The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-01
ENGINE COMPANY EVlCTED.
FAILED TO PAY $2,f25 RENT FOR
COMFY ISLAND HOUSE,

Volunteers Had Waited Since June N
TO Execute Judgment Horses. Engine
and Other Effects Put on Street-New
Lease Was Authorized Yesterday.
Engine Company las of the New York
Fire Department, stationed at Coney Island,
was yesterday turned into the street by
City Marshal Alonzo Glover, attached
to the Bath Beach Municipal Court, by
order of Counsellor Henry M. Cummings.
attorney for the judgment creditors, the
Coney Island Volunteer Fire Department.
Non-payment Of rent by the city and the
refusal OF Comptroller Grout to renew the
lease with the Volunteer Department men,
who own the property, are the causes Of
the trouble.
On June II Counsellor Cummings brought
suit for rent due in the Bath Beach court
and obtained Judgment by confession.
The judgment is for four years rent,
amounting to $2,l25 and interest.
Yesterday afternoon at 2 O'Clock City
Marshal Glover and a score of assistants,
Counsellor Cummings and the trustees OF
the Coney Island Volunteer Fire Depart
ment marched to the engine house and asked
for Foreman Thomas Harrington
Il am not in command said Harrington,
knowing what was coming. -Chief Kirk
patrick is upstairs.
Kirkpatrick said he was not in command,
and the Marshal read the disposs 50 notice
aloud without waiting longer.
Foreman Harrington called up Fire Head
quarters and asked for inst ructions.
Il have been told TO re sist eviction" he
said. And will obey orders"
Glover demanded that the foreman order
his men to take their appa ratus ont.
Not on your life," said Harrington.
If we go out, we will be thrown out"
Throw the whole thing out" said Glover
to his helpers.
Meantime Kirkpatrick called up Com
missioner Laimbeer. The Commissioner told
him to parley with the Marshal until he
could get to the scene. On his arrival,
however, he found the Marshal and his
men piling the beds. bedding and personal
effects Of the fourteen men attached to the
company on the sidewalk in front of the
house, while an immense crowd stood about.
Police Captain Dooley was asked to inter-
fere.
The law is very plain, said the Captain.
Il must protect the City Marshal and
preserve peace.
Commissioner Laimbeer assured Coun-
selor Cummings that the Sinking Fund
Commission had passed resolution yes
terday authorizing new lease for 81 GOO
year rent. A certified copy Of this reeo-
luton the Commissioner said, was on his
desd He pleaded for a stay Of execution.
He was told that il was impossible.
Alderman Lundy of Sheepshead Bay
offered to Commissioner Laimbeer his
personal check for s2.l25. The offer was
refused, on the ground that the Commits
sioner had no authority TO close the matter
in that WY
When the effects were on the street
the firemen, under orders from Chief
Murray, who had arrived, harnessed the
horses and dragged the apparatus to
side street. Louis Stauch. A business
man, offered his stable adjoining the engine
house. for a temporary headquarters.
Commissioner Laimbeer AZ first accepted
the offer. but subsequently ordered the
company to move into the house occupied
by Engine Company 1876, in West Fifteenth
street.
At 5 clock last night the men, with their
beds on a wagon, followed by an immense
crowd, drove their machine and tender To
the West Fifteenth street house, where they
bunked in with the men of that company
for the night.
Lawyer Cummings said last night that
his clients had been very lenient with the
Fire Department
1.-THE case wss begun in December last. ="
he said. ave obtained Judgment by con-
fession on June II end suspended orera ton
Of the warrant. Not he9 ring from the Fire
Commissioner or Ccmpt roller Grout yester-
day. when the time l'td expired, we con-
cluded that the city did not care to renew
the lease CT retain possession of the premises
and took action
SHOULD the Corporation Counsel ring
such lense as suggested by Comm 81 ner
Laimbeer will see that IL is proper ex-
ecuted at noon tomorrow and he compa nv
put Immediately into possession. If no
such lease is made we will be fore ed 10 tesr
out all the wires. bella and other fixtures
We are entitled to possession and we intend
to have il.
Business men on Conev Island were much
exercised last night over the rumor thet
the fire insurance companies would he
come alarmed and cancel policies indin-
criminptely. on the ground that greater
danger exists because Of the eviction of the
firemen.