New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-21
MORE ROTTEN WALLS FALL
BRICKS FREE OF MORTAR.
What Photographs Shopc-Many
Ne7o Buildings to Come Dozcn.
BUILDINGs THAr HAVE COLLAPsED.

BUILDINGS THAT HAVE COLLAPSED.
No. 81 West 1s5th-st. six story brick double Hat
house. five stories completed; fell down at o'clock
Sunday morning.
story double athouse, completed to roof; coll
Iapsed O'Clock sunday afternoon
1ssth-st just east of Road. five story brick
hathouse completed to roof: tumbled in ruins at
o'clock Sunday evening.
No. eS7 East 1OSd-st.. six story brick hathOuse,
nearly completed; II o'clock Sunday night.
No. 1s5th-st.. twin building to No. 81, fell
a so o'clock Sunday night.
No. 2O5s 1st-ave, five story brick building. nearly
cOmpIetedi went down at o'clock last evening.
IN sHAKY CONDITION
The Of houses extending from Ne 81 to S.
West IS5th-st. These story hathOuses.
some of them completed
Nos. 1901. 1908 and sS65 OF the row
with No. 2.059. which fell last evening.
Following the fan OF half dozen unfinished
or newly completed buildings up town on sun
day came the collapse late yesterday afternoon
of the new nearly finished five story brick build
ing No. 2059 1st-ave,. one of a row Of four
such structures. near 1O6th-st- The three re-
naming buildings Of the were in such a
shaky condition last evening that they were ex-
pected to fall.
1t was said that the collapse of No. 2O59 was
probably due TO the use of freezing mortar in
violation of the law. The police OF the East
1O4th-st. station went out in search Of the own
er and contractor. NJ F. Fine, of No. "a
Broome-st
The scores of workmen left the buildings at
80 p. m, apparently believing everything was
all right. About fifteen minutes later a crashing
sound was heard and then the entire rear Of
10. 2O59 collapsed. The rear wall and floors
all crashed into the cellar. leaving the front and
side walls practically unsupported
ment in the neighborhood, which is filed with
Italians. Policeman Urstadt of the East 1O4th-
ST. station, sent in call for reserves, and the
block was roped off. The Department Of Build
ings was informed and worl1men began Snoring
up TIE ether three buildings. The police said no
person had been hurt in the fall of No. 2,059-
MANY. BUILDINGS TO COME DOWN
Borough President HafTen intfmated last night
that most OF the brickwOrk all the buildings
erected last winter in the borcughs OF Man
haitian and The Bronx win have to come down,
entailing loss of perhaps $2,O00OO0 or S3.-
100000 to the builders. This state OF affairs Is
due to the collapse OF walls of buildings
in various parts of Manhattan and The Bronx
on Sunday afternoon and yesterday, and the
further indications that other newly laid walls
will soon follow.
Tribune reporters and photogra piers who vis-
tied the wrecked buildings yesterday discovered
that the fallen bricks are clean. the mortar not
having adhered 10 than. This indicates Grim
inal carelessDess on the Part Of builders and in
spectors that outrivals the record of Budden-
sick. who was sent to prison for gross viola
tion of building laws that CAUSED frightful loss
OF human life
The total ruin Of some Of the walls in the de-
stroyed buildings visited yesterday leaves no
room for doubt that II people had been living
in these dwellings, the loss of life would have
been enormous. Instead Of being misfortune.
the collapse OF the walls seems 10 have been
godsend, coming as il did before the buildings
in process Of construction sheltered any families.
As a result OF the falling OF new walls the
Buildings Department is IN q panic Isaac A.
Hopper is in Florida, largely on account OF the
Illness of his wife. Deputy superintendent John
L. Jordan is III. and the Office stan is in state
OF trernor.
AHEAItN STARTS INVESTIGATION.
Borough President Ahearn practically took
charge of things at the Buildings Department
yesterday. and made personal Inspection os
the fallen buildings in the Borough of Manhat-
tn. When he ret&rned to his osIlce at the CITY
Hell he said TO Tribune reporter that he had
conferred with the engineers Of the Buildings
Department and with Bernard German. acting
head Of The bureau in the. absence OF Superin-
tendent Hopper. and his deputy. John L. Jor-
dan.
Il have ordered a rigid investigation OF the
whole business to be made al once" he said It
have sent for Superintendent Hopper, who prob
ably wlll start for home at once. 1t is my lnteG-
ton 10 go 10 the bottom OF this whole transac-
ton aud % Insist on proper punishment for thoso
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