Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 279, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1934 — Page 5

APRIL 2, 1934.

Condemned Homes Still Fill Slums New York Has 67,000 Called ‘Old Law Tenements.’ BY GRETTA I’ALMER Time* Special Writer NEW YORK, April 2.—ln 1890 Jacob A. Riis, reporter and reformer, wrote a book called “How the Other Half Lives,” an indignant revelation of the the conditions ■ xisting in Now York's slums. I walked through some of the tenement houses which were described in that book.

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forty-four years have not improved them. The inspector from the tenement house department said: “Choose your own neighi#>rhood. Pick any house you like. There are 67,000 old law tenements In New York, most of them dangerous firetraps. You won't have any trouble finding them.”

Miss Palmer

You can 1 ments which deserve cond ler the present law, on Cherry street, Broome street, Avenue D upper Park avenue, Harlem—almost any section of Manhattan’s map on which you place your finger. You will find them flanked by many more tenements wfrch just squeak through under the present laws and pr sent an obvious menace to human life which the department is powerless to prevent. I picked on the Mulberry and Mott street section. The tenement house inspector carries a torchlight with him on his tours; even though it may be broad daylight outside, it will be unsafe to stumble up the murky stairways where no light ever filters. We went down a long, narrow passage from the street to a courtyard w/here lumber and old rags were piled by the rickety fence. We went up the wooden stairway that is the only entrance to the house which front on the courtyard where eight families live We were chiefly interested in the tenants’ chances of in case of fire. From the fourth-floor hallway a vertical iron ladder, incrusted with rust, led up to the roof. And what a roof! It was covered with tar paper so dry that it cracked with every step. About the four walls there was a sheer drop to the ground, unprotected by any parapet. Down the courtyard side extended the vertical fire escape, of the type which has been condemned for use on any building erected since 1901. On the rear a space of perhaps ten Inches, separating the building from the one behind it, won the owner the technical right to claim that he had an airshaft. Condemned in 1901 This tenement is now on the list of those to be condemned. It was the first one I happened into. Tinder boxes like this abound in every poor district of New York. The new inspectors themselves have had time to discover only a few of them. As to why the work of condemnation has not been going on. day in and day oyt, since these buildings first became firetraps, you will have to ask Tammany Hall, which has had jurisdiction over them for so many years. (17,000 Still Stand It became illegal to build such tenements as these in 1901. Yet 07.000 of the old law tenements still stand —tenements in which there is only one tap of running water *o a house and in which hot water, gas, electricity or cross ventilation is an undreamt of luxury. They have walls of wood, unprotected from fire by so much as a coat of paint. They have tie vertical fire-ladder which must serve a whole floor of five or six apartments and all their tenants in case of emergency. No owner nowadays gets rich from renting such tenements as these. Many of them stand empty; the pitiful little rents that are collected from the others barely serve to pay his taxes. Most of them are being run at a loss. They have been held for speculative reasons—in the hope that some day the city would buy up the property for slum clearance at its assessed value and put a plump sum into the owners’ pockets. *

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— Have a Hobby „ Staffordshire Pottery Continues to Be Popular

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BY MRS. C. O. ROBINSON Times Hobby Editor STAFFORDSHIRE, England, has been noted as a center of pottery manufacture since the early part of the seventeenth century. From that time to the present various kinds of pottery and porcelain, including the beautiful jasper and basalt of Josiah Wedgewood have come from the hands of the Staffordshire workmen • to delight housekeeping hearts. ■ Much of the lovely china for table service has been produced in Staffordshire since 1756, when Richard Chaffers made the first English porcelain, and John Sadler of Liverpool, at approximately the same time, invented a process for transferring engravings to pottery as decoration. Sadler’s discovery created a fashion for adorning china with views of public buildings and scenes of historic significance, but as Sadler kept his process a secret for many years, the Staffordshire potteries were obliged to send their wares to Liverpool for decoration. Even the incomparable Wedgewood’s superior product jostled along the rutted country roads in a horse-drawn cart to Liverpool and return. The earliest Staffordshire ware of historic design is distinguished by a rich dark blue color and the artistic beauty of the borders surrounding the central figure. Today these pieces are designated as ‘‘old blue Staffordshire,” and rank among the most prized additions to a china collection, especially if they have distinctive marks which place them definitely as the product of such old masters as Enoch Wood or James Clews. The same James Clews, who, in 1837 at Troy, Ind., built and put into operation the Indiana Pottery Company. Labor trouble and unsuitaable clay, however, caused Clews to abandon the project shortly after it was started. , In accord with the popular fashion during the last of the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries, Staffordshire china for American markets was ornamented with representations of important American buildings and scenes. a a a ONE of James Clew’s old blue Staffordshire designs, called “States,” has as a central subject a medallion of the White House, called at that time the President's house, supported by two female figures representing Liberty and Justice. The border is formed of a scroll which bears the names of fifteen states and is intertwined among flowers. A “State’s’ pitcher, once owned by John Herron, is included in the excellent collection of Staffordshire ware belonging to the John Herron Art Museum of this city. Special events, such as Lafayette’s visit to America, the Pilgrim bicentennial in 1620, and the opening of the Erie canal, were commemorated on Staffordshire china. When the Baltimore & Ohio railroad received the first American charter as a public carrier of passengers and freight. Enoch Wood honored this step in American progress by marketing two varieties of plates, one of which is shown above, by courtery of the railroad. As the designs were engraved in England the train used was a British model and not the first American built locomotive, the Tom Thumb, made for the B. & O by Peter Cooper. The Tom Thumb, with its successors. is pictured on the border of special china, similar to the old plates, which was made on the one hundredth anniversary of the B. & O. in 1927. for use on dining cars of the line and for sale as souvenirs. The Tom Thumb is intact today. and although venerable, is far from senile. It made a personal appearance at A Century of Progress exposition, where it ran under its own sfinm in the pageant of transportation. “Wings of a Century." n n a EVEN in modern guise, deep blue china holds its popularity today and the historic blue plate has the power to vanquish a woman’s sales resistance. Daughters of the American Revolution. knowing this feminine predilection, obtained funds for patriotic projects by selling deep blue Wedgewood plates resembling the old blue Staffordshire and depicting scenes from revolutionary history. The Francis Vigo Chapter, at Vincennes, chose the episode of the conference between William Henry Harrison and Tecumseh, in front of Harrison's home in Vincennes. as the subject of its plate. The Paul Revere chapter at Muncie used "The Capture of Vincennes.” a painting by Frederick C. Yohn. which shows George Rogers Clark and old Ft. Sackville. The present day vogue for early American furniture and decoration has influenced manufacturers to adapt the old blue Staffordshire historical patterns to modern china. Crown Ducal ware from Staffordshire today portrays scenes from American colonial history in blue, and the Lennox

Company of New Jersey makes a lovely porcelain decorated with designs from the Garven collection of old American prints at Yale university. The decorator or homemaker who wishes to keep to the early American motif, welcomes these modern adaptations since the old blue Staffordshire and its immediate followers in green, pink and chocolate, have been recognized as collectable for so long that they practically are out of the market and seldom can be purchased unless collections are disseminated. Music to Be Topic Third music talk of the art study group of the Indianapolis branch, American Association of University Women, wall be at 10 Thursday in Rauh Memorial library. Mrs. Lenora Coffin will discuss children’s music, stressing music in the home.

Daily Recipe VEGETABLE LOAF 3 cups stale bread crumbs % cups milk 3 tablespoons butter 2 eggs 1 cup finely chopped celery 1 cup chopped carrot 1 cup finely chopped nut meats 1 onion 1 teaspoon salt 1-4 teaspoon pepper 4 tablespoons sifted tomato pulp 1 tablespoon capers Let crumbs become dry after measuring. Put into a large mixing bowl and pour over milk which has been scalded. Use as much milk as the crumbs will absorb and add butter while the mixture is hot. Stir until butter is melted and add eggs well beaten and remaining ingredients. Turn into a well oiled loaf pan and bake in a slow oven until firm. It will take about an hour. Unmold on a hot platter and serve with a tomato sauce mixed with grated cheese.

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Miss Rogers Is Wed at Cathedral Becomes Bride in Rite With Service Read by Bishop Ritter. Bishop Joseph Elmer Ritter performed the wedding ceremony of Miss Helen Louise Rogers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Rogers, and Myron McGeehan at 10 this morning at SS. Peter and Paul cathedral. The Rev. James E. Hickey said the nuptial mass. Miss Helen Shepard, organist, presented a musical program before the ceremony. She played “Trees,’ by Rasbach; “Nocturne,” by Mendelssohn; “To a Wild Rose” and “Romance,” by McDowell. During communion, Elmer Steffen sang “Panis Angelicus,” by Caesar Franck. During the offertory Edward Lashelle sang “Ave Maria.” Preceding the bride to the altar banked with palms and Easter lilies, and lighted with white cathedral tapers, was her sister, Mrs. Lewis Ott Ward. Mrs. Ward’s gown of heaven blue lace was designed with a slight train and full peplum. Her halo hat of straw was of matching color and her accessories were of delphinium blue. She carried a muff of pink roses. William Luckey, Minneapolis, was ring-bearer. The bride’s gown of antique satin was fashioned with a Battenburg lace jacket, also used as trimming for the train and muff of orchids. Her veil cap was of tucked satin banded with pearls. W. R. McGeehan, brother of the bridegroom, w’as best man, and ushers were Mr. Ward and Frank Douthitt Jr. Mrs. Rogers, mother of the bride, wore a gray silk crepe suit with blue accessories and a corsage of violets and roses. Mrs. W. R. McGeehan, sister-in-law of the bridegroom, wore a chartreuse wool suit, brown accessories and a corsage of yellow roses. At a wedding breakfast at the Marott, Mrs. Harry Luckey, Minneapolis sister of the bridegroom, sang. The table was decorated with silver bowls of white sweetpeas, roses and freesia. Among the out-of-town guests were Mrs. M. J. Chevfln and daughter, Gloria, and Mrs. C. A. Wade, all of Chicago; Mrs. Grover McGeehan, Depere. Wis.; Mrs. Ada C. Powell, Dr. and Mrs. Paul C. Wilson both of Logansport, and LieutenantColonel Roger G. Powell, Cincinnati. The couple left for a wedding trip and will be at home after April 15 at 1503 North Pennsylvania street. The bride wore a sand wool suit trimmed in beige fox with brown accessories. Paintings Will Form Exhibit at Art Institute Board of directors of the Art Association of Indianapolis have issued invitations to the opening view of the exhibition of paintings by Evelyn Bartlett at the John Herron Art Institute at 3 Sunday. Tea will be served. Other April activities at the institute include exhibitions of water f colors by Eliot O'Hara and of paintings by Harry Engel and Oakley Richey. Wilbur D. Peat will give illustrated lectures on ‘‘Science Enters the Studio” at 8 Wednesday and “Our Discovery of Color” at 8 Wednesday, April 18. De Pauw university orchestra will play at a twilight musical at 4; 15 Sunday, April 15.

A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TODAY’S young man, like Jacob of old, must sene seven years for a bride. At least it takes that long and often longer to accumulate enough money for marriage. Therefore a good many young people nowadays are beginning to question the pretenses and shams in which we have wrapped courtship. One of these, H. E. B. of New York, believes that under present conditions girls should do the proposing. If anything could prove his point, his own case does. In love with a girl who works in the same office, he surmises that it will be years before he can suggest marriage. However, if the girl'would propose, their two salaries would be ample for their needs. In short, the modern girl must carry her end of the economic as well as the romantic responsibility. In this case, the young man is hampered by the old-fashioned chivalric sense of honor which taught that no gentleman could ask for a woman’s hand until he could support her in comfort at home. If this youth were as thorough going a modem as he doubtless believes himself to be, he would forth-

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with approach the young lady and frankly state the case. No modem girl of average good sense could fail to see the point. Certainly we have set up many complications about the married state, complications which only the young will ever be able to tear down. The quicker they destroy them the better. If all young men were as intelligent as this one. proposals from girls would not be risky. But that, alas, is far from being true. The old traditions still prevail and the young still suffer because of | them. The dangers we face now are even more precarious than those that confronted the war generation. Then men and women, with a flamboyant courage, snatched at happiness. They married against tremendous odds. I believe they should do the same today. At least they will have had something from a world that considers them far too little and a civilization that has betrayed them. The postmaster-general of the United States receives sl2 750 annual salary.

800 ACRES SET ASIDE FOR STATE FOREST ’ Dubois County Tract to Be Opened to Deer. An 800-acre forest tract in Dubois county has been accepted by the state conservation department for the latest state forest development. it was announced today by Virgil M. Simmons, conservation commissioners. A twenty-acre artificial lake will be built there, numerous roads and fire lanes and 250,000 additional trees planted. Mr Simmons said. Work on the tract will be done by members of the civilian conservation corps. The land was given the state by various owners i’i the community. It also will be used as* a point for liberation of deer. Utility Reports to Be Checked Checkover of all annual reports of public utilities has been ordered by the public service commission upon request of Sherman Minton, public counselor, it was announced today. In the past the reports have j been filed without checking, it was j stated. I

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