The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-02
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Themselves IandIsrds-Tepaut Rebel.
The curious situation at 25 Chambers street,
where the property has been condemned 40
part OF the site for the now Hall OF Records and
abandoned to tho city by tho owners, the Nor.
mar Ia munro estate, and no one pays rent,
WINE the lanitor and engineer are endeavoring
to make a few dollars out of the remaining ten.
ants by furnishing heat. gas, water, and elevator
service on their own account, resulted in q
fight yesterday afternoon, which seems likely
10 bring the janitor and some of tho
tenants into court. John Fraser 10 the ~janitor,
and ). 1. Burns the engineer. When they first
found themselves left In charge of the building.
after John Mccarthy had tried in vain to collect
rents under an agreement he made with tho
Comptroller. by which he was to have half he
got, they had a talk with the tenants. and 1t was
agreed, they say, that tho tenants should pay a
weekly assessment to them which would be fair
pay for the cost of coal. gas, and service.
The property which was under their care in
cluded 20 Chamber street and 81 and % Centre
street. All the tenants in the Centre street
building agreed to pay. and have done SO. Some
OF those In 25 Chambers street also agreed to
pay. but. Wyman g. Sons. who had offices on the
second floor. would not pay. In an effort to
FORCE them to do 80. the impromptu landlords
ofiice Sn but Sne t sIsa did i noi NAVE .Re , fsa rsoojse n e saeir
owing to the warm weather OF last week. and to
the TACT that the big steam main which supplied
the, other offices In the building ran through
their rooms. When this week opened. with it's
colder weather. Fraser and Burns rcsorted to
moro radical measures. They shut OF the steam
from the entire Chambers street building and
objected to this and were willing to pay, they
offered offices In the Centre street building, and
J. I. SpraRue, Aaron Kaplan, and Eldridgc &
Co. moved into that building.
.Wyman & Sons made arrangements to go
elsewhere. and yesterday they began TO move.
About 2:30 o'clock men came to take away their
safe. In order to lower the safe they had to
have a window above In which to fix the TACKLE.
The room which was needed was u~noccupied and
locked, and Fraser says he had the key. Whether
he would have let Wyman have the key or not,
had he applied for II, Fraser does not say, but
he declares that Wyman the, elder went
tho lock. He declares that he found Wynan
and the safe movers there, and catching hold of
Wyman by tho arm exclaimed: "You have no
authority here. Got out!' Thereupon, he says,
Lemuel Wyman, one of the sons, Jumped at him
and struck him in the face.
After that there was q very pretty fight, ac-
cordinR to tho accounts of outsiders, in which
young Wyman got very much the worst OF 1t.
When Fraser and young Wyman were parted
Wyman the elder threatened to have Fraser ar
rested. and left tho building ostensibly for that
purpose. Fraser also left. The safe movers
took advantage Of this armistice to get the safe
out, and Engineer Burns did not interfere with
them.
There are still five tenants left in tho build
ing. and Fraser and Burns hope that with Wy
mar & Sons gone these may DO induced TO pay
enough to make tho building pay q profit for
running,