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Show "CLIFF DWELLERS." A curious incident is 'reported from Sacramento, where the California legislature legis-lature is in session. It has to do with iipartment houses and apartment-house dwellers. The basis of the tale is a certain bill designed to compel owners and managers of apartment houses and hotels to admit families with children in residence. The measure makes' it a misdemeanor to refuse to let rooms because be-cause the applicant has children. Heading a lobby against tho bill is one Hugene X. Fritz, president of tho San Francisco Apartment-house owners and Managers', association, an organi-?atiou organi-?atiou representing some '2o0 flat building build-ing proprietors. Mr. Fritz, in some remarks re-marks on the head of apartment-house dwellers, made no secret of the owners' view that apartment houses were no place for children; that if parents brought children to live in apartment houses, they were doing the children a gross injustice; that tho people in San Francisco who make their abodes in apartment houses were fast approaching a condition where parenthood was becoming be-coming impossible. A few of the pointed sentences culled from Mr. .Fritz's expressed opinions are highly illuminating. For example, he says that "the la?.y, easy, overfed life which is led by the average apartment-house apartment-house dweller makes it unnecessary for us to be legislated against. We don't have to refuse to admit children when these people apply. They hardly ever have 'em. It isn't so much that thev don't have the maternal instinct. Thcv seem to love children, but they can't reproduce. Their minds and bodies are sluggish, and nature retali-'ates retali-'ates bv denying them the right of par-leutheod." par-leutheod." In one very large apart-jn-er.t building, according to Frit:, more !than 30 per cent of the children were i adopted. I Mr. Frit: told of a Mrs. Lundy of :San Francisco, who is the mother of ; twenty-four boys and girls. '"She is one of our most worthy citi:ens,'' said the lobbyist. "She gave birth to two i hv'en. children. But. note this: She ;.l'..'m't rear then; iu an apartment house. ; Keiuf orcir.g Mr. Fri": before the committee com-mittee was Mrs. Alice Stone, a grand- ..'.etl-.cr, who opposed the bill on the ground that, so far iron making it easier to gain admittance for children i to apartment houses. legislation ought I to be enacted, to keep them out of those places entirely. "Children r.ced fresh ;air and play space.''" she said, "and if the apartment-house men refuse to a.:::::: ! children, they are doing a great w ork for the future generations. It will make 1 parents live in homes vcith yards." . '- ' A ' : . x ' . ' '. t . - ." .' a . . t -j i r ' - ' . " a. i ' ' J ' ' - .-i ' ' . . -. i . - . ". a . |