New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-05
n HAVE LAW CHANGED.
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-, and that the laborers had 20 pull the beams
nsek into plumb
.rs morning District Attorney Jerome. As
-. district Attorney Train and Henry Du
-. Parsons brother OF William Barclay Par
- ans several photographers from the Dis
- attorneys Office visited the collapsed
- 90, make an inspection OF the wreck and
80 photographs for use in the investiga-
.-,-. instruct Attorney said afterward that
- -, rossIble at present TO determine where
p. -.snorsIbiIity for the disaster lay.
va. cannot gel at the facts Of the disaster
- t,c debris has been cleared away and
-, .,,,rdations have been laid bare ne sala'
=. ,,,.tar win now be left I'm Mr.. Parsons
-. and De win determine the cause or the
- The debris is being carried TO the Cor
.--sfiou Yards under The personal supervision
q Nr Jordan ----,-,-.. -.
a. Jerome was asked about the complaint OF
s. D ,le5 bv Inspector French. just prior
:. she collapse o. the building. winch charged
-. some Of the girders were not properly
boied .,,,.. ,o.o,.,o .-t,,,
- hello. and il was the girders themselves
-. ave way The debris looked as If the
building had sunk N to"alu NV ''0' "a
section Of the plot -
:, nsuding. and that this inspector should be
''., -. ,,e ,ortreofor. The regular inspectors
80 oversee the work Of these temporary men,
,.,-crease the force Of building inspectors sufi-
IS N have a man for each building under
I'd the city would be too great burden
-. prlding Superintendent therefore shoulu
..-ss the power TO appoint these special IN
s,s-sors and the expense Of the Inspection
sbould be put on the contractor.
ubBe ne was talking Mr. jerome was called
cav He returned ia half hour and said ne
IA beep talking with Eugene Allison ana
esoree r. Allison. Of the Allison Realty Com
,snv He said he had examined them in Mt
r-ain's Office.
Il was very much impressed with the All
,,,s II" said Mr.. Jerome. They were very frank
With me. and told me that the papers ana DOCKS
a no company were al my disposal az any time
7 ,hoose 10 look at them. They denied having
rv -ssponsibility for the disaster. They say
"a. thsy owned the land and wanted 10 erect a
ho,el and employed architects and contractors
npu ND the building. They say that they paid
no contractors from time TO tine as the work
r-orressed. and that they were heavy losers
Coroner SchoIer intimated that a letter had
hasp found IN Frank Allison's clothing, sent by
ne Building Department, and ordering work on
he building stopped forthwith. A number OF
letters were found which the coroner would not
make public but Of which he said:
They are extremely interesting. They may
come IN az the right time later on"
COMPLAIN OF TIFFANY BUILDING.
Charges Of faulty construction similar 10
hose made over the Hotel Darlington have
been preferred against the contractors who are
erecting the new Tiffany building. at Thirty
sixth-st and Fifth-ave.: the Gorham building
Thirtv-hfth-st. and Fifth-ave-. and a large Of
Ace building at Duane-st. and Broadway. Mr.
jordan declared his inspectors had reported TO
him violations OF the building law in those
structures and that he had informed the con-
tractors that the work must be so altered as 10
comply with the law.
These contractors" said Mr. Jordan, rush
W their iron frames IN the winter and wait for
the warm weather TO build their stone or brick
hoor arches Under the law the irOnwork OF a
building must not be put up higher than three
floors above each floor arch. This is the prin-
ciIal VOCATION against the contractors have
named"
II h said that ironworkers are deserving their
labor on large buildings by the wholesale as
he result OF fear.