The evening world., 1920-10-13
REASONABLE RENT
! IN DESIRABLE SPOT
j.. NOT FOR $50 MAN
Looking for Apartments in
Cleaner Sections Of City an
y Eye-Opening Experience.
PRICES EXCEED INCOME
Even the 800 a Week Man
Has Heart-Breaking Time
Finding a Home.

can you md home In New York
Cityf n you are earning 500 q week.
where can you md a home under
present rent demands7 How many
men in New York City are averaging
$50 and 800 a week?
Have you looked for apartments re-
eent1y on the west side from Column
nus Circle mp 20 ssth Street7 II you
have, this story viii be sadly familiar
10 you; u you have not, read It and
save yourself the bitter and humiliat-
mo experience OF finding that you
cannot occupy ever well-kept room
n thai vicinity unless you own a
Eold mine or have a private printing
pross upon when to make your
money.
An Evening World reporter, accom-
panied by his wife, searched all day
Or an apartment which could be az
, rorded by a man VINO earned approx
mateiy $50 a week. In every case the
reporter hold himself forth as such
= person. and allowed $50 a month as
the maximum rental he could afford
70 pay. II was a d.sheartening day.
The nearest approach to what this
salary could stand was ono room and
. bath at $1,000 land an inside one at
taa0 at No. 227t Broadway. an old
louoo made over ana owned by NJ
RRrpas. II was one long flight w
over a store.
Mr. Rarpas was asked II he had
any rooms more reasonable.
''oh no. nothing more reasonable,
SIT something very much nicer" he
answered.
And 80 up the stairs went the re-
vOrter. his wife and Mr.. Karpas on
the second floor was a rather pretty
quite Of two rooms AAb a bath, done
Attractivoly in white, with two win
Cows overlooking an alley across
which waved scores OF Clotnes lines
81 decked in last weeks work-a-day
garments.
This 70 nice" suggested the land
lord. 1T viii cost you only Fl4OO."
There was one OF those iat,. damp
silencoS-you know--and not even
Mr.. KArpAs could and anything to
hy.
"Any more7" qurisd the reporter
tttakily.
More upstairs. same price as these
-ane apartmeptsl"
Nl0HT PAY RENT WITH NO Foop
on CLOTHES,
Thls ended the interview, and there
kAs the long tramp down to the
street, during which nothing was
said, but threats were cleared loudly
and nonchalantly 90 you probably
know the feeling when you strike a
blAco ana realize that TO live in II
you must actually and really 81
Rtthow food nd clothes. Here It
e,as driven home with dramatic
torco-to live in one room with a
bath II would cost you half your
months pay. And that without tele-
bhone service or elevator, ana In an
I'D building made over.
Next application was made "a
sharp q Co, real estate brokers al
No. 2iss Broadway, and the follow
ing list OF apartments was given out
by Mr.. ]. A. Dewitt, who sits at a
little desk In the front part OF the
HfAANg maj FANA AA1AAAA9NANAAf 49, ~
West 18th street, four rooms $1,000
No. 81 West 18th Street, 1880; No
glG West Tooth Street, $1,000, and an
other four-rOOm apartment In the
same house at $1,000.
rs that the cheapest you have, sir
HAven't you any for about s45 or Sb'
month";
a steady gaze over the nose glasses
which made one feel he was In eN-
.remsly bad form.
"Oh, my heavens You certainly
are IN the wrong neiEhbbrhood, arcn'
youf" said MT De witt You can
iua'6nythlng at that price here. L
Ak you up-but $500 Is hopeless. You'C
bstter stop where you are"
The apartment at No. $50 Yves
Ysth was visited. just to see wha
they are asking 1880 for II was or
the fourth hoor-a walk-up. Their
were thresswind6ws on Broadway, and
one had to pass through the kitchen
20 get 10 the bathroom. Both IN
bathroom and the kitchen were insid
rooms and the kitchen was counted
~ "A room. The building was not I
new one, and during the inspection
painter was at work doing the oil
woodwork over.
You ask too much for an apart
nent OF THE sort" said the reporte
10 tho woman who showed II, evi
IDENTIFY the iAnitoPs wife.
well, you've seen H." she said in {
Iealgned way.
WHAT CAN YOU PAY7" TIKI
RENTING AGENTS QUESTION,
Il would have been a waste OF tim
TO 30 70 the others on the list for tn
rentals were all too high,
Alfred Z. COburn, real estate broke
of No. 1B0 West 72d Street, was calle'
III On next
Have you any apartments 10 rent
About what could you payT
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