Show flat fiat dweller eats in new york sleeps in yonkers A v oni ona half in great re a i Metro poll Z other half in suburbs fire departments refuse to assume jurisdiction over building new york A tate tale of two cities la Is the title that best beat describes tile the eon con of affairs in the five flat houses owned by tomas thomas doyle a at t two hundred and fortieth street a and nd mclean avenue halt half in new york and halt half in yonkers these are the buildings which are worrying the building departments of both cities it Is 1 alleged that the houses lack fire exit and because of the tact fact that neither ot of the departments Is sure ot of its jurisdiction the property la Is temporarily immune from municipal interference officials of the abe yonkers fire and build building ng departments have inspected the premises and it Is understood they will confer with mayor gaynor for the purpose of settling the matter the yonkers firemen aay that in case cae the building takes fire they arv ar willing to extinguish their half bait but they would hate to interfere with the pleasure of their now new york comrades all such persons sit as happened t to 0 b be e on the yonkers end of the b building ull dl g would have the freedom of the yonkers ers ladders extended to them but those who were in the now new york part would have to make high dives or wait for their own fire department but the official tangle caused by the location of the buildings a circumstance cum stance to the contusion confusion among the tenants just imagine having your family scattered all over two cities the baby in crying for or its mother in n new york papa in new york yelling hta his head bead off to fand out it if dinner to la ready in yonkers Yon kera ind and mamma ln inquiring of pupa papa to know w when he to la coming from now new york to help her take the ice off the dumb watter waiter in yonkers it surely aurely la is a remarkable state tat of affairs said one woman the lou houses sea are ar so no constructed that the parlors are ik in york and the kitchens in yonkers while the city line passes right through thio the center of the dining room I 1 low allow would woula you like to wake up in new york and have to go to yonkers tor for your breakfast every morning you sit down on the now new york side aide af pf it tho table and have to get bet up and cross over into yonkers to got get the salt palt or pepper unless some come one hands handa it to you just think of reaching into another city to got get the butter 1 suppose y you bu go to new york every day was suggested all but mondays and saturdays on monday I 1 I 1 latha the tha clothed and on an saturdays I 1 bathe the children and iliew v days daya I 1 spend la in yonkers Yon kera tho the plan has many advantages however it at al taj th comforts of the city with bhele the atesh sh air of the country wien WI en the lie children child reh get run eown own I 1 han them w put to and kp them there for a couple of hours and another ther thing when john and I 1 have hava a disagreement he be goes to now new york and I 1 go to ip ile keba 88 a dabat of tonna hS nino on one ind and ott W such occasions he drops one shoe in new york and tosses tho the other into yonkers Yon kera ile he does the same thing with the rest of his dude duda next day we have to tramp all over two cities collecting them which end does the landlord collect from wo we fooled him for a long time when he be came in by the new york end wo we used to flock over into era aud vice versa hut but now ho he comes in and straddles the line until we come across there la in a combination butcher market and grocery on the ground floor of the corner building the meat department Is ie tn in new york and the cash register to Is in yonkers and when a cua customer tomer buys a pigs tender fender or a steak he has to walk za a fk across the city line to ring the bell the largest part of my store la in in new york said the butcher but the largest part of my trade Is in Ton yonkers kers yea its a strange situation it will be interesting it if anybody ever drops dead on the city una lino have to slice lice him up to satisfy satiety the undertakers on 0 n both sides of the line |