The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-13
SOCIAL PESTS OF NEW YORK.
Some ofthe Troubles with Which Land
lords Are Annoyed.


Some the Troubles with Which Land
lords Are Annoyed.
NEW York, Feb. 1l.-New York has in
numerablesocial pests, but one of the mean
est is the swindlng tenant-the tenant,
that is. who habitually defrauds his land
lord Of the rent. There are hundreds of
such persons here. SO great indeed has this
evil become that the Real Estate Exchange
has taken measures TO have what IS termed
n BLACK list of dishonest tenants prepared
for the protection of Landlords. There are
numerous cases on record Of tenants who
! have moved thirteen times in one year and
| who paid little or no rent These are
termed FOUNDERS" They secure a house
or fiat and often move in one week. They
| secure other places through the recommended
tition of an INSCRIPTIONS landlord who
finds he will receive no rent, and is there
! fore glad TO get rid of them. Others stay
| longer They say they cannot pay in adj
vance, and at the end of IA month move out.
| Others carry the game further. They give
notes for past rent and keep up these worth
| less paper payments for several months be-
| fore they are finally elected. Sometimes
| they pay a few dollars and promise to pay
the rest of the rent in few days; but OF
! course they do not; sometimes they pay
| month in advance and never pretend to pay
|
out, and at the end of a few months they
are, but in the meantime they here selected
| another victim and the landlord who knows
! them 10 be thoroughly inscriptions recon-
mends them to others in order to be rid of
an intoleratle nuisance himself
elf contract is made for year'said an
experienced broker, ''these professional
frauds often leave in a week. They have
signed contracts for year but they pretend
that they can't get the water Oh they don't
like the neighborhood. We can't stop them,
and to get the rent on a yearly lease we
| should be obliged to sue them every month,
at a cost of about $40 each time You can
readily see that it would not pay to sue
! them. The best policy is to turn them out
at once The rent when payable in advance
isdue at noon on the first of the month, and it
takes about four days by legal process to get
rid OF them. Another fraud is the trades
man who puts in a small stock of goods and
| deliberately allows them to be damaged by
| rain. He packs the goods I'm the attic for
this purpose, or on the lower floors and then
| cuts the water pipes to flood them. Then
we receive notice from him, that if we do
not pay damages he will sue. The swindler
| then tries TO deceive us as to the amount of
| his stock, but we send experts and get at the
facts. Not long ago man tried this game
| on me, but it was such a fragrant case of
fraud that in the end he abandoned his
| CldlUl anu ACTUALLY pau ntlil une amount OF
rent he owed. | was glad to get rid of him
on these terms. Another shady feature of
| the business is that of hundreds of houses
and flats are leased every year to dlsreputa-
| BILE women"
This latter evil mentioned by the broker is
one of the most perplexing of any that land
| lords have to face Any prosperous broker
will tell you of handsome, splendidly dressed
women who lease flats and give the most
satisfactory references yet they are ultimate
ly found to be of the class tabooed by good
society. They refer the broker to bank
| presidents, prominent politicians, financiers
and merchants; many of the millionaires,
and these individuals impreSsively vouch
for theirrespectablitv The amours of thes @
men of course ultimately become known
but they are wealthy or prominent, it may
be even famous, and the landlord will join
| in the end of the year giving the scarlet
women recommendations to others. They
hire elegant flats or palatial dwellings
where they can live in more than Partisan
| luxury. They secure flats in the most at
tractive apartment houses in the city, in fact
/ am told by real estate men that New York
flats are full of these Pariahs of society the
social leproSy is found in the most unex pect-
ed places
1t might be supposed that among so
many handsome women, although touched
by the canker of ambitious immortality
|
some Duchesse Du Barri in whom to
paraphrase Edmund Burke, vice itself might
lose hall its iniquity by losing all its gross
ness, as in the more polished age in French
chivalry. Bnt the women, arrayed in
every jewel, but virtue, clothed in all that
makes women externally attractive but
modesty, are not of the sort that the France
of Louis XIV. and other royal hbertines
saw raised to mountain heights of shameful
eminence. They are commonplace and
merely shameless. They are often pointed
out at the theater or the OPERA they, of
course, wear the particular sort of dec lette
corsage that perhaps might quite as properly
call for the attention of Anthony Comstock
as the So-called immoral works of art and
sometimes curiously enough, respectable
women, similarly attired in bisque gowns,
are COMPOUNDED with the loud spoken scarlet
women who prey unmoleSted on society.
Some of them are actually ambitious Of
social advancement; they imagine that the
secret of their unlawful union is not known,
or if they know that their ''secret" is in
everybody's mouth, they hope, sooner or
later, to catch bona fide husband by
beauty and tinesse, by artful appeals or
deliberate traps They are seldom women
of education or refinement, though natur-
ally they endeavor to create an opposite i'm
preston. They are merely beautiful animals,
| young and attractive in some respects now,
but certain to be driven to the pavement
when youth and beauty have left them to
walk between want AM scorn, and ulti-
mately to die as the fool dieth
This is one of the social evils considered
incurable in great cities New York is tax
ing its place i'll this respect with London and
| Paris. OSCAR WILLoUGHBY RIGGS.
Working Up to Humming Birds
Tongues.
THAT'S a gormand, whose stomach is his