The New York herald., 1867-01-29

on "Wednesday were 81, 10 rs. 1t well patron zed
by boys and grs OF twelve and fourteen years OF age
The rental o. TINS house is as follows:-
First foor stors. ..................... 200
Secono floor, apartments o.
Third floor, apart .nents ~
Fourth floor apartments 50
Fifth floor, apartments -
Total, .s257
ss Os4 yer EACH or s2l 5Ss year. returned from
the seven tenement houses
DANGEROUS FIRE ESCAPE
No 800 Seventh avenue Is FIVE story building occu-
pied by twenty famiiies and in the sore under
ncath-a second haud clothing store The entrance ls
through dark, twisting hallway from the roof there
Is fire escape the roof below, but the ladder is per-
pendiculary placed and shaky, making 1t SO dangerous
tainy no woman could pass down 1t; and no man could
90 down with child In bis arms The ventilation is
imperfect but tho water closets are kept as clean as
is generally the In Of such hOusea Rent 81 ~
for room and bedroom. or $50 floor.
AMARgLE FeaNr TENEMENT HOUSE.
No 3O7 Seventh avenue with its marble front, looks
like palace when viewed from the outside. On the
first floor there two stores The entrance is VIDE
and roorny and there s bell to each floor. On the
second floor doctor has bis sign out and facing him
counsellor at law has his shirgle hung out too SIX
families occupy the house the second foor brings So
the third $40 the fourth $685. There are ten rooms on
the door gas each family and the clothes are
dried on tho roof There fre escape bat pan or
could drop TO the roof adjoning The house Is
in excellent condition. II
No 3O2 Thirty first street has twenty -four families,
four on each foor room and dark bedroom renis Or
80 SO, or $36 a floor. second hoor $34, third door
$40 so, fourth $50 and the Easements $22 or in al
$l54 so per month There Ia nre escape from the bed
window OF the housekeeper but she happened TO
be out and the door was locked 30 that could not DO
ieen iron LADDER he length Sas two ana Ia
roof below In attempting 70 get out on the ladder
through the window the probability Is that the descent
would be made without lie assistance. Tho yard Is
Althy Of the tenants finding It easier 20 throw
their nuisance out Of the window than 70 carry u down
oupan sSovs The wsser closets are also in ny
condition Tho ventilation Of the house is bad, and It's
sanitary condition 10 no better. -e~
DOUBTFUL FIRE ECApK
No. 4l5 Thirty SIKH street Is occupied by twentyour
families Il sin height nve ssories with basement
The sooaled ore escape ID the best consrved machine
for the suicdsy inclined thar ever was invented It s
perpendicular iron ladder from the ground 70 the roof
running up through balconies The TOP but open all the
The occupant Of the top foor when asked he would
down the ladder. replied 'Troh an I've car
dertake to 10 down that FOR fortune" On the night OF
the late heavy gale the house rocked Ike cradle, and
down with a crash One woman ned from II with her
children She said she rsked being frozen out In the
cod where she was sure 70 get Christian burial rather
than be buried alive in the ruins OF the house. she do
clared abe would spend another winter IN the house
even she could get the rooms rent free The females
mer ovefcoats for which they arc paid s. so per hun
dred for pressing and fifteen cents each for the making
room and dark bedroom on the first hoor, with NO
ventilation, rents for 50 80 q month.
rcDu TExBNENT HOUSE,
No l36 Thirty street is double dwelling and
tys
thirty. eight families in the house, four ioor
water and closets each story. The house ap
proaches the nearest French tenement house Of any
other 10 the city. Each door Ia arranged that al
abounds the trnanIs arc themselves alone TO blame,
the four families The floor live exclusively II they
were IN private house, The reasonable rang
ing from Ga upwards tor three rooms Askyght throws
down light the stairway and wnter closets The ven
tatlon is absu as eood probably, % could be had In
house Of such aimensiona There ~ tire except
by the roof bur the stairs and Railways are wide.
Everything the building looked neat aud tidy and
seemed altogether the best house OF the kind In the
city. The four Goors age sos floor, and the base
ment 335 The other h0use brings In the same rent
The total number Of families In the two buildings sky
thrcol
There Is striking difference between the Seventeenth
and Twentieth ward. In almost every second house in
the Seventeenth there Is sowing machine at work, and
in some buildings there are 50 many going that ono
would almost think himself in . factory. In
tho Twentieth ward. however, there
very few who had machines compared with the
other There aTo fower tenement houses In the
Twenti.th than in the Seventeenth; consequently the
most OF the in the former ward have yards and
tho landlords would pay 70 have tnelr places kept in
order there would be css disease In the community,
and their property would not 60 to ruin 80 soon.
The proprietor OF large tenement mousse resides IN
Europe and he armed Il ont TO his brother, and the
siderable sub letting Of houses In this way hence there
Is in some instances an unnecessary riso In rcnts.
House agents also, numerous now, and such
rivalry exists between them, that to obtain business
zach ves with the other in pushing up rents 70 retain
their various agencies The excuse they make s that
all do H. and they help it. Officers Irving and
Cannal who went through on this tour OF inspecuon
pointed houses which, after figuring up the RENTAL
were drnwing hundred per cent on the original sum
OF money invested In the seventeenth wArd oncer
dra~ina less than three hundred per cent on tho
original capital.