Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-07

which, half dozen years ago, were the
homes of comfortably rich men now
tenements, sheltering five and six families
and their dodgers. Others, many of them
in fairly good repair, have been torn down
to give way to the only kind of residential
building that pays In New York-fiat
tenement the different styles of houses
whose generic name under the law is
tenement house, The average private
DIV cling, the authorities declare, does not
bring in sufficient returns for the money
invested. but an apartment or fat or a
tenement-that is different; six. ten, twenty
families instead of one housed in a build
ing not much bigger than the twenty-five
loot four-story and basement dwelling
and on a lot of the same dimensions
There Is no disputing the fact that about
the only private dwellings being erected in
Manhattan today are those for enormously
wealthy men who have millions with which
to satisfy their every within. even to the
erection OF house in New York Senator
Clark OF Montana is spending some four
millions of dollars on a huge pile of marble
and mosafcs- on 9Th avenue; Charles NJ
Schwab Is spreading a great mansion over
the greater part Of a whole block facing
Riverside Drive. and is spending millions
doing 1t; while here and there throughout
the city an operation of some such magni-
tude as either of these, on the part of A
well-known multi-milI,onaire is going on:
but neutrality-suspicious. else where there
is ground with clear titles to build upon
tenement houses going up by the hum
dreds-fve-story tenements, six-story. eight.
ten, tweive-skyscraper dwellings In their
kind live the millions Of the islands-the
poor man. the comfortably situated man
the well-to-do man. the fairly rich man.
because each and every one has nowhere
else to lay his head. And here also lives
the man with something less than a million
because he. too, comes mighty near having
no other place for his head
Building Operations.
n
two previous years 1882 such multiple
dwellings were erected on the island at a
cost of SOS. $40, $50. In 1901 l.. 167 tenements.
costing 50,S92,500 were erected in Manhat-
tan and the Bronx, the statistics for the
two boroughs that year not being kept sep
arately. But nearly thousand of these
operations were carried on in Manhattan:
SO in less than four years considerably over
1000 tenements have been el~.lu IN
little old New York. at cost of nearly
100000, 900. Inclusive of the statistics for
the borough of the Bronx for 1901 the
great building year in Manhattan the ex-
act figures are: Tenements, 2,449; cost,
$119, 1913, $50.
For the same period.sand also including
the Bronx statistics for 1901, just sos pri-
SD 76750. One hundred and fifty were
built in 1902, at & cost of 81 ,S7S 500 seventy
two In 1903, cost $, 201 900, and seventy-one
In the first three-quarters OF last year,
49, s-'Aoo'o" 1Sotice the rapid decline.
On the other hand, notice the increase in
tenement operations, beginning with 1902
PA. S13. 487. 500; All, sos. 954, 800, and 584,
81, 419, $50
Within the last three years Just 800 pri-
vate dwellings have gone up on Manhattan:
IN TINS period the islands population is es-
timated to have increased about half a
million Sixty-five have cost, exclusive Of
the ground. $4,000 and over: 14S between
$1,000 and $4,000. and 81 less than $4,000.
The average cost has been $44, O63 OOh, to q
cent " -
No wonder New York is a houseless city
TOT rlch man, poor man, beggar man, thief;
cept the Northumberland he from choice is
surely making 1t a houseless city for him.