The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-24
WAR OF HOT AND COLD.
BETWEEN GROUND FLOOR AVID UP
STAIRS nv THE MN UGHLIN FLATS.

between r. J. Mclaughlin. tho owner OF the
apartment house at ~ East a1ty-sixth street.
his tenants, T.. V. skinner and jacques
Krakauer on tho one hand. and on the other
blstenant Peter Huykcndorf. the proprietor Of
tho drug store on the ground floor OF the
building. there is unappeasable warfare The
fight has been carried through the stages
OF argument. and diplomatic correspondence:
there have been appeals TO the courts,
and II Ia alleged by the employees OF
MIR Huykendorf that MIR. McLaughlins
mlnIons have had resort to arms. There
IL no doubt. apparently. that tho arts OF
strategy have been nearly exhausted by both
forces. The question is as to the temperature
OF the drug store and the temperature OF the
apartments OF the tenants above II.
Mr. Mclaughlin three years AGO put In a
heating system which seemed cminenty COM
Portable and satisfactory 10 tho SINNERS
and Krakauers but which. passing through
tho drug store on it's way up stairs,
brought perspiration. destruction and de-
spalr to tho dr. ggist. Tho system OF
heating adoptcd by Mr.. Mclaughlin IL an ar-
rangement by which steam brought In from
outside IL run through a coil in the basement
OF tho house. This coil heats the air In
large drum and the hot air is
conveyed through the walls In pipes
TO the apartments above. When cold weather
came this year Mr. Huykendorf. who bad OBJ
jected very mildly In past years. complained
that the not air PASSING IN through his walls
was making hi4 drug store uncomfortably
warm. He said that he hoped some way OF
reducing tho heat In tho store
might DO arranged teiOre II grew cold enough
10 make IL necessary to make the walls any
hotter. Mr.. Mclaughlin replied that he had
no reason to believe that the walls would grow
any warmer thnn they ever had been. and he
thought that when cold weather came Mr..
HuykendOri would find that the warmth OF the
walls provided Il very pleasant method OF
heating the store. Mr.. Huyrndort said he
had his doubts; Mr.. Mclaughlin said that
time would tell. few weeks later
Mr.. Huykendorl asserted with much smpha-
sis that time had told He demanded that
Mr.. Mclaughlin either reduce the heat or cut
it OF altogether: Mr.. Mclaughlin said that he
wouldn't do either. The dispute grow some
what acrimonious
Mr.. Huykendorf. with his lieutenant and
manager. Mr.. Jacobson. descended into the
cellar OF the drug store and looked over so
much OF the heating apparatus as passed
through their domain. They found that
three, ut least, Of the hot air pipes
from the drum in Mr.. McLaughlin's cellar
came through into their cellar before entering
the wall on their way IN stairs. Mr.. Huyken-
dort sent word TO Mr.. Mclaughlin that II that
heat was not cut on by somebody
he he would cut It on himself and
that quickly. Mr.. Mclaughlin replied
somewhat shortly that he might try II he
wanted to. but that II wouldn't he very good
for him to do It while Mr.. Mclaughlin was
around.
Mr.. Huykendorf promptly went out and
engaged tho services Of u staauilttcr He
brought the SteamAtter IN and had him
put tight hampers In them SO that
he druggist could in some measure reg rssglate
peraturo OF the store. M least in the front part.
grew I9eTEseptibly les -, The druggist dis;
he had Intercepted were only half Of those in
the Wall, and that the other three, those pass
were oSt q his S te rsN the
~ very lsT days after the pipes had been cut
S MI began h hear we're from a.
They wanted to know what was the .mattsr
Th reS sH' Ina, E" s tb ML%sS
thing was the matter with 1t; that three
tho whsn he Gnd sSUsd f"m
mace was al, that time sufocating them aud
had put in the new system they had been oyer
riety rather than 10 any, Just ground
We're cold They told him t to come "ar and III
around ~ their front rpoms and get ppeu-
Rs t. He Sad aEh been and the op h2w
ments five minutes before he went down
and asked Mr., Jacobson what in the mama
Informed that they had been dong n no
MeLanghlin summoned his ianitor in a coun-
The lanitor is a colored man and likes.okeep
the house warm for his own sake: he fully
HstymPathizsd with the complaint otthe tenants.
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they were altogether sealed He had them hem
surSsa into @ wa MNe lo tn ha, pines ESs
enemy pSfIsns d throHs l.a RE RrS viii polo
enemy. IN the person Of the eo.ored innitor.
a Mr. G Smd hH s's w q Ss
store sat on tho counters and kickei their
heels for Joy as they heard the end OF The jNni.
to alarm when they saw the come one il n ono
day and descend into the cellar with a doubic-
loud and explosive reports in the cellar and a
smell s Of burnt gunpowder came drifting mp
Store Tie %sc %, Sns h5 ag
ever. after their first alarm had subsidized that
hs S SSo arouSs M was It ahG TO shoot
rdgms wer. still safe
>, Meantime Mr.. Mclaughlin went to Justice
Truax OF the Supreme Court and asked for an
Injunction forbidding the druggist to cut OIL
the steam, OF his fellow tenants up
above, Justice Truax decided that
the druggist could do az he pleased
in his own cellar and denied tho np-
plication, There tho matter rested until the
last twist OF cold weather. Then the tcnants
upstairs went TO the Boari OF Health
cpd appealed to tho Hon. Michael G.
Murphy to, protect them from the
them with heat. The Health inspectors
have swarmed over the house. They told tho
tenants that their wrongs were certainly griey-
Gus and ought to he rcmediod They went
downstairs and told the druggist no ought TO
be- 6o ashamed q himself. and no showed
them II the Board OF Health was bigger
than the supreme Court And thGn they got
after MIR. Mclaughlin They have told him
That he must supply heat to the tenants In tho
apartments upstairs, md that he muRt not
overhead the drug store downstairs, and that
he must be quick about IL or take the conse-
quences.
And don't know" said Mr.. Mclaughlin to
hsuS reporter last night. but II seems TO mo
tlat am KIND OF up against il. ! have offered
70 break Huykondorl's three years tense for
him II no wants to do that. or to do almost any
thing else, but he won't, have it. don't know
what am going to do"
AZ ior the druggist his manager said last
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