The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-14
BUILDING INSPECTIONS.
Further Reports by superintendent
MacgregOr's Officers Of Schools. Hotels,
&C., Of the Building Department.
Inspectors Hyde and Mcmillan report on the fol-


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Primary School No S125 East Thirty second street
good condition good wooden water closets,
and % nspsS sy EXIT by sG air
(woodeD stairs feet wide running to all ioors, and
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substitution OF slate n boys water
srsc ar S BRICK % IS feet ay vars
Sisde IN bad @ by boilers oilers
and in good order fines too close to wood
4ieet6 inches wide to ali floors; four flights, enclosed
inwardy in eases ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9a2; primary,
$40 Stables adjoining school are nuisance, rendering
close school building and very offensive, Recommend
slide back: wood work removed iue Board Of
Health be notified Of the existing nuisance Tn,
street; four stories brick o5Also walls good yentila
projected and in proper order DER ES
Front stairs wood eet inches, to all hoors two flights
ncSssd Srd and Dig
e on ~ on
enth streets whole school can be dismissed in three min
street Is occupied by classes in every
e 9 ns m ad an@
iron floor beams brick arches between same Recon-.
a sadns to be or r
school purposes Attendance-rrmary 1000 girls, 6o
Grammar school No 1927 to al East Thirty,sevenh
good ceilings throughout bad and very dirty ventla
lion by ilues generally ineffective and out Of order
hot air furnaces six in cellar and four IN playground
single to floor double half way To third and
thence single TO top two flights enclosed stone. feet
eet nches to Third and fourth floors; two flights en-
s room oors % OF op pI
warty door to boys stairs kept locked boys dismissed
substitution OF slate in boys water closet arranging Of
sS r: S sof ss
100; girls CO., boys s7s total s 2z15 .roo,.
four stories brick 9ixlOo 50 high walls good ven
aon by wnd9T IN front centre class rooms bad
tus, in good order. Ext-Two fights woods feet 6
%Sss Primary i, TO S wo s eet
inches primary to playground; two lights, enclosed
stone three feet one third and fourth floors
hat eSss doors be made to out@a
substitution Of slate in boys wafer closet and improve
% "nes1Fr is" 80 soSs Ell: TS,%
or oy f ds s. eet 6
roof; walls in good condition. ventilation by ues which
centre eS class 'T rooms and light and ventilation
on % S9T md ee has GSr Ts
scholars the door without knob and the class has TO
case Of ire or alarm heated by stoves prop
eTy protssted s'o girl, w to
ieet wide 10 ali floors; stone stairs two light feet
p ieet '" VIDE, enclosed from playground to third
floor two flights wood 8 feet wide, from iron
rom Yard to Street moi adequate Tor rapid dismissal in
a doors be repaired nS to slide
back: ventilatng hues be put in and openings
that additional passages each side be constructed from
yard TO street
Inspectors McGlnnls and Owens report the Hoffman
ner OF Twenty-filh street and Broadway, adjoining
building on rear and Nos smd Ie are are
hgh and those on seet are iIur a
dry baggage room, carpenter shop and sleeping rooms
for help There is an iron ladder needed area on
should be put in each room and as many Alarms as nre
street supplied through reservoir connected with the
croion main II opinion that the ne supply PIPE ms IS
modes OF egress by stairway, escapes and bridges,
house to house but az greater security TO all would
recommend IN iron adder from window on south side
70 Be cut II said ROO and Ladder be P11 up
placed at the head OF each fight stairs throughout
aud on upper story at the top Of elevator. Nos ana
each house; first story barroom, sleeping rooms
Street rom eaeS There Should be detsctors and
az the head OF each flight of stairs, aud one ~
have outlets lqr water and hose on each story also il
gulshers.
The following buildings have been reported as
requiring means OF escape since last report:-
Southwest Broadway and Corlandt street Pete
No. 81 Liberty street SIR Undcrhill fire escape
No. IS Liberty street Mr. Lazarus, owner fire escape
Northwest corner Greenwich street and Battery place
Nottingham Co. owners. fire escape boarding hou5c
escape, boarding house.
Northwest Greenwich and Carlisle streets
Henry J. Meyer, owner ladder TO roof, tenement.
No Carlisle street, W l.. A. Cruikshank, agents
ladder to roof, boarding house.
No Carlisle street. William Piggot, owner fire es
cane, boarding house.
No Carlisle street. Albert Nelson, owner; fire escape
boarding house.
Co owner; fire escape and ladder TO roof factory, &C.
No. u Cortandt street Delaware and Hudson Cana
! CO. owner: fire escape, offices, &C..
No IL Washington street, Edward Burke, owner; ar
escape, boarding house
No. I9Washnston street rear, James d. Burns, agent
nrc escape, tenement
No 10 Washington street front James d. Burns agent
fire escape aud ladder to root, Tenement.
No liz Washington street, Joseph 1odberg, owner hr
| escape. tenement .
No iIs Washington street. Mrs BALDWIN owner Ore eS
| cape and ladder 70 roof boarding house