Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-26
VAN COSTS GO Up.
\ FOR MOVING DAY
New York Called Paradise for
4 Truckmen, as Many
Change Abodes.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

Snecial Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September 26,-Today
moving van charges in New York City
20 from $12 to SIS an hour. which
means the real start Of the Fall moving
rush, eliminating october l, in the Ma
ions single largest shift OF population.
There are more than 100000 per-
sons in the region within New York
City. Several millions of them make
Summer and Winter migrations, and
with all the digging and rebuilding 60
ing on in Manhattan. the rest of them
are kept pretty much on the move.
Whatever may be said OF New York. It
keeps moving. 1t is truckman's para
disc
just now the truckmen are fuming
over the lack of teamwork between the
architects of the new buildings and the
furniture makers The smart, modern
apartments have small doorways and
the modernistic furniture hasn't been
trimmed to fit. The old-faShioned
houses, with their mahogany chande-
liers and their 15-foot ceilings, had doors
big enough to admit circus wagon.
EnIarging All Doors.
The oversight of the new architects
is causing all sorts of trouble and con-
fusion. They Subordinated utility to the
esthetic requirements for small
aperture in large, succeed wall space,
usually without trim. It's great sue
cess artistically. hut it is driving truck
men to profanity. One large uptown
apartment building is charging all its
doors.
While the stack market has Slapped
considerable money out Of the building
industry. the GUNNER eXileS return to
a new and bewildering tumble OF towers
and tall penthouse apartments, offer
ing new odds and ends Of luxury never
before dreamed Of for apartments or
hotels.
One 25-story, pyramided apartment
building on the upper West Side has in
cluded an impressive art gallery, with
q surprisingly good selection Of paint
ings, etchingS and statuary. 1t also in
cludes q swimming pool, a gymnasium
and roof Fairgrounds and apparatus for
children, and rooms which may be used
as classrooms if desired II the tenants
wish to organize a private school under
the home roof tree. This, like most OF
the other apartments Of its class. has an
electric refrigeration system in each
apartment. The rental includes refrig-
Grafton, gas and electric light.
Handle All Details.
The tendency is for the apartment
MANAGEMENT to take over every possible
detail Of the living regime, in single
transaction A dweller in one OF these
new New York apartments may make
all his purchases of clothes, food and
furniture under one roof; he may obtain
recreation, exercise and even education
without even crossing the street. and
the housewife requires EXPERIENCES chiehy
In pressing buttons.
The penthouse idea, along with the
new sun and air craze, is sweeping the
town and New York is climbing into
the clouds as rapidly as its resources
will permit The pent-houses have
terraces, many of them with gardens OF
exotic shrubs and flowers. Twenty or
thirty stories in the air, they give a
MAGNIFICENT view of the Hudson and
East rivers, and, in the upper price
levels, probably constitute the most
spectacular and luxurious living quarters
In the world.
Both apartment and business build
anRs, shooting up overnight from one
end of the island to another, are built
on constantly shortening periods OF OBJ
solescence. On steel and on elevators
there is no stinting, as safety considera-
tions must come first, but as to other
details there is concentration on quick
returns. rather than permanency.
Many Of the tallest structures Of New
York, recently built and now building,
are being put up on the basis Of 20
wear obSoleScence. Several OF the