The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-20
TURNED OUT OF HOME.
Six Hundred More Evictions of the
Wretched Poor in New York.


New York, July 20-There was moth
ing doing yesterday in the Broadway
civil district court The clerks were all
agreed to that. To be sure 112 land
posed of, but that only happened be-
cause, being summer, four days dis
possessing had been rolled into one.
"Oh. it's nothing" said Clerk Allen.
ton now and he holds court only three
days week, so the cases have accum-
ulated. We have thirty day here
anyway
But it was something to the 600 souls
who made uo the 112 families that
were turned out of house and home
yesterday by the operations of the law.
1t was a line day and the sun shone.
The city marshalS made hay; they don't
like to work, you see. in the rain.
1t was in Williamsburg that all this
happened: "Dutchtown," it's poorest
section, felt the blow most heavily.
There they moved during the recent
great strike of the starving garment
makers because rent was low. But low
rents have to be paid just as promptly
as high ones, and landlords are just as
insistent. And the poor tailors couldn't
make any money in Williamsburg any
more than they could in New York. So
even these low rents went unpaid.
The landlords wanted their due. They
went to court to get it. June was
particularly hard month for the tailors,
and so the July rent payable on July l.
ing for the landlords to do but go to
court. They went in droves.
Scores of those about to be homeless
stood up before Justice Van Wart and
begged for a few days grace when the
cases were called on Wednesday. They
told of sickness and no work and
starvation wages when they could get
work. Justice Van Wart heard the
testimony that the rent was unpaid and
there was nothing for him to do but to
sign the warrants of eviction.
l1n Low fC1r IL.
said; and yet no one felt worse over it
than he. Wherever he could, the poor
had a chance to pay up and stay if
there was the slightest prospect of their
getting the money.
Outside the pouring rain fell no faster
than the tears of the poor when they
heard that their homes were to be ia
ken away from them. Poor John AL
bertson, who had a little shanty at No.
107 Varet street, put his head in his
hands and cried out aloud in the agony
of his despair. 1t was home to him
and he and his family had to lose it.
At No. 40 Meserole street, Emma
Gompers had two tiny rooms for which
she owed IS rent that she couldn't pay
She was bundled out yesterday
IT don't know where to co. she said
despairingly, but that was none of the
marshaPS affair; he was only there to
put her out and not to find her a home
Leonard street was full of human
Woe At No. So Morris Adelstein and
his little family were turned out into
the street. At No. 156 Mary Anderson
had to give up her two miserable rooms
because she couldn't pay the IS she
owed the landlord. Further up the side
walks were Uttered with household
goods, thrown out bodily because their
owners couldn't get up the heart to
move them before the marshals came
There were tears at No. 200 Scholes
street, where John Hess had to move
out. He owed four months rent, SIS
The babies gathered around and cried
softly, but it was no uSe-they had to
go. Albert Deutsch was 1oath to leave
his home at No. 157 Stage street, but
he couldn't pay the SO that the land
lord must have, and SO the marshals
carried out their orders.
All over it was the same story-tears
despair, pleadings and then the street