New-York daily tribune., 1854-04-27

traps CT fya or six sories high. With ther giliT eI
iernels aud airs OF sodity, t1at crunble and c'asi
into chsos ile moment hrs has got into them. ma &"
be lazed BY another s lie OF edicesr or NJ siae
rar viii 20 near enough to attempt TO puf out con
fscratop ttst is devouricg them. We must have q
uriyer,s .,stem OF strong and substantial b1iiiog'.
vLesa walls viii stand after the fire is over or the
freep Will refuse to act they DID waea their lives
rere put in jeopardy in 1876, ard then quarter Of
tie Ctr nay be doomed to destruction ia sinsl,
ebt
Take tie long of COS Ny and slo8y buildings
Brosdvsy a5d those whose walls are thick enolgh for
tLeir hight end are properly braced and supported
are tie exceptions among them We do NJ care here
70 tp.efy particular buildings but oil readers who
have ever seen ore OF our sx-sory palaces going up.
must know low frsil and hGsy their walls.
Twelve fourteen sixteen egh1ees inches Is thought
10 be enough for wall that is to rise eighty feet
orc ard to support the greatest weight And these
walls sre cfieu Of soft ahd poor brick laid n worthless
noftar, mere mud instead Of strong, vel combined
cement Tteo ttej lay across the 0sts tn i. su port
the foOrs arrapl them na' as sooa as tue!
little burnt a. tue ends, they fall through and the
entire structure instantly silks in one OF ruin.
The burning OF the Ia Fargo Hotel presipi:ated
tie whole rem.ns into the cellars and upon the side
walk ana re1t morning the lately proud ani be'ai'al
e. ifce Jas level with the ground There as we may
well believe by special Htcrpo.ition Of Providence
10 d en- were killed; but Hha' meliuchoy lis, Of
deaths il that Wt record from The burlOs Of Tue,iy
ricbi Aud yet the Litter building was little more
urssfe tIan tie former, aud what happened there
ichs happen at almost any FIRE ia Broadway or any
otler busness street. This is new fact Il is 70
ro7e seItion that our style Of builling is utterly dn
safe Tits Journal bss again and again calci purlie
attention u the natter Dol ]! prOnpuacing tie walls
Of son Of the most elegant structures in town TO be
yerlous and unsuitable. There haze been O.her warn
il &c. at his very moment OF the talles I'd NOS
expensive buildings on Broadway has se!,ed so far out
of the perpeDdi ulsr TO seriously alarm those who
ore les. aware of its condition great AID most ffe
quen' Obligation is the bulaing oi division walls
beyond the limits Of the lot which they were meant
to stand al owing to teir thin and frai construction
And so il goes NJ tbs very moment they are re-
building NJ eropolitan Hall With walls to be bunirel
feet high aid hundred feet long and 10 girlers to
support them and the thickness OF those walls is only
tcenty ia1's 10 Europe such recklessHe would no,
be permitted here We rejoice il it, because it makes
great show on comparatively little money the chief
ipconverionce being that and then few fremen
are kied-eoIously for ,heD, shamefully for us-in
tie discharge of their du'! 20 the public.
How long shall this state OF .bings be suffered How
ong viii tie Law tolerate or its executors wiuk AZ
such criminal tiifiug with hu nan life How many
more vigorous useful devoted nen must be crushed
ard burr co 10 death before there is ret5fm'