New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-16

violation continues. All the houses built nv pudder.s.s
a aps so,a ss quickly as possible after they
hands before we can begin legal proceedings TO have ~
violations removed That the IN the case Of
stream Of water through the foundation walls ana
across The muddy cellar bottoms Of those honses
holes In the walls into the yards The interior irIt
shafts dividing twelve houses II East Seventy
were built without brick In such iinsy manner thai
re In any one house would have spread quickly to ali bs
Others They were large tenement houses they werc
nearly hnisned when the Inspector Of Buildings dIsce
cred the fraud aud compelled Buddensek to erect brtes
walls about the shafts One Of Buddenseks economiea
tricks Is 10 make single connection seyerai
houses, when the law requires separate connecfoa
for each house. Work has been stopped his baldnes
IN order to make the workmen accept fifty cents on ~
dollar for their back pay and At one time his employees
large share of his profits"
". p Esterbrook, who recently retired from HIS posi-
ton as Inspector Of Buildings, returned homo LAT
evening from visit to Railway He has
been be- aa a nS, from n. The s
but recalled ndistnctly the of sptzer arch
II would not have forgotten them had Budde,ses..
name been connected with the buildings" said Mr. "a
Textbook shutting one eye and looking the top Of
there may be men who have put up worse baildpgsbut
the worst OF them. If / knew that IN S Ia
was putting up abuildng. would place two men to
Has he not been building all The timer asked the re-
porte.
thought that he was getting OF the business the last
year MY history with him is this. knew OF him ba-
fore came into the Building Department and soon
found what KIND or man he MAS. He Is not j con-
tractor but specuator OF the SHINING class drought
suit against him two three years ago IN q square case
for using bad material In the foundation build
ngs. He beat though It cost him pile of money IN
do It, and told him. I'll worry you whenever find Won
this kind OF business. For little didn't hear
from nm; then l found ont that he had down at
No. 200 Broadway who appeared as owning the houses
he built. Why, read his statement In HE TRIBUNE
Tuesday and that enough TO convict hin. lie says
that he knew that morning that the foundation were
being washed out. Well. bless your soul. what Kind Of
mortar used the foundations II the the
water, and line them with god mortar"
DO you think him the responsible person In this
AFFAIR."
lie is the criminal. lie was doing 1t deliberately
The sub-contractor knew we'll enough what going
but he Is simply employe and making his bread
and butter The examiner or the district responsible
II he did not know his business he had no business DO
there Any proper man tell whether the mortar Ia
made up OF loan, gardeners mould sand and he
doesn't have to examine 1t much TO find out either
That's all sham about not having the time there
being enough men TO do this work The city has plenty
or men at the work. and the present inspector good
honest young man, think but he has his hands
tnaD he calculated Tue present system Is RESPONSE
bic and the public Will take heavier doses than this II
the system IL not remedied The Inspector OF Builanes
should be- responsible TO the Mayor and be should have
the IOwer 70 enforce the prosecution for violations
reported l.4oO violations last year About do
were prosecuted The inspector cannot stay In his office
around and that his regulations being carried