New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20

~ sand tangible reasons you are oissat-
~ isfed with your present mode of
living, how much will you be willing
to pay for light on the question, WHERE to
look for other quarters?
This is a true record of exploration by one
who hes suffered much.
Certain persons have discovered what to
them is perfectly satisfactory solution OF one
of the most difficult of New York problems,
namely, how to live.
The writer has inspected the solution on the
premises. He has found that common sense
is its keynote. There is nothing in the nature
of fad about it. 1t is not dilettant> effort
of a few fortunate people, slightly overdevel-
opcd esthetically, who wish to surround them
selves with flowers and gardens, and play at
building villages which sternly impossible
10 the great majority of the human herd.
Whatever your prejudices may prompt you to
do when you learn, you are now doing,
that we are about to cross the Brooklyn
Bridge, you are strongly urged to conquer any
tendency to lose interest. How to live is too
important a proposition in this town to be
turned lightly aside.
TWENTY HAPPY FAMILIES TWELVE
MINUTES FROM CITY HALL.
1t will take US only twelve minutes to walk
to the very spot where twenty families are
happy if we start from the City Hall, and less
than half that long if we go by trolley, the
cost of which is two and half cents.
If you have ever lived in apartments which
were like thousand others, the kind that o.
Henry called a "glove-htting, straigLt-front
fat" it is safe bet that you have had seasons
when you longed to make change
But what SORT OF change? To another
apartment? You have done that before, only
to find that the noises yol left behind were re-
placed by different kind, that the economic
and sociological conditions OF the new place,
to which you had flown at considerable ex-
pense of energy and money, were not superior
10 those which were attached to the old.
You have found, if you have lived in New
York longer than year that one of the most
difficult OF all things is to discover at modest
figure a place to which you can refer with
sincere enthusiasm as Our Happy Home"
The city gives you good climate and water,
but the average landlord offers you at an ex-
cessive figure comparatively poor setting for
your leisure hours.
THE REVOLT OF THE TWENTY AND
THE CONSEQUENCES.
Twenty families have revolted. More I'M
doubtedly would do likewise if they knew how,
Suppose now we 60 over to the machine shop
in Brooklyn.
Machine shop is right
But let us make the trip from the New York
end of the Brooklyn Bridge, and not anticipate.
II you want to reach the place in FIVE min
utes you will pay FIVE certs at the window and
receive two tickets good on the car that does
nothing else day and night but cross the
Brooklyn Bridge.
AS soon as Brooklyn soil is reached II is
time to get out. turn to the right. walk block,
turn to the right again and walk block
and a half toward the East River, look three
or four times at the building thar bears num-
Der corresponding with the memorandum in
your vest pocket. but which you are certain is
not the structure in which you may expect to
find your friends, walk on by II to he next
corner. therefore, and inquire OF the grocery
man. who "speeka da leetle Eengleesh" and
enables you to absorb the information that the
strange looking building is none other than
the one you seek.
FATAL ATTRACTIONS OF SUCH FOR
THE CORNER GROCER.
The groceryman knows. Twenty families,
who are accustomed to good things to eat, and
plenty Of them. and who believe in trading IN
the neighborhood, especially since they have
discovered that the vegetables arc treshsand