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Thron?ho?, the World -_-__-_-_---?--?-?----?---? 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 ?.? --? 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 '.? 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 ?P ?& il \ m S? Vi m Oli^graOlsod (d ne otore of Service ^ROADWAYat 79th ST? COATS, DRESSES, BLOUSES, HATS, ACCESSORIES DEVELOPED IN THOROUGH ACCORD WITH GOOD TASTE Prices Uniformly Conservative. ?? 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 S franklin Simon & do. I || Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets 11 o ?S H ?g! s jj Some/iow French Crea- gjj S tive Genius Expands Into d| p a _Rare and Wonc_tfr/i-_ l?jj g (Mr? in Fashioning |jj I BABY THINGS, | 1 PARISIAN | B f\\ i YET BECAUSE OF THE DEPRECIATION OF HJ i THE FRENCH FRANC, THEY ARE PRICED ? { M EVEN LESS THAN AMERICAN BABY THINGS | | j _ , . | | ?Ejtllji HESE diminutive frocks of ?51 'I ? mi net' vo^e or na^nso?k on > 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 W In I DRESSES SACQUES AFGHANS R g COATS CAPS CRADLES ? {J HATS SHOES BIBS t? i BASKETS PILLOW-COVERS Ql k** ? w g INFANTS' APPAREL SIIOP-Fifth Floor B 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 ee 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