Word: rental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...four or five hundred inhabitants. In five years it became a city of 25,000 population. Tents were not comfortable, and rude houses of canvas and pine were rapidly built. The Parker House, the leading hotel, a frame building, brought over $60,000 per year rent. The annual rental of this city of rags was said to be $12,000,000. The population was then...
...corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty-fifth street, has secured a lease of the former club house and theatre of the Union League Club, at Madison avenue and Twenty-sixth street. The lease is for five years and three months from Feb. 1, 1884, at an annual rental of $22,500, with the privilege of a five years' renewal at $24,000 a year...
...Originally, it must be remembered, the various halls such as Matthews and Weld, supported boat crews and the boat houses were owned by them. In time these organizations became very much in debt. The college offered to take up the debt, and accepted the boat house as payment. The rental paid by the boat club was merely six per cent, interest on the amount of the old debt assumed by the college. This interest amounted to about four hundred and eighty dollars a year. All repairs were made by the college who took entire charge of the boat houses...