Word: tenements
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...Stairs. A melancholy play by Rosso di San Secondo, Italian dramatist, does not impress. Reared on the rueful abstraction that revenge reaps no pleasure for the revenger, it seems lifeless. The stairs of the title ramble upward through a tenement house. The gossip and the touseled details of life finally converge in the room where lives a woman. No prostitute, she turns out to be the deserted wife of the cruel landlord. The cast is adequate...
...woman in Hoboken was in court accused of henpecking her husband, allowing him only 50¢ per day to spend. Miss Patterson was sent to interview this unusual woman. Climbing to the top of a Hoboken tenement, Miss Patterson tapped on a door and at once confronted a beldame "about ten feet wide." Miss Patterson started to explain that she was from the Daily News. No sooner had she named that name than the "wide" woman approached, menacingly. "Downstairs I went," Miss Patterson told Editor & Publisher, "and not exactly right side up either...
...Association) is George Sweeney of the Hotel Commodore, who holds: Apartment hotels are alienating the appetites of potential diners at regular hotels by providing kitchenette facilities. His Honor should stop such nefarious seductions by invoking state laws which require more light, ventilation, sanitary devices and fire precautions in tenement houses (i. e. apartments where cooking facilities are provided) than in hotels (where cooking in the rooms is illegal...
...York apartment hotel builders have evaded the rigors of tenement specifications by pretending to construct authentic hotels. But in each pantry they have provided electric connections to which tenants could fix electric stoves, hot plates, ovens, waffle irons, percolators, what...
Cooking in serving pantries of apartment hotels in New York has been held illegal by the Court of Special Sessions there, under fire hazard covered by a Tenement House law. Investments of $350,000,000 in such hotels are jeopardized. The Apartment Hotel Owners' Association will appeal the case...