New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-17
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
BUILT ON WEAK FOUNDATIONS.
SETTLING OF THE WALLS OF THE sCiH1hAAND

BUILT ON WEAK FOUNDATIONS.
SETTLING OF THE WALLS OF THE sCIHEhAAND
APARTMENT HOUSE.
In the upper part of the city 90 many building
tots have been filled in that consldelaDle amcu1y
tons. Along Fourth-ave. from Fifty. seventh-st. %
Sixty.tfth-st the lots have been filled IN on pot1
and this we done in PLACES IN MaSsfn there
were 20 feet Of filling. From FlftIeth 10 Thy "
seventhst. there ia foundation OF rock and east Oh
Tbird-aye. there Is natural ground In cases wneIe
lots have been filled in it is necessary to digdown to
Dold ground aud then Law bed of concrete aDOu t
two feet thickness. When this precaution 's nGs
carefully observed settling is likely to occur ans
has happened with the Sutherland an aEarSment
house on the southeast corner OF Madlson..avte'
and Sixty-thrd-st The house is I'VE stories nlgn;
100 feet and inches in Madison-aye. with a depth
of so feet 1t is built of brick, with marble trlui-
mings and contains fifteen families Inc OWE. - =. !.
James Campbell, of No. 161 East t1ty.tourtI-sf;'
the architect was +. s. Barnes and the mason j. ".
Phyf ,r.r. ornaarances of
ipsecurity about the house, TRIBUNE repor'9GI
made inquiries at the Department OF BuildinOs; ~
was learned that the house. as first built had depta
Of twenty-five feet and had settIed hack VAL nrs
Later an addition was made Of twenty-five feet more
in depth, and one Of the walls had cracked somewhat
although the house was considered secure. -
bindings for the district from Forty-eighth-st to
Eighfv.fourth-st east of Sixth-aye. the reporter
made visit to the Sutherland, standing az tne
northwest Settling Fl to the cast could
t be plainly seen in the front q, Of
the S Sutherland This was particularly noticeable
in the southwest corner OF the Du,ang With
perpendicular brown-stone front next door. Mr.
Owens estimates the front to be six inches OUT Of t
Of the building had been joined to the Twenty-Five
psssS Tie Ts nn T5sS Entering s9a Ss YARD
from tho basement a crack was found in the well
beginning at the head Of the Intel OF tne Dasesn'
door and extending upward ABOUT nhl of ,bo frst
story window. Above, in the first story the crack
reappeared extending nearly to the second s;9S'
1t was about one.elgntn OF an rt hcI hack Roth
were i'm the rear of the house, built after the iront
half had begun to settle. In the rear wall OF the
front half left VISIBLE Dy sne SITUATION u 'n0
The rear half of the building had prevented the
front half from settling further to the east; out
there had been some settling down IN tne rear nesc
appeared soon after the building was erected, anu
were caused Mr. Owens says by lack OF care IN b re
results had followed, Mr.. Owens considered tne
building perfectly safe. ...
Some frame buildings erected without certificates
TO the attention of Mr.. EstabroOk. inspector IN
chief of the Building Department, and he has Sc
cured orders from the Supreme Court for their re-
ruoyal by the Fire Department. The buidlpgs
which are to be pulled down are four in nuinDer-a
frame building thirteen feet front and rear. and
twenty feet high in the rear of the lot No. 297
Sixth-ave. used as q workshop, and owned by John
L. Lewis and B. Altman g. Co: wooden carpen-
ers shop of fifty feet front IN the rear OF lots on the
feet from the southwest corner OF
Lexington-ave.. owned by Matthew Coogan and
Catherine Mcdonnell; q frame building used as a
stable on the north side of Seventy-eighth-st, in
the rear of the lot $50 feet east of Third owned
by Max Zeitung N. Stern and P. Golding and a
wooden structure at No. 217 West Forty -eighth-st.
owned by Frederick Muske.