Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1914 — TALES of GOTHAM AND OTHER CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TALES of GOTHAM AND OTHER CITIES

Many Peaceful Families Live in/Apartment House

NEW YORK.—lmpossible though It may seem, Brooklyn has an apartmenthouse in which 22 families dwell in terms of great Intimacy and perfect accord. Esther virtue would make an apartment-house remarkable, but the

combination makes this one unique. And to make the house still more distinctive, it has a janitor by whom and not at whom both the tenants and landlord swear. , The tenants of the house believe the millennium has arrived, and well they may. They get along so well together that they have formed an organization known as the St. Mark’s Amity association, the object of which is to increase the good fellowship among the tenants of the house by

holding periodical celebrations. The house which possesses all these virtues Is At 1484 St; Mark’s avenue. It was built two years ago, and so strong is the spirit of fraternity among the tenants that every one of the original 22 families to engage apartments in the house Is still living there. The only changes in the personnel of the tenants have been caused by births or deaths, the head of the amity association boasted. The way to live in perfect peace with one’s neighbors is to avoid all cause for quarrel—this is the dictum on which the tenants of the model house shape their lives. So they try not to demand exclusive use’ of the dumbwaiter at six minutes after seven each morning, when every other tenant in the house is anxious to obtain his bread and rolls and milk, or his coal and wood, as the case may be. Also, the wives do not all try to hang out their wash the first thing Monday morning. They believe in and try to consider the rights of their neighbors. Of course, one of the essentials in the perfect carrying out of a scheme of this sort is the janitor. He really is the keynote cm which the strength of the whole structure depends. No. 1484 St. Mark’s avenue was fortunate enough to secure a gem of a janitor—a gem in the rough, but a gem nevertheless. The name of the gem is Nathan Diamond.