The evening world. Newspaper, April 11, 1921, Page 9

\ drop FFER “RENT FREE FORA MONTH” NOW UP INTHE BRON But Rents Are Not Coming Though ‘Houses Are Going Up. Down, BuiMiing operations took « spurt ‘* over another quarter of a million @ollars in the Bronx during last ‘week and real estate men are pre- dicting an early return to something ike normal conditions in the hous- Evidence of this 1s seen in conditions among the higher priced apartments in the Bronx. In a eurvey of the Grand Con- course and University Heights séc- tion made yesterday, World reporter found eleven apart- ments where agents were offering from two weeks to a month free rent gs an inducement condftion that real estate men say surely predicts cheaper rents. On the whole there has been no rents on the Concourse further than that registered several months forced to decrease by from $5 to $7 & month the rent demanded in a tng situation. ago, number of high class houses on that exclusive boulevard. there been any decrease in the num- ber of court proceedings brought as « result of rent disputes. Figures available Martin Burke, when chief clerk of the Bronx Municipal Courts, show an in- crease of 7 per cent. in the summary | f; proceeding actions in the six months that the new rent laws have been in effect. Landlords continue to swamp the clerk’s office with actions and the calendars in all parts of the court are | piling up. Patrick J. Ravelle, Superintendent of Buildings in the Bronx, announced to-day that during the past week | plans were filed for dwellings in the | Bronx that will accommodate sixty- | two families and cost approximately | $257,500. This brings the total on home | building operations in the Bronx close to $6,000,000 since the passing of the Collins Tax Exemption Law for which The Evening World fought #o hard. The new plans of last week call for only one large apartment house. That will_be a twenty-seven family affair at Valentine Avenue and 192d Street. The rest of the operations are one and two-family dwellings, and their locations will be scattered over Tray of Hotel. resenting the Granby Company of dollars. Staying at the Many worth Building. all sections of the Bronx, Of this|he went out, Three type twenty separate buildings wil! |came back, the room be erected under the plans. the Jewelry “The building spurt created iby the | had passing of the Collins law,” said Mr. Ravelle to-day, “has proved greater than the most optimistic had hoped for, Under these conditions, if the average is maintained for the rest of the year, we will not know what a housing shortage means by 1923." pth cosenatl COMPANION SAVES GIRL IN AUTO CRASH Major Martin Holds Florence Mere. dith im ‘Car—Her Face Slashed by Windshield. Miss Florence Meredith, twenty-three years old, daughter of J. W. Meredith, general superintendent of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, was disfigured probably for life in an automobile acci- dent at Blizabeth, N. J.. yesterday. she and Major Mackenaie Martin of the British Air Service were going to the Suburban Golf Club to meet Mr. Mere- dith when the steering apparatus broke. The machine struck a gas lamp pole and troke it off at the base, plunged through an iron fence and turned on its | side In_a field twenty-five feet beyond, Major Martin seized Miss Meredith and managed to keep her in the ear, but_a Jol thrust her head through the wind- shield and the glass cut her scalp and face. She waa taken to a local hos- pital and was brought home to-day. the sample case, the bottom one. facturing Company, an Evening | Whistles This is a owners were Street | yesterday. Neither has in the office of berger afterward, chap must be drunk like taking a chance. to stand at one end of and = Twirls | While Looting Cash Register; Throws “Tip” to Clerk. A little carabet entertainment for his victim was provided by a young bandit who roobed tho cash register in a cigar store at Eighth Avenue and 48th After clerk, Michael Steinberger, of No. 512 West 162d Street, to repeat three times the words, “I do not know you and I will not Temember you,” tossed him a “tip out of his loot. ‘The clerk was alone when the robber entered and asked for cigarettes, The clerk turned about to get them, and when he turned found himself facing a revolver, “The gun wavered some,” said Stein- “and I thought the NEW YORK JEWELRY , wey " ’ THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1921.’ = he d h 4 u . nh two men, Hitteet aba did thereat ettainerie’| RAID STORE; GET $126. weasing “ handierthiete Over CHIE took “the mopen than hen mage. ne lup Men Rob Cah Reg-|faces, suspended from under thelr repeat that. L- wouldn't tell. Manned Neti P itera te itaad. |Visored caps, entered the store abd SALESMAN ROBBED | Goods Is Stolen From | Sample Case in Chicago (Special to The Brening Work) CHICAGO, April 11.—I. Femgold, rep- | Manufacturing New York, has reported to the police the theft of Jewels valued at between eight and ten thousand Hotel Sherman, he took his sample cases from the vault and visited a customer in the Hey- He returned to his room and left the cases there while hours later he was locked, but ry had yantshed. The ‘thief helped himself to the top layer of but had not touched He is Revolver forcing the the robber in the store and didn’t feel He ordered me the counter, ard - Stern Brothers West 42nd Street 100 300 Extra Quality Nainsook Comfortables Hemmed... . Hemst'd.... 1.25 CHINAWARE and GLASSWARE > Imported China Dinner Sets 100 pes.; wide coin gold band and line; matt gold handles; open stock, $125.00 Value, Cut Glass Beverage or Iced Tea Sets-—Rich, light cut floral and leaf cutting; large covered Jug, 6 tall Tumblers and 6 Colored Sippers, complete, To Close Out—Rich American Cut Glass at HALF PRICE. 106 pieces; neat colored medallion border de- signs; gold line edge, $25.00 $35.00 Value and MUSLIN SHEETS (Between 5th and 6th Avenues) Substantial Price Concessions on Fine. Imported or American-Made &, The items listed are typical examples of the many exceptional values offered for Tuesday. American Porcelain Dinner Sets 52 pieces; medallion and conventional border designs: gold line edge, 12.75 and 15.95 $15.95 and 22.50 Values colored American Porcelain Luncheon Sets—$5.00 and 9.75 ($8.95 and 12.95 Values) 82 pieces; medallion and conventional border designs; open stock, border and allover floral $69.50 Clear, crystal potash blanks; cut floral and mitre and all mitre cuttings. Large variety of items to select from, Noteworthy Values in a Special Sale of 350 pairs WHITE WOOL BLANKETS per pair $8.75 ($13.50 Values) (Filled with Lambs Wool.) each, $5.95 ($8.75 Values) Muslin Sheets and Pillow Cases Double 1.45 1.75 Single 98c Three-qtr. 1.35 1.60 42x36 30c 40c 45x36 32c 42c Hemme A Hemst'd..., West 43rd Street 100 and 106 pieces; conventional ders; matt gold handles, $39.50 $19.50 Value English Porcelain Dinner Sets 106 pieces; wide colored conventional and designs; $68.25 and 125.00 Values, $49.50 and 87.50 $3.95 richly bor- bird MUSLIN PILLOW CASES 50x36 35c 45c ~ ’ At the offices of the Granby Manu- Jewellers, of No. {100 West 2ist Street, it was announced that Feingold had reported the robbery to them, not giving the detatis. on the road for that firm with a line of gold and platinum Jewelry. pi sts Rahal d |BANDIT FOXTROTS AS HE ROBS STORE and as he went out he pulled o a fiver off the roll and tossed Remember, Um |ne said, After that he The money taken amc fli Nevius 19 YEARS IN PRISON FOR TURK’S SLAYER Brown, East Side Druggist, Pleads Guilty of Manslaughter. Because of promises made to him by Assistant District Attorneys Dineen and Hid Hennis when the authorities were hope- less of solving the mystery of the mur- der of Israel 8. Turk, a druggist, at his home, No. 271 Hast Broadway, Robert Brown of No, 12 West 65th Street was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter in the first degree before Justice Crain | | in General Sessions to-day, sentenced to nineteen years in prison. Assistant District Attorney sald Brown, an ex-convict, fa teered to explain the murder if allowe to plead to a lesser crime, have been sentenced for life had the Plea been murder in the second degree. Brown confessed he had been en: ployed by Mrs, Rose Schmertz, No. 70 Adams Street, Hoboken, Turk home of certain jewelry she said her hus his secohd attempt Brown encount and killed Turk. mee rs. Schmertz, !s awaiting trial in the Tombs. She s: the story to cover his own guilt, inter, Revolvers tn Hand, :| Russell Snow, manager of the “lthomas Rbulston grocery at No. 2028 Bath Avenue, Brooklyn, opened the store at 7.30 o'clock to-day and re- moved from the safe $125, Saturday night's receipts, which he placed in the cash register, He had just com- a prett while the ister and ow got Who Confessed Killing i «ii S : nl i He was Brothers A volun~ He woul to rob the nd@ had given Mrs. Turk. On rear of the one of the men kept him covered LS Snow to retire to the ore. He went back and other opened the cash reg- annexed the $125. When to ithe door the bandits ad disappeared ee iN "| oie yl iii ys Brown concocted a Hu B. Altman & Gn. MADISON AVENUE = FIFTH AVENUE, Thirty-fourth Street NEW Another Sale of Alsam Bouquet Perfumes _at special prices has been prepared for to-morrow (Tuesday) Alsam Bouquet is an individual perfume that may be obtained in various toilet articles, made up exclusively for B. 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