The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-06

mach less rncney. ard With social aarans-
azrs vfsch | ecE.d rot offer: asso cia b
privileges and zsra~ ride. 4 Spirit Of
| ciscontent xpranv up. especially IN the
hst occupied by Mr. and Ms. Tarberl.ke
and deAs little aogg@sS. They we're from
Herkiner county. and were living IN New
YORK, Il seems. for the rarpose Of taking
on an air nj refinement and. II possible,
. Mr.. Tlmseriake wsaId take ua lob So
soon afters ards thev xeat over ~ Brook
iyn, thereby causing the hi. on which NY
honse stands 20 settle shree-9uarsers OF "a
inch.
We now began 10 advertise 81 q great
rate for tenants. Money that bal laid
aside 20 buy n rev ses Of harness and pole
straps for the raaZes here on the place was
used IN advertising IN the New YORK
papers and we cousd nas ind The adver-
fsernenE either Naa0ay bat the man
who collected for the advertisement ceald
Ind ~ FOR gs- lie loaHd IT, Bat then he
was accustomed "a il. Tina. 10 his business
II = not pieas&a. - come right os.t and
say publicly what = lot OF dssagreeahge
things there are couuec Ell with being a
/ landlord. Think % being at roat or bail
enjoying ones self for a moment aud get
ting letter from your Sgent saying that
rats have taken possesstoss OF the building
and are running tie elevator of nights
themselves Ia order 20 save climbing the
stars
n Unfortunately the same man who built
nv building erected \ twin 70 il on the
same street. ard another man owns il.
soEnewtl here he read IN a paper ttaE caHpe-
tstioa e ihe life Of trade. ana so he lowered
his rent little last spring. Since then ]
have had 10 give nv tenants more cns
glass and nuggv rides IN order 10 retain
them. They still gramhle and threaten,
and even when / am away iecturing 10
packed houses they write 10 me il cock
roach dies ia the house under suspicious
circumstances and threaten 10 move away,
claiming that IL Is not good nelgh6or-
hood
The house is in an aristocratic location,
and nay taxes are in proportion. ana yet
one al my tenants, a lady from Sheilsharg.
Canada, who wears cork iimb--xo | am
told by custom house officer--came TO
me with tears in her eyes and said that
she hoped | would not think that because
she now had to hire apartments she had
always been so poor. Once she was an
only child. the daughter OF wealthy po-
iiceman IN Toronto. she MAS vel brought
no, she SAID. and hated TO pay rent I
soon discovered that this as the case.
| did not throw her Qua on the street as
the stage landlord does or drag her around
over the fIoor or garuIsnee her cork leg as
some would have done, but | excused her,
and she went away.
She said she had 3 lucrative position
with Mr.. Depew. | inquired about IT,
hoping TO get some rent that wa. still due.
i foutI that she was engaged in shaking
the Administer aisle carpets of the New
iork Central & Hudson River railroad
psrior cars.
she saw rae coming, and was about TO
hiss something at me through her clinched
teeth, when she remembered all of a sud
den that she had taken them out while
she was ut work and left them on the
woodbox.
Professor Dwight says of the relations
between landlord and tenant under the
common law that, independent of express
clauses in the lease, the following duties
are imposed upon the tenants:
First-To pay rent.
seoond-To render fealty or to BE- fai.Afui to
the lessor.
Third-To refrain from committing acts Of
waste.
Foarth--To make ordinary repairs
Fiith-Io render up possession at tbs end OF
the term
As landlord am forced To state that all
tenants do not pay rent. Some ask you
TO give them months rent in order To
secure them as tenants, and then at the
end OF the second month they set mad
ami go away because yoa did not kiss
theEa good night, or something like that.
Some New York tenants have no credit
anywhere except with the truck and van
men. They lead nomadic life and rest
- well in van as .hey do any where.
| bad q socialist in the west dat all las.
winter. l asked him once to define social
ism to me. lie said il was the riEnt to
sleep without remorsc in the spare bed
room of the rich without removing the
pillow shams.
He left ne in May because he did not
like the locality. He claimrd that the
trees Of the park sort OF hemmed him in
30 that the wind great deal OF the time
was not strong enough TO blow through
his whiskers.
need not. may say in closing, refer
10 the other divisions of this subject made
by Prof. Dwight and other eminent
ilirists Even the second division. re-
auiridg under the law that the ten
ant shall render fealty TO the land
lord need not he discussed. tried 10
get into my building shortly after / had
purchased IL, and when told The janisor
that / was the owner he said that was
played out. He said that In February q
man with r similar air and the same kind
of red made-up scarf overlooking his vest
like bad break in the Red river or a
hectic eruption of Nesuvius came there
and wanted to see about the roof-said he
was the owner He went up stairs and
ignored the roof entirely, bnt carried away
nice new overcoat with the pockets full
OF Christmas presents.
Fealty 10 the landlord is now obsolete.
went one Summer afternoon TO take the
children of my tenants out for walk in
the park and q nice ride in the swan boats
but one OF them shot at me with q rubber
''fip" and another rode between my limbs
on a pair Of roller skates.
Also little Lord FauntIeroy looking
iad-a dear mite Of fellcw-put a large
hoppy tosd In my umbrella while was
up stairs, ard when | spread It on the
street the toad fell on the back Of my neck
with a cold. wargy PUNK. | hate such "A
thing as that thoroughly.