The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-02
BY THB HUNDRED.
RENT RAISING BREAkS UP WiNY
East SIDE HOMES.

Enforcement NJ Building Laws Fimp,ies
some Tenement Houses-WIId Poly
giOt scenes IN siuRIcipal Courts Jury
TPiaI Ruse wIn Delay English Only.
An unusually large number Of disposseas
notices were issued in the municipal courts
yesterday. The greater number were an
outgrovth Of the May Day fitting. In some
scores Of cases. however, the evictions were
due to the combined action Of the Board OF
Health and the Building Department. Under
the law these ordered the complete evaou-
alton Of a number Of old m houses
which were deficient in sanitary arrange
ments and FIRE precautions. These will
have TO be remodelled in conformity with
the tenement house and building laws be-
fore the owners will be allowed to All them
with tenants again.
BY far the larger number OF evictions
were planned by landlords with rent rails
ing designs, and on the East Side some
of these. in order to head of the rent
strikes which have been a feature OF
East Side life of late, took advantage OF
the moving day privilege and delayed
the service OF the dispossess papers until
the last moment. Many Of the papers
were not served by the maIshals until
noon yesterday, or even later.
The tenants also have learned q new
game-not altogether new. but never
before applied In the same wholesale manner
as yesterday. Almost all who were sum-
moned to the East Side courts demanded
jury trials. This Of course meant post
ponement and the tenants will be able
20 occupy their houses for days or even
weeks until the tedious proceedings, multi
piled by the hundred can be carried through.
Clerk Newman OF the court threw up his
hands in dismay.
$50 many Of the men who Hive In this neigh
borhood nowadays are new arrivals that
there won't be citizens enough 10 go
around"
There were 400 summonses issued in the
Fifth District Court, on Clinton street, where
Justice Worcester presides. Justice Fall
lon, sitting in the Seventh District Court, on
the upper East Side, also issued 400. The
number In the Thirteenth District Court
In Clinton street, also ran into the hundreds.
There were wild scenes In all the courts
when the marshals got busy and the angered
tenants began focking TO the court rooms
In response. Some Of the men came with
out hats and a good many without coats.
Nearly all brought the whole family along
with them. The mothers carried the babies
by tho fathers coattails or the mothers
skirts. They all talked together In angry
tones and sometimes the racket was 80
great that the Justices had to stop proceed
ings until the court officers could restore
order q little bit.
All the inhabitants OF 90 Willett street,
seventeen families N all marched In a bunch
10 tho Clinton street court. They spoke
exactly seventeen different ian and
a~sseverated therein that they had all paid
their rent up to May %, A new landlord,
II appeared, had purchased the property
and some one had omitted to tell him the
triaing fact about the rent. All seventeen
families will stay where they are until
seventeen verdicts are rendered by seven.
teen juries,
and 2I0 East Forty-sixth street. owned by
Joseph Newmark and Harry Jacobs, there
were thirty-one evictions. representing, IL
was said, twenty three racial distinctions.
There were seventeen evictions to be made
at the house at S!6 East Sixty-second street,
owned by WE'LL q Meyer.
One tenant named Mary Smith, from East
Eleventh street, could speak nothing but
the English language when abe appeared
In the Clinton street court. 90.
,sWhy' can't you move until next weekf"
asked the Court OF Mary. -,
aSimpiy becausel" she answered with
fnahty; and when the Court told her she
must find new quarters by Friday Mary
turned to the landlords agent and said
w%itheringly:
you'll get yours all right all right
It Was a great day fol, the marshals who
served the notices and represented the
raised the rents wholesale on the East Side
thought II best to stay away. some mar
sbals are said to have cleared over 800
each on the day.