The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-16
KNEIPP CURE A FALLS.


ne Says the wall WISE U~ndsrntned by the
Water OF the Swimming Task It En-
closed and That the German Keeper or
the Care wculdn't Let Hin stop Leaks.
The rear wall OF DR.. G. A. Bodies Father So
bastian Kneipp Water Cure. at Q and 4 East
Forty-ffth street, fell into q hole yesterday
morning. The hvlo was made by the employees
of Contractor t. p. GalliEan, who has under
taken to prepare a foundation for Delmonico'a
new uptown building. As their names indi-
cate, DR.. Bode Is n German and Contractor GAL
ligan Is an Irlshman. The statement of the
Building Department with regard to the acct
dent implies that the fall OF the wall is COM
pletely justified and accounted for by the differ
ence between the nationalities of DR.. Bode and
Contractor Gallignn.
DIR. Bodies building used to be n swimming
school. When he took charge of the place he
made IL into q water cure. The water-oure
mysteries are most of them up stairs; a con-
s~ultation room and q little store for the sale Of
horbs are on the first floor: behind them is the
big swimming tank, which is almost as wide as
the building itself and runs to the end of the
lot. The building itself does not fill the lot.
From the place where the building stops, q glass
skylirht bridges the space to the rear wall OF the
lot, an elght-inch brick wall about twenty feet in
height. This is the wall that slid into the hole.
All around the swimming tank were little
dressing rooms. Under the skylight end was
scenery representing mountains and sky and
clouds and FIR trees and q tin waterwheel that
revolved simply because II was 90 happy in its
sylvan environments. Back Of tho scenery was
a row of dressing rooms. when the wall slid
into the. hole these dressing rooms were left
open to the chill breezes and to the inspection of
passers by on Forty-ffth street. on the other
Ut is Just as we'll" said Harry DAILY. DR..
ming sl Rir'n sfhl whG the nsa ws sh' Isl when vi mi i, DID, iT,m IN
the night. To-day was ladies' day"
Mr.; Daly laid the whole fault on the contractor
lie said. the cracks IN the wall had caused DR..
Bode to ask Mr., Galligan 70 shore up the rear
dies" through, the water cure to secure it: this
involved piercing the water tank.
"Whoi Is 1t that recompensates me for the In
jury to my business when the water is out
gone 7" inquired the Doctor.
inGly unsympathetio answer. Mr.. Galiiean
made other propositions. but. as all of them In
volyed injury TO DR.. Bodies business, he refused
to allow the contractors workmen to enter tho
place until Mr.. Galligan would promise to pay
for the damage.
cola winter air came In through the cracks aud
made Mr.. Daly's bathers SILVER
dressed in teeny little bits of tights, suffer SOL
In the past few days the Doctor had been
until it broke. ana then he would exclaim We
1920 oeaiLob III SNuSi WI anu lolI "a
ceeding wickedness.
On Monday night an inspector came and
looked the wall over. He telephoned TO his SUI
pertors that the wall was not remarkable for
stability. but that there was not the slightest
danger that 1t would fall unless more under
mining was done. II could certainly wait for a
daylight inspection, he said. A few hours after
ward the wall slid into the hole.
Contractor GilliRan was not grief stricken.
Their dam tank his son said yesterday.
has been leaking through under that shyster
wall onto us for two months. And we have been
paying good money to have 1t pun ped out. We
wanted them to let us get in and cork up the
tank. 'Ach. Colt. nein! It would hurt the
trade The Building Department notified him
that his wall was shaky., Even then he wouldn't
let US get in there to fix 1t. 1t couldn't possibly
be fixed from the outside. When the water
from the tank had undermined 1t badly enough
the whole thing caved in. It's a wonder the
tank didn't come. too"
Deputy Superintendent Vreeland OF the Build
ing Department said the responsibility lay be.
tween DR.. Bode and Contractor GalliRan. The
contractor. Mr.. .Vreeland said. was known to DO
one OF the most skilful shorers in the business.
MIR. Nreeland said the accident couldn't posi-
bly, be considered the fault of the Building De-
partment.
"Bode should have let Galligan fix things up."
he said. and then have gone TO q civil court for
damages incurred"