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legislature Is
Besieged With
Housing Plans
?jny C**y Organizations
Offer Panacea for State
- fu Home-Renting Evil on
J?ve of Special Session
f$x Exemption Fight Seen
More Loans for Building
and Expansion of Rent
Laws Basis of Proposals
On the eve of the extraordinary ses
(ion o? ^e Legislature called to solve
the acute housing situation every or
?anitation involved in this city is fight?
ing to obtain the incorporation of its
own theories in the new laws it is ex?
pected the Legislature will enact.
A review of the contentions of these
bodies reveals that one of the biggest
flfhts will center about the proposal to
?mend the banking laws to compel sav?
ings banks to invest a larger percent
ate o? their resources in real estate
loans and the proposed sj*3tem of tax
exemptions 0:1 now construction.
These two propositions apparently
?r? receiving the general support of
rea! estate todies and tenants' associa?
tions. They will be strongly opposed
by the American Bankers Association
through its savings bank section upon
the genetal ground that they are not
economic ar.d will be in the nature of
^porary palliatives, rather than pol?
ities that will be of permanent value.
Proposals Sent to Legislators
One of the concrete series of pro?
posals is that of the Lenox Hill Ten?
ants Association, whose officers have
made a thorough investigation of the
housing situation in one of the city's
most affected districts. The recom?
mend?'?'"f'- s, wl ich have been forwarded
to each member of the state Legisla?
ture, are a? follows:
1. Exter.s on i f the amendments
pissed at the regular session so that
game a: ply to new tenants.
2. Extension of judicial powers to
grant days i". holdover proceedings
during the period of the present emer?
gency. . .
3. An enactment making it compul
lorv fcr the landlords to keep their
?remises in hu?'.'able condition and
?tending the. jurisdiction of the
Municipal Court to e:.foi ce such enact?
ment.
4. Making it compulsory for land?
lords, before obtaining increased
rentals, to file sworn statement? of
their income and expenditures with a
competent public official.
5. Limitation of future raises of
rents in cases where a raise of ~5 per
Mr." over and above rental as paid on
April 1, UHU, was already enacted.
6. Licensing of lessees oi" real prop?
erty used f< r housing purposes by
competent public authorities.
7. Prevention of conversion of home*
into garufea, theaters and business
buildings.
8. Preferring building of homes to
non-essential industrial and business
buildings.
9. Bread and liberal inducement to
put up new buildings by tax exemp?
tions of new buildings for housing pur?
poses; by exemption of mortgages
from taxation; by arranging for lib
' eral credits to builders of new build?
ings fcr housing purposes. Making
mor.ey obtainable on easy terms to
people desiring to build their own
nemes.
Favors City Building Homes
F. H. La Guardia, President of the
Boarc if Aldermen, sent a letter to
Assemblyman Sol filman inclosing a
review uf the housing conditions in
this city by Dr. Royal S. Copeland,
Heilt" Commissioner. "It is under?
stood." wrote Mr. La Guardia, "that if
the joint committee brings in a bill
which would authorize municipalities
to engage in the building of dwellings
dur.:.- ti ( emergency, thi n active sup?
port should be trio-:' to such measure."
Mr. Ls Guardia has pn pared a bill
on the suggestions of Dr. Copeland,
ar.d adds in his letter that if the com?
mittee fails to report such u bill as
mentioned above then every effort
should be made to press his bill to
passage.
C. R. White, director of the bureau
of cooperative associations of the State
Department of Farms and Markets, is?
sued a warning to all tenants who ere
about to enter into one of the co?
operative schemes of purchasing Apart?
ments. He said that New York State
has very sound laws relating to co?
operative associations that define ex?
actly how a cooperative association
shall be organised and incorporated.
No business, he said, can legally call
itself cooperative in its title that It not
incorporated under these laws;
Mr. White declares that many of the
cooperative schemes now .feeing used
merely assure the tenant of a perma?
nent lease, without any voiee in the
management of the property. He ad?
vises all prospective purchasers under
this scheme to ascertain whether the
proposition is incorporated under arti?
cle 3 of the State Business Corpora?
tion law.
Chamber Opposes Tax Exemption
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
yesterday voted by a margin of two to
disapprove exemption of new buildings,
on the ground that it is contrary to
sound economy, unfair to existing prop?
erty and probably unconstitutional.
The chamber recommends asking
savings banks to make greater loans
on first mortgages. The report says
that "it was shown that the banks of
th? four counties of Long Island have
made investments in first mortgages of
j approximately 48 per cent of toelr re
j sources, whereas the law allows them
! to invest in this way to the extent of
; 65 per cent.
"If the banks would loan their funds
on first mortgages to the legal limit
t it wov.ld mean additional fund? for
' building purposes to the extent of
1 $99,000,000."
The chamber went on record as op?
posed to the use of public money for
building schemes, and objected to any
municipal housing operations. They
also opposed the proposition for local
i housing boards.
The Real Estate Board of New York
; has submitted to the Governor and the
' joint legislative committee several
? bills and a program which it considers
will help relieve the housing shortage.
It asks for the exemption of the in?
terest on mortgages from the pro?
visions of the income tax law.
It also urges amendment to the rent
law-, to prevent their application to
buildi. gs tht are to be substantially
reconstructed for new houaing, or to
new buildings that are to replace exist?
ing buildings; or to property that Is
sold under contract to tenants purchas?
ing on the cooperative plan.
The board opposes any attempt to
commit the state or the cities to ran
; nicipal housing schemes, or to exempt
new construction from local taxation.
Bronx Tenants Denounce
Landlords for Rapacity
Thousands Participate in Mass
Meeting; Police Stop the
Parade Without Permit
Several thousand tenants of the
Bronx held a mass meeting under
auspices of the Tenants' Protective
, League fot the Bronx at 187th Street
and Cambrellepg Avenue ]&te yesterday
ufternoon. Thtir purpose was to reg
j ister the resentment of the tenants
against the demands of the landlords.
The parade, which had been planned
! by an arrangement committee to at?
tract wider interest to the movement,
was stopped by the police. Failure
j of the organizers to secure a parade
permit was given as the reason.
Among others who addressed the
gathering was Joseph Cannon, Socialist
candidate for Governor. He declared
: that the laws which the special session
of the Assembly would pass when it
convened next Monday would not re?
sult in a satisfactory solution of the
problem. He characterized the Repub
i Mean and Democratic parties as the
! landlords' parties, and urged the ten
: ants to vote for all Socialist candi?
dates at the coming election. Girolano
i Valent!, director of the Italian Cham
' ber of Labor, also spoke.
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> Shoe Machinery Case Appeal
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.?The gov
i ernment to-day riled in the Supreme
Court a cross appeal in connection
I with appeals already instituted by the
! United Shoe Machinery Company
growing out of Federal court decrees
sustaining the principal contentions
made by the government in proceed
, ings brought in St. Louis against the
company under the Clayton act.
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Copeland Declares
Housing Conditions
Imperil City^s Health
Commends La Guardian Bill
to Give Municipality Right
to Erect Buildings Dur?
ing "Emergency Period"
Any protracted delay in the erection
of new dwelling houses by the city,
through?, a lack of empowering legisla?
tion, is regarded by Commissioner of
Health Copeland as a menace to the
health of the people. A report to this
effect was sent by him yesterday to
President of the Board of Aldermen,
F..H, La Guardia.
Mr. La Guardia is the author of a
bill calling for a constitutional amend?
ment which is aimed to confer upon the
city the right to erect buildings at once
, during what he terms "an emergency
period."
In a letter to Assemblyman Sol TJ1?
man, accompanying the report of the
Health Commissioner, he urged that
his bill was constitutional and asked
its immediate support of the Legisla
ture.
Dr. Copeland's report follow?, in
part:
"Every war has been followed by
epidemics of disease. The greatest war
in history will be followed by the
greatest epidemic. Eastern Europe to?
day is swept by communicable disease.
Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary
and Rumania are caring for hundreds
of thousands, possibly of millions, of
persons suffering from typhus. Every
Southern Mediterranean port, from
i Egypt to Tunis, has bubonic plague.
In Japan, Corea and Asia Minor are
thousands of cholera eases. In various
parts of Italy, Greece and Scotland rre
frightful numbers of smallpox patients.
The filth of the slums, the lack of
sanitary provisions, the overcrowding,
all these make for the transmission of
these diseases. If from a sense of obli?
gation, love of humanity, or other
moral consideration, there is to in?
centive, certainly for self-preserva?
tion alone there is abundant reason for
the most energetic, immediate and ef?
fective action. The present housing
i condition in New York City presents a
! potential danger to every life in our
\ municipality and in the state.
"The public health is menaced, and it
; is my solemn conviction that the pub
| lie official who is unobservant or un
! heedful of the symptoms is unworthy
J of office. In writing you, I need not
i enlarge upon this phase of the subject
because you have Shown your alert?
ness to the situation and have given
public expression to your views.
"For a year past, and especially since
: my return from abroad, with atten?
dance upon tho Inter-Allied Housing
j Conference, I have snoken and written
to the text?housing is a public utility.
It rejoices my heart that one so high?
ly placed as you should take the same
view. There is hope now that the
legislative body may take appropriate
? action."
? Deal in Sugar Goes Wrong
; Receiver Is Named for Broker
Nipped by Falling Market
Judge Martin T. Mant?n, in the
! United States Court, yesterday appoint
\ ed John B. Johnston temporary re
: ceiver, under a bond of $Jf>,000, for
i A. R. O'Neill, Inc., a sugar broker of
i C8 William Street.
It is asserted in the involuntary peti
? tion in bankruptcy filed against O'Neill
that his liabilities are $3,600,000. His
assets are estimated at $2,300,000. The
petitioning creditors are Murcelino
Garcia, Diedrich Scheffer and Oscar
?ap?les.
O'Neill's assets are said to consist of
raw and refined sugar. Fugar contracts,
accounts receivable, furnishings, secu?
rities and cash. His failure, it is said,
is due to his having purchased large
quantities of sugar when the price was
high and then not having been able
to got rid of it when the market broke.
Ford Plans New Power Plant
-.
Asks Permission to Use U. S.
Dam at Troy
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.?The Ford
Motor Company has asked the Federal
Power. Commission for a license under
the new waterpower act to construct a j
project on the Hudson River at Troy,
N. Y., to supply power for a new manu?
facturing plant at that place. The pro?
posed project will generate 8,000 horse?
power, and the power plant itself will
be built over the government dam at
Troy, for which the company already
has purchased land on Green Island.
Plans for the project are being per?
fected, officials of the commission said
to-day, and a license will be issued
probably within the next few weeks.
The company was said to be prepared
to begin construction of the plant with?
out delay.
The Federal commission also has re?
ceived a license application from the
State of Illinois for the utilization of
potential waterpower on the Illinois
River in conjunction with the con?
struction of the projected lakes-to-gulf
water route.
Court Halts Rate Increase
BISMARCK, N. D., Sept. 18.?The
North Dakota Supreme Court to-day is?
sued an order enjoining railroads oper?
ating in this state rrom further charg?
ing increased intrastate rates which
were put into effect on September 1.
The order also directs the railroads to
rebate any increase already collected.
Wholesale Food Prices
Fell 12 P. C. in August
Farm Products and Gothinp
Also Declined, Department
of Labor Reports
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.?A pro?
nounced drop in the general level of
wholesale prices during August was re?
ported to-day by the Department of
Labor. Measured by changes in the in
uex numbers of the bureau of labox
statistics, the decrease was 4Vi pe?
cent.
Foodstuffs showed the greatest price
recessions, the decrease averaging more
than 12 per cent. Farm products de?
clined neatly 6 per cent and cloths and
clothing 5% per cent.
Fuel and lighting materials con?
tinued their upward trend, with an in?
crease of more than GVi per cent, while
metals and house furnishing goods also
showed an increase over July.
Reserves May Have Pistols
ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 18,-Attorney
General Charles D. Newton, in an opin?
ion announced to-day, holds that
United States Army reserva officers
may carry revolvers without obtain?
ing licenses in New York State. The
opinion was given in responso to an
?inquiry from the War Department de?
signed to ascertain whether or not the
provisions of the penal law. requir?
ing possessors of firearms to obtain
license.? affected reserve officers of the
United States army who, under army
regulations, are required to possess
firearms.
"The State of New York has no
right to interfere with the mainte?
nance of the United States Army," At?
torney General Newton holds. The
ruling was forwarded to Secretary of
War Baker to-day.
Packers Ask U. S. Advice
Ready to Consider Other Plans
for Stockyard Control
CHICAGO, Sept. 18.?If the Federal
Trade Commission has any better plan
to suggest the packers will welcome it,
F. Edson White, vice-president of
Armour & Co., said to-day when he
learned that the commission had re
ported to Attorney General Palmer
that the plan for selling the packers'
stockyards interests to F. H. Prince &
Co., of Boston, would not be a real
separation. .
"If the commission has a better plan
we invite them to submit it and they
may rest assured that if it is feasible
it will be adopted," Mr. White said.
"Their claim that the plan we have
submitted does not provide for a real
separation is erroneous, but we arc not
so keen for the present plan that we
will not welcome any plan which satis?
fies the government and which is fair."
Hyacinths, Tulips, Iris
Best Holland Bulbs
Doz. 75c; 10* $4.09, Delivered
Direct Importation
Named Varieties. All Colors.
Valley Farm Co.,
Newhurg, N. Y.
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Talcum and Complexion
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Djer Kiss Face Powder.box 55c
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Coty's La Rose Jacquiminot Toilet
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Coty's L'Or Toilet Water........7.75
Coty's Eau de Cologne_r_1.75
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Bed Warmers and Metal Water
Bottles 1.15
Large Bath Sponges.1.35
Wash Cloths, i/2 doz.85c
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Buffers
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Witch Hazel.quart bottle 75c
Listerine, large size.70c
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Pond's Cold Cream, large jar. . . .46c
Pond's Vanishing Cream,
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McCreery Almond Cream, bottle 24c
Deodorants
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Mum Cream.jar 19c
Odor-o-no, medium size., .bottle 40c
Palmolive Soap
Carton of 3 Doz. Cakes
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Pear's Unscented Soap.
doz. cakes 1.65
Pear's Glycerine Soap.
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Woodbury's Facial Soap.
box of 3 cakes 54c
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doz. cakes 1.35
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box of 6 cakes 1.56
English Imported Toilet Soap,
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Large Bar Castile Soap.79c
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Guerlain'? Lip Stick
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Calox Tooth Powder.can 18c
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Water Bottles, 2-quart size,
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Water Bottle and Syringe, 3-95
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Bath Sprays, large size.1.25
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Tooth Brushes, assorted styles..29c
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Nail Scrubs, wooden back.30c
Bath Brushes with detachable
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Hairbrushes.95c
Military Brushes. .2.95
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Shaving Brushes, white Bristle,
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Gillette Razor Blafles.doz. 75c
Mermen's Shaving Cream, large
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Williams' Shaving Stick.25c
Williams' Shaving Powder.25c
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