The evening world., 1920-05-01
May DAY EXODUS
RELIEVES THE JAM;
MORE TOILET SIGNS
100000 Persons Leave City
for Suburban Homes in
All Directors.
Will May Day turn the housing tide

Will May Day turn the housing tide
In favor Of home-seekers?
Real estate teexperts are looking for
decisive developments through all
parts Of the metropolitan district
not from the threatened rent revolu-
ton, but from tremendous read
justment of home centres. Their re-
ports show more than zoo, 900 persons
moving. Some started a week or two
ago. The big mass is on the go now.
And the exodus will continue through
the month.
The drift is from old city sections
to the suburbs-mainly from cramped,
| high priced. er-crowded fats TO
small dwellings on cheap lands along
the outer stretches of the enlarged
rapid transit zone. The movement is
logical because suburban builders are
in the midst Of great activity, while
fabbuilders in the olty have been at
a standstill for nearly two years.
Renting agents among the fiat dwell
ers say the exodus will do more than
anything else TO relieve the congested
housing situation.
Wanderers through uptown ma1es
Of Hathouse streets are finding more
and more TO LET signs swinging
from the buildings. Builders are clear
ing sites also for big structures to
go up in many sections whore avail
able plots have stood idle. Between
the two movements, landlords arc
facing q rapidly growing probability
that there will bo plenty Of apart
nents-and quite a comfortable few
left oVer-aftsr the rush back to the
city next Fall.
NEW HOMES OUTSIDE FOR OVER
175,o00 PERSONS.
OF 21,523 private dwellings started
by builders throughout the metropoll-
tan district last year. more than H.
900 were not under way until the last
quarter, and most OF them have been
finished this spring, either for tenants
or purchasers. making new homes for
over $4,000 persons. Daily reports
from brokers during the past few
weeks have demonstrated how the
great bulk of these new housings has
been passing to city fiat dwellers. Not
only have old Manhattanltes spread
outward through Brooklyn. Queens,
Nassau, Suffolk, the Bronx. West
chester and Jersey committing terri
tory, but the fast increase OF Brook
lyn population has pressed hundr IDS
of old families there further into cut
lying localities on Long Island, while
the home buying of Brooklynites in
New Jersey has become a prominent
feature, and the exclusive residential
confines OF Westchester have cap
tured many wealthy families from the
City OF Churches.
Statistics of carly spring traffic on
all OF the railroads verify realty re-
ports in regard to the record break
| ing rush outward OF home seekers.
The Long IslaT d Railroad announced
to-day that "llnmistakable evidence
of Long Islands growing Importance
as an all-year place OF residence is
reflected in the latest compilation OF
passenger statistics, another new high
record for commutation traffic having
been established last month. Only a
few years ago, the sale OF 10000
tickets monthly in summer, or Of
10000 in winter, was considered big
business. But during all OF the past
winter the railroad had an average OF
10000 a month. During March there
wero 20 0so o0-0routers exceeding by