, $89.75 Marmo: Coat 36 inch, Kolinsky dyed, with Taupe Nutria collar and cutts. Opossum Coat 36 inch American Opossum, selt trimmed.$164.00 Hudson Seal Coats _ (Dyed Muskrat 36 inch, with Skunk collar and cuffs $289.00 $134.00 48 inch Hudson Seal Wrap, Kolinsky presses, was strictly a Brooklyn pro: sition, and he said the larger proportio of the passengers in non-rush houre were Brooklynites remaining witht Mr. Doyle sald the Inter business and not en xaged In charity and he declared that the existing orders of the commision requiring the 1 R, T. to operate ten par trains In Manhattan, worked hard pon his company in Hrookiyn, wher: the mid-day and late night traffic did not warrant any such number of pars mended No. 11 East 45th Street. They want $1,800 for four rooms and bath, third and fourth floors, walke up, “old houne made over” or “old house made new,” ax he put tt amil- ingly. Here's the story in a nutshell: If your salary has Increased 600 per cent. during the past two yeans you can find a decent place to ilve. be who did so, but bis broth wrence B. Elliman of Pease @ E): Squirrel trimmed. Scotch Mole Coat 45 inch Wrap, self trimmed. Alaska Seal Coats 36 inch, self trimmed. 40 inch, self trimmed. Half Price Scarfs Jenqyyet Ye Direct Sale from Wholesaler to Consumer $534.00 W YOU PAY AROUND %4000 A IMPLE ENOUGH. An Evening World reporter yester- continued his search for an but The $414.00 mt of reasonable price, Tesult was disappointing. $449.00 $489.00 Small Furs Muffs Black Lynx Scarfs, 1500 Dresses Seeaigschapacsabsperein sane Pace orscseg-75 | Natural Sar og One-Half Off Save 30 to 50% set | ts 75 | American Opossum, More than 1500 Dresses Skunk Scarf, $37.75 at exactly one-half the price in our catalog All $20 Dresses Now $10 Tricotines, Serges, Tricolettes, We have vecuueu to gave the pubuc anuther chance to secure exceptional Rug Values for a limited period. Beginning 1 uesday, January 11th, until further notice We will place-on Sale Direct to the Consumer the biggest part of our wholesale surplus stock of Tapestry Brussels, Velveis, Waltons and Axminster Rugs manufactured by tbe Alex. Smith Company and other famous Mills, AXMINSTER RUGS, 9x12, Full Size...... $32 $16.74 Regular Stock Reduced Marmot Coats Were Now 36 inch, Kolinsky dyed. $214.00 $149.00 40 inch, Kolinsky dyed, ROBBINS BROTHERS, first public sale of Dec. 6th-24th met with such tremendous success thut they realised the timpor- tant duty they owe to the pub- lic for thelr generous patronage and aro therefore holding an- other Sale, offering the big bulk of thelr surplus wholesale stock direct to the consumer. Also for he we oper (Sei d) | t Georgettes, Jerseys, Satins. Nsudnt demand of "the many TAP, BRUSSELS RUGS, Ox12....0...2.2. 24 Raccoon collar, $214.00 $149.00 No Reservations— Srwcomingin daily. urging, that VELVET RUGS, 8x12 6... eeecceceeeees .$30 Natural Raccoon Coat i er eme of the axtrmardl= tu $50. (All seamless) Was Now Everything Included ee rales Me Mens | AATINSTER RUGS, Oxl2............-.. 40 36 inch, self trimmed. $424.00 $289.00 During the twenty odd years they huve specialized in whole- sale Floor Coverings Robbins Brothers’ fixed policy bas been to win the confidence of the up to $60. CAI seamless) 70 WILTON and PERSIAN WILTON RUGS. rt) Seamed and seamless, 9x12 . ALL COATS ONE-HALF OFF Hudson Seal Coats (Dyed Muskrat) ‘truthfully represented. WELTON PAREETS in plain colors.,.. Pde 40 inch, Beaver trimmed. $614.00 $449.00 The © of Robbins Broth- . r} to . o anda for hug Value, High ‘ nd colors of these Rus Ar repraductions of the 45 inch, Skunk trimmed. $749.00 $589.00 fe Designs, Largest Stoc! ‘old Persian designs’ ‘The higher grades i Gvihere ls not another house in| enawmed for thelr extraordinary wearing qualities AU Tus: Black Caracul Coats $50 Coats Now $25 fue Carpet tne peat onere thS | looms, of the best materials and highest standards, vata 36 and 40 inch Opos: Were N AM Woot Jerey Dress Silk Tricolette Dress as sire Ay Atal etal I and self-trimmed. $369.00 $189.00 Sold ur Catalog + Sold in Our Catalog Limited space does not per- le 400 Coats included in this sale, ail Nats A. mere glance 4 N . ow $10 many with fur collars ella Fee carat lat, Moyea RO \c. Australian Opossum Coat Now $1 . Now $10 Idea of the wonderful) values E. ish ° ne Was Now obtainable throughout their ex- stablished Wholesale 25 Years. 6 h. If tri Ne Mail Orders, C. 0. D.'s, Refunds or Exchanges. tensive tines. Qs 36 inch, self trimmed. $424.00 $349.00 nailyta'ed’e itt west? | 12 West 23*4 Street NY. Leopard Coat for this Mer We 4 HAMILTON GARMENT CO 2 Doors West of Fifth Avenue r os ‘ ; “ ow y 307 FIFTH: AVENUE Near 40 inch, Skunk trimmed. 549,00 $449.00 : 7 * Ate St.