New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-19
blocks of them are rising between Central Park
and the North River

blocks of them are rising between Central Park
and the North River.
THE ANNUALLY RECURRING NIGHTMARE
New-York has two seasons for renting. Leases
of business-houses usually date from February !.
while among the hundred thousands Of men.
women and children who live in hired rooms.
apartments dwellings, May is the nightmare
of the year Three moves are equal 10 a fire,
therefore three May lists are equal TO fire for
three May lists in New-York are equal to three
moves, and things equal TO the same thing are
equal TO each other. No wonder people hate il.
The thought OF the annually recurring catch-as-
catch-can engagement with the housc-agcnt Is
enough TO give family the iim-iams all through
January, February. March and April.
Lovely. delightful, alllght, six-room fats. with
BATH all Improvements; new house; terms reason
able
Elegant apartment. seven rooms and bath; beau
tifuly furnished handsomely decorated steam heat,
gas, hot and cold running water. attendance elevator
boy: all modern Improvements. see janitor"
"Magnincent new, light and cheerful apartments;
eight rooms and bath; southern exposure: all improve
mens beautifully frcscoed private block; splendid
neighbohood stationary refrigerator. perfect order
all outside windows; air shafts private halls
hot and cold water elegant mantels and crates
uneQualed in every respect references required etc.
etc.
HOUSE AGENTS AND THElK WAA .
1t is the almost unanimous verdict of the com
monwealths of Georgia and Tennessee that no man
can plough with a mule and still go 10 Heaven.
In Missouri the notion prevails that horsc-trader
is by virtue of his Office candidate for purgatory.
In New-York there is quaint superstition that
house agents lave pledged their cousciences 10
Pluto. and, 10 use a current phrase. are working
Plutus for all he is worth in the hope Of having
no lorp A a T.
The writer is not going to defend either mules,
horse-traders or house agents, nor is he going 10
condemn them by wholesale. There are mules
and mules horse-tradcrs and horse traders, house
agents and house-agcnts. Certainly mules and
horsetradcrs have business in this article: they
were introduced incidentally for the sake of an
alogy. and may depart in peace. But as for house
agents-well, Basil Marchs opinion Is as good as
any lie says: They re a very illusoIy genera
ton. There seems 10 be something in the human
habtafiOn that cOrrupjS the natures OF those who
deal in it, 10 buy sell it. 10 hire or let It, Nou
20 30 an agent and tell him what kind Of house
you want He has no such house, and he sends
you t. look AZ something altogether different. upon
the wcl-asceriained principle that If You can't get
what YOU want YOU VIII take what You can get
You don't suppose the party that took our house
in Boston WIS looking for any such house He
was looking for totally different kind of house
in another part OF the town
No sarcasm in that II Is the plain, unvarnsAcd
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I'D oo,eoio,co Did Won evcr coroo in contact
,,;,l, - roo1 Ii,o bo,.o-oocr,o Noo Tbon Won
still have something 10 hofc for Tie pleasures
Of ti-er-huutine in the African jungle are as
nothing compared with the fa>c.nations OF house
hunting in tie metropolitan jungle.
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agents anu no"S''-eN'S' A'i'o'- '''
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