The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-05-26
OUR COMIC BUILDING LAW.
Il TERRIFIC CRocKERF CONTEST Us
Nv THE BOWERY.

Employing All the stratasens Of War q.
Opst n Tenant-siorming, Bombardina,
and Undermi hing all the Croch-
err In the store-TearinE tho Roof aud
Walls to Pieccs-sf 1000 Damages.
Mr.. Armstrong, Assistant Superintendent OF the
Department for the Survey and Inspection OF
Buildiues, was yesterday chilled to take q look al
the house No. 200 Bowe-y, which seemed In mo.
mentary danger OF tumbling down and burying its
inmates in Vic ruins Mr. Armstrong. on arriving
at the place. Immediately ordered tho work to DO
discontinued 1ntn the superintendent of li De-
putment shall have decided In regard to the mat
ter. The case which Is now to DO laid h,lurs
Superintendent Maegegor 10 rather interesting.
LANDLORD AND TENANTS PIGlr.
The building IL occupied by Mr.. Levine, who han
carried crockery business In the store and base
nent for the last ten yeaIa and since short timo
liyes in tirc upper portion Of tho house with his
family. Last February. through third party, ho
took lease OF the building for one year, to dato
from tho first Of the present month. Unfortunately
for him, In the latter part OF March tho house took
FIRE, and was bndI DAMAGED though not so severely
as to make 1t impossible to repair It,
Here now the owner, Mr.. W. II. Wyman, mado
his appearance. lie thought this q good opportu-
nifty for tearing his house dosn and erecting nncr
one In lie place. Mr.. Levine, however, had
NO NOTION or GIVING UP MS LEASE,
n be coull help IT, and removing from place iu
which ne had traded go long and was so well known,
Mr.. Wymsn carry out lis plans, but demanded in
return the fret choice Of tue buildings which wera
wS%so on would S not q ss 90 mhn of tho
KIDD. He was determined that Levine should nm.
corditieualv vacate the premises Yet, determined
Us lie was, siill more determined was Levine, ana
especially Mrs. Levine. rcsoluto woman, whet
when treated unfairly, will
NOT BULGE AN EcH,
evcn though she IL to de for u. .
tat d truan 1a beat IN nup
Tor permission to oust his o6s.eperous tenants bu
hat eons %s hi he f a%ass ssd asS ana
H Saso Expired rSI' BSed Ss point " wy% sn
looked for some point by which he might carry the
tear the house piece by Piece from the leads Of
the occ9nnn,s lie saw That the chimneys We're In
nent, and inasmuch as men were at work On the
| adjoining piece Of ground, and such an accident
might endanger their lives, he applied for and re-
| eeiyed permission to
TEAR THE cHIMSErs Down.
| Here was an opening. aud he improved H. He
demolished tine chinneys, and with them tore great
he eIs o. in wee Thew
upon the rlss and crockery ware, and spread
ruin all through the store, nis workmen,
| sibe In LOOKING where the bricks went to; twos
however, who gifted the victims, DID their work
dresses with the Levires In thoy wished To
call upon them' to testify in court. The workman
nrt carried the bricks and dirt into the street but
| their oyerseer, foreman, Whatever he was, soon
TAUGHT THIN BETTER.
| He knocked hole into the floor OF the store, and
through that had all the dibTts shoyeled into the
| basement, whore large quantity OF glassware was
| stored. When the work OF desoldtiOn COM
pleied, the spectacle was opnalii1g. Great h9lea
not been burnt by the IRE, broken and torn To
vieoes by Mr. NyUar. Not q board or raiter would
have been left stand NJ had not an injunction been
| procured restraining all parties IRON touching tho
walls OF tie house. Yet amid all this, Mrs. Levine
| stood firm rs Q rock. SIZE sid, sooner than bo
forced from that house she would have 1t tumble
IL RUINS ABOUT HER HEAD.
| Her children she had sent away t. friend and
| as for herself aud her husband, they would tho
I end of the matter They had iNcl in that house for
| anl addition, md wculd not now be driven OGt Ut
| IT, They called In Witnesses 10 see the DAMAGE hey
had suffered, and then brought sui. against tler
unrelenting assailant Tor $1,000. They have now
one battered room in which tiey sleep, small pans
try In which thoy thnir nsnls. aud tho soin
which "conlu3ion worse Son,,ounied retsns
nod but then tins is tfeir clsue and tdey will not
| give np the KEY. Mym1u, s1cug how little he had
accomplished, now began
NAN1uyHHG FROM DIFFERENT PoIsr
| Adjoining No. 90 there is q lot of ground II feel
| w'ds, wlich Wyman had sold some time ago to q
| MIR. fruelluGer. On this the latter nov has AZ
| work for building purposes who Ia their operations
| 0ro putting themselves We'll the Leynes In
| great dan ger. WYman IL Ov law required TO sup
port the exposed wall of his house in case like
| this, and has bceh served with notice calling on
| lin to do 80 now. As yet, however, he has done
nothing Of the kind. Little could deli .ht him morS
than that the catastrophe ne IL lon ing or should be
superlnduced simply by mtsterly Inactivity on his
own part That would be stroke Of genius bat
inasInuch Mr.. Armstrong has been brought to Oh
serve the natter and Il ha4 been laid before Mr..