New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-05
THE BILL EMASCULATED.
TO TENEMENT-HoUsE I'M
PROVEMENT
cupER SAYS THE FRYER AMENDMENTS ~
THE MEASURE PROPOSED BY HIS COM
MII.TEE WILL PREVENT SEVERAL
NECESSARY REFORMS.

vr,s,-RE PROPOSED BY HIS COM
MITTEE WILL PREVENT SEVERAL
NECESSARY REFORMS.
Watson Glider Editor OF The Century
n,as chairman OF the Tenement House Co''
WV .,ra conversing with Tribune reporter
m i'' the hill now In the hands or the "eha'e
assembly Committees IN Cities sdiu !e''
u..rn Is no good reason why me 49,, JC !, was
mould report the OH IN me oSners and builders of
rerfionen, houses At request OF the nnSar
tenement the committee held frequent confer
enSes interests and Superint endent pr" -, nnn,
Department GO lions but the bill amended by
Der o. g,veT Of the Building Department; so n,,if
beyond me principal p, visions of the original Dill
e;nstance nothing is better Known a', s tSan
FOR ne conyersant with the origin OF nre9 '"@m
who arehoiiins and the making OF cruliers etc IN
SSGeries are among the most dangerous ~ Iii now
tans rried in tenement houses AS IN. effert
ConJs there is simple requirement 10 the .
that after September l. 1885, no baker, pnatntsne
Nrsness in which fat Is boiled snail De n,t'' %an
o. any tenement house that Is not hreprool' eNut.
Nv a permit from and undar sucn Th5s &c @ss
~ nrescrihed bv the Fire Department Inns - ~,
.pous than the requirement first suegesIIa ny
he committee driving such occupas'ohhn ,t the mod
Scson 10 not injurious and it certainly empooe n
reasonable and necessary provision m n,ierv In
knocks out the whole clause ana TINS i "'''
admissible .,,.oo have given way
70 the sweeping nature Of the changes III ene
bill. both to present hre danger ,hs future
ment- houses and IN relation rho 10 Tsnemen; House
Committee of 1854 commence 70 cover larger
area than IS per cent OF the lT'S was made or
sona Iu With the Building Department b 20 Its sre
much greater area to be cSeer csommisson Of lSa,
has proved the rule and I'M NE should be fixed
peS cent without option for it. 1s6 ana
air for the Occupants OF the assv demons,Tab
cseassd a Ssnt OF Covered sucen, for al
~ ~ me Commission. and Is one Of the mos So'npc
tent and experienced architects OF A,ersoa, s eve3
Tor a single moment that the legislature s sane
upon deal with cond,'ion H.. OF oyprcrowdIns in
fha tenement houses OF New-York IS unpreceoen'tu
and the dangers from IRE IN ms Guy as Of The
Srea occur is so great that the tota! annual COST
OF maintaining the New-York FIRE Depaf tmen. y
twice that of the London department ana Is proo
sSIv 4 10 in proportion to the population OF me
respective cities. In view Of all this Is a'haLns
20 find owners and builders strenuous:y oolectins
even to freproof staircase in four-si1ry double
The wallpaper amendment. about which here was
uch hue and cry. has been changed so that II
hurts no one. it now simply requires me Santar!
OF emoy b,r a h e new S PAPER pu
poor man. who lives in tenement mouse IN nus
CITY told me that in his APARTMENT he had found ;
walls and said he wa" very glad mat an attempt
Was being made .Sa to 9p H the 'S b OF by
committee thoroughly understand that u = neoe.
eary for them to claim that improved 'rnemen,-
emit shape OF the bill and with constantly decreasing
prices of hreproof building material ani IN , ye|
srs by all the laws proposed by he committee. BY
and builders Of aforementioned snail make thesa
laws In their own personal Interests; or 'had they
S ey MADE a feT }Se Rer Tsa q '' @
which the Legislature is called upon 20 decide