The sun., 1919-08-01
NEGROES GET PLACES
IN WHITES HOUSE
Landlord Sought Who Is Ac-
cused Of Practice That Is
Blamed for Riots.

The Mayors Committee on Rent
Profiteering rs making an effort to find
and summons the landlord Of an apart
ment building at 244s Seventh avenue.
One of the tenants accuses him of COM
mitting the same practice that negro
educators maintain caused the race riots
In Chicago. that of renting apartments
to negroes IN houses occupied by white,
and in selling to the negroes homes in
white districts.
Miss Mary T. Faulds of 244s Seventh
avenue wrote to the committee yester-
day. She said that her landlord had let
an apartment 20 negro family and that
the negroes had moved in several Of the
tenants. including herself, she continued,
are trying to find homes so that they
may move out In the meantime the
apartment building is in a turmoil, and
the landlord, who had not consulted his
tenants or notified them of his intention,
cannot be found. The Mayors commit
tee intends to find him and call him to
hearing to explain his action.
IT am a working girl supporting my
mother, with the aid Of one brother, and
have another brother still in Germany
In the SERVICE" Miss Faulds wrote. "I
this city. The rents in the fats that are
vacant are prohibitive; for example,
FIVE room fiat which the Janitor informed
me used to rent for s23 has been raised
to $45.
Starts Fund TO Help Needy.
A letter will be mailed to the Munich
pal Court judges asking them to direct
all needy tenants to the committee,
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Immediately and relief will be given as
soon as it IL found to be needed. A fund
has been started by the contribution of
Robert L. Luce, Supreme Court Justice.
who mailed a check for $50. Other con-
tributions are coming into the office of
the treasurer Of the fund, Alfred J. John
son, ex-City Chamberlain. room 7o7. 60
Broadway. All contributions will be
acknowledged.
Mr and Mrs Morris Segal. formerly
tenants In an apartment in 514 East
139th street. were held for disorderly
conduct yesterday In Harlem court after
photographs of several rooms alleged to
have been wrecked when they were dis
possessed had been shown to the court
Magistrate Douras after a close inspec-
ton of the pictures, said that II looked
as II a Nebraska tornado had struck the
place.
owner of the apartment. said the trou-
BILE started when twenty-four tenants
tried to make him sign an agreement
that there would be no raise in rent for
a year. He said he had no intention Of
jumping prices. but he objected to MAX
ing such an agreement, and when the
tenants held up their payments to force
him to sign he got an eviction order.
The twenty-four, led by the Segals he
In
nected the plumbing, broke door hinges
and otherwise damaged the place. They
then picketed the apartment, Mr.. Levitt
said, until the arrest of the Segals on
Wednes day. The defendants were held
in $500 bail for examination, both plead
ing not guilty.
Siv brave souls bent on lettering liv-
ing conditions of the poor actually picked
their way through tenement house dis
tricts yesterday. And here Is what they
encountered, according to their own
stories: Houses reelSing with foul odors
in which fourteen persons ate and slept
in four small rooms, three of which were
inky dark on account OF being inside
rooms without ventilator or light SHAFT.
They inspected courts inches deep with
rotting food, they stumbled over floors
with gaping holes in them and they
stopped to keep from humping their
heads, on sagging ceilings. And they
found people living over and around
livery stable OF 1876 horses.
doors Keep Windows shut.
ACROSS this stable the tenement
dwellers string their clothes lines and
the smells that arise are so strong that
Il IL impossible to open many OF the win
dows even in the hottest weather" Miss
Marie de Montalve. secretary OF the
New York State Reconstruction Commits
zion. said after her return from the ex-
ploration.
Many of the tenements are con-
structed on the 'Tailroad PLAN" which