The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-01
THOUSANDS SEEK NEW HOMES.
Way I Il Moving Day IN Nearly All
Cities. Except Washington.

In great many cities and towns
throughout the United States today IS
known as Moving Day" People who
have to occupy houses belonging to 9th
ers seem t. have come to the conclusion
that spring is the proper time for general
housecleaning and that If any moving is
to be done no season is more Dropitious
than that which causes the buds TO burst
forth and cover the earth with fresh
green carpet. The first day Of May is
the most seasonahle date for moving for
the reason that usually by then the April
rains and rough weather have spent their
fury and sunshine and brightness have
taken their places.
It is estimated that in Chicago alone Is
800 families are moving today, and that
the cost direct and indirect to these fam
lilies VIII be 1886, $50 Chicago has a pop
ulation OF 695. 535 and the basis Of the
calculation is that one out OF twelve Of
the &391G7 families of that city are NOV
ing today The average cost Of moving
will be $40 and counting damages to fur
uiture and extra expense for moving into
q new house or fiat, the figures would
read: Moving $500 families AT SO, $2S3,-
coo: new furniture. SO each. $ZS3. 0JJ; dam
ages $3.50 each. ST0,750; total 1896, 100
II this basis is correct and Washington
families would be transferring their
household effects from one place to an
other in this city today. But in Washing
ton people move any time. and only a few
houses or flats are leased By the year
They are usually rented 10y the month
Moving household goods may approach
an art. and the ordinary expressmai.
knows little more aboul it than he does
Of casting the bones Of q diHosau-- He
and his assistants can put any piece You
have into wagon and drive with it and
I Il dozen others to the proper address But
often when ne is done there is work fOl
a furniture pOIisher for two days after
ward, and then tn front of q dresser may
not be what it was before.
In general there are furniture movers
and furniture movers. There are many
men who move furniture. but compare
lively few furniture movers. From the
storage and van company which does lit
tie but care for furniture in the absence
Of household -rs down to the corner OK
pressman who viii contract TO move the
contents Of { seven-roon3 fat there is
wide stretch.
A family which never has experienced
moving day has a gamut of sensations
to run, without which its members can
never become thoroughly cosmopolitan in
spirit. From the first moving day a mans
house becomes less his castle until, when
he has become hardened to seeing a hus-
Ky mover catch up the ends OF a $50 brass
bedstead and butt two chunks of plaster
out of a calcimined wall with them. he
hasn't nerve enolgh to resist a justice
shop constable who has no warrant
In moving a person usually gets the
kind OF service that he pays for The diff
inc
Sl2 IL usually 81 or S. when trial balance
finally is struck. A man who can put the
contents Of q seven-roorn fat into a fur
nituFe with minimum of damage to
the goods may get g for his days work
His assistants must be careful men OF
some judgment, for one or two mistakes