New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05

sufficient 10 defeat the project and the work Of
building the St. Regis was pushed rapidly ahead
Then when the walls had risen high above the
surrounding residences n big piece OF granite broke
away from its fastenngs one day and crashed
through the roof Of James Eyerard's house, next
door IN FTfth-ave. Considerable damage was done,
and the storm Of protest against the presence Of tho
hotel al Fifth-ave and Fifty-ffth-st. broke out
afresh. Surveyors were employed. and IT was
demonstrated that the FIfth-ave. entrance of the
hotel and the entrances OF the Fifth Avenue Presby
tefian Church less than two hundred feet apart
was said about this tirae that the owner Of the
hotel purchased two lots adjoining the hotel site in
Fifty-hfth-ft and fled plans for eighteen story
addition This the signal for fresh Outburst
OF Indignation. At once It conjectured that the
plan was 10 place the cafe in this addition and get
Its entrance outside Of the 2oo-foot limit Soon aAer
the Pulitzer dwelling house was destroyed by fire.
and the property. 80 feet adjoining the new hotel
plot came into the market
Resolved to check the spread of the hotel holdings
III possible. the property owners combined and pur-
chased the Pulitzer plot. A short time after the
purchase they sold il 10 W. w. & T. n Hall, build
ers These owners erected a private dwelling house
On the half the plot and sold the half ad
Joining the hotel property TO the hotel owners. 1t
was announced that the sale carried with il restric
Tons that private house should be built the
plot The excavation upon II has, however. been
carried 20 the depth that for the hotel addi
oon first proposed, and the leaders OF the war
ae@-nst The hotel telling themselves that they
nave been outwitted.
Whether the hotel cafe viii be placed finally in
Us new addition Is not clear At the present time
he cafe IS on the ground floor in the southeast
'fFner. most remote from the church.
nose opposed TO the sale OF liquor in the hotel
= NAT. re matter where the cafe IS so lcng the
TIiul-aVe entrance remains within 200 feet of the
cAuFea entrance no liquor can legally be sold The
I'D" provides that license shall be granted to
Hehc In liquor IN any building. yard, booth or
other place which shall be upon the street or
eFehue ana within 200 feet of building exclusively
occupied as church schoolhouse. the measure
els 10 be taken in a straight line from the centre
y Iie nearest entrance of the building used for
1.h church or school to the centre OF tho nearest
uahee OF the place in which such liquor traffic is
oesreo TO be carried on"
- security felt by the property owners IN this
DH Vi me law was severely shaken when II
:, announced that a bill providing for the issue
incense within the 20O-foot limit provided the
ch n question waived its prohibitory rights
p@Sseo the legislature and received the Gov
signature. Nor was their anxiety Iessened
- 49, IL was pointed out that even II the consent
O.. otAfds OF the property holders in the 200
os mint was withheld. which would have been
D.eoFy under the law as It originally stood the
nt Oh the church might be considered sufficient
los lew amendment and tho wishes OF the