New-York tribune., 1902-12-04
NO PERMIT TO CUT WALL
BUILDLNG LA w VIOLATED IN
BURBRLDGE HOUSE.
LAWYER AND ARCHITECTS DENY THEY
KNEW SECRET EXIT FROM FAR
RELL's ROOMS WAS TO
BE MADE

oficials Of the Building Department declared
yesterday that no permit had been given TO the
owners Of the houses Nos 81 and 33 West
Thirty third-st. to the wall dividing those
houses. When the latter place. known as Frank
FarreIs gambling house, entered on Mon
day night the raiding party found an entrance
from the fourth story into the adjoining house,
where the gambling paraphernalia that was
seized was found 1t is asserted that the fol-
lowing clause in Section of Part II Of the
Building Code has been violated:
Ordinary repairs Of buildings or structures or
of the plumbing drainage thereof. may be
made without notice to the Department of
Buildings. but such repairs shall not he con-
strued include the cutting away of any stone
or brick wall. or any portion thereof, or the re-
moval or cutting of any beams or supports.
Two applications have been made within the
last three years the Buildings Department for
alterations to these houses. but neither applica-
ticn contained any request for permit 10 cut
the wall between the houses. Both of these ap-
riications for alterations We're granted.
s On October 81. 1901. William 7. Burhridge.
owner Of No. IS West Thirty-third-st made the
following application:
To build an addition to existing house "a feet
s inches deep. full width of lot To take down
side and end walls of extension built, one
por+ion to go to third floor and another portion
70 90 TO fourth floor. To build elevator in
cioeed IN four inch terra Gotta blocks resting
three inch terra Gotta blocks resting con-
crete These hoists TO go from basement to the
fourth floor
Louis Korn. lessee of No. 81 West Thirty
third-st.. which house is owned by William
Waldorf Astor. made the following application
or May Is. 1902:
II is proposed TO take out front of first story
and basement ever opening; to set two twelve
inch / beams of forty pounds each, resting on
granite blocks: TO erect snow WinooW pIoJect.
line IN he
angle and T iron: TO build area wall GalVan-
lied cornices will be used Building viii be oc-
capied for offices
Louis Korn. the lessee of No. 81, who Is on
the records the architect for these altera-
tions said last night:
There no hole cut from this mouse 10 1he
one next door. to my knowledge. and knew Of
no gambling paraphernaila being stored on the
ton floor This floor used by me as q
drafting room. and the balance Of the house Is
rented for offices and stores. 1 made regular
visits 10 the house and I never saw anything
Of the sort that the raiding party claims tney
did"
Charles A Pea body. 5r., Of Nc IL Park-aFe-'
LAWYER for the Astor estate. said that he ala
,,o1 think the owner of house was responsible
for violations of the building laws, if such were
broken without the owners knowledge Il GER
tainlv did no1 know he said, that any walt
in the house which MIR. Astor owns had been
cut through" ttxyyyL
Clarence Luce OF No. 242 Fourtn-ave., the
architect of the alteration in Burbridge's house,
said yesterday:
L decorated the house at No. 33 West Thirty-
third-st but know nothing of any hole being
cut in the wall. [ made the plans for removal
ing the house. but the building of an addition
was the only work done that required the tear
Ing down Of any walls. and permission was
granted by the Buildings Department TO DO
that A man from Brooklyn named Moran dio
The rebuilding He was recommended TO Bur
bridge by Kennedy
District Attorney Jerome, when asked If the
police had any right to chop from one house
irto another, said
L am not answering any hypothetical ques-
tions on points of law. Go and see Mr.. Dele
hanty"