The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-02

your heat without paying a coal bill and
that represents a saving Of from SIS to SID a
year on an average.
You may pay 5000 a year for POUR rent,
but you don't have to pay for coal; you don't
have to pay a man for running your furnace
and taking care Of your ashes. You don't
have to tip the garbage collectors. You
don't have to hire some one to shovel the
snow on your sidewalk IN winter You
don't rave to bother with the minor repairs
In a house.
Even IN the newer houses that are five
stories in height and have 10 elevator.
what do you findf An imposing n even
beautiful general entrance, the walls lined
with marble and the upper halls lined with
burlap. The decorations are Of the same
good taste that used to be characteristic Of
only the large apartments in the semi-hotel
buildings with nents from 81 800 a year and
upwards. The bathrooms are like those OF
the houses with elevators. There n the
same freedom from household cares as In the
more p~retentious places. NO owner q an
OF Offering his wares 20 the public unless he
could say that he would provide hot water
winter and summer. In most OF these
houses there IL a telephone In the main hall
way which the tenants can use by paying by
the call. The sanitary conditions are Just
az wholesome a. In the higher priced places.
The great reason why New York used to
live in fats was because 1t had TO. Real
estate was too expensive for ordinary dwell
ings. With the improvements that the
laws have required and with the Injuries
that owners have provided New York has
come TO feel that It prefers fat life to any
other. 1t has come TO be the thing because
IL offers the maximum advantages with the
minimum Disadvantages. The result y
that New York would probably not go back
to the old tlme style Of u house for every
family II 10 could.
Within the last eighteen months there
have been sOmsthIng like $500 flathOuses
OF every degree put up Ia this town, at a
cost Of nearly S75,OOQ,OOO: That includes
all the bOroughs. In Manhattan alone the
nearly $50, 900, OOO. All. told these new
dwalIinRs have provided for an increase Of
population Of SIS 900. A reasonable esti-
mate OF the increase in population a year
is said to be $4,000, 80 it may seem that
New York has o%verbuilt itself in the fat
proposition and the tenants are the ones TO
profit. The rush TO get control Of desirable
real estate is probably the reason for It.
With its tall office buildings New York
has undergone g wonderful transformation
In Appearances in the last decade. Most
folks think that that IL the chief change in
The town, but those who look deeper realize
that In the increase Of comforts IN family
life New York has undergone quite as i'm
portant and quite as attractive a change
a. has occurred in the business district.
BeginninR on the lower East Side one finds
the model tenSments taking the place OF
the foul-one might almost say vile-tene-
ments that cursed that part Of own in years
gone by. The poor may o live in decent
sanitary conditions, and 10 IL possible to
keep clean, ever II the living abodes arc
smalfAnd crowded.
ON the upper East Side brighter condi-
tious exist. The dwelling places are pleas
ing 20 the eye and the SURROUNDINGS are
wholesome. On the lower West Side, the
home Of the old time fat, the style ehat
crowded the region below Fifty-nihth street
anG for = time H.sds y "a SssHctr q proper