The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1922, Page 6

‘hundreds have been questioned hy the | j _anything suspicious, » Were no signs that either had been “gis made of the two stomachs. » ataire. » tween Avenu ~ POLICE SEK IRL AS LURE 10 DEATH OF TWO ON ROOF Two Men Also Sought in Con- nection With West Side Mystery. The police to-day are searching for a mulatio girl, probably white, ana two Negroes as the siayers of Louis Rothstein, an !msuranc ¢oi- lector, of No. 204 West 69th Strect, and an wnidentified man, whose bod- jes were found on roofs in the West b¥th Street block east of Columbus Avenue yesterday. ‘The men were throttled, apptrently after being lured to the roofs. Detec- tives found an old grate bar of @ stove to which clung clotted strands of human hair on one roof, and an ifort will be made to photograph nger prints on it. Capt, Carey of the Homicide Syuu i helieves both men were lured to the roofs for the purpose of robbery, and that too much force was used on them when they resisted. Each imoen's shoes were beside him, indicating that he had been induced to remove them in the bellef caution was neces- sary. When selzed on the roof each man was throttied, apparently while one assailant sat on his chest, ‘The murders were in the heart of the 59th Street black belt, and though police no one admits having heard Some admitted crap games were played on tho roofs regularly. Rothstein might have appeared as a wood robber victim but the other man ‘would not have been selected as likely to have money or valuables, Roth: stein had little money though he car- ried a gold watch and some other Jewelry. His presence in the neigh- borhood might be explained by the fact that he liked to listen to street orators and often went to Columbus Circle for the purpose. Rothstein lay face upward, his head in a small pool caused by the hemorrhages resulting from his asphyxiation. The other victim, too, had bled about the mouth. There beaten or injured. A blood-stained hendkerchief lay beside the body of Rothstein, where it had flown when he bit through his tongue. “My boy was a good boy,” Roth- atein's mother, her eyes dry and feverish, said yesterday. “He was not lured by any one. They thought he was rich, and held him up, then dragged him to the roof after hitting him with a blackjack. No one could Ture my boy. He did not drink, gam- blo or have anything to do with women.” Acting Chief Medical Uxaminer Benjamin Schwartz will conduct an autopsy on the unidentified body to- day, and will have a chemical analy- “The truth 1s," said Capt. Carey, head of the Homicide Spuad, on the strength of reports from his men, “the men were lured to the roof to be robbed and their assailants uninten- tionally got too rough and killed them. ‘That's the way it looks now.”" pcan LE a ~Ltetaaas ca KIDDIES EAT POISON, * BELIEVING IT CANDY Girl May Die From Bichlor- ide of Mercury—Boy’s Case Not Serious. Buffering from bichloride of mer- eury poisoning from eating tablets they believed to be candy, Dorothy Casey, elx, anti Lester Lehrer, six, who live in an apartment house at No, 212 West 109th Street, are in St. Luke's Hospital, where it was sid to-day that Dorothy's condition is serious but that Lester probably wil! recover. Playing near her home yesterday Dorothy found in an ashean a bottle containing white tablets. She ran home with some of them In her hand and ate one as she was mounting the It burned her mouth and, dropping the others, she ran to her grandmother, Mrs. White, crying, “My Ups are burning.” She was first taken to a drug store and then to the hospital, after first aid had been administered. Lester, returning from Public School No. 165, discovered the supposed candy on the stairs and bit into one, but did not swallow it. He spat it out and a few minutes later his mother hurried him to the hospital. —+ " THREE HURT AS TROLLEY HITS SIGHTSEEING BUS Tre Women end Man Injured Collision. A Gmith Street trolley car, bound for Coney Island, struck a sightseeing bus om Coney Island Avenue last night, be- U and P. Miss Dorothy Duncker, twenty-one, a maleswoman of No. 416 Neptune Avenue, ‘amé Arthur Murphy, twenty-nine, an @ectrician, of No. 312 Prospect Avenue, Brooklyn, jumped from the ca: The Girl's seed was hurt and Murphy's foot ‘was broken. Both were taken to Concy «Ialand Hospital. Miss Ida Britchsky, twenty-eight, of No. 329 East Sixth Street, Manhattan, & passenger on the bus, was cut on the foot. Beth the car and bus were moving fous one the rear end of the bus was a |Upper West Side Landlords Make 80,000 NEW HOMES! Their Last Stand THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, For High Rents, But Some Rates Drop 20 Per Cent. Conspiracy to Keep Up Prices Is Suspected, But ‘ Let” Signs Increase in Number and Trend Is Down- ward, Despite Expected October Rush. fo fet’ signs have blossomed in profusion alone Broadway between 59th and 114th Streets, There are even apartments to rent where no signs are shown, because many landlords think it a tad policy to give tenonts the impression the market is flo “d. But th apartments and apart- ments to be had—but at a price, They ary m up for the grant Oct. 1 rush, because landlords realize this uiey will be making the lust stand for exorbitant rentals Sul, prices are not as high this @- —— year as Inst. An Investigator went] muy und 92d there is a new house ovér this territory a year ago this|under erection and they are asking time Yesterday's investigation} about $45 # room. The renting agent showed decreases of av much as 20|4ays le ts getting It. Me sald land per cent. in some cases, In one orjlords putting up such buildingy in- two exceptional instances there were | tended to «et thelr money back before decreases of 36 to 40 per cent. iIn]rentals fell again. He was wa-ned Sroadway, near 724, there was an old loft bullding made into two and three rooms with baths two years ago. At that time The Evening World found the landlord wanted $30 a rvom. Last year he had fallen to $20, and now he ts down to $15. And they ur most mediocre rooms. Of course, ti)l» is an exceptional cuse, but {t i« Ind! cative of the trend of things when o greedy, merciless landlord talla from his high horse with such 4ittie dignity and so much haste. Further along Broudway in the Fighties there is a distinct movement to hold up prices. The tip is to walt until after the big rush, if you can, because there ts certain to be n lot of left-overs, The same apples to Riverside Drive, There {s a sign on every other house. There are only two houses on Claremont Avenue that have no signs. The Superintendent of one of these houses, thinking he was talking to a prospective tenant, safd to an Ev ning World reporter: "It's certain there wil] be almost as many uapart- ments vacant after Oct. 1 as there are now, because it's just a caso of ten- ants shifting from one house to an- other. Of course, we make a small nilowance for people who give up thetr apartments and go to the coun- try to return tn the fall wners are striugyling to keep their prices up and that's why you neo they are steep, along Broarway sspecially. Thero has been a lot of building and that Is the remedy for high prices,” At No. 261 West 87th Stroet there ‘@ a five-room apartment with two coms facing Broadway and they are asking $1,800 for it. This ts a case of holding up rentals. ‘The telephone boy eaid many had called, asked the price and departed—mighty few had one up to look at tt. “That's the price they ask,” yawned, he At the De Soto, No. 215 West 9ist, they offer four rooms at $1,800. That ‘s $37.50 a room per month, and the house 1s not a new one. They also have five rooms at $2,400 and seven at $8,600. After such a canvass as yesterday's one almost imagines an understand~ tng among landlords to stand by one another {n this district to keep up the revenue. Fight WASHINGTON, Sept. Willard Greene, Washington's famou trial board on charges of patrolling practice has grown. That the situation ts regarded seri- ously is shown by a general order issued to the captains of all precincts by the Acting Superintendent of Po- ce and reading as follows: “It 18 reported to theso head- quarters that precinct commanders have been permitting men to go to) and from their beats in automobiles owned and operated by them, und that in some inst.aces patrolmen have been permitted to use thelr pri- vate automobiles in patrolling their beats. Neither of these practices is conducive to the best interests of the | service and you will see to it that) they are not permitted in the future. | You will construe this order to| apply to the Sergeants as well as to’ the privates.”’ It was the ‘Sergeants’ end of the order that applied to the ‘millionalrs | cop." Greene 1s reputed to be worth nearly half a million dollars, most of | which he has made since becoming a member of the force, His start to a fortune was made in real estate in-| vestments, He began turning the money over and over in various deals, he says, and each time it turned tt Brew lke a snowbell running down | hill The Sergeant !s charged not only | with patrolling his beat in the high- powered machine, but of leaving the beat. ‘That 1s one great trouble in allowing coppers to use their lmou- wines on duty, The temptation to go away from there, to dash home for @ cup of hot coffee or a plate of soup oftentimes is too great to resist, rgoant Greene udmits riding tn the uutumobile, He sald he used it often to go to court where he had! cases to be heard, and that sometimes his wife drove him about, Like all! wealthy men, Greene has employed able counsel and will fight the | charges against him and defend the At the northeast corner of Broad-|and not undesirable Capital’s “Millionaire Cops” Must Leave Limousines at Home Order Goes Out Against Patrolling in Private High- Priced Cars—One Sergeant Engages Counsel to 16 (Copyright).—The aas led to a general investigation here to determine how widespread this | Mrs that they would have to do it pr quickly and Broadway there At 98d Stree is u house where they offer six roomy ut $1,700 and seven ut $1,900. And apartments tn an old Street ut $00 for seven aN Broudway they rooms, two of Bef the inflation such «an apartment could be had for 45 per cent. less. Thy superintendent was asked If the own ers expected to get that price. He answered: Thi how much they want.’’ si. $1 ital At Broadway and 101st Street they ask $2,100 for elght rooms and $1,000 for three rooms, In the same neighborhood there are elght rooms for $3,400, or about $25 por room per month. For this build- ing this rental gets Into the realms of reason, when one considers the gross profiteering that’s been going on. Also there Is a decrease of about 15 per cent. under last year. Two of the rooms face Broadway. At 102d Street and Broadway they offer six rooms at $2,000. And they are fair rooms but the price t# stil! steep for them. At 118th Street and Broadway they offer two seven-room apartments af $2,100, ‘This is $25 a room per month. This also shows some trend toww reasonableness, when one considers the house and realizes that in the new houses in the Bronx they are asking $20 to per room. “My {dea of the rent situation Is this,” sald a real estate man who deals in houses in the vicinity visited. “They are asking too much for the new houses and in consequence there are golng to be a lot of new apart- ments vacant after October 1. The rank and file of people are not goir to pay fancy prices when they can get good apartments tn old buildings for less, despite the fact that the newer ones are more desirable. Own- ers of new buildings will find out they are asking far too much, They overestimate the situation by a lon shot, People don't have to pay those pricee and they won't.”’ There is an apartment near 122d and Broadway that they asked $125 per month for last year. This year it has gone for $80, It ts five rooms Edict. eiting of Sergt. John 8 “millionaire cop,” before the police his beat in a high-priced automobile — use of autos by coppers, Instead of Interfering with thetr duties, he in sists the machines are a great ald to efficiency, ee ABANDONED BABY BOY IS FOUND IN HALLWAY A brown-eyed baby pnthe old was f boy about two ind early to-day in the hallway of an apartment house at No. 23 East 128th Street by Mr. and Benjamin Hull, tenants, The Hulls heard the infant crying as they entered the house and found tt half-way back in the hall on the floor. It was wrapped in a blue and white woolen blanket and wore a woolen cap The Infant was taken to Ha nite) WAN TED) 1000 YOUNG MEN Tro J CENTURY CAMP MODERN WOODMEN % AMERICA Enjoy true triendsnip, ceremonies, sick and death benefits and many other privileges in the largest, richest and best ( secret society in Amer Does not conflict with religious or political fraternal and benefi ica. belief, For further information call, write or phone Deputy Head Consul’s Office, 17. m Hos-! NN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT IN YEAR Cost $400,000,000—Lower Rents Forecast as Surplus Nears Normal. Now Romer for £0,000 families have » built throughvut the metropol! ago. Vital statistics show that the In crease in population has been Ho more | than 20,000 families, or 100,009 per sins. This seems to give an increase of 60,000 homes for the year, Lecause housing congestion has reduced thy razing of old domiciles to a minimum, At the worst of the housing short- tn 1920, surplus of there was an estimated me- was Increased to 40,000 But the normal surplu was 10 per cent, whic! \tpayers to move comfort. | tired of old abodes. A furnities embrace the 8.000, ) persons in the metropolitan an 2.000 homes tn the tropolis ra ul surplus of 40,000 homes last ye was only 244 per eant—not enourh to ice high rentals through pressur: of ply and demand, But this year's muvpli of 100,000 as the result of £9,000 new surplus added to the 40,000 last year Increases the percentage of surplus to 6% per cent. FACE TO FACE NOW WITH FIRST DROP IN HOME RENTS. With the yore economical use ¢ living space forced by high rentals of the past few years, this surplus is regarded in many quarters as equiv alent to the old 10 per cent. surplus which provided so many homes that landlords fell into the common habit of giving one or two months’ free rent every year In order to hold ten- | tal day). ste ba I vou Keeps. Kingston 5 an Ca Hu nod ber tad Everybody 19 asking if a big drop | leaves Mention it 426 in resident inoth st, ab allot jal rentals may be expected after October Day, when the real ex tent of surplus housing ts revealed through a count of vacant homes Many familles are not home-seeking because they plan to take advantage of this supposed condition. But large number of those thus waiting might defeat temporarily the antici pated sudden drop in rents, because landlords too are waiting for this be- lated den nd and they may decide to hold up prices a month or so longer If October and November home hunters reveal a pressing demand for housing at market rates. Otherwise, according to the admts- sion of renting agents, prices must begin the descent to normal because a large majority pf landlords hold thétr howises°on small equities and heavy mortgages, the Interest upon which must be putd promptly as it falls due, and they will not run the risk of letting vacant apartments de prive them of the money which m go to the mortgage holders in order a foreclosure WHERE TO FIND THE YEAR'S MANY NEW HOMES. Among the 80,000 homes built last October Day are private dweilings for 35,000 families, mainly in the suburbs, and apartments fer 45 The small houses have cost 000,000; the rtments, $190,000,000 Thus the for housing 80,000 families, or 409,000 persons, has been $400,000,000, an average of $1,000 a person. Dwellings have uyuraged | While on the hand, rub lightly with a cloth dipped in Carbona Cleaning F lui d—dries in- stantly and leaves ee Owe: 55 ng INA Rawoves GREASE Spor: FY t@ fabric OF color BITTE ALL ORSON TS POMPEIAN OLIVE OIL Sold Everywhere Poe Orn veautiful ritualistic the i Richard Peck to the farnfly; apartments, yn ree new homes purtments. The Bronx pi with dwellings — tt 4,60) apartments for 18,450, Queens has mullt new homes fur over 8,600 famt- liew In dwellings and 8,617 in flats Richmond was housed 4,600 in dwell- ings und 60 in upartments. Manhat tan has put up dwellings f than 60 families, apartments for The outlying suburbs of Westchester, N 1, Suffolk and the Jerseys report new dwellings for 9,400 families SHARE PARTHQUAKE SHOCK NEAR VIGO, SPAIN, Viao, Spatn, Sept Mm Press). A sharp earthquake lasting 3 New Tork'y Popular Restaurant, TROJAN Mari fe bureh 41 Mactan River by Daylight Direct’ ral connec Ne ‘to Albany w York accepted, Saturdays only—For ¢Rear Mountain fMhent, Nelat and pNewbargh. Str, Rober! 130° P.M Fulton leaves 1 W. 4d Bt, 1.8 w leaven Sundays only—For ¢Bear Mountain, ¢New bargh and ¢Poughkeepsio, St Irving leaves Desbrossex § tReturn steamer same day trom pint marked f. Daylight Saving Time Round Trip Ru New York West Point, $1 Poughkeepsie, ‘s2.0 Catskill," £4.00; Rings. 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