The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-10
LANDLORDS TRUST
! IN HYLAN'S BOARD
BROWNSVILLE Owners Abide by
Committee Ruling on
Profiteering.
BROWNSVILLE IN RAGE
Rent Wrongs Cry to Heaven,
Tenants Say-SynagOgues
to House Evicted.
BROWNSVILLE IN RAGE

The Brownsville Landlords Protective
Association agreed yesterday to permit
m, Mayors Committee on Rent Profit
,tring TO act as umpire in all disputes
between members OF the association who
lump rents and tenants who refuse to
bay the increases. According TO Nathan
Hlrsch, head of the committee. whatever
the committee decides to be right will
go" with these landlords. Nobody was
able to say last night whether Browns
vile tenants, many of whom are on
strike to enforce a demand for a 10
per cent reduction in rents. will accept
the say-so OF the umpire.
Eleven Brownsville landlords, all
members OF the association. visited Mr..
Hrsch In the Municipal Building yes
terday afternoon. They were accom-
panied by Meyer D. Siegel of IS Park
Row, who acted as their counsel.
Mr.. siegel emphasized the fact that
the association, which has 900 members.
came to the committee in a spirit of
cooperation. They were glad to help
m getting relief from abuses and were
tn1ious to do what they could to aid
Il dIsciping profiteerins landlords.
All the landlords made it perfectly
rlesr-and all talked at once-thAt the
landlords were not to blame II they had
everything gone up? And couldn't there
justly be criticism OF members of ten
ants unions for putting out circulars in
Aiddish lambasting the landlords?
This translation OF parts of one cir
cuar was placed before Mr.. Hirsch:
1.-THE wrongs which cry to Heaven,
which have been committed by the
taughterers must come to an end. The
people can no longer rely on the capt.
talistic law makers in Albany or in the
City Hall. The Tenants Association is
taking in all the working people in
Brownsville The bloodsuckers will have
n stop their work and those who remain
bIindly obstinate will have to reckon
with the organized anger of the peo-
pie"
Rents Not High, Says One.
Jacob Goell. who has been builder for
twenty years, said Brownsville was
over built in 1904 Rents remained I'M
changed in 1905 and 1906. he said, and
In 1907 came panic. Mortgages on
three-fourths of the buildings were fore
closed, he said. and rents dropped. This
condition continued until 1918. where
there was shortage of houses and rents
had to be raised. He insisted. however,
they are no higher now than they were.
The landlords agreed to let the COM
mittee figure out, in case complaints are
made of exorbitant rent charging
whether the rents are excessive. Land
lords and tenants will face each other at
the committees headquarters and both
sides, Mr.. Hirsch says, may be assured
Of square deal. Harry Strongin, a real
estate man of 1903 Pitkin avenue, was
named by the landlords to represent
their association In all matters requiring
umpire work by Mr.. Hirsch and his col
leagues
Justice Cornelius Ferguson. sitting in
the Seventh District Municipal Court.
Pennsylvania avenue and Fulton street,
Brownsville, yesterday gave judgment in
favor OF landlords against tenants in 16S
cases. The landlords showed concilia-
tory spirit. however, and nobody object
ed when the Justice gave the tenants I'M
I'll Tuesday before vacating their
premises.
1t was impossible to dispossess any
body In Brownsville yesterday owing TO
strike OF 'schleppers," men employed
ny city marshals at the expense OF
landlords to dump on the sidewalk the
furniture OF evicted families. All sched-
uled evictions were postponed until Mon
day
Capt Charles A. Goldsmith. Chairman
Hirsch's field agent, had a lot of army
cots moved yesterday from the arsenal
IN this city TO the Williams Avenue
Methodist Church. Williams and Allan
tic avenues, Brownsville. The cots were
ret up in the Sunday school rooms, beds
were made and everything put in readi-
ness for the moving in of evicted fami-
lies. The Captain had a list OF families
who expected to take shelter in the
church last night, but because OF the
postponement OF the official evictions the
beds weren't unused up.
synagogues to he shelters.
Twelve Hebrew synagogues in Browns
Vile are to be used as shelters for poor
FAMILIES OF that'section who cannot find
apartments after they are evicted by
due process OF law. Chief Rabbi Finkel-
stein furnished Capt. Goldsmith with the
Following locations OF synagogues which
may be used by the Mayors committee
IN Its work: 1877 Thatford avenue; That
'ord avenue. near Blake avenue: Wat
klns street, corner Glenmore avenue:
watkins, corner Belmont avenue Stone
avenue, corner Belmont avenue; Chris
topher street, corner Pitkin avenue
christopher street. corner Dumont ave-
nue.; Sackman street, corner Belmont
avenue, Rochester avenue. corner Lin
coin place; Douglas street, corner Pitkin
avenue; Stone avenue. corner Belmont
avenue Hebrew Free School; Chester
street, near Suffer avenue.
Justice Hoffman of the Second NUM-
cipal Court, 26i Madison street, Man
hattan granted s, 10 and 80 day post
ponements yesterday In the cases of
nlrty families whom landlords sought
to evict
Samuel Dickstein OF the Tammany
nan law committee appeared in Justice
hoHman's court on behalf of Mrs. Fan
ME Dubowitz OF 95 Ridge street Will
IAN Artz, tho landlord, raised the rent
from S27 to $40 and Mrs. Dubowitz
agreed Then Artz decided the house
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