The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-01
TENANTS ON THE MOVE.
FURNITURE VANS JOsTLE each
OTHER WITH LOADS OF CHATTELs.

The First OF October the Day when
Leases Terminate and begin.
Renters Have Been Moving. some
Into Their own Homes and Many
Others Into Newly Leased Houses.
Despite the building Boom and the
DesertiOn of Rented Houses ON
This Account, They Are sim in
Rig Demnnd-ThOught to show
Large Increase in the Population
of the city.
Friday and yesterday the vans Of the
| furniture moving people were filled with
! The goods and chattels of moving tenants.
DESTROYS at this season of the year. when
leases expire and new houses are TO let, 20
change the locality they have for the year
past adorned with their presence.
Many of these who thus changed their
quarters have acquired homes of their own,
which have been built in the last few
months in the southern and eastern Sec
tons of the city. Many though, nave but
| changed one rented house for another and
the places of AL of those who have moved
have been promptly filled with other ten
|
ing agents all declare that they have con-
slant inquiries for houses from many more
persons than they can at all accommodate,
and that there is a woeful scarcity Of
small dwellings, renting al from s25 to $50
per month.
I'VE cannot provide homes for the very
large class of tenants whose expense for
the item OF house rent must not exceed
$40 per month, said one of the renting
agents yesterday. our list of such houses
has been exhausted. and l am told that the
same condition of affairs prevails with 9TH
ers in our business. There are larger
houses that are TO let. in some small num-
Der. but all of the smaller houses have
| been taken long ere this and those desiring
| 10 change their places OF residence have
| either to possess their souls in patience Of
their present surroundings, repair 10 a ho-
tel or boarding houses. or so a-fishing.
They cannot be supplied with the class of
| houses they desire TO lease
1t is said that even the negro shanties
| and one and two-Toom cottages are equal
" hard to find Unbiased, and that the rent
ing agents could handle many of these
with profit and advantage. The large
amount of building and the number OF
public works and improvements that have
lately been in progress have all conduced
to the gathering In the city of an equally
large number of negro iaborers, who want
this kind of abode Houses of this char
acter are extremely difficult to find with
out a tenant. and the laborers, TOO, must
go unprovided, at least for time.
The rapidity with which dwellings pTevi-
ously deserted for new ones owned by the
erstwhile tenants, are filled with other
tenants, is a proof of the material addl-
lions that have been made TO the popula-
Il. ttnA Na-N n
or two. The extent of new building has
been noticeable and generally commented
upon since its rather recent inception, and
Il had been feared 10y many that houses
that had been rented would be found to be
without tenants. This apprehension has
proved TO have been unfounded AS fast
as one tenant has been moved out another
has moved in, aud the van that carried
awav from The premises the last load OF
ltthe furniture and valuahles OF the out
going proprietor has met frequently an
other van with the personal possessions OF
| his successor 1t would seem that TINS
double fact, the number of new houses
lately built and the almost entire absence
| of old houses TO let, would demonstrate
bevond question the truth of the assertion
that Savannah's population IS much more
| than It was last year or the year before.
| II 10 a matter of wonder TO many why
oct should have been selected as the
time when leases terminate and tenants
must either renew them or seek new
| homes This custom extends even to the
renting of stores and buildings for other
business purposes and is so universal that
| the occasional exception Is matter OF
comment. The reason for there being
such a custom is not hard to find, as the
| renting agents combine in agreeing that all
their leases shall begin and terminate on
practically the same day, so that when
house is vacated il may be filled with
| =ngI n er
place Of abode But why Oct. ] should
have been selected 1t is difficult to under
| stand.
1T is true that this is the season of
| year when summer vacationers return to
the city" said the renting agent already
| quoted land 1t may be that because these
desire 10 begin the year in a new house
is the raison d'ere of this custom. But
| il seems to me that just at this season,
when they return after all the fatigue of
the conventional summer vacation, they
would feel less inclined TO undergo the
annoying experience of moving than al
| any other Why custom should not have
fixed on the first of January or the first
| of almost any other month than October
is really more than can comprehend"
1.-THE truth of the matter probably is that
the custom owes its continued existence TO
| the fact that it Is a custom, and to nothing
| else without reference to whence or how
; | il originated. it has become an unwritten
law. to deviate from which would entail
almost untold inconvenience, to property
owners. tenants and those of US who cater
| to the business needs of both classes. 1t
has become about Al fixed and Unchanged
BILE as the famed laws of the Modes and
Persians and there it stands. 1t looks
solid and as though il would continue TO
stand but if 1t could be changed, so that
, leases would begin on the first day of some
, other and more convenient month, l for
, one. would welcome the change"
! In the meantime the moving steadily
) continues. All those in the business have
] much more to do than they can attend TO
promptly and 1t is probable that Sabbath
! dissertation will be frequent, and Monday
! come and gone before it is even nearly at
, an end.
EXCURSIONS.