New-York tribune., 1920-10-01
Van Owners Join Hillv
and Copeland in No
tice of Lack of Homes
and Furniture Trucks
Health of Public
Menaced by Shifts
Household Goods Cannot
Remain i'm Streets More
Than Few Hours To-day

Warnings urging people not to move
to-day unless they find it imperative
were issued yesterday by Arthur J.
W. Hilly, chairman of the Mavor,s
committee on Rent Profiteering. the.
van Owners Association aud Dr.. Royal
D. copeland, Health Commissioner.
Lack OF sufficient vans to carry the
furniture of all those who want TO
move, disputes over leases arising ont
OF the new rent laws, and the danger
OF families rushing into new homes
where health conditions are not prop
erly sateguarded were pointed to as
threatening great confusion if as many
families shift their residences as is
usual on October /.
Don't move your furniture out of
your old apartment unless you are
sure that the Wv apartment w. '.n
you intend to Ccc Y hea been vac ..t
by the last rer a." said Cnsr..s
Morris, president of the Van Owners
Association. He said that about 1900
vans owned by the members If his
organization would be busy from day
light to midnight carrying the furni-
ture of families who had made ar
rangements a month ago.
Vans Cannot Meet Demands
About 500 other vans owned by in
dependent concerns also have been
pressed into service. 1t was estimated
that they would be able to carry about
1000 loads during the day, which, ac-
cording to Mr.. Hilly, is less than one
tenth of the loads packed up and
awaiting to be hauled.
Applicants for moving service yes
terday were told that they would have
to give two weeks notice Mr.. Morris
said that the drivers of vans had
been cautioned not to move anybody
until assurances were given that the
new apartment had been vacated and
the furnitdre Wou2t, not have to be
left on the sidewalks or in the hall
ways of buildings.
Officials of the bureau of incum-
brances of the Street Cleaning Depart
ment declared that no furniture would
be permitted to remain on sidewalks
more than few hours. The bureau
has thirteen stables in Manhattan,
eight in Brooklyn and four in the
Bronx. Each stable is equipped with
one double and one single truck.
Technically any furniture left on the
sidewalk is considered an incum-
brance and is subject to being hauled
away to one of the bureaus stables.
but if we attempted to enforce this
order we fear our stables would be
buried beneath household effects" said
an official of the bureau.
Ignore Landlords, Says Hilly
Mr.. HiIly pointed out that tenants
should mot be stampeded into NOV
ing" by threats of landlords. Under
the new rent laws, he said, tenant
does not have to move, whether some
one else has a lease to succeed him
or not. He advised those who are un-
certain as to the wisdom of moving to
sit tight" and said that if the mum
Der OF families moving could be kept
within 5000 instead of from $4,000 to
$4,000 as IN former years, the danger
of great confusion might be avoided.
Tenants should remember, however,
that the new rent laws were not in
tended to deprive every landlord in
New York of his rent on October l."
said Mr.. Hilly. "While the law gives
a tenant without lease the right to
remain where he is, provided he has
been unable to find new home. and
while those who have made leases have
the right to contest the rcasonableness
OF any increases they have agreed to
pay, yet the law does not intend that
all cbo II ho ho1 -.