New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-27
MIR. Es7ERBRooK AND TIE HOTELS.
NOTICES SENT TO THE OWNERS OF THE EVERETT
CLARENDON, BRIGHTON AND BELMONT

NOTICES SENT TO THE OWNhHS VI ihh h''ihi 10
CLARENDON, BRIGHTON AND BELMONT
Owners of four hotels yesterday received notice
from Inspector EsterbroOk requiring additional
means of escape from the buildings In case OF iire
The hotels were the Everett House, the Clarendon
the Hotel Brighton, at Broadway and orty second
st and the Belmont Hotel, Nos 14l, 143 and I4o
Fulton-st Jane q. Phelps, OF Iarrytown, IS the
owner of the Everett House aud her agent Is john
NJ Knox of No. I15 Broadway. Following Is the
order which Mr.. Esterbrook wrote upon the exam
iner's report Oh this hotel;
The building requires lreescape TO consist OF iron
balconies thdee iev & 81 The front ON union square
AT the second third, fourth aud nh stores SAID Da'
ladder TO be provided foT the story balcony also
nj each story balconies above, taking In the second
and third windows from the southerly end on the
Fourth ave- also at each story AS above balconies
taking in the fourth ana hfth Windows from I tne
bridge al second third, fourth and h stories over
the open court ana IN .ne .sar VI and ev Window
nj the rcar also cut down the rear WINDOW on inc
westerly front OF the sixth story TO 'ne ea' 9 e Ioo
OF the nn story, aud connect INC same ny an IRON
bridge with stairs leading TO the bridge iinmedhiey
underneath the nfth story also cat door openings
through the partition walls on each story on the east
erly front, additional means OF access 10 Microscopes
The Clarendon Hotel in owned by John A. Veekes,
of No. % Wal-st lie = directed TO erect 40 n h
hotel the balconies 10 take IN the TWO eastsfly ana
two westerly windows OF the front on each story
above the frat. No other changes IN the building
are required. G.. w. Watson, of Lexlngton.ave.
and Ninety -third-st., who owns The Hotel brighton,
is directed TO place two lines Of microscopes on ms
buildmg The balconies are to- include the Two
sontberly windows on each story OF the Broadway
front and the fifth and sixth windows from Broad
way in Forty;second-st. Tho Belmont notei rs
Lake Mahopac. and Mrs. u. s. Coddlngton, of Nice.
France three buildings being included III the hotel
There arc iire-escapes IN the rear at present. but
Mr. Esterbrook desires the balconies to be extended
40 as to take in two additional windows on each
story lie also directs the building of three lines OF
escapes tho Fulton-st front one AT each ehd ana
one near the middle.
A TRIBUNE reporter called yesterday at the Office
of j. NJ. Knox, the agent Of tho Everett House.
The decision Of Inspector Ester6rook had not been
received but the reporter told that the require
ments Of the Bureau would be complied wIth j.
NJ. Knox IT,, said We have always considered
the house safe and did not know that
IL was being inspected. AT present there ~ III the
Everett House an automatic iire-alarm OH each
floor connecting with tho Office. where there IL a
kew for the alarm-box of the Fire Department"
John A. Weekes, the owner OF the Clarendon
Hotel, is in Spain, but John A. Weekes, jr., said
that the Clarendon was originally two hotels with
two broad staircases each house. solid brick
wall separated the two buildings, ana IN the thirty
five years that they had been Used as hotels there
had been no Of fire. The notices oil the bureau
of Buildings had not been received by Dir. Weekes
nj D. M, but he said that the orders would doubt
less be carried out as soon as practicaDe. -
The Belmont consists of three houses. William
S. Skidmore, of No. 80 Broadway Is Mrs. BRING
made's agent. lie said that there were iro escapes
on the rear of the bnlldlng pow and three endless
chains on the front. These chains he considered AZ
safe as any ladders and he at loss 10 know
why the balconies and ladders were needed on
such low buildings but he SAID that they would be
put on without delay. g.. Coddngton, ONO ~ wan,
St. the agent Of one OF the houses said that he had
no faith IN the Bureau of Buildings, adding This
rigid inspection. made ostensbly Tor the safety Of
the travelling public, Is really an effort to persuade
the people that the inspection OF buildings Is tooim
portant IA subject TO be consg ned to bureau, and
soon the attempt will be made to have Building
Department
The Hotel Brighton owned by G. w. Watson, is
small tnree-story house. III the Inspector insists
on having fire-escapes placed the outside OF the
building" said Mrs. Watson, " the hotel will be
ruined as 10 faces three streets In such promi-
nent position. IL is only three stories high and
there has never been fire there. There only
accommodations for about 100 guests and there
are ample means of escape now by the broad STAIR
cases opening into the streets"