The sun., 1919-05-04
% MORE CHURCHES
TO HOUSE EVICTED
Additional Methodist Pastors
Offer Edifices for Dispos-
sessed Folk.
1000 COTS FROM ARMY
Municipal Court Justices to
Confer on Course to BE
Followed.

=" puiiuinBs were placed yesterday
at the disposal Of the Mayors Com
mittee on Rent Profiteering. This
makes total Of thirty-eight churches
| offered by the Joint Centenary Com
mittee of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. which the committee, Of which
Nathan Hirsch is chairman, has ac-
cepted thus far as temporary homes for
| evicted families unable to obtain living
quarters because there aren't enough
apartments to go around.
Capt. Charles A. Goldsmith, U. s. N,
| retired. who Is looking after the housing
OF homeless folks In the churches for
the Mayors committee, said last night
| ne has received assurances that 1000
army cots will be available for use In
| the churches probably by tomorrow
| night. The captain was informed that
| 5000 army tents could be furnished, IL
II Is found necessary to give shelter to
more persons than the churches can ac-
commodate. The army cannot provide
| blankets or mattresses. the captain said
but 1t was believed the navy would be
able TO furnish these.
Survey of brooklyn Churches.
| At late hour last night Capt. Gold
smith was waiting the PRONUNCIATION of
an official order in Washington authoriz-
ing the use OF the army cots to the city
| in an emergency.
A survey of Methodist churches in
Brooklyn will be begun tomorrow, and
the buildings best adapted for housing
purposes by reason OF light. ventilation
and sanitation, will be put on the list
TO- he
| dispossessed folk. The survey Of Meth
odst churches in Manhattan and The
| Bronx will be continued tomorrow.
The great majority of landlord va. ten
ant cases. adjourned by Municipal Court
Justices from May /, will come up to-
morrow. and members OF the Mayors
committee fear there will be use for the
shelter offered by the churches when the
cases shall have been heard. So far
as could be learned last night the
churches have not been put to use as
temporary homes as yet.
The additional list OF twenty-five
Methodist churches turned over to the
committee was announced officially as
follows:
! Five Points Mission. SO Madison ave-
nue., the Rev. F. J. Belcher. pastor /;
Bllnn Memorial. Lexington avenue and
1880 street the Rev. F. Hagner, 40 Ea st
lUSQ street, Grace CnurCn, lol west
104th street. the Rev. Mr.. Harris; Jane
Street Church, IL Jane street Brooklyn,
nc pastor; see Paul Schultz, 3S1 Blecck-
er street. Brooklyn; Madison Avenue
Church, Sixtieth street, Rev. Ralph w.
Sockman. $50 Park avenue; Metropoli-
tan Temple. so Seventh avenue. Rev. J.
W. Chasey. SO Seventh avenue; St.
James Church Madison avenue and
l2sth street, Rev. Chester C. Marshall
1881 Madison avenue; Sixty-frst Street
, Church. 229 East Sixty-frst street, Rev
B F. Saxon, 223 East Sixty-first street
Washington Heights Church. Amsterdam
avenue and l53d street, Rev. ]. E Price
| 1863 Amsterdam avenue: Willis Ave-
nue. Church, corner 14lst street Rev
John F. Zeter, 40l East l41st street
Beekman Hill Church. 319 East Fiftieth
street. Rev. George Adams, 3ol East
Fifteth street; Church OF the Saviour
111th street and Lexington avenue, sex
ton, A. H. Martin. New York Railways
, office. Seventh avenue and Fiftieth
street; Church of All Nations, 10 Sec
/ ond avenue, Rev John r Henry, rs
Second avenue; Jefferson Park Church
= 407 East Hath street, Rev. A. NJ. D.
= Riggio, 407 East Hath street: Cornell
Memorial, 23l East Seventy-s!xth street
: Rev. B. F. Saxon, cal East Sixty-frst
street; Mott Avenue Church. Mott ave
} nue. and 150th street, Rev. A. H. Nesbet
I l57 East 150th street. Peoples Home
. Church and Settlement. 643 East Elev'
, enth street, Rev. Frederick B. Newell
543 East Eleventh street; fremont
, Church. Washington avenue and 17stf
street, Rev. F. L. Wilson, Asa East 17Stt
street; West Side Church, 461 West
Forty fourth street. Rev. A. NJ. Morgan
1877 East 15Oth street; Hadley Rescue
: Hall. 2s3 Bowery, Rev. John Callahan
+, 2s3 Bowery Wood Memorial trinity
3l7-321 East 1lsth street. Rev. A. NJ, d
Riggio, and Park Avenue Church, corner
| Eighty sixth street. Rev. Arthur Jamie
son, log East Eighty-sixth street.
a justices VIII Confer.
D All the Municipal Court Justices ir
n the greater city, before whom landlord
and tenant cases are tried. have beer
= invited to attend conference to con-
Q slider the wisdom Of agreeing upon some
Uniformity of action In disposing OF sum
r mary proceedings. The invitation was
?. extended by Chairman Hlrsch, through
n eX-Judge Robert l.. Luce, chairman OF
the law committee, composed OF Tam
y many Hall lawyers, which Is assistinl
the committee 10 induce landlords I,
e give their tenants a square deal. Thu
/, conference will take place In room 1921
= Municipal Building on Wednesday, May
k 7. at P. NJ Mayor Hylan is expected
= to be present.
/. In his letter to the Justices ex-Judg'
Luce said:
THE Importance to the real estat'
interests and the rent payers of the in
creased rentals now demanded and tn
= consequent summary proceedings hal
! made advisable a conference of tn
. Municipal Court Justices in order tina
some uniformity OF action. In disposini
!. Of the summary proceedings among tn
Justices may be agreed upon.
Y THE work OF the Mayors committee
= on rent profiteering has revealed tn
feeling of unrest which the rent In
= creases have augmented. This uRres
o must be quieted unless we are to wit
. ness scenes of violence.
THE Mayors committee Is investi
eating the complaints of tenants ant
a when the increase is unwarrahted |
70 summoning the landlords before II. L
y the end of adjusting the differences be
&c tween tenants and landlords Wher
$. the increase Is justified the committe
e is explaining to the tenants that furthe
II complaints are unwarranted."
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