Show PITIABLE PLIGHT OE OF TENANT POOR New Yorks York's Great Rent Strike Has Reached Danger Point Point 4 RIO RIOT AND BLOODSHED NEXT All Al C Caused used by Landlords Landlords' lust V for Pennies of V Penury hIs hIs- IY U nm 10 SH JIL President of f lIme lie Che National Institute of r I Immigration 1 New York Dec 28 8 When a settlement settle settle- sette- sette ment meat In time the rent strike Is reached as asIt asit ast It t will wil bo ba bO an and excitement subsides per per- er- er Imps laps there ma may have ha c been rioting and bloodshed perhaps only some ome meetings s. s demonstrations tutu tind Ind eviction tragedies but lut whatever er time tho course cours o of rents rent the time will wil be a mere macre I lon tion The Tho present rent strike Is a very serious matter malcI but Lut It I will wi Pass pas The Time from front which It springs Is something more inure than timan the time historically perpetual sufferings of the poor pooi and ir if f not remedied will wt burst forth In imm something shocking It I arises front from tho the outrageous circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances which I have endeavored to call cal attention to at fit other othet times The rhe present pres pies ent crisis serves to bring these boldly to the front front- Thoy They form a gangrenous growth on 01 the social cosmogony of oC the time timet t metropolis n are arc not beyond remedy and ane if IC not hot aired the time ulcer will wi show Itself to be bo a 1 huge civic shame These arc are the influences combined to produce the time whole result resul Cannes of ur l First The First The vampire vampire-ikc s system tem of oC speculation In tenement house leases Second The Second The by hy bythe time the city government in the tax bureau et and In L borough expenditures res Third Third Tho Tho ne neglect lect of tho the owners of tenement house property to tu do o their thel moral duty In lii the time provision of lit dwellings s for Cor the time poor Fourth Time Fourth The The hotbed like propagation of revolutionary socialistic I sentiment In the time gregarious colonies colonies The The The lack of or law to prevent or restrain the Increase of or factories ah and establishments in lower Manhattan Ia n hala I. I Sixth The Sixth The bad condition among the tite garbage carriers carriers There Thero have o ho been seven SI rent riots big bigand and little In the district south of ur Fifth street and eat east of Jefferson street in thu time past jast pat 1 12 years ears and they grow row worse as aH the time first live five lve of the time luL sub conditions grow glow worse Tho flo concerted action acton of about of the time of ur tho time lease leue speculators speculator has hal precipitated the time present trouble Two thousand two hundred are aro supporting purporting time the extraordinary movement movement movement move move- ment in the time background or 01 or Inspired wRit with base baHe a alec lec the Iho lust JUst for tOt tho pennies pen pen- nies of or the time poor arc are aro tho time 1001 cr wl ir lr lr own own account V V dase lu V A u tc I V 0 od H rui al Ph 1 V st 11 11 fortl t- t thoo hoo th o t h he Lt t 9 na dJ t- t I who came caine to tI couii- couii Lr try nine years yearn ago For Por tive five years ears linand lie lin and amid 11 Ills hi wife wire slaved laved in a a. little basement bl shop slop In lii Monroe street und and saved nearly nearl thousand dollars The lessee of or ortle time tho tle tenement In which the they lived hived look took pick rick TIme The shoemaker took over o er time the 25 G lease Immediately raised the rent remit per cent and evicted e the time tenants who not luL naY It It Th There rc was a riot riot a r few wl windows d w were vere br broken i n. n some men inca wore arrested some seine families would have been starved If Ir the charities had hud hadnot hadnot hudnot not cared for them until the thc men got out mitt t. and at time Iho the end of or the time month the tenement was wal full rul and amid at peace only It I paid the time lessee tho the poor shoemaker of the time year ear before lISO 1180 a n year er profit and he lie had his tent rent free free In two years more he ime took another tenement with another tr tragedy cd for Its Is tenants Ills Ils tenants in inthe th tub the first house arc are now paying him live five dollars where they paid his predecessor three and he ito is a real estate estalo man rated i at nt Some neighbor with wih business ability Is running the cobbler cob cob- bier bler shop Maui of f Ji tilt Class Cbs WitcH When he lie raised time the rents time the families who stayed took In ium 11 a boarder or two and went on with less space and less air not because the real owner of the time property was and seeking more inure than thun duo luo return on his investment invest invest- In ment ment but bee because ule of a leech a 0 parasite para par site who vimo was willing to attend personally per pcr- to the time collection of oC time the rents rent anti and to bear Lear the time brunt of the time failure to tu tomake make the time repairs was wringing from frum tIe the unfortunates unfortunate under tinder his Imis roof more marc than thun half hair of what the time landlord himself got goL JoL Him and his his vile vie Ilk Ik l by tho the hundreds hundreds hun hun- hUI- hUI aro robbing children of food fool fresh air all and clothing shutting off or their chances of coming to healthy maturity maturity ma ma- merely rel to Increase their own bank ank accounts In several years cars of ur work among the tIme aliens aHem In Now New e York City pity I have seen worse vorse conditions night after night In Inthe the Ule tenements than In an any continental elt city In which I have ever been I have seen small smal rooms In which six or eight persons slept regularly There are re o n if tin lark v h four four- n room tenement Mt flats t In li liC that C i section tl of r New York for which twenty dollars a a month arc are paid palL and which house 12 or 14 1 persons persona every cry night winter and nd sum sum- mer Tho TIme neglect ne of oC tenement house property prop erty owners to do IJU their moral amoral duty by 1 ol old tenements with now ones or remodeling those that are arc adaptable Is 18 tIme the next grave I e evil Anyone Anone who has hasI been favored by God sufficiently to own owr I several hundred thousand dollars dollars' worth of tenement house property I I Is bound L by the tIme laws linvs- of of right and wron wrong to make those hou houses es de decently 10 he- he I habitable for the poor who must V live lve In them Time The poor of New cw York Yort would be compelled in to live In pi pig If that was all the landlords provide pro Tho Time competition for living space Is so sharp that tho time poor aro absolutely help help- less If I the time property owners do not want the time revolutionary of or orthe the lower Kast u t Side Sido to solve tho rent Tent strike c and n other difficulties In their own way they thoy had imad hod better beter take tako hold of or orthe V the situation themselves without further fur tur- thor ther delay The rent strikers arc are right right entirely nUrol entirely Ti right right and ht- ht and nd should have the support of oC or e every minded fair J person in tho time public at largo large larru |