New-York tribune., 1912-01-21
TRANSACTION IN STAMPS

There is an advantage in a municipal de-
partmeut which offers an opportunity for
| the development OF some mute. inglorious
| Milton" I'm this prosy community. Some
/ times the department has TO struggle
/ with other problems, for on the outside Of
a recently mailed request for information,
/ where the stamp should have been. &C. o.
| D. was written in pencil by the sender
and across the back of the envelope, which
was delivered by the postoffice through d
! postage due stamp. were these lines:
! II YOU will send me answer / will paid
| you back the cents. As soon as ] will
receive the answer I will be over their
] this Saturday morning. VIII you please
! put on a cent stamp on the answer what
! you will send me and I will paid you back
/ &c for these 2 cent stamps.
other communications of like nature are
received, some containing smile. some in
| deadly earnest, all OF them tending TO
help along the cause of correcting faults
and improving conditions.
II the Westerncr really thinks that all
fats are bad" let him come 10 New York
and look over some OF our better class OF
fats and apartment houses uptown and in
Brooklyn. One OF these contains 2,OS0
rooms, with ample space for l,225 persons
Il is the largest apartment house in the
world and covers thirteen and one-half
acres Of ground. In this the kitchens are
so ventilated that the smell OF cooking
cannot escape into the halls, and as for
gossip and scandal. the occupant Of one
apartment often hasn't even a speaking ac-
quaintance with his neighbors on the same
ficor. A great court in the centre admits
light and space and serves as playground
for tho nearly five hundred children who
live in the great building The health Of
these is anything but endangered through
having 10 live in this spacious we'll venti-
lated building, and there are thousands Of
children in other flats and apartments Of
the city who have equal advantages for
health and recreation. Some Of these
dwellings overlook the Hudson. some look
down on Central Park, others open on the
smallor city parks, and many face clean.
open streets.
That evils exist in the poorer class Of
fats there Is Hc denying, but there is also
no denying that knowledge and progress
arc remedying many OF these evils. The
inroads Of business are wiping out many
Of the worst type Of tenement houses, new
legislation will bring better improvements
I'm those that are TO be built, education
among tenants is a factor In bctterment,
education among landlords Is teaching
them that unless they have sanitary con-
0itions and air and Sunshine i'm their
houses they will rent with difficulty or not
al all. The noise which visitors object to
Is New York's lullaby after nightfall and
the late-at-night piano players and song
birds are beginning to find that unless
they are "A bit more COnsidcrate OF the
feelings OF others the landlord will prefer
their vacant apartment 10 having the ad-
iacent apartments vacated
that II an allwlse Providence is displaying
snv Intentions at all I'm the matter OF
mat" life in New York, they tend TO i'm
prove the conditions that already are rath-
3, than TO drive the householder unwill-
inciy into the country or into surroundings
which would be less agreeable 10 him and
Infinitely less convenient.