The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-02
RAIN ADDS WOE TO
MOVING TROUBLES
Apartment Dwellers Seeking
New Homes Face Extra
Burdens This Year.
HIGH COST ONE OF THEM
Storage Houses Bulge With
COntents-MOtOr Cars and
Push Carts Used.

Rain yesterday brought added troubles
to the moving van men. who are work.
ing triple time. and to apartment dwell
ers moving to new homes especially to
those forced to move and unable to find
other quarters
Charles S. Morris, president of the
Van Owners Association. is authority
for the statement that some landlords
put tenants out into the rain. In one
case. he said, woman got all her fur
to do with the piano was serious ques-
tion until the landlord generously agreed
to let it stay in the apartment another
day.--for s25 There was no alternative.
A family moving in from Red Bank,
N. j., in two vans had expected to spend
the night in their newly rented apart
ment at 146th street and Convent ave-
nue.. When they arrived there they
found the occupants had been unable to
leave. While the rain fell on their
household goods the New Jersey family
started out TO seek hotel accommoda-
tons.
a Wall street broker deciding SIS an
hour demanded by moving men was
exorbitant moved his own goods yes
terday. He was seen at Seventy-sec-
ond street and Broadway in his 10000
automobile, which was loaded with
kitchen utensils. dining room table
and other goods. This is much cheaper"
he said. Il am on my fourth trip. The
chauffeur and the apartment house
superintendent are giving a hand, and
everything is going along nicely. We
expect to finish the job in two more
trips"
Residents in less fashionable sections
of the city used pushcarts in some in
stances yesterday. The scarcity of va
cant apartments is said TO be more acute
in The Bronx than elsewhere. According
to clerk in the Second Municipal Court
In The Bronx there were no dispossess
cases taken up in that court yesterday.
The clerk said that an agreement not TO
hear such cases, made at the suggestion
Of Justice Aaron Levy, will be in effect
until next Monday at least. In the last
twenty-four hours. according to the
clerk, 1000 complaints have been
brought in by landlords seeking evic-
tons
Quarrels between van crews and jan
itors were numerous. One reason for
this was enforcement of the rule that
all deliveries be made at the rear. At
162nd street and Fort Washington ave-
rue six vans stood in front of an apa TT
ment house several hours waiting their
turn to unload while six others received
goods from outgoing tenants. The per-
sons moving in were paying from $40
to SIS an hour for the vans and crew.
At 121st street and Broadway nine
loaded vans waited while nine other
trucks were being loaded. In desperation
some families sent their household goods
to storage houses in leishoorinS cities
for all in Manhattan were filled.
On complaint of Adam Trillback OF
14O1 University avenue. The Bronx, Su-
preme Court Justice John NJ. Tierr ey
In The Bronx Supreme Court granted
a temporary injunction yesterday re-
straining the AGRA Realty Company
and Henry NJ. Fischer from removing
furniture from an apartment which
Trillback says he engaged on September
20, at S55 a month. When he got
partly moved into the apartment, says
the complaint, the lock on the door wal
changed and he has been unable tc
complete the job of moving.
City Marshall David Goldberg OF
Brooklyn said yesterday that 10000 dir.
possess notices will be served through
out the greater city within the mex
week. In the Brownsville section alon,
400 notices have been sent out 20 tax,
effect October T.
Moving was brisk in Jersey City yes
terday, but no more so, according Il
returns from the bureau of permits
than in the last few years. The SAM
experience OF apartment shortage il
found there.
In White Plains It was announced
that 700 families were moving yester
day. According to van men this Is tn
greatest movement in White Plains il
years. Numerous families are said t.
be moving there from New York.