r. , ttv 4.V f EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER- PHILADELPHIA MONDAY; JUNE 30, t 1919 yn' t r j rt 6't - , P i?. H f m B I ft W m i 1 :T K? . .5 ? n X V M IE I- l& I r& i,-j IC14 RENT PI ON BASIS DF STORES' EARNINGS Plan in Voguo Hero Establishes Co-operative Leases to Aid Tenant and Landlord SCHEME PROVES SUCCESS FRANCE DECORATES ATLANTIC FLEET OFFICERS Philadelphia business acumen, which developed the irredeemable ground rent, that life sentence on the head of the real estate investor in the days of the founder, has atoned for that centuries old preventive of property development. A form of co-operative lease, under which some of the moit prosperous chain store and other business concerns occupy their stores In the liveliest sec tions of the city, i proving alike re munerative to tenant and landlord, nt the panic time drawing to those busier centers with their higher rentals firms which, under the old-line leases, never would have been able to invade the areas in which they now piosper and expand. At the same time it is claimed for this Philadelphia idea that it helps property adjacent to the stores en Joying its benefits through the added business brought to the region. Neigh borhoods that begin to show signs of lethargy have been saved from the ultimate decay and quickened into new life by the injection of n different type of up-to-date trade that makes mer chant and customer fit up and take notice, with mutually beneficial result. Plan Horn Here So far as known, the project has not yet been introduced into other cities, avo in rases where its successful oper ation here has induced firms doing busi ness under its terms to obtain similar contracts in localities beyond Philadel phia where they occupy buildings. According to the originators of the plan, it may be summnried ns a "gam ble" on the part of the realty owner. I'nder the old lenses he named n flat lental, payment and continued occu pancy depending entirely upon the ten ant's ability to meet the terms stipu lated. A tenant doing poor business might default or leave a property empty, perhaps to become a neighborhood eye sore. By the modern leae landlord and tenant, while not partners, share in the increased value that comes with growing business, and both are satis fied with their bargain. Many big stores along Market and Chestnut streets are occupied today under this contract, both parties enjoying expanding levenue from the investment. As explained by one of its originators the lease has as its basis the business proposition that property for rental purpose, as well as assessment, should be rated upon its value per foot front. It was also felt that a man is entitled to a definite return upon his real estate investment, regardless of what other similar properties in the same neigh borhood might yield. Records Broken Oftentimes this idea shattered all rentals previously paid in a given sec tion. Unless a man can make money he cannot pay his rent, was one of the cardinal beliefs. Business for the real estate firm is due to the good will of the tenants and to keep this good will stores where they could mnke money had to be supplied. The firm which originated the plan, several years ago tried to rent to a num ber of chain store concerns central lo cations at rentals which, it was felt, the sections were worth. This is par ticularly true of Second and Market streets, where the I'nited Cigar Stores Company was induced to locate under a. oue-vear lease It was agreed that 8 ner cent of the business done should he tiaid as rent. "The owner," said a representative of the realty firm, "felt as we did, that the property would show a eood return. That sear we got witnin a couple of hundred dollars ot wnat nau been asked under the original five year lease. 'When the yearly lease was up they asked what the rent would be un der a term lease. The section was as good as we had said it was, even bet ter. We sent them a lease, blank as to rent. They sent it back with the regular rental twice what had been paid under the percentage basis. "After this experience we- thought we would try again. We made investi gation of the leading merchants of the country, ascertaining what percentage of their business expense tney coum pay in rent and still make money. Their replies varied from 5 to 20 per cent. Drug Stores Are Lowest "Drue concerns and five and ten cent companies were the lowest; millinery and cahdy stores the highest. We found many Instances where owners willing to gamble on the value ot tneir properly on a percentage basis would gain two or three times the average rent. "In most instances progressive mer chants were wiling and anxious to enter into these percentage leases and our entire experience has been that ab solutely none has failed to work out. "All sections of the city are affected k wmw5 .s. -." 23' ,-,,, - -.T - fflM)8hAMl ' A i4fMf!svs-!Vv '- 7 ' ; ., ilMjPiVnl , 0 t i F r np ITU mMIM ) WmlrmMtfflriWrWiXT V IaaaaaaaaBaaBaaaaaaaaamnawlJcg: -JBfirHgBfTSnrJwiflB'ij'ilErJ: ! ' ' 'msmmmmmmmm i - KUl x ' I V; s' T ' HfliQVii I SW'sMMy J ,'' i P ' S 'RPfi WsMnSmiL ii2u 'i W Per BM s r " ' . ' -.""!-; "J Ordnance Troops' Publication Attacks Editors VVho Say Deten tion in Franco Is Punishment "UNPATRIOTIC SLANDER" Persistent and insidious rumors that the American soldiers who remain in France aro being kept there because of misconduct nro roundly scouted in nu editorial nppearing In tho Mehun News, n weekly published by the oid nnnce troops stationed nt Atelier dc Mchun-sur-Yevrc. A copy of the Kews came todnv in I a letter from Corporal Z. P,. Apple gate, one tlmo gridiron captain nnd star of Episcopal Academy, to his father. Dr. J. C. Annleznte. n.r40 North Broad street. Corporal Applegate has typhoid fever Is almost completed we dislike to feel that because we stayed to carry out tho wishes of the people wo are being slandered by certain unpatriotic men," WARNS OF TYPHOID Doctor Krusen Tells Vacationists to Beware of Disease Summer vacationists are agqln warned by Director Krusen against the dangers from typhoid fever In resorts and camps where the sanitary conditions are not n primary consideration. Last year ap proximately 25 per cent of the typhoid fever cases were Imported from out of the city. The statement is made that not one case of typhoid fc7Cr In this city last year can be traced to the water supply of the city. Imported caecs givo rise to others through contact, or through the handling of foodstuffs. Car riers arc nlso responsible. These arc persons having the disease, who niav still continue, during apparent good health, to disseminate germs of disease. "The only certain safeguards ior per son who travel," says Director Krusen, "is to get vaccinated against This procedure has been $1000 A YEAR FOR GRAVES That 8um Put Aside In Yocum Will for Laurel Hill Lot One thousand dollars .for the upkeep of graves In thp family lot In Laurel Hill Cemetery was set aside from the estate of Isaac D, Tocun, 3015 Spring Garden street, whoso will was filed for probate today. Mn Tocun specified that the family graves should be decorated at Christ mas and Easter with rotes and tulips, ' Tho remainder of his property, valued at $128,000 he left to his son and daughter. Other wills filed today were as fol lows: 'George D. Miller, 813 North. Thirty-third street, $00,250 to rela tives. Elizabeth Hs- Cope, Gcrmantowa Hospital, $00,000 to relatives, Joseph II. Saul, D020 I'enn street, $53,000 to relatives, Susan II. McAdam, 424 South Forty-third street, $12,000 to relatives. Annie Wood, 1433 Loudea street, $7110 to relatives. WKHWZZiZ&DrW! i lr) t ndrwood . Underwood American naial officers on the drill of the superdrendnnught I'rnnlviinia recplng the decoration of the Lesion of Honor bestowed by the Trench (toernment In recognition of their seniccs in the war to the nllied cause. Ad miral Henry T. Majo and twent-one other officers were honored. The ctosses were pinned to the breast of eacli officer by Captain Saint Seine, French naal attache at AVasliington by the plan. Market street. Chestnut street. Fifty -second and Market streets, Broad street and Columbia avenue are some instances. We have used the Mime plan successfully in New York amoug our clients there. "The most striking illustration of the success of the lease concerns the basp- , meut of a certain Market street prop- i erty. AVe figured that its 3000 square feet of space warranted an estimated i rental of yi.i.OOO. "We tried to interest restaurant con-, ecrns in all sections of the country, but were always told the price was too high and the space too small Finally we persuaded a Philadelphia concern to take the property on a ten year lease, paying part of the business in rental. While we lme the right to audit the tenant's books to determine our share of the rent we have never done so, for the payments hae almost equaled the rental of the first floor of the same building ending June 1 last our check has ex ceeded $30,000. four times the figure at which the tenant was willing to large part in the development of the idea, one of it& diiof sin cesses lies iu the making of the business to fit the property nnd the nmtunl goodwill estab lished between landlord and teunnt. In no wise partners, eah shares in the success of the property as n business proposition. Deaths of a Day MISS RACHEL LATTA WEDS HARRY FRANCK War Romance Revealed in Mar riage of Chestnut Hill Girl to College Professor been In France since July 0 with the ordnance department, headquarters de tachment, First Army. The editorial with the caption "Why We Are Here?" reads, in part: ( "We Iiave-IL'OO enlisted men. Includ ing nuum mrv engineers, in mis camp alone, and all these men are being re- i tnined here for n most important work , and it is hard to feel that their char acters arc to be maligned by gossip mongers and a few careless editors. "Out of Mehim alone the troops have overhauled and shipped more than 4500 caVloads of material since Decem ber. More than 1000 7.") -millimeter guns have been taken npart, cleaned and crated ; several thousand rifles hae been, overhauled and boxed, and more than 2000 other pieces of Ameri can and enemy artillery have been pre pared and shipped to the I'nited States. "We have worked hard to put this work through in such a short time," the editorial states, recognized by the best medical military authorities throughout the world as n reasonable safeguard against the dis ease. Every one of our soldiers nlid sailors has been vaccinated. The re sult has been n negligible typhoid rate as compared to the records of other wars." American Legion In 33d Ward Soldiers, sailors and marines who fought in the World war have organized in tlm Thirtv-third Ward n branch of the American Legion, naming the post ! in honor of Itobert Martin, who gave his lifo in the fighting over there. The organization ceremonies were directed , by Dr. Andrew Knox, n captain In the. Medical Corps; James J. Lamond, nn instructor in army aviation,, and Joseph M. Penny, of the United States navy. Officers weie elected ns follows: W. II. I Baldwin, commander; C. J. Guthier, , vice commnndcr ; Herbert T. Hare, sec- , 'and now thnt it retary, and Henry J. Brown, treasurer. Better Clothes Than Usual in This Clearance Sde For Men & Young Men 19 This is the level of price-popularity. It is also n Becker level of style-surety. We'vo grouped a nurnber (suffioicnt for everybody's choice) of T, . . T Values Up to $27 .50 Excellent styles in waist-scam, belted and tho more usual effects. Blues (so much wanted), browns, greens, grays. Come in lor the once-over; they need only one look to convince you of their superiority. Wl 'WW WVWkft i vuV'jri.JCinvi Quality Clothes 1514-16 Market St. Open Evenings : Opposite Broad St. Station MRS. G. S. MULLINER Miss Rachel W I.atta. daughter of Mr. and Mr. William .1. I.atta. of WWsahiekon Heights. Chestnut Hill, Camp Fire Girls' Founder and New York Lawyer New York. June 30. Mrs. Gnbriclle and Harry A. Fraiick. versatile profes. Stewart Mulliner, prominent in New For of languages, author, soldier and York as a leader in women's affairs, "lugabond." were married at 4 o'clock died yesterday after nn illness of two Saturday afternoon nt the home of the wcek. Mrs. Mulliner was president bride's parent". nnd one of the founders of the Camp Miss Latin wo doing secretarial work Fire Girls of America, the organiza- "verseas and .Mr. Prnnc-k was n lieu For thesiv months tion of girls corresponding to the Boy '"'U"L '" ''" "-'"'; "'"' Scouts. She was one of the first women' Lnt,a rcturned , AmPrica lnJt Sep lawyers admitted to the bar in Ohio, ,pmbori aft(,r a yc.ar spolll , the war tiJi nrn vlir rrnct rrnriitntpd from flip Oliin n..n f T..nnnTr na ,1 ; ?,.!. or irn.l frnm U1 I -- ... ... - 6uir. t'lli 1'IUUIn Hill lll-'Uiiiihiu H"iu lease the basement on a straight basis. , gtate unjTOndty law school. For the I the army April lli at Coblenr. Germany. labt fifteen years she has practiced law where he was serving with t lie Third iu New York. She was the daughter of i army. I'mf V Pn Kteunrt. r,f rievelmiil. wlm, He rctunicil less tlinn two W'eeKs ago Glad to Pay It Whenever that tenant brings in his check he makes a particular point to say how glad he is to pay, for he ns well as the landlord is prospering. "This may seem like an unusual case, but it shows what can he done. Among our clients who frequently ac cept percentage leases here are the Fnited Cigar Stores, Newark Shoe Store. Uiker-Hageman Compauy, the Woolworth Company, the W T. Grant Company, and Horn & Hardart." Showing the widespread localities affected, United Cigar Stores nt 101 Market. Fifty-second and Sansom streets.' Ninth and Walnut streets, nnd Broad street and Columbia avenue were quoted as tenants under the percentage lease. Another instance cited was that of the Rival Shoe Company, a New ork concern which was seeking a location Market street. Ueuts submitted was head of the Clevelaud schools for thirty-three years. ,.,,1.11,. after a tramping trip tnken through puuuci , . . . rt. ;, Thomas Hart Given Pittsburgh, Pa., .Tune 110 Thomas Hart Given, president of the companies publishing the Pittsburgh Post and the Pittsburgh Sun. died unexpectedly here. occupied Germans, and he is now writ ling n book on hi experiences. He will l be recalled as the author of "A Vaga boud Journey Ainuiid the World and numerous other books and magazine articles on tramping trips through strange lands. Mr. Franck was born in 1SS1. the sou of n village blacksmith in Michigan Havana Cigar 10c and up A Real Man's Smoke (III Stratford are skillfully blended of seasoned, age- llll ripened, mellowed tobaccos. II II They're made by experts I III 'or critic' smokers. II I -arfjjf! Made Right in Philadelphia by BNIn. Stratford Cigar Co. "The Right Man in the Right Job" NOT JUST "JOBsFILLING," but "the right man in the right job" is the free service now offered to em ployers and ex-service men by the Jewish Welfare Board. Mr. Employer: A phone call or letter will bring you our bulletin giving full information about men registered with us for positions. Poplar 288 Consult Us VOCATIONAL PLACEMENT BUREAU FOR DISCHARGED SERVICE MEN JEWISH-WELFARE BOARD and I. O. B. B. Y. M. H. A. 1616 Matter Street Philadelphia Resides his publishing interests Mr I jj;s ,,nrerjts now lie in Milwaukee, and Given was identified with mnnv financial nnd industrial concerns of this district He was president of the Farmers' De posit I'.ank. a director of the Crucible Steel Coinpun, president of tho Win (low Glass Machine Company nnd a di rector in mnnv railroad and hanking companies. were regarded as prohibits e, tne nrin figuring that it could not do more than a business of $100,000 a car iu the section offered. It was suggested that S200.000 could be done, and to back ..1 i.t- n,.iimnl n nercentace lease up i ma """.. , .:,. iUOV in was otiorea, rpiuhus "; u,...n...w ,u other words, based on $150,000. This .,, neceoted. and so successful has been the result, according to the real estate, firm, that the snoe compauy nas recently rented a Chestnut street location for twenty years at ?jU,uuu a year, ami wants more sites for stores here. According to J. Soils Cohen, Jr., of the Mastbaum concern, who has had a I San Salvador Epidemic Halted San Sahadnr. June .".0. (F.y A. I i I Strict snuitar) regulations nt I.n ' 1 uion nnd San Miguel, appaicntli I have i becked nn outbreak of J 'How I fever Only four cases nre reported j San Miguel and tliese are iso lated. Maritime trafhc between the two j towns and other ports andtrnvel lo the interior nre prohibid raprrly. Hie hriile and bridegroom left Nctcr day to spend the summer in that ritj CURB MARKET will open r 11th and Wharton Sts. TUESDAY, JULY 1st fntll further notice the fnllonlni marked will operate on Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday 62d and Woodland Ave. Kensington Ac. and Lehigh j 21bt and Lehigh Ae. 1 Phila. Curb Market Assn. UIgYS DEVELOPING PRINTING I AND ENLARGEMENTS i-THI BBTTtrt KINO" . CAMERAS SWAiW ! MAIL ORDERS. PROMPT SERVICB HDf OR. PRICE CI3T. 6IgiiESTNUT;sr.812id Buy your coal now The price will be much higher. We handle only the very BEST COAL Satisfied customers for 30 yean. 2240 lbs. to every ton for It years. Our business has Increased from 3000 tons a year to 160,001 tons. We serve you right Owen Letters' Sons Largest Coal Yard in Phtta. Trenton Aye. & Weitmoreland H "Mawson & DeMair? K Bill ijigi; Chestnut Street Slff. Galvanized Boat Pumps VoM ft at "' fift'Ji a,i).tkrnr Co. S3 N. U St. an arktt fit. rooT AND USUI TBOUULKH . laitantlr rt.llvd by our peetal arcli nppotta. flttftd anf adJuited by iwrt. Oar 8 m I m JSlMtle UtUrr, th rooat cccaioriapia uppori ior rl cos t!o. wolltil limbo, ota lullll na bv. TraiM. aMamliul and alalaua aao peritra ot an amis." rormitr appiianc a unnwuir L lArstat jftjfff - SWIMMING COLUMBIA FOOL Brond and Oxford Sti. PARTY NIGHTS Wcdnciday and Saturday Instruction br K. A. Cad Phono Poplar 8435. ssmmsmmss Stay-at-Home Summer Comforts Qardenla Talcum. 25c, coolln, refreahlnf. Pure Bath Soap. 12c, for 42a; lathers luxuriously, Glyco Kormalln Toolh Paato. 25o. hesllh (ully rlaanaln-. BUa Food, 8Sc tube, protects aralnst tan. Par fumed Hath Salt, SOo pottles InvlK oratlnr. All the best, becauae our own. ,. .-.. L.L.tSWISL.L.XXN'S l'lilUdelnhln's Standard Drug- Store 1518 i;nestnut,Bticet Open 'Pll IW ,Mlloliht Four Prices on Lovely Sports and Town Models Most Unusual! iBS 3.75 Values up to 10,00 5.50 8.50 Values up to 15.00 Values up to 20.00 12.50 Values up to 25J00 Examine Your Passport EN of means and men whose hobbv is immaculate dress have W found in PALM BEACH Suits, an ideal addition to their Summer wardrobes and what is even more interesting: A PASSPORT TO COMFORT But Be Warned! Examine your Pass port before you journey through the Summer. Be dead sure it's a PALM BEACH. There are hosts of Summer suits that bear labels, but only one that bears the trade-marked PALM BEACH Label shown above. "When you are convinced you have the Genuine go your way rejoicing! 0 , , JT! 1 r ' W e JKi .. Hf ' tfn f 1 mStm- i W tcoisTCto u timt orrtcc ' EU THE GENUINE CLOTH fl MFD. BY OOODALL WORSTED Ca " 1 1 -! inr tVtio laKol - vntir k safeguard against imitations. aWW ; fi s- "ID 1 j((HSSi B4IM BHACW I H h Mllllll) Shown in many shades and patterns : I f ,'m THE PALM BEACH MILLS M i il&fe - M&ZZftfl Wis Goodall Worsted Company, Sanford, Me. I n i.1 Wrfc " "' JtMMMZff - A Rohaut SelUn8 Asni 229 Fourth Avenue, New York Mt t .As.2.j 1 - ,. 0;' ,. ,. .. iJL-a'. s .,,u. urfiLk.Iaaailaui.Jku.ui.u J) .,!.. ., ., . . Xil' i . - i n iiijniii n ,' tfttVl.tui Liri M
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