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Bricklayers ,
End Strike; To
Rush Building
Hylan Acts as Umpire in
Dispute as Work on 300
Unfinished Houses and
New Schools Proceeds
Census of Vacancies
East Side Buildings in
Such Shape Remodeling
Plan May Be Dropped
The chief obstacle to building op?
erations, in the opinion of Mayoi
Hylan, was removed yesterday when
the bricklayers and the mason builders
agreed to accept the Mayor as umpire
in llieir wage dispute. The bricklayers
declared off their strike, which hat
been in force since January 1, and
will return to work this morning.
The agreement was reac'ned after ?
five-hour conference between rcpre.
sentativoa of Mason Builders Associa
tion, the bricklayers' union and th<
Mayor at the City Hall. The repre
sentatives of each faction were clos
etcd in different rooms during th<
greater part of the time, and the Mayoi
went back and forth to discuss th(
situation with the two groups sep
arately before all parties intereste(
were brought together.
In annuoncing the settlement of the
strike Mayor Hylan said that both sides
had made concessions, and that thej
did it to heln the housing condition!
in the city.
Thanks for Concessions
"Both sides realized the housinj
conditions in this city were serious,'
said the Mayor "and both gave ane
took so that buildings can be erected
I want to thank both the builders anc
the bricklayers for their concessions
Not only can house building now g<
on, but schoolhouse construction whicl
has been held up can also proceed."
The agreement reached between tin
bricklayers' unions of greater Ncv
York and Long island and the Masoi
i Builders Association follows:
''The bricklayers' unions agree t
! rose nd their strike order and retur
j to work immediately under the agree
ment, which is to continue until a!
questions now existing and formerl
considered by the joint arbitratio
board are finally and mutually agree
upon. The decision of the umpire o
the cuesti?n of wages to be retroactiv
from the day the men return to wor
aid shall continue until December 3'
1920. After the men have returned t
werk the joint board of arbitratio
i shall renew their relations and sit t
i adjust whatever grievances may be pr<
i sentod from either side. The umpi*
I to be John F. Hylan.. 'Mayor of the Cit
; of New York, and his decision is t
: hi' lina! and binding on both partie
j Both sidos to submit their briefs witl
; in forty-eight hours after the men r<
? turn to work."
The agreement was signed by ]
; Youngs, chairman of the strike con
j rait tee of the -Mason Builders' Asse
; ciatioh, and John F. Clancey, chairms
i of the strike committee of the bricl
' layers, and other members of tl
| unions.
The men struck on January 1 fc.
; $1.25 an hour. They had previously r<
I ccived $8.50 a day. It is expected thi
] they will get the $1.25 rate per hour, ?
' otherwise the 5,"00 bricklayers wh
i have got work in other cities whei
wag s ??..-ore higher will rot be attrac
ed back to Now York. M any more mi gl
see fit to desert the local market, th
summer, it was said, unless the high?
wage is granted. Normally there a:
about 20,000 bricklayers in this city.
Much. Uncompleted Work
Some of the union men said veste
, day that there were i;00 apartme
i houses half completed in the city <
j which work had been suspended <
account of the strike. These buiidin.
i now can be finished. The city appr
priated $25,000,000 in the 1020 budg
I for the construction of new schoo
I but little headway has been made <
I the building plans because of the strik
New York Urged to Buy
More Milk; Price Droi
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Prices of all grades of milk were i
| duced yesterday, to take effect Thui
\ day. Grade U mjlk will sell at 15 cei
? a quart. This is a reduction of t*
?con's by the Sheffield Farms Compa
and of one cent by the Borden's Far;
; Products Company. Pints will he s<
: lor nine cents, a reduction of one ce
I When bought at the stores and c
ried away in the consumers' contain*
Grade B milk will sell for 10 cent?
j quart, a reduction of throe cor
Grade A milk will bo 18 cents a qu
and 11 cents a pint, a reduction in a
case of one cent.
The reductions were the result c
lower price to be paid to farmers. 1
Milk Conference Board, which fixes 1
prices between the. farmers and
u ?tributors, decided to give the fai
? cents a Quart less than the
i schedule.
Ol dais of some of the distribute
, organizations said yesterday that tl
! no^Q to induce New Yorkers to c
sume l.OOO.OOOquarts more of mil
day.' Such nn increase in consumpt
would enable them to keep the pi
i down because of economy in hand!
i greater quantities, they said.
Daniel Iiorton, secretary of
Sheffield Farms Company, said the
I ductions just announced on the 2,2
000 quarts consumed daily in New Y
I would save the public about $44,00
day. The April prices, howe or, wl
I about equal to those for the st
month last scar, are 66 per cent hig
? than in 1910.
"The reductions are made in an ef
! to increase consumption," said Pat:
1?. Fox, president of the Borden's Pi
ucts Company. "The season when tt
is a surplus of milk has just begun
will continue until June. It is ho
? that the public will take advantage
! the low price as a means of redut
I the cost of living."
Jews to Call
Rent Strike
Of 800,000
Continu*, from first pago
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going, of course, to the owners. Ho
also attacked the Jewish landlords.
The justice attackc- the bill which
allows a 26 per cent increase a year
as being too high, and also nttacked
the plan for lending $50,000,000 to
builders to encoumge construction.
House Conscription Urged
"In spite of all' that wo hear?and
know?about rent profiteering," ho
said, "and the misery it is causing;
in spite of all the talk about there be?
ing a shortage of housing; in spite of
all this there are still hundreds if not
thousands of vacant rooms in this city.
There arc houses which are almost un
tenanted; fine, big, healthful, beauti?
ful, well fitted houses, somo of them
with as many as a hundred rooms. And
I say to you that just as the govern?
ment conscripted life during the war,
so now the Health Department can
conscript the homes of wealth"-. Ho
was interrupted by vociferous cheer?
ing. When it subsided he continued:
"I do not want to be misunderstood.
It can conscript those houses in this
great public emergency, and rent them
at a fair rental to the citizens of New
York, and pay that rental to the owners
of the property." There was far less
applauso when the proposition had
been fully cxpluined.
Mr. Panken then began to talk in
Yiddish. He attacked the Jews among
the rent profiteers, declaring that some i
of them seemed actually biood hungry, !
though others were fair. He explained j
the need of having the "rent situation !
taken up as a peculiarly Jewish mat- !
ter."
"Let us all the Jews get together," he ?
said, "the workers, the tenants, the j
people of the synagogues, the little ;
business men, the professional men, all I
together in one big, powerful Jewish ?
organization. Let us bring the full
strength of the Jewish masses to bear
on the Jewish rent profiteer and bring
him to terms."
S. A. Lewinsohn, of the Mayor's Com?
mittee on Rent Profiteering, promised
that the committee would he with the
league in any action taken at the con?
ference.
Alderman Vladek attacked the Mayor,
the Mayor's committee and the State
Legislature and administration as
spineless and insincere, declared that a
tenants' strike was the only effective
remedy, and that unless the tenants
did organize there, would be within live
months the bloodiest riots New York
has ever witnessed.
?Hylan Called Talker
"Hylan will talk and talk and talk,"
he said, "and will have the Hearst pap?
ers proclaiming him as the champion of
the people, but he will not do any?
thing. There is only one thing to do.
That is for the people to organize and
to refuse to pay exorbitant rents after
May 1. You delegates, representing
800,000 of the people of New York, have
as much chance with the Legislature
and the Aldermen as a snowball in hell.
But the relief is in yourselves. Bo or?
ganized, not by houses but by blocks,
and let us see where the city will get
money to pay enough marshals to ar?
rest you all.
"?f you do this you will not be
breeding violence, but will be prevent?
ing violence. For if the city administra?
tion goes on saving the people the way
it has been doing, and the rents keep
on rising, then the 'law and order'
which is opposing such organizations
as this will bring on the bloodiest
riots that have ever been seen in New
York. Organize into one great union,
create the power, let them feel the ;
i power, and the worst, of your rent!
troubles will be over. Instead of letting i
1 the politicians lead you you lead ihe
politicians."
A census of the vacant, dwelling
places of all kinds in the city wiil be
? started at once by the Tenement House
Department, Chief Inspector V?' A.
Robertson announced yesterday, to see
how much basis there is in the recent
hope that relief from rent profiteering
could bo found through making habi?
table some 21,000 apartments and 33,000
Louses which are alleged to be vacant.
Neither Mr. Robertson nor men famil
I iar with East Side conditions believed
i that there was much to be hoped from
there.
The census will gather inform?t inn
; en rentals and rent increases as well
i ps on vacancies. Last year's census
? found that lessees raised rents more
j than owners did. The figures on the
| increases between 101(3 and 1019 were:
? Ou three-room apartments, from 12.6
| per cent to 22.8 per cent; on four
j room apartments, from 7.4 per cent to
i 28.." per cent; on five-room apartments,
i from 8.4 per cent to 18.8 per cent; on
I six-room apartments, from 13 per cent
| to 20.7 per cent; on seven-room apart
j inents, from 11.1 per cent to 23 per
cent; on eight-room apartments, 12.3
I er cent, and on nine-room apartments,
7.7 per cent.
Reports of many vacancies on tho
East Side have been current for somo
time, the Tenement House Department
census last March showing a total of
21,482 vacant apartments, of which 3 8,
107 were in Manhattan, 444 in the
Bronx, 2,822 in Brooklyn, 81 in Queens
and 28 in Richmond.
"It would require almost complete
rebuilding to make most of these
habitable," Mr. Robertson said yester
f day. "They are practically all unde
; sirable, most of them simply could not
i be lived in. As the figures indicate,
I the majority are in the lower East
I Side, and those there are almost en?
tirely in 'old law' tenements, danger?
ously bad to begin with and no more
than nineteen years old and horribly
out of repair. They lack air, 1 iprht,
I sunshine?every thing decent. Few cf
them have water.- Many of them are
! in basements, in the rear of basement
j stores, and similar places.
Little Relief Predicted
"I seriously doubt the statement that
I there are 33,000 vacant houses. The
! figuro seems to have been taken from
' the 1017 census, and if so, it is utterly
i valueless now. It. will take three or
j four weeks to complete the census, and
until then no one can tell how many
! places really are vacant."
I "I do not believe there is any hope
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COATS, DRESSES,
BLOUSES, HATS,
ACCESSORIES
DEVELOPED IN THOROUGH
ACCORD WITH GOOD TASTE
Prices Uniformly Conservative.
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LOVELY APPAREL
Easter and Spring
of relief within a measurable time
from reconstruction of East Side tene?
ments," said Alfred E. Marling, presi?
dent of Horace S. Ely & Co., which
handles a big and polyglot collection of
houses in that district. "There are
still vacant places there?though, I be?
lieve, the figure given la far too high,
and that if there are anything like
that number of vacancies they must
be Bomewhere else than on the East
Side. But those places are utterly un?
fit to live in?there are no words
strong enough to describe the filth and
squalor of most of them.
"So far as our reports show, more?
over, there are fewer vacancies there
than thero have ever been before. The
stories that peoplo are moving out of
the East Side and congesting other dis?
tricts may be true, but if they arc their
places are being more than filled. Our
own list of vacancies is lower than it
has ever been.
"I am rather doubtful about the re?
construction plan. We went over that
very carefully last summer on the Gov?
ernor's Commission on Reconstruction,
and, while there are some hopeful
things in the plan, it hardly seowied to
promise anything immediate. The only
way to go at it that we could see would
be to remodel an entire block. The
trouble with most of the vacant places
is their location, where nothing that
can he done short of a general rebuild?
ing will make thorn fit even for cattle.
The contest for plans for a block oy
blo?k remodeling which was announced
Sunday is paitly the outcome of the
study made than, and it will be a long
time before that can produce results."
The rapidity with which apartments
have been removed from the vacant
list lately is shown in the annual Tene?
ment House Department's census fig?
ures. In 1909 there were 67,847 apart?
ments vacant in the city; in 1916,
53,541; in 1917. 35.835, and last year
21,482. In 1919 there was a total of
982,020 apartments in the city, so that
the percentage of vacancies was 2.18.
There are now about 400 fewer apart?
ments than a year ago, owing to the de?
struction of old buildings. The law
passed last year providing for remodel?
ing old-law tenements failed to bring
any appreciable relief, only nine, at?
tempts in this line having been made
since.
Last year's figures show that the
greatest shortage was in the class of
places listed as "flats," that is, the
middle-priced places, while there were
still a good many tenements and apart?
ments available.
A tenant who is being ousted as un?
desirable has a right to produce wit?
nesses to show that the landlord is not
acting in good faith, the Appellate
Term of the Supreme Court decided
yesterday. It reversed the decision of !
the 7th District Municipal Court, which !
had refused to permit Samuel B. Wool-!
man, a tenant, to use. such witnesses |
against the Gorham Construction Com
pany. The suit was brought on the
basis of the familiar form of lease I
which permits the landlord to remove j
a tenant if he thinks him undesirable.
The court held that proof of undesir
ability must be presented by the land- I
lord, that the tenant could present cvi- !
dence of bad faith, and a jury pass on j
the question of fact, A new trial was j
ordo red.
The office tennnts' dispute, which !
started at 309 Broadway, spread yes-I
terday to 302 Broadway, which is
owned by the Vincent Astor estate, i
Charles S. Rosenthal charged that the
rent on the offices which he shares ?
with other lawyers has been raised i
from $1,800 to $7,800 a year. Other i
tenants report increases from $-1,250
to $3,100, and from $300 to $900.
Julius P. Wilson, a?rent for the build?
ing, declared that the charges were
ridiculous, but did not give exact
figures. He said the ground rent ran
from $3 to $3.90 a square foot, which
is not above the average in che
neighborhood.
Frank M. Franklin, president of (lie
Office Tenants' League, announced
yesterday that there was a. big Jc- ;
mand for an office tenants' strike on
May 1, but that he. was opposing it.
He said a committee of 100 lawyers
would soon he appointed to give acL
vice free to tenants in rent cases.
Tax Office in
Bronx Closed;
Shay Suspended
Books and Records of Dep?
uty Collector of Assess?
ments and Arrears Seized
in Raid Ordered by Craig
Conditions Reported Bad
Investigation Resulted From
Complaints That "Some?
thing Had Gone Astray"
The Bronx office of the Collector of
Assessments and Arrears, at 177th
Street and Arthur Avenue, has been
closed sinco Saturday, when Samuel T.
Shay, tho deputy collector in charge,
was suspended by Comptroller Craig
and books and records of his office
confiscated in the course of an investi?
gation into tht* conduct of the office,
; whjch i3 said to have been in progress
for some time. The investigation of
Shay's accounts is In the hands of his
superior, Thomas J. McAndrow, Col?
lector of Assessments and Arrear.?*.
The first that was known of the sus?
pension of business in tho Bronx of?
fice was when twenty-five clerks re?
ported for work yesterday morning only
to find new padlocks, sealed and locked,
on the office doors. It was not until
the clerks had called Commissioner
McAndrews that tho doors were allowed
to be opened and the clerks allowed
to enter. No business was transacted
there yesterday, however.
It then developed that late Saturday
afternoon the office was raided by a
squad of men under orders from Comp?
troller Craig. Records and books ap?
pertaining to the collection work in
the Bronx were taken by the men to
the office of Comptroller Craig in the
I Municipal Building. The doors then
were locked' to prevent any one alter?
ing the remaining records or files.
Action Followed Observation
According to information received
from an authoritative source yesterday
afternoon, the investigation by Com?
missioner McAndrev/s, whose duty as
supervisor of collectors requires that
he check up on the work of all city
branches, has been going on for many
weeks, and that the raid on the Bronx
offices came after long observation of
the accounts there.
"The condition of affairs in tho Bronx
office," it was said, "had been reported
as being bad on two or three different
occasions. On Saturday noon Mr. Shay
was brought down to the Municipal
Building and suspended, pending the
investigation of his books."
Mr. Shay's keys were surrendered,
and Commissioner McAndrews and the
auditor of receipt, Henry Rathyen, to?
gether with examiners and accountants,
went to the Bronx office, made a hur?
ried survey of the situation and closed
tho office.
it was said an examination of the ac?
counts in the Bronx office was started
yesterday morning and would continue
for somo time.
Complaints Were Made
When asked if any specile charge had
been made against the deputy collector
or :f any direct act had caused the
closing of the office, it was said that
"complaints that something had gone
astray" had reached the Comptroller's
office.
Deputy Collector Shay, whose homo
is at 668 East 223d ?Street, is a Repub?
lican, and formerly was a Rep?blica.",
district leader. He was appointed as
Deputy Collector of Assessments and
Arrears December 20, 1017, his appoinl ?
merit being appro vial by Comptroller
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i THE FRENCH FRANC, THEY ARE PRICED ? {
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I tSili which wee rosebuds &row, r
I these silken coats a-flutter with os- ?
trich feathers, these caps of real ?
1 Normandie lace, these baby shoes y
f? and sacques and afghans, Egyptian f? J
|j cradles and baskets, are mothers' S J
fi dreams told in the toil of silent t?
g finders! By the stran&e reason of t \
g French currency depreciation, ?J
? they may be bought for very little. fi
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Pendergaat. His salary was $2,500 a
year. Ho was placed in his position
under competitive classification In the
Civil Service along with 137
others.
Commissioner McAndrews, whose in?
vestigation resulted directly in the
suspension of Deputy Collector
Shay, was appointed to the of?
fice by Comptroller Craig on
March 2, to "clean up the Bureau
of Assessments," according to the
star.-- ment made yesterday. Owing to
difficulties existing between the Civil
Service Bureau and the Comptroller's
office the appointment of McAndrews
was not approved by the Civil Service
Board, and his salary was not certified.
Position Vacant Since 1917
Tho position which he fills had been
vacant since 1917, when Daniel Moyna
han, then the Collector of Assess?
ments and Arrears, died. The place
had been filled temporarily since thnt
timo by Thomas ?ramff, of Staten
Island a deputy collector.
According to members of the force
of Comptroller Craig yesterday the
Bronx office last year collected
$4,.r.00,000 in arrears in taxes and
water rents. Assessments for local
improvements also have been collected
at that office.
It was explained yesterday that Mr.
McAndrews had been appointed to the
office of Collector of Assessments and
Arrears because there were no civil
service applicants eligible for the place.
No examinations for candidates, it was
s?*id, had been held, and now that the
app'aintment of McAndrews had been
refused by the Civil Service Board the
city would have to go to court to estab?
lish his right to the place.
Mr. Shay did not make a statement
last night.
Girl Forger and Mother
Create Scene in Court
Attendants Called to Remove
Them After Former Is Sen?
tenced to Reformatory
Mrs. Madeline Cirricione, eighteen
years old, of 3!) Charles Street, Man?
hattan, appeared yesterday in Queens
County Court, Long Island City, to
receive sentence for forgery, to which
she had pleaded guilty. Apparently the
young woman was confident sentence
was to be suspended. She was dressed ]
\ in her best, wore expensive furs and |
?carried a shopping bag. Her mother S
accompanied'her.
Judge Humphrey, however, sentenced I
' her to the State Reformatory for Women ;
j at Bedford for an indeterminate period, i
; which may be three years. As he pro
? nounced sentence, Mrs. Cirricione flung
! her hands hif-h in a tragic gesture and
burst into tears, sobbing:
"Judge, please let me go home to my
I mother! 1 want to go home and be a
j good girl! Please, let me go home!"
At the same time there was a com?
motion among the spectators, where
j the prisoner's mother, Mrs. Emma
Rathgen, of 106 Fifteen Avenue, Long
Island City, was screaming hysterically '
j that her daughter must be restored to j
? her. The efforts of several court at- !
tendants were required to p-et the two j
women out of the' room, the younger I
through the barred door that leads to '
, prison and the other to an anteroom.
The indictment to which Mrs. Cir-'
l-icione pleaded guilty charged her with
cashing a check for $50 to which she
had signed the name of another woman.
She is said to have spent the money
on clothes. Two years ago Mrs. Cirri
' cioie eloped with a soldier, William
Cirricione, who, according to informa
i tion given Judge Humphrey, threw her
j from a third floor window of a Balti
! more hotel during their honeymoon,
! injuring her severely.
FOR IMMEDIATE WEAR
FOR STREET AND AFTERNOON
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Did You Ever See a
Top coat Shimmy?"
HAVEN'T you seen many a man
hitching up first one shoulder and
then the other, in a vain attempt to
shimmy into place an overcoat that
seemed to be forever trying to get away
from him ?
Well, that's machine-work.
Now, hand-tailonng works-in the collar
and the shoulders of a coat not by stitches
alone, but by persuasive manipulative pro?
cesses, coaxing every inch of the upper
half of the coat into actual tactile con?
tact with the body.
The first shop and still the only shop
to feature all hand-tailored clothes
Ready~for-Service
Men's Hand-Tailored Topcoats
Men's Hand-Tailored Suits
?65 t* ?85
$50-*?lt0
FIFTH AVENUE
MEN'S SHOPS ?2 ? 8 WEST 38th STREET
1 i. T ' ~. ?* ? i. "i 5 j? i iir-i ut i **^3
Ai a Lower (Price Than Suits
of Equal Quality"* Could
Be Sold For Last Year
WOMEN'S TRICOTINE SUITS
LATE SPRING MODELS
68.00
c?he materials were bought a
year ago. At today's advanced
prices of materials, these suits
would have to sell for 85.00
ND we had the suits made this season?in?
corporated in them the newest ideas in line
.___ and detail, fashioned them with the delicacy
and ?race that distinguish Franklin Simon & Co.
tailoring above ordinary tailoring.
These suits are not to be confused with- sixty-eight
dollar suits, for their price represents betteivthan
this-year's standard of fashion at better-than-last
year's standard of value.
Belted Suits Straightline Suits
Suits with Embroidery
WOMEN'S SUIT SHOP-Balcony Floor
'ranfcUn Simon $. Go.
Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets