The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-11

inenC, una III possible MIR. Undertake
would take ona job. So soon afterward
they went over to Brooklyn. thereby
causing tho hill on which my house
stands to settle three-quarters of an inch.
We now began to advertise at great
rate for tenants. Money that had laid
aside to buy new set of harness and
pole straps for the mules here on the
place was used i'll advertising in the New
York papers. and we could not find the
advertisement either. Nobody but the
man who collected for the advertisement
could find it for us He found it. But
then he was accustomed to it. That is
his business.
1t is not pleasant to como right out and
say publicly what II lot of disagreeable
things there are connected with being Il
landlord Think of being at rout or
ball enjoying ones self for n moment
and getting letter from your agent
saying that rats have taken possession of
the building and are running the elevator
OF nights themselves in order to save
climbing the stairsl
Unfortunately the Same man who
builtmy building erected twin to it OH
the same street, and another man owns
It. Somewhere he read in Il paper that
competition is the life of trade, and so
he lowered his rent little last spring.
Since then l have had to give my tenants
more cut glass and buggy rides i'll order
to retain them. They still grumble and
threaten, and even when l am away
lecturing to packed houses they write to
me if u cockroach dies in the house
under suspicious circumstances and
threaten to move away, claiming that it
is not good neighborhood
Tho house is in an aristocratic location,
and my taxes are in proportion, and yet
one of my tenants, a lady from Shells
burg. Canada, who wears a cork limb
SO am told by q custom house officer
came to mo with tears in her eyes and
said that she hoped | would not think
that because she now had to hire apart
ments she had always been so poor.
Once she was an only child, the daughter
of wealthy policeman in Toronto. She
was well brought up, she said, and hated
to pay rent. | soon discovered that this
was the case.
did not throw her out on the street,
as the stage landlord does, or drag her
around over the floor or garnishee her
cork leg, as some would have done, but
excused her, and she went away.
She said she had Il lucrative position
with Mr. Depew. | inquired about it,
hoping to get some rent that was still
due. found that she was engaged in
shaking tho Administer aisle carpets of
the New York Central and Hudson River
railroad parlor cars.
She saw me coming, and was about to
hiss something at me through her
clinched teeth when she remembered all
OF sudden that she had taken them out
while she was at work and left them on
the woodbox.
Professor Dwight says of the relations
between landlord and tenant under the
common law that, Independent of ex-
press clauses in the lease, the following
duties are imposed upon tho tenants:
First-To pay rent.
Second-To render fealty or to be
faithful to the lessor.
Third-To refrain from committing
acts of waste.
Fourth-To make ordinary repairs.
Fifth-To render up possession at the
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 get
mad and go away because you did not
kiss them good night, or something like
that. Some New York tenants have no
credit anywhere except with the truck
and van men. They lead a nomadic life
and rest rs we'll in Il van as they do any
where.
had Il socialist in tho west fiat all
last winter. asked him once to define
socialism to me. He said it was the
right to sleep without remorse in the
spare bedroom of the rich without re
moving the pillow shams.
He left me in May because he did not
like the locality. He claimed that the
trees of the park sort of hemmed him in
80 that the wind a great deal of the timo
was not strong enough to blow through
his whiskers.
need not, may say in closing. refer
to the other divisions of this subject
made by Professor Dwight and other
eminent jurists. Even the second divi-
sion, requiring under tho law that the
tenant shall render fealty to the land
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