New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Moving Mainly
Will Be Out of
Town This Year
Companies Operating Vans
Say Decision to Give
Battle to Landlords Is
Cutting Down Business
Few Inter City Changes
High Rents Blamed for De-
termination of Tenants
to Hold Their Homes

Moving day, that bane of metropoli-
tan household existence Of former
years, is going to be confined to a
much smaller scope in its autumn reign
CT terror this year, it was found yes
terday.
This information comes from no less
an authority than the moving man.
who is the Great Mogul on knowledge
OF such matters. The reason, he saws.
is that in great many instances the
citizen, weary unto evaporation. in
dlgnatlon and desperation over the de-
mands of landlords, has dug himself
into the last line trenches, with the
intention of battling for the retention
OF the apartment he now occupies.
In such cases, and their number an
pears to be legion, the public is fast
coming to what might be termed "The
Tenants Last Stand,' according to the
moving man. Let the notices to vacate
fai wneYe they may, Mr.. Citizen is
going to stick where he is and let the
Mayors Committee on Rent Profiteer-
ing and the courts decide who's right
about it.
Some to Go to Suburbs
" sucH moving as Is going to be
done, by far the greatest proportion.
as compared to previous years, will be
from New York City to the suburbs.
This, say the moving men, not only is
an indication that New Workers rapid
~ are becoming converted to the
"Own Y our Own Home" idea. but is
another wallop at landlords.
Anything to beat the landlords" is
the slogan now
Perhaps the most serious side to the
situation Is that the moving men are
receiving many more orders for the
placing of household goods in storage
than was the case for previous seasons.
This appears to them proof that MANY
city dwellers, especially those to whom
the cost of the less desirable apart
ments has become prohibitive, are be-
ing forced to break up their homes.
In some instances they are making
ready to double UP" with other fami-
lies, to live in the cheaper grades of
furnished rooms, or to quit New York
altogether.
There's not going to be much NOV
ing this year, as compared to former
| moving season." said Grant Wayne,
secretary of the Van Owners Associa-
tion.
Out-of-Town Rush Unusual
considerably the greatest propor-
tion of migration will be from the city
to the suburbs-to suburban homes
purchased or built this summer by
apartment house tenants determined
to escape from the clutches Of their
landlords. In all my experience I've
never before seen such plans for a
rush to the suburbs as those now be-
ing made.
"The small number of orders we are
getting for intercity moving of course
indicates that many apartment tenants
are going to remain where they are,
and in great number of cases are pre-
pared to battle in the courts against
landlords.
"a considerably increased number OF
orders for storage are being received.
In these cases tenants have been
driven to break up homes, either by
doubling up going into boarding
houses and furni- he'd rooms, or quit
ting the city.
Reflected in Leases
SCORES of tenants have come to me
with the complaint that it was utterly
impossible to find apartments within
the range of their pocketbooks.'
The determination of tenants to
fight it out on the present line if it
takes all winter" is reflected in the
new apartment leases, which contain a
clause by which the apartment house
agents and landlords set forth that
they do not guarantee delivery Of the
premises involved on October /, to
the new tenants signing such leases.
This clause is prompted by the fear
that many tenants will disregard
notices to vacate.
Statements from the heads of other
van companies corroborated that of
| Mr.. Wayne, according to Daniel
Schwarz, president of Schwarz's Van
and Delively Company, it is going to
be "a pretty short season" for the NOV
ing men.
at looks as though the tenants are
! going to stick and frhtn he said