The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-25

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For which General sigel's check was enclosed.
Mr.. Van SchaoE stated that he Is to receive more
from other officers.
The Committee on Armories and Drill Rooms re-
ported that the lease OF the premises corner OF
Broadway and mlrty-hth street be cancelled
from, on and after the list OF May next, and that
the Seventy-first regiment be trans erred to the
armory corner Twenty-seventh street and Ninth
avenue A motion to lay the report over until
next meeting was negatived. The resolution,
after considerable debate, was adopted by vote
OF II TO 2.
ment, has demonstrated to the Board OF Super
visors against the removal OF said regiment iroD'
its present armory for the following reasons:-
In the first place, because the resolution offered the
last meeting the Board ordering the
was unealled Tor as the has not asked e
to have lease their present extended and
Drill Rooms Of Inc Board Of Supervisors to consider the
a to s 1.ase Fl wt s
respectfully asked state what they willing pay
0 G the
to the ground on the bass that there armories
sprn
best located New York, both for offence ami
The county has already expended s2sooo upon il,
which will all be lost in the event Of removal besides
back IN the condition il was taken in.
The location Of an armory has everything to do with
Gated on Thirty second and then the present
armorv the regiment has recruited largely from the
Petitions could be brought signed nv every officer in
retained in its present armory but think only ncccs
sary say the honorable committee that the mem.
bers Of the regiment have the expressed sympathy OF
nearly every held officer in the division from the Major
The regiment never in a better condition. aud to
be in eject to seriously retrd its progress II not even.
d for * sna its a so acs
what right and not Inconsistent with proprety.
Now, with regard 70 the armory corner of twenty.
represented that it Is in Objectionable to the
| regiment tor many reasons
& rs altogether d too sr west asa
/ by one line OF cars and consequently inconvement
for the members Of the regimen, .u,S !, an most s
inory the code prescribes not safe depository
arms, It Is q stable fled with iniammable
at the mercy Of the mob were they ordered in their
quarters, the building could be red and ne troop:
egres Think of 800 the fourth story Of build.
ing, and II in flames, with but one means Of escape
is would be, censurable IN the greatest possible de-
borrower, drilling body Of 900 or 500 men a. sucn a
height would seriously anec, e ~ w"uIa he oon NM
safe No reasonable man. except for Proht WOULD ever
g put az @ % s O Worth
properly which he cannot insure and should decline to
hazard It such building The code prescribes that
avcr the Fifth and Eighth regiments have assigned
nropeS that such organization the Seventy
rrSneni should placed in quarters good enough
The regiment respectfully requests that committee
will release the premises II now occupies making such
Viii cost loss to Keep the regiment Where il now than
20 move IL The building corner OF Ninth avenue and
Twenty seventh street burned to the ground
door the county and State would have lost heavily
After the transaction OF some other unimportanl
business the Board adjourned.