Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-07 | Page 6 | Baby Buggies Block Traffic

BABY BUGGIES BLDCKTHAFF1G Excited Tenants Go To Court Seeking Relief from Rent Profiteers of City NEW YORK, April 7. Baby bugg.ct, today blocked traffic in front of a Brooklyn court house, so great was the throng of evicted tenants seeking te-lief undor new laws designed to curb profiteering in rent. Whole families went to court, the babies being left outside. When the parents emerged, having obtained time to hunt other apartments, their Joy was not unmixed with concern at the task of sorting out their children, many of whom had exchanged car riages by crawling from one to the olhcr. Most of the landlords agreed to post pone evictions until July. In Manhattan court more than 100 men, women and children engaged In an enthusiastic demonstration when the first of 150 rent complainnnts was jgiicn a six months' stay of eviction I Tenants whose cases were awaiting hearing applauded Justice Prince and shouted their approval. Some stood on bi-nches and waved their hats in Joy. Every tenant found his appeal to jthc court successful, the landlords be-ling be-ling ordered to postpone evictions from Ione to six months . A street car conductor who was In court with Ills wife five children and I had already been allowed three (months to find a home, was given an I additional month. He offered his landlord a month's rent but Justice j Prince told him to keep his money.