The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1922, Page 5

“FANCY PRICES FOR HOUSINGS TO GIVE WAY TO FANCY “TO LET” SIGNS SCON, EXPERT DECLARES i the death rate feah ss aos yer 00 is city Cominissioner ‘Murphy Sees per 1,000 In tht - Was 25, while to-day it is 12 the Day When Landlord|wyat tenement HOUSE LAW WHll Seek Tenant and Ten- CAN AND CAN NOT DO. Rage me No amount of regulation of tene- ant Won't Have to Seek} ment houses by jaw will solve the using shortage, Mr, Murphy sald. Landlord. When landlords sought out tenants woh i ithe enforcement of the regulations Fancy prices for apartments are] was to-day, when the ten @estined — svon ar and) ants beseeching the landlords, equally fancy “ito Let gns are| the regitiniions, as during tie pe- / ; ake wo, | tied of the war. went to smash, for foon to inuke their appearance. | Neate, wer Whe ucan: Mase That's t) pinion former Tene-} i Jive in gardiess of its condi ment House ner John J.) tion Murphy, wh fore the City] of the tenement houses in Parliament of Community Counells | iyi. cit sioner Murphy de- im the Aldermanic Chamber of City] caved, there ave pending ‘Tenement Hall ic on the subject of} poy Department de against “Housir jons and Their En- | 40,000 of Ee He said the Tent lawey forcement" Murphy based this / which | ed would extended predict report that between | {nother y. up the ten- last and last December! ants and 1 fi apart wcomniodations Ww justifiat , const t 00 families in this | le landlord zn neglecting, his Bremnlaes, eity, and while this would not en-|".NCitner the present tion, former tirely relieve the housing shortage, | administratiens ever cared much ft would, he thought, go a long way | about the enent House Depart- toward miuking some landlords seek | a aie ae ney jane ad ‘out tenants instead of the tenants| Loute daw fe A. Hulte: Jaw secking out the landlords vercome the Infltiences 1 landlords. The law “A eC operat ve housing pro t un The las was aiauine ed by Robert PARENON | y when ft b me effective. Pope, chairman of the Council's} t net for the law, the Tene committee on co-operative housing. | Ment Hous: Department would have He Is also President of the Co-Oper- | Chiticisine every Board of stink ative Housing Association. About ity administrations 80 persons qttended the meeting. | for tions for Mr. Murphy, who Tenement | that particu tment, Mr. ps Murphy said clerks and stenog House Commissioner under the Gay- | yners had been cut-down in num was nor and Mitche! administrations, re-|her since the law compeiled the city Cited the history of the Tenement)to maintain 0 inspectors. “Of artm © referred | course. thet nothing picturesque House Department and he referred ; i v8 in prevention e continued If th to the enfercement regulations WII 6h Pennmen Ronde oon far back us 1825, When sanitary reg-| sive lives be they are endanger ulations for tenements were regarded |that isn’t worth much public notice, fire department rescues sme one from danger, that of course n of that as “a dream" by a physic time. It was not until 1867 that the t necomplishment.” tenement louse law was placed on enement House Department the status? books and in those days us one-half the mumber of — Faultless Fitting Footwear for Women SALE! Novelty Slippers In The Season's Most Popular Modes Are Reduced to end °2 you will be delighted to buy such charming slippers as these for this very low price. Smart styles with x low and high heels suitable for street or dress | wear. [ | Extraordinary Offering Et | of if | Dorothy Dodd Boots 13 | Developed in colored j: { leathers, including light : gray, dark gray and beige. $9.98 | Shoe Dept. Shoe Dept. on . § on Main Floor Main Floor | | Nineteen West 34th Street Customary January Sale of Table Crystal and China EFRESHMENT Sets, gold en crusted goblets, cut crystal finger bowls and plain tumblers, everything in fact the hostess needs is here in the Sale of Table Crystal. China, too, from the most informal tea set to the most stately dinner i service. | The wares are just as distinctive as ever, the prices are from 10°; to 50°¢ less. | OVINGTON’S “The Gift Shop of Fifth / FirtuH AVENUE Tvenue™’ AT 39TH STREET —$———$————— THE EVENING WORLD. employees it had ten years ago, the | next Commissioner declared, and ompelled to fight th for its own aba lid argument has advanced against its exis' Four-fifths of the wedded November because under every | present conditions the return on ¢ e- | rentals seemed to he falr, tion, preciate them by the Mr, Murphy said, and the safesuare 8 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, The people of this city do not a) Il that has been done for Lockwood Commiittes, (1922, |neighbor. Mr, Marphy answered) that they look to the central office ot «| many questions propounded by the|the Community Parllament for | audiene , Mr. Pope sald in pa “My ommendations to the presen of tinancing ization, &c. “If this is undertaken in an arious nelis here assem- thot they hold meetings of 4 in tenement hou: said, ne! ing of the tenants in thelr homes h. councils for the discussion of gent and enthusiastic and ene explained that ment 18 any |brought great benefits to the city.|the potentialities of co-operative way, it will be placed to the credi building housing more than three | The tax exemption laws would not! hou and for the purpose of de-|thi« Parliament and its councils that families. have gone through the Board of Es g how many people among|they have initiated a reaching In advocating concentration and) ijmate had {t not been for Henry pective membership could or| and constructive step which *pecialization in that line of regula-| Curran, he declared, and even the join hands in a co-operative | mately will afford a permanent 4 the public good, Mr. Murphy) Republican advisers of Mr. Curran and that they atd in the |satistactory solution of the housing to the Health Commission- | warned him against takin c ently expressed desire to take! jo yid, “but even at the risk of aver {he work of the Tenement House jne hfe political life in. his ha Department, but he thought the what he did was worth it all and Health Commissioner full now without the duties of the T Depattment,” WHY LANDLORDS WELCOME DE- |" PARTMENT ACTIVITIES. dd hiis hands ming any of ‘enement House should be commended for it” RATIVE HOUSING.” nmisstoner Murphy thought th verative housing was vent small for those with cap | In justifying the inactivity of the “hut some definite polley along th department on certain trivial regula- | line s vould ve tried out with a blo tions Murphy said that thou- s to see what would happe sands of landlords would be very dperative housing would, however, | is time to be compelled | interest more people and keep them) ment House Department] alive to the nece for an eco- d, 80 that}nomical and intellig admin enti tion of the city's government, clare? nie want to live In cleane homes so that the poor m ve into a new clean house, waiting for the more pre constructed vented only by th je to pay fi tistics show, » number of persons houses would 1 financially perou to an apartment js three. It would house and the poorer man tal th he unwise to terminate the rent laws place \ by his more fortunate James McCutcheon & Co. ; Announce A semi-annual Sale of Manhattan Shirts At prices showing a reduc- tion of more than 3344% Also A Sale of Men’s “McCutcheon Label” Shirts at similar reductions Sales begin 9 A. M. Thursday, January 5th Fifth Avenue 34th and 33d Streets James McCreery & Co. oth Avenue 34th Street Annual. January Sale of Beds and Bedding ‘There are comfort and unbroken rest in our beds and bedding—they are built to provide The Annual January Sale is your of portunity to procure them at amazingly low them. price Square Tube Metal Beds, all hand finis Walnut, Mahogany or Ivory Special, Square T Twin Beds, in Walnut, Mahoga orth Special, cach, 24.50 Simmons Square Tube Twin Beds, with b d. in Mal finish Special, cach, 82,00 Cr th high drop side, in Ivory « Special, 12.50 Upholst jox Springs, made | edg und tufte top |, 40.00 Pla | 1 hair top Springs; selected tick Special, 26.50 ty Black Drawing lixee t ‘ Hair Mattress Ob. we th full imperial edge . . Special, 80.00 So. 1 B Drawings Hair Mattresses. 43 |i eight; rail 3 best selected tick Special, 55.00 Special DB: Horse Hair Mattresse 45 It ight Speciai, 35,50 la { Mattresses, with roll edge Special, 12.50 Plastic Fo Mattresses, full $0 1b weight Special. 15.50 OLVENTH FLOOR) the stand A WARNING AGAINST “CO-OPE fellow to move into the newe: neato of such units; that th making use of the savin problem not only of the York, but of every city whe ks and other loan associations for| welfare of the people Is now Jv r money that is to bo|dized by the menace of inad 8 co-operative housing and housing.” invested vn n- They are values which V Ven-piece Queen Anne model Dining Room Suite, illustrated, finished in Walnut or Mahogany Vencer; Buffet, China Cabinet, Enclosed Service Table, Ex tension Table, five Side Chairs and one Arm Chair. 269.50 McCreery Annual January — Sale of Furniture In this January Sale every piece and suite is “Master-Made,” yet its price is exceedingly low. speak more plainly than | wan mumciont to meet all fF PRICE OF COAL |\Wehite there is, some variation AT RETAIL CUT {225 tN it in “expected “that LJ end of the week prices will be unifet | Samuel Drummond, director of | Brooklyn Coal Exchange, sald tos Following the removal of the Govern: the reduction by the Brooklyn 4 ment tux of 91-2 centa a ton on bitum-| would lower the price of store amd (nous cont and 7 to 8 cents on anthra- | Mace coal about 10 centa a aval ite, deatera in and around New York|_ Bituminous coal, another largélealer reduced the peter to consumera, | Sata than s0'centa a ton, Om PRny York conl dealers cut prices Ralph H, Perry, Prei Aba dent of R. H. terday. Reduotions ranged from 20 to| Perry & Co. retail dealers in Jersey 0 cents n ton, Bue cont is down | City, aald his firm had reduced the price conte to $12.85; stove coal in| fom 15 to 25 cents, effective to-day, , ? Coal delivered in Jersey City: under Pen is at $10.75, @ 20 cent re-|the new schedule will cost per ton? Bituminous Ls down from $7.90 Stove and chestnut, $12.80; ogg, $9250; r j | pea, $10. buckwheat, ' $7.05 Deniers announced (hat coat on hand! $¢.65; barley, $5.66. Four-piece Louis XVI i model Chamber Suite, il- ; lustrated, fine Walnut ‘ Veneer Dresser, Chiffo i robe, Vanity Case and j Bow-End Bed. 295.00 maadse-comnnasdtin. Room Suite, illustrated, fine Walnut Veneer, Buffet, Silver Cabinet, En- losed Service ‘Table, Extension Table, five Side Chairs and one Arm Chair, upholstered in Tapestry. 697.00 Ven-piece Italian Dinin Vapestry Library Suite, illu old separately. Sofa 79.50 Arm Chair 49.50 Wing Cha ‘ 45.00 eI XV. Model Chamber Suite Til ig Dresser, Chifforobe, Var Er 550.00 Lo XV. model Dining Room Su ut Ven Buffer, China Cabinet, | e Tab E xtension ‘lable, five § Arm Chair, 397.50 han model Dining Room Suit Buffet, Silver Cabinet, | ables, five Side Chair Seats and Backs upho' . iece Le AVI. model suite, ne ahoya Polychrome, Dre Bed, Chifforobe, Var ( r, Bench and Night Stand. 775.00 SEV ENTE 5th Avenue James McCreery & Co. 34th Street I'hree-piece Library Suite,illustrated, upholstered n fine cut Mohair, Sofa, Arm Chair and Wing Chair 325.00 Ten-piece Italian Model Dining Room Suite, in Gray Walnut, Buffet, China Cabinet, Silver Cabinet, Enclosed Service Table, five Side Chairs and one Arm Chair. 1250.00 len-piece Chippendale Mo | Dining Room Suite, neluding Buffet, China Cabinet, Silver Cabinet Tray Cabinet, Extension Table, five Side Chairs and one Arm Chair 975.00 Vour-piece Suite of solid Mahog Dresser Chifforobe, Toilet Table and Bed. 225.00 Four-piece Louis XVI. model Suite, in Gray Walnut, with glass tops, Dresser, Chifforobe, Vanity Case and Bow-End Bed. 637.50 Ven-piece Hepplewhite Model Dining Room ites h B China Cabinet, Oblong Ex nsion Table airs and one Arm Chair 1200.00 bLOOR Fd ; oe