Mr. Morning in the trust deed conveying the Morning Blocks has named the
qualifications of tenants as follows: The applicant must be of good
moral character, married, over the age of twenty-five and under sixty.
He must have been at the time of his application for more than one year
previously in the employment of some person, firm, or corporation
engaged in a reputable business in the city of New York south of Canal
Street, and be in receipt of a salary of not less than $1,000 or more
than $3,000 per annum. If a lawyer, physician, dentist, architect, or
civil engineer, author, clergyman, or journalist, his net income must be
of a similar amount.
Applicants for suites of apartments must file their applications and
references at the office of the Morning Blocks prior to 12 o’clock noon
on the fifteenth day of August, 1895. The credentials of all applicants
will be examined and careful inquiry made as to their habits,
characters, and antecedents, and only those will be accepted as eligible
for tenancy who can strictly comply with the requirements.
Should there be, as is most likely, approved applications in excess of
the suites to be rented, the fifteen thousand who can be accommodated
will be selected by lot, and the others registered, and whenever
vacancies occur a tenant to fill such vacancy will be selected by lot
from the list. Apartments will be apportioned by lot among the
successful applicants. Tenants will be permitted to exchange apartments
by amicable arrangement, but no transfer of apartments from a tenant to
one who is not a tenant will be permitted. The tenant can surrender his
right to occupy his apartments at pleasure, but he cannot assign it, or
sublet the whole or any part of the premises accorded him.
Should six tenants who are heads of families on any floor make complaint
against one of the other four tenants on that floor that he is
obnoxious, and that in the general interest his tenancy ought to be
terminated, a jury of fifteen tenants of that building, selected by lot,
one from each of the other floors, shall be made up to try the accused,
who shall have opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses against him,
and to present his defense. The manager shall preside and preserve
order, and if twelve of the fifteen jurors shall concur in finding that
the tenancy of the accused ought to terminate, he may appeal to the
Board of Trustees, and unless they unanimously exonerate him, his
tenancy must cease.
Our reporter interviewed Mr. Morning, who was found at his offices in
lower Broadway, and inquired of that gentleman if it were true, as
rumored, that he intended to erect similar buildings on another part of
Manhattan Island.