Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-09-27
Raioa aud gmeritam.
asa HARTz ON RENTs.


JAoQUE ODnEUNTz, ESQ. Ny Dear
Boug:-I am a victim to the greed Of land
lords.
The greed has become an epidemic, and
if / owned property anywhere beyond the
brick walls which inclose a cemetery,
would catch the injection and be as greedy
as the veriest Shylock among them.
! have no house, my bower. ] have
family Of seventeen, and no place TO put
them. / can't take them 10 the S.. Charles
Hotel, for Mr. BOYD hasn't room for them
all. The City can't take them, and the 81.
James Is full. What am / 10 do?
Put an advertisement in the paper asking
for house suitable for a family Of mode
rate size. Got an answer from gentleman
In the Fourth Municipality, who had a
small house containing eleven rooms. Asked
him the price per year Ans.-Seyen thou
sand dollars.
Nv bower. that house is not large enough
and The price is too small. No decent house
with two rooms can be had for that money,
n0w-a-days Told the agent in terms indig-
nant that we had been well raised, and
could not lower our social status by living
in a house which rented for 50 small sum.
Agent seemed TO regret il, and l felt duly
sorry for him. Hope some darkey Of small
means and large facilities for stealing may
take Il OF his hands.
Got another note from a sweet female pa
triot in the Third District Went down 10
look at the premises. Saw the house, but
couldn't perambulate any considerable dis
lance beyond two feet from the back door, on
account Of the water. Water privilege she
told me, would be thrown IN. Good thing
10 make steam Of, or 10 run boat in, but |
preferred dry land in the yard where child
rem were apt 10 gaTnbol. House contained
one room, besides the hen-coop, and was not
suitable Besides, one hundred and fifty
dollars a week was 10 much for il.
Literary gentleman in the First District
answered advertisement in a brief note Of
eight pages, in which he spoke Of the bean
tifnl situation Of his dwelling house 10 rent.
Got into a Camp street car, and started for it
Immediately. Never reached il. The beau
tiful situation" was so damp that a foot
passenger couldn't get nearer than two
squares of. Had no canoe and abandoned
the project. Seven hundred dollars month
is too much for house with three rooms in
il, unless the landlord pays ferriage.
Saw an advertisement in a city paper Of
an eligible residence for small family"
and went 10 the broker who had the renting
Of it. He gave NE ticket 10 visit and look
through the building, now occupied BY a
family of twenty-three. Went 20 IL imme-
diately. just one door this side lives a ven
erabie and highly vanished ebony knob be-
longing TO a Bureau, and she owns a villain
Gus dog whose sole occupation is 10 lie in
waiting for innocent and unsuspecting pedes-
TRANS who pass that way. The dog must
have known that my object was TO be his
next door neighbor and had an objection to
il. didn't get beyond the old knobs gate,
and returned to my present Quarters with a
considerable rent in my pantaloons and only
one-half Of the tail Of my best coat. In
view Of the fact that the old knob has n life
lease upon the next door house and that her
dog Is too confirmed in his habits 10 try a
reform now, it is hardly probable | shall
become her neighbor. Besides, seventy dol
lars week for rent makes rather too large
a hole in the seventeen dollars which ] heb
domadally receive.
] am in despair, and have no doubt would
drown myself were il not for the change in
the weather. What am / TO do There is
not q house to be had unless pay more for
a years rent than the structure and the
ground upon which Il iabuilt originally cost.
Every day the prices increase, and / expect
that by the first of November no man will
be allowed to ask a landlord il he has a
house 10 rent without preparing fifty dollars
for an answer.
Seven thousand families are to return 10
the city the next month, and where they are
all goingt0 live cannot, formy life, Imagine.
Try 70 do something, my bower, for my re-
lief Yours in despair, ASA HARrz
p. ST. have just been informed by the
creature board with that / must leave, as
the creature has received notification that
her rent has been raised from fifty dollars
per month TO one thousand. 1 shall have to
eat in the market and sleep at the police
station. All
p. s., Again.-Say something soothing for
me to the gentle creature who keeps your
linen in order. All