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Hylan Accused
Of Discrediting
New Rent Laws
Aron Asserts Legislature
Acted Wisely in Reject?
ing Measures Found To
Be Unsound Economically
Takes Issue With Mayor
Beaten Bills Flight Have
Destroyed Credit of City
and of Banks, He Holds
Criticisms made by Mayor Hylan
and John P. O'Brien, Corporation Coun?
sel, that the new rent laws passed by
the Legislature last week are inade?
quate to relieve the housing crisis were
attacked as "poisonous propaganda" to
discredit the new laws in a statement
issued yesterday by Harold G. Aron,
BO Pine Street. Mr. Aron, who was in
charge of $70,000,000 worth of govern?
ment dwellings erected by the United
States Shipping Board during the war,
has just returned from Albany, where
he was ?lled to consult with Assembly
leaders on the housing bills.
Mr. Aron cited arguments presented
by the Mayor in a lctter^to Governor
Smith, in which the Mayor, in support
of his ?Und that the city ought to be
empowered to build houses, declared:
"The people have the right to spend
money to buHd houses and heat them
for monkeys and other animals in the
park. Why should the courts and the
Legislature stand in the way of the
people spending money to house human
beings?'
Tenu Principle Unsound
The reason that the Legislature did
r.ot follow this logic, according to
Mr. Aro?, is that it found the principle
unsound. "The city does not build
houses for monkeys to live in, because
the monkeys have no other place to live
any more than it builds asylums and
jails, because the inmates of those
places -have no other place to live,"
said Mr. Aron. "In my opinion, the
Legislature did a good job of it? The
people ought to have an opportunity to
seethe merits of the new laws before
too'-ronch", poisonous propaganda is cir?
culated. .""
""On the matter of providing new'
houses, the Legislature showed dis?
crimination by passing the one measure
j.roposed which was economically sound,
legally right in principle and really
effectual. This is the measure ?which
exempts new dwelling house construc?
tion from ^ocal taxation for a period
of ten years. The effect of this is to
write off a substantial part of tho pres?
ent abnormal cost of construction with?
out appreciable loss to either the city
or the state and the certainty of an
eventual gain. I predict that the per?
sons who ?re now condemning the Leg?
islature most will be the quickest to
take advantage of this act. It will not be
many months before we shall see a
great and practical result from this
law.
Discusses Income Tax Plan
"The same legislative discrimination
was shown in 'not exempting mortgage,
interest from the state income tax, for
?ven the advocates of this bill admit
that, while it would result in a loss
ot millions of dollars income to the
state and its cities, it would do no
appreciable good in increasing mort?
gage paoney unless and until similar
action were taken by Congress under
the Federal Income tax.
"For th? municipality to build houses
with any such organization as could be
hurried together would have meant the
loas of millions of dollars. To permit
the sinking funds of the city to be in?
vested in mortgages up to 80 per cent
of what the Board of Estimate might
guess their value ?to be when built
would have been financial suicide for
the eity, and to go further and to per?
mit the sinking fund trustees to issue
bonds of $50 and upward to be sold to
the public and again invested on the
same basis in 80 per cent mortgages
would have proved the most vicious
measure ever enacted at Albany, and
either, of these measures would have'
completely destroyed the credit of the
city
vit waa openly charged that the bus
bill was advanced with the intention
of using bus lines to bankrupt the
street Tailways so that these might be
bought cheap and turned over to mu?
nicipal ownership and the members of
the Legislature realized that a vote
for the bus franchise bill was a vote
for municipal ownership.
Flaw? in Bank Plan
"The defeat of the scheme to force
savings basks and insurance companies
to invest to the limit in mortgages by
putting on a surta? was fully justified
when It became apparent that the net
result of the bill would be to force
only the immediate purchase of exist?
ing mortgages and provide practically
no money for new mortgages.
"The bill was absolutely ?wrong in
principle unless the state was ready
to guarantee all savings bank deposits
and all policy holders against loss, for
it attempted ?to force the hurried judg?
ment of the Legislature on the trustees
of these great institutions. Its intro?
duction, for whatever motive, will, how?
ever, serve a good purpose in calling
publie attention to the fact that sav
. Inge banks and insurance companies
can help, and we shall undoubtely find
?a more liberal policy revealing itself.
A similar benefit will come from the
resolution authorizing an inquiry into
the causes of the high cost of building
materials
*'On the whole, the work of the spe?
cial session was eminently creditable.
It met a great problem with intelli?
gence and discrimination, it faced a
strong lobby of selfish Interests
With resolution and independence and
showed great courage in not permitting
itself to be driven headlong Into fanci?
ful and radical schemes by an almost
frantic horde of worried tenants."
Building Material Inquiry
f?l?e Resumed Thursday
Senator Locktcood Says Com?
mittee Believes It Has Evi?
dence of PriccFixing Group
Senator Charlea C. Lockwood, chair?
man of the joint legislative committee
on housing, who returned from Al?
bany last night, said his committee
probably would resume its hearings at
the City Kail Thursday, to .nvestigat?
charges that manufacturera of build ins
matar?ais htm mabertd Into a combi
nation to ?g ?rices.
It was ?ca-uFged at Albany that on?
reason why dwelling? are not beim
'constructed in sufficient numbers to re
Ifeve the housing ?hortagc is tha
building material makers hsve divide
the country into zones in which hig
prices are arbitrarily fixed and tha
the prices ch_r?/<*d in New York ar
the highest in the country.
"We ?Xpect to go into the *ubj?<
theroaghiy," asid Senator Lockwoo?
?*Ws believe we have evidence enoug
to warrant action by the prosecutin
euthorlM??**?."
?Senator Lock wood ?aid he Is preps
Four Boys and a $500 Bill
Just Fail to Catch Train
Detective Doesn't Relish Their Order for Tickets to
Chicago, and Later On a Wailing Barber Tells of
Missing Son and Till That Has Been Ransacked
Thirteen-year-old David Simon, of
276 West 116th Street, accompanied by
three younger friends, walked up to
a ticket window at the 125th Street
Station of the New Work Central Kail
road last night, shoved a $500 bill
under the grating and demanded four
ti<*kets to Chicago. Harry Goodwin, a
railroao^ detective, was standing by the
window.
"Where did you get that, youngster?"
he demanded as soon as he recovered
his breath.,
"My father gave it to me," replied
David. "He's in Wall Street."
The detective was not completely
satisfied with this information and it
was revealed by further questioning
that David's father was an engineer in
Wall Street; that he probably was not
at his home now, as he had summoned
David to the Battery to receive the
money, and that the names of the other
boys were George Slicken, eleven years
old, of 59 West 109th Street; Ben Tor?
tora, nine years old, of 2136 Eighth
Avenue, and "Rainsy."
Air were certain that their parents
were not at home and had acquiesced
in the trip to Chicago, anyhow, but
Goodwin suggested a trip to the East
126th Street police station to see. if
some of them could not be reached
by telephone. As he emerged into
125th Street with his prisoners, they
all made a sudden dash for liberty.
Goodwin managed to retain his hold
on D8vid, but the others got away.
Sure enough, Goodwin did manage
to telephone-to Ben's ; father, Frank
Tortora .who is , a bajber and dis?
covered that he was in the depths of
despair and at the height of indigna?
tion. Some thief, "he explained, had
stolen $1,500 in money and $400 in
Liberty bonds from the till in his bar?
ber shop.
"Was there a $500 bill in the money
stolen"? asked Goodwin.
Yes, yes, assuredly there was a $500
bill, and the barber began volubly to
enumerate the other bills as well.
"Well, you better help us hunt for
that kid of yours then," said Goodwin.
"I got the $500 bill, but I couldn't keep
my hands on Benny."
David was sent to the New York So?
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children and the police and the barber
set out,on a hunt for his friends.
payers. The statement, he said, will
be issued to-morrow.
Municipal Court Justice Frederick
Spieg?lberg, who has had much expe?
rience in dealing with cases brought by
tenants against landlords, said yester?
day he was convinced that the Legis?
lature had given all the relief possible
in the short time allotted it.
"The .new laws will keep the poor
man in his home," he said. "If the
Legislature had not acted as it did
there would have been thousands of
evictions on October 1. I feel that the
new laws wi?l aid materially in reliev?
ing the situation until the Legislature
meets again in January."
Provides Builders Credit
Reserve Board Recognizes Ur?
gent Need f or More ?wellings
WASHINGTON?, Sept. 26.?The Fed?
eral Reserve Board recognizes "the
urgent reed for more*houses for dwell?
ings and business purposes," Governor
Harding said in a letter to a lumber
company, which was* made public by
the Treasury Department to-night;' Re?
alizing that construction work now
under way is not nearly great enough
to supply requirements, he added, the
board has been careful not to place any
restrictions of credit to the building
industry.
"There can be no question that "the
production and distribution of the basic
necessaries of life, such as food, fuel
and clothing, are essential," Mr. Har?
ding said, "and it is obvious that shelter
is also a fundamental necessity."
149 Are Killed Daily
In U. S. by Accident
Number of Men Victims Greatly
Exceeds Women, Report of
Safety Council Shows
One hundred and forty-nine persons
are killed bv accident in the United
States each day, according to statistics
compiled by the National Safety Coun?
cil, with the cooperation of the cor?
oners and other statistical agencies of
210 cities. The statistics, which show
many peculiarities of the accident
fatality record, will be discussed at the
Ninth Annual? Safety Congress, which
opens in Milwaukee to-day.
The record is based on a compilation
of accidents throughout the country
during the week of August 22 to 28 in?
clusive. It shows that on, different days
of the week the number of men vic?
tims of accidents greatly outnumber
the women, and that on four days out
of seven the number of persons killed
in automobile accidents equals that of
the victims of all other kinds combined.
The daily number of fatalities is
peached by striking an average of the
?even days recorded.
Automobile accidents are responsible
for more deaths during the year than
any two other agencies, and it is the
conclusion of the council after an an?
alysis of its record that one-half the
fatalities that occur every year could
be avoided if proper precautions for
safety were observed by the victims
and others concerned in accidents.
Bedtime Stories
Farmer Brown's Boy Continues to Hunt
By Thornton W. Burgess
A dead and seeming worthless tree
May prove a treasure house to be.
?Farmer Brown's Boy.
You cannot always tell by the looks
of a thing what it may contain. This
is true of many things besides hollow
trees, The best things in life often
are passed by those who have not eyes
to see, or, having eyes', have not learned
to use them.
When Fanner Brown's bey found
that tree in which Busy Bee and her
a'.sters had made their home he smiled.
"One," said Farmer Brown's boy as he
looked up at the Bees going in and
out of a little hole high above his
head. "There are at least two more
Bee-trees somewhere here in the G/een
Forest, for I know that three swarms
of Bees got away fronv my hivqs this
year.' I'll just put m* mark on this
?tree so that if any one else should hap
'pen to find it he will know that it
belongs to me. Then I'll see if I can
find those other trees."
So Farmer Brown's boy took out his
knife and made his mark on that tree.
He knew that should any one happen
along and discover that tree he would
I not try to get the honey, for it is a
I rule that to whoever puts his mark on
| a Bee-tree that tree belongs.
Then Farmer.Brown's boy picked up
I his little box and started back to the
? little open place where he had *?found
I Busy Bee. You remember that late
! flowers were in bloom there. He knew
that other Bees probably knew all
about those flowers and would visit
? them. Sure enough he,found Bees at
. work and at once caught one in his
I little box just as he had caught Busy
| Bee. When that Bee had found the
? honey in the bottom of the box Farm
! er Brown's boy took off the< cover and
j waited. Presently the Bee, having
gathered all the honey she could carry,
| flew away. Farmer Brown's boy watched
her. She flew straight in the direction
I of the tree he had already found.
| "Belongs to the?* same swarm," mut?
tered Farmer Brown's boy, looking s
little disappointed. "I must try again.'
So he caught another Bee and
watched her as he"ha<_ the others. She
too, flew toward the same tree. Sc
did the next one and the next one anc
the one after. Each time Farmei
Brown's boy <Jj*?oked disappointed, bul
he kept on cWching Bees.
"There is nothing like trying," saic
he hopefully, as for the tenth time h<
caught a Bee. As he watched thii
Bee fly away his face cleared and hi
began to whistle. You see she hac
flown in quite another direction. "Ha
ha!" he exclaimed. "She is from an
other swarm," and sat down to wai
for her return. Presently she wa
Then he took to his heels, for those
Bees had discovered him and
they were very angry.
back in that little box and with her
came another Bee. In a surprisingly
short time a double line of Bees were
going and coming from that little box
just as had been the case with Busy
Bee and her. sisters.
Then Farmer Brown's boy did just
as he had done before and presently
was standing at the foot of a dead
i tree nearly half a mile from the tree
where Busy Bee and her sisters had
made their home. This tree was whol?
ly dead. Farmer Brown's boy rapped
on it with a stick and by the sound
knew that it was hollow. At the first
rap a swarm of angry Bees flew out
of a little hole about half way up.
Fanner Brown's boy grinned. "Num?
ber 2," said he as he made his mark
on the tree. Then he took to his heels,
for those Bees had discovered him and
they were very angry.
In the same way he found a third
tree where Bees were making their
home, and then, quite satisfied with
his morning's work, he started for
home. Ho had found all his missing
Bees. There was no hurry about get?
ting the honey. It would be time
enough a little.later when the weather
became cooler and tho Bees were less
active. They would make less trouble
then. .
(Copyright, 1520, by T. W. Bur_e__)
The next story: "Buster Bear's
Curiosity Pays."
Three Killed, Six
Injured, by Autos
Near City in Day
Boy, Woman and Man Are
Dead; Latter Is Mourned
by Bride of Few Weeks;
Three Drivers Arrested
William McDermott, eleven years
old, of 153 Brighton Street, Jersey
City, was killed yesterday afternoon
by a jitney bus on Newark Avenue,
near Henderson Street. According to
the police, the boy had been riding on
the rear end of a trolley car when he
jumped off, only to fall in the path of
the motor car. His head was crushed.
Gustave Popper, of 137 Danforth Ave?
nue, driver of the bus, was arrested
on complaint of James McDermott,
father of the boy.
Six persons were injured, three of
them women, at midnight Saturday
when a touring car an? an auto bus
collided at Briarcliff, N. Y. The bus
containing a dozen passengers, was up?
set. The injured, who were removed to
the Ossining Hospital, were: Mrs. A.
W. Simrson, of 291 West Ninety-second
Street, Manhattan, lacerations and in?
ternal injuries; Mrs. M. C. Kelly and
her son, John, of Yonkers, scalp
wounds; Mrs. Mary Reilly, of Ossi?
ning, scalp wounds and injuries on back;
F. Williams, of 65 Central Park West,
Manhattan, lacerations and internal
injuries, and John Devoy, of Cedar
hurst, L. I., driver of the touring car,
lacerations and bruises. No arrests
were made.
Mrs. Jennie Van Houten, of 242 Hal
stead Street, Orange, was killed by an
automobile at Central Avenue and Hal
stead .Street. Charles H. Grajit, of 37
Shepherd Avenue, East Orange, alleged
driver of the car, is to be arraigned on
a charge of manslaughter before Police
Recorder Walter C. Ellis this morning.
Grant is a brother of Scout Executive
Hunter B. Grant, of East Orange. The
prisoner, it is alleged, drove his car
down Central Avenue at high speed
just as a crowd was emerging from a
motion picture theater.
Harry L. Meyers, rVventy-three years
old, of 21 Tracy Avenue, Newark, was
killed by an automobile at Clinton Ave?
nue and Thirteenth Street, Newark.
Wilfred Cooper, of Upper Montclair,
alleged driver of the car, was arrested
on a charge of manslaughter. Cooper
is said to be the son of a New York
broker. Meyers's wife, a bride of a
few weeks, was beside him when the
accident occurred, but she "escaped
injury.
Fights Thugs, Saves $1,000
Jersey City Man Pitches Into
Armed Pair ; Police Arrest Two
Two men armed with revolvers held
up Frank Jennie, treasurer of Grand
View Hall, Jersey City, early yesterday
morning while he was counting Satur- ?
day's receipts, totaling about $1,000, in
his office in the building.
Instead of complying with their com
mand to put up his hands, Jennie called j
for help and pitched into the pair. One ;
of them laid nim out with a blow from
a revolver butt. The uproar brought
the police so quickly, however, that
nothing was stolen, and Vincent Aldo- j
retta, of 238 Jefferson Street, Hoboken,
and Thomas Baggs, of 360 F?rst Street,
Hoboken,'who were found in the vicin- j
ity, were locked up. Jennie, who lives i
at 231 Garden Street, Hoboken, was
taken to Jersey City Hospital.
Weather Report
Sunrises... 6:48 a.m.lSun sets. . . 5 :4fi p.m.
Moon rises. 5 :24 p.m.?Moon sets.. 6:17 a.m.
Note.?The ?bove figures are standard
tlme and not New York State time.
T.oonl Forecaii.'? Partly cloudy to-day ;
and to-morrow; probably local showers;
not Quito so warm, to-morrow; gentle,
variable winds.
Local Official Record ? The following
official record shows temeratures during
the last twenty-four hours, In comparison |
with the corresponding date of last year:
1920. 1019. I 1320. 1919.
8a.m.... 68 59 3p.m.... 78 66
6 a.m.... 68 56 6 p. m. . . . 75 64
9a.m.... 69 R5 ] 9 p.m.... 71 60
12 noon... . 76 62 | 10 p. m. . .. 71 59
Highest. SO deprees (at 4 p. m.); lowest.
68 degree? (at 4:45 o. in); average, 74 de?
grees; average same time last year, 60
degrees: average same date for thirty-three
years, 64 degrees.
Hurr?dlty
100 ? 1 p. m ... . 73 ! 8 p. m. . . . 88
Barometer Readings
20.13 1 lp.m.. 30.11 ?8 p.m.. 80.09
General Weather Conditions
WASHINGTON, ' Sept. 28.?High tem?
peratura.'? continued Sunday throughout
the Eastern and Southern states, the
region of the Great Lakes an?l th> Ohto
and central Mississippi and lower Missouri
valle> s. Temperatures are now below
normal In far western districts.
There have been local showers and thun?
derstorms within the last twenty-four
hours in the upper lake region, th? upper
Ml_Hissli.pl and Missouri valleys and widely
scattered points In tho Middle Atlantic
and South Atlantic states. There were
frosts this morning In western South
Dakota, western Nebraska, western Kansas.
Wyoming, Colorado, northern New Mexico,
northern Arizona. Utah and Nevada.
Pressure is low along the northern
border from the Great Lakes westward,
an?l it is relatively hint* over the Kastern
states and the Rocky Mountain and
plateau regions
In the New England states the weather
will bo partly cloudy Monday and become
unsettled, with probably local showers and
somewhat lower temp?ratures Tuesday.
In the Middle Atlantic states tho weather
will be unsettle?), with probably local
showers Monday and Tuesday and some?
what lower temperature Tuesday.
In the south Atlantic states there will
be lucal showers Monday and Tuesday.
In the east Oulf states the weather -will
be partly cloudy, -with -showers near the
ccast "Monday anil Tuesday and with lower
temperatures Tuesitay.
In Tennessee, the Ohio Valley and the
region of the Great Lakes there will be
local showers, with lower temperatures
Monday and fair weather, with moderate
temperature Tuesday.
District Forecast?East New fork, east
Pennsylvania, New Jersey ami Delaware?
Partly cloudy to-day and to-morrow; prob?
ably local showers, nut quite so warm to?
morrow.
. Western New Tork ? Lnsett led. with local
thundershowers to-day; to-morrow clear?
ing, with lower temperature.
Northern New England ?Fair to-day;
to-morrow unsettled.
Southern New England?Partly cloudy
to-day; to-morrow unsettled; probably
local showers; somewhat lower tempera?
ture.
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bnaison, the House of Ideas
Belmaison gives its attention
to the smallest slip-cover ?or a
chair in a country house, or to
the most luxurious furnishings
for a private yacht.
The Rooms in
Belmaison
Belmaison is a house built
within the store and contains
a series of rooms in which
new ideas in decorating are
constantly being shown. New
ideas based upon old truths
of classic design and cabinet
work. Belmaison turns to
the fine old periods of
French, Italian and English
furniture for its inspiration
for the modern home, and
incorporates much that is
fine and enduring with a
great deal that is modern
and comfort-giving.
Unusual Treatment
of Walls
In Belmaison is a room
called "Toile de Jouy," a
lovely, gay little room with
its walls* covered with old
Directoire toile, printed in
ink of soft tan and brown.
This gives the entire room
its character and determines
the sort of furniture that is
to be put in it. It is one of
the very clever and lovely
things in Belmaison. An?
other room, a tiny gem of a
room, where reproductions
of old French furnRure are
shown with a suitable back
?
jyELMAISON, that
house of original ideas,
where problems in decorating
the modern home of every size
and type are handled, is of
particular interest to those
"who have* returned from the
country and who are refur?
nishing their town houses. A
few of the reasons why a visit
to Belmaison will he a revela"
tion to the visitor who has not
been there before are outlined
on this page. And only a few,
for the interests of Belmaison
are widespread and its phases
are many and varied, i
ground, has its walls covered
with paper printed with the
designs from old wood blocks
once used for printing the
old toiles. Old scenic papers
are to be seen in Belmaison,
and lovely stuffs for cover?
ing the walls of exquisitely
feminine rooms, or modern
reproductions of old Ja?
cobean crewel-work for the
dining room or library, or
Colonial wall-paper for the
typically early . American
house. For every bit of fur?
niture Belmaison chooses
exactly the right background
in the form of wall covering.
A very interesting set of
wall-paper panels made up of a
remarkable series of colored
blocked drawings in brilliant
color, is called ''Scenic Amer?
ica," and consists of a pano?
ramic view of typically Ameri?
can scenes, including West
Point and Niagara Falls. The
blocks were made in about 1860
in the factories at. Alsace-Lor?
raine and were destroyed in the
late war.
Painted walls in Belmaison
niaka the pleasant pretense of
being marble,by being paihted
in t_e delicate tints of marble
and delicately veined by artist
artisans. A little bathroom is
marbleized In the Directoire
style In a warm cream ?oolor
with columns topped ?with black
and thinly outlined with bril?
liant green.
Floors of Remarkable
Charm
Another room in Belmai
, son, open to the inspection of
visitors in New York; is
* called the "Blue Floor." A
room of gay walls made
gayer by paper printed with
blue swags and cockades in a
frieze around the top. The
floor of this room is painted
to imitate the wide boards
like those in old American
houses, and the color is ?deep
blue, grained in lighter blue.
It is very quaint and ?amus?
ing. ? -'??-Zsv. ..
Marbleized Floors
Belmaison often marble
izes floors so that they may
harmonize with marbleized
walls and pretend to be deli?
cately peach colored and
mauve-veined marble of the
Directoire ?period, or impos?
ing and Empire, or gay and ,
Venetian. In art Italian
room in Belmaison is a floor
made to imitate the black
terazzo floors of the old
Italian palaces. Belmaison
h.as made these with brass
motifs inlaid in them, with
wonderfully interesting ef?
fect.
Rugs and Carpets
Belmaison has a genius,
for finding exactly the right
rug for the right room. All
that is lovely in French,
Italian and Engliih rugs has
been used as a source of in?
spiration and study. Often
Belmaison builds a room
about a rug, or gets the at?
mosphere?the key of the
room?from a rug.
From the white peacock
feathers in the corner of a
wonderfully line #Queen Anne .
carpet the whole charm of a ',,
room is built just as the nose?
gays in the center of the carpet
suggest the motifs for the deco?
rative furniture and the delicate
snuff-colored brown'with the
carpet suggests the coler of the
over-curtains at the window.
This is the thing Belmaison
does in its making of homes,
the thing it would do for your
home.
Special Upholstery
Belmaison does many dis?
tinguished and unusual
things with the upholstering
of furniture ; it makes slip?
covers that may be used all
the year 'round and that add
new charm to a room, that
give character to mediocre
furniture, that change a
grave8 sombre room to a de?
lightful, gay place. Lovely
chintzes and toiles printed
with old French designs, soft
velours, taffetas, linens and
even ginghams are used. A
natural linen ?embroidered to
imitate old Jacobean crewel
work is used for library wing
chairs ; a velour-covered
chaise longue is welted with
gay satin ribbon and has
little ruffled ribbon edges
that are very chic and dis?
tinguished.
A chair covered with figured
linen has ruffles on the arms
and around the bottom; a deep
sofa is covered with chintz
printed in magenta ink with
charming designs token from
an old Toile de Jouy. These,
are just a few of ?the delightful
things Belraalttea can do ?with
upholstery.
Curtains
Belmaison is constantly
thinking of new. and attrac?
tive ways to treat the win?
dows of a room. Arrange?
ments are made for different
seasons of the year, for dif?
ferent types of rooms in dif?
ferent types of houses. So
much character and charm
may be given a room by ex?
actly the right sorts of cur?
tains, that Belmaison finds it
a fascinating study to create
combinations of new mate?
rials and colors. In Belmai?
son is the room with the blue
floor that is given distinc?
tion and brilliancy by having
its two large windows cur?
tained with long, straight
hanging curtains of vivid red
glazed chintz, that are
crossed and re-crossed with
tiny box-plaited ruffles.
These curtains reach th?
floor, and under them, ex?
tending the ; length of the
windows, are little crisp
white glass curtains of
dotted Swiss.
Another room, very feminine
and charming in spirit, has
walls of cool gray blue. The
. windows are curtained by mists
of sheer pale blue silk over shell
- pink silk gauze glass curtain?.
The blue curtains are tied back
? and then hang in long folds that
sweep upon the floor. In con?
trast to these are the curtains
for a man's bedroom, also in
Belmaison. These curtains of
perfectly plain brown linen
have a dignified border in an
Adam design painted on them
in green and tan; this har?
monizes with the cafe au lait.
color of the ropm. The other
rooms in Belmaison present
many interesting window ar?
rangements.
Lamp Shades
The problem of lamps and
their shades presents an en?
chanting field for Belmaison
?and Belmaison considers
lights and their shades in all
their moods. For a great
Italian room with rough
plastered walls Belmaison
achieved some reproductions
of old Italian painted iron
wall appliques in the form of
flowery branches painted
dark rose and 'green. The
branches are topped with
small candles that are wired
with electric bulbs and are
shaded with small rose
shades. These are very love?
ly against a plastered wall
of neutral gray tone and are
Italian in spirit. Shades of
chiffon, glazed chintz, taf?
feta and other delicate and
lovely fabrics are all in
charming shapes, to harmon?
ize with the room they are
designed for, in color and
motif, and are in many cases
distinguished by exquisite
French braid and ribbons
imported for this purpose.
Dressing-tables
Belmaison has designed
several dressing-tables that
are in use in many of the
smart and beautifully ap?
pointed houses in this coun?
try. One of these dressing
tables of the most favored
type is now in the Hen
Pheasant room in Belmaison.
It is an amusing chintz-hung
table, over which is placed a
large mirror cut so that it
completely fills the space left
by the over-curtains that are
above it and parted and tied
on each side. It is an evolu?
tion of the old French
dressing-table that is so
beautiful. The top of the
table is covered with glass,
so that it may be kept free
from powder and the surface
is not marred by perfumes.
Under the chintz hangings
of the table are small
drawers that contain a thou?
sand and one toilet requi?
ntes.
Belmaison has also evolved an?
other typo of dressing table
that is kidney-shaped and has
its charming chintz curtains
arranged so that they may be
swung out like a small gate
that the drawers under them
may be reached more easily as
a result Of course, these types
are varied and adapted to the
room in which they are to be
used.
Over-mantels
Beautiful trumeaux and
covered over-mantels are in
the rooms in Belmaison. The
mantel in the Hen Pheasant
room is a good example of
the use of the trumeaux.
The spirit of the room is
very light and charming,
and the mantel is one of fine
white and pale mauve
marble, delicately carved.
The fine old trumeau over the
mantel is long and narrow,
with an almost square piece
of mirror at the bottom, and
at the top a painting of a boy
harpist wearing a rose coat.
Several reproductions of old
wood carvings for over-mantel
spaces arc made in the Grin
ling Gibbons style and are used
for large, important libraries
and living-rooms. A collection
of ship pictures now in Bel?
maison .affords many sugges?
tions for over-mantel decora?
tions.
Reproductions of
Antique Furniture
Fine bits of old furniture,
unusually good in design and
adaptable for use in modern
homes, are reproduced by
Belmaison so that they may
be had at very reasonable
prices. The fineness of cabi?
net-work, the beauty and
depth of surface and charm
of line that characterize the
antiques are maintained in
the reproductions. Delicate
bits of furniture, such as Di?
rectoire chairs and desks,
fine Louis XVI pieces of
charm and delicacy, are re?
produced, as well as heavier
things like Elizabethan and
Italian furniture.
Wall cabinets, old English
cupboards, great refectory
tables, and Old English arm?
chairs?all of these may be had
.in excellent reproductions.
Your Visit Is Incited
Your visit to Belmaison is
invited. The staff of deco?
rators will be glad to consult
with you abdut your town or
country house, and will give
you suggestions concerning
any problem in interior deco?
rating.
You are invited to see our
collection of prints and the
collection of stufTs and wall?
papers and toile from which
Belmaison draws it? inspira?
tion for much that is ?charm?
ing .n the interiors of many
bouses.
Fifth Gallery, New BuiWi^*