The Washington times., 1918-10-08
PRESIDENT TO GET
RENTERS APPEAL
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two sick daughters. A Congressman
wanted the apartment. He will get
IT, but before he does so every fact
will be known in District courts. The
men who did this job, though, may
be set on one side OF the account
while on the ather is a plain, big
hearted man whose home is ALREADY
full, but who opens It for the ejected
and takes them In without thought
of rent
Tenants in one of the oldest and
largest Of Washington's apartment
houses are in receipt of notices TO
get out in thirty days in absolute
disregard of the Salisbury law. One
OF the tenants is the wife OF gem
eral of the United States army In
France and others are army officers
or their families. The same land
lord has kept his tenants in a stew
for months in his effort to force
evictions that would leave him apart
ments to rent at higher prices.
Hundreds of Other Cases.
There are hundreds of cases where
the landlords are getting away with
the job-through force or fraud eVict-
ing tenants. When these cases are
reported to Capt Julius Peyser' heau
of the Health and Housing Division
of the War Department, at 1414 II
street, he is having warrants issued
against the perpetrators. The war
rants are under Section S5l OF the
Revised Statutes, which reads:
"Forcible entry and detainer.-"ho-
ever shall forcibly enter upon any
premises. or, having entered WIN
out force, shall unlawfully detalh the
same by force against any person
previously in he peaceaole posses
sion of the Same and claiming rlght
thereto, shall be punished by imprls-
onment for not more thanNpne year.
or a fine of not more than $lOO' OF
both"
Tooth and nail, Captain Peyser and
his cohorts are fighting the hNenas
through civil or criminal processes
and are crowdinG the courts with
protection cases which they expect
TO win.
Fail To Remove Captain Peyser.
Instead of dismissing Captain Pey-
ser, who is threatened daily oy enc
mics with court-martial. the Wa: De-
partment has increased his force by
giving him six additional commls-
stoned and fifteen non-commlssioned
army officers to work with HIM
To the regular cases Of eviction
End attempted eviction daily before
his office have within a few days
been added legal and other attempts
by landlords to eject officers ard at
taches of the Italian, Norwegian and
Swedish legnt tions, who are pro; ected
by international law from court pre-
ceedings.
War workers by hundreds are daily
subjected to the annoyance of eviction
or threatened eviction. They are pro-
tected by the Salisbury resolution
also IL they have occupied rooms for
periods OF one month, but large num-
bers of them do not know 1t. II the
rent is not hotsted on them, other
means are found to collect additional
charges from them.
Shameful Treatment of Sick
Girl war workers who are victims
of influenza are being subjected to-
most shameful and inhuman treat
uent in instances too numerous to at
tempt to detail. Landlords, fright
ened over the disease, have gone so
far in some cases as to lock doors on
tenants who have gone TO work. Re
turning, they cannot get entrance TO
their own rooms or even into the
house.
Doctors and nurses are coming IN
contact with cases where girls who
are i'll have been put out Of their
rooms and forced into cellar rooms,
isolated from other parts Of the
house, In one case is a girl worker
with pneumonia There are three
girls in a room. The other two have
given up their work to nurse their
comrade. They are denied access 80
the kitchen to procure hot water or
prepare medicines, or light foods.
HeroicaIly, as upon a battlefield. they
manage to provide aid for the
stricken comrade.
Send the sick to hospitals" is
what some of the unfeeling landlords
tell the sick and their. companions.
lust try this IL a member OF your own
family becomes sick. Washington
hospitals are either full or closed to
these cases.
Congress. which provides hospital
accommodations for the District, sits
in big, comfortable rooms at the Capt.
toll and does nothing 10 increase hos
pitaI space. They fight over the
haIf-and-half law, or with each
other. Hospital accommodations that
w--e inferior for a population OF
:. 70 eighteen months ago must still
1"arly half a million population,
terrible epidemic raging.
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