New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-22
BUILT SINCE COLD SNAP.
NEW STRUCTURES LISTED.
4hearn Ready to Tear Dozen Unsafe
BuiLdings-Hopper Returning.

the six story building No. 81 West 135th-st fell
| yesterday. The building of the eight
| partly built structures IN West 135th-st. be-
! tween Lenox and 9TH aves., all of which were
more or less damaged on Sunday when the
walls began 10 crun1ble and fall. The portion of
! wall which fell yesterday was about twenty
i've feet wide and six stories high 1t had been
left standing without support, and a heavy
gust OF wind blew It over
| Inc wall or No. 80 Is likely to tumble at any
time Police from the East 126th-st station and
inspectors Of the Buildings Department are on
guard to prevent people from entering the va
cant lots at the rear OF the buildings
1t was stated at the Buildings Department
offices that no detailed reports had been re-
ceived from any Of the inspectors The officials
! spoke as though no such reports were expected
since 1t would require an Investigation much
more formal than is in the power of an inspector
to make to determine definitely the cause Of the
| trouble
Chief Inspector German has sent requests to
all or the contractors involved in the coIlapses
10 send their timebooks for the work specified to
| the buildings Department. These timebooks
VIII be compared with weather charts, to de-
| termlne whether masonry work of bricklaying
was carried on at times when the temperature
| was SO lew as to make the work unlawful
O!strIct Attorney Jerome said yesterday that
| ne mad no thought of calling the attention of
the grand jury to the unsafe condition of build
! ings uptown which have been ready to fall
since the frost went out of the walls
1t Is plain that some one has been careless
IN putting up such buildings he said 'but it is
the duty of the Borough President or his SUPER
| intendent of Buildings to see that the buildings
are torn down If they cannot be made safe. The
decisions of the courts have made If inonossibIa
TO convict anybody of neglect of duty unless
! we can show something worse than that We
couldn't convict building inspector of neglect
OF duty, because 1T would be shown that he has
more buildings to inspect than he can get around
to In a. week. think the best way is for the
Buildings Bureau to refuse permits for the
erection of more buildings than it's inspectors
can watch There would be more inspec-
tors then
John L. Jordan. Deputy Superintendent of
Buildings, yesterday gave out list Of sixty
seven tenement and apartment houses in this
borough begun since the cold weather set in on
December l last
Our inspectors viii turn in detailed reports
on all Of these buildings before Tomorrow
night" said Chief Inspector German eff we
find that anything is the matter with the build
ings we shall put violations them and stop
work at once. If of them are occupied
and we find that there are indications of the
walls settling or bullying we shall order every
one out and not allow the buildings to be oc-
eupled until they are again made safe"
The list of sixty-seven houses is as follows:
No ISL ,1st-ave
Nos Nos 7 So to Sn "a a9 saI ESs SAth-'t.
| No. 1907 to 1,1OS. Sd-ave
! Central Park West. between I'D and 74th SITS
North side lSatst 1877 feet west Of columbasave
ds ae5 feet snG w df Gen5rs Park
M Sos side a9 9 1G5 feet Of 2d-ave.
| Southwest corner ave and 117th-st.
South side side is IS O feet feet west Of
SSS C: SIDE side l4ost % 40 f. east Of
South side i41sts 243 feet e' weS of Il Lenoxave
North SIDE 1ssthst. As teet east Of Lsnox-
North eide Is9th-st.. 500 feet west OF 5th-ave.
south sac 1871 l$sthsf IS rset Of
as corner sSe fes and Tf i4s sts
Soth side i9ohst iso feet east o. Of Andubonave
SSs ess "a e.; s: and
o ssd s5 i, and fa Riverside s e,
southwest corner sSthSs ana Mad!ss9-
So Gt SIDE Of ia2d.s9 Us # Of Ams5srdamavs
cOTns aide sad 5S
sogpssst corner l lS1 and Anssssdam-ave
Soshwest corner os a ana
e. ss 5 ' i d Ess5 iil55 IL # Of
. 5ssf south Ct , .ss1v
NSTfh s!as s 1sss Ssi. :.
North side i47thest 200 feet west Of Tth-ave.
sas ep5s ss. s5 es, an" ss
| South side i59th-st., 200 feet east OF Broadway
'' west vest OF Amsterdam
s sSSts's sde e fGa. s' 80 fe we
South side llsthst $ feet west Of Amsserdam-ave
SSTh s,ss coPser iis aos i and sd-eTe
Nos ~. 10. "a sp4 ~ zoo 's feet
| Southeast corner i49th- st. and Bradhurst-ave.
S os : slss rasi is feet west q 7aTe
I'VE shall not hesitate to tear down any build
| ines that show the slightest signs of being I'M
| safe /" said Borough President Ahearn yesterday,
| after consultation with Chief Inspector Cor
man. where the buildings up and inclosed
| the chances are that they all right and that
| they are safe for occupancy. / got wire from
Superintendent Hopper to-day. He says that
he is on the sick list, but that he will start for
| New-York at once. and he will be here on
! Thursday Friday"
When Chief Inspector German asked If it
would not be possible to refuse the building
| plans of builders whose structures had collapsed
| this week. he said:
The building code does not leave us much
! discretion on that line. If plans sent TO
! the drawings show, and obliged to pass
them no matter what the objection to the
! builders may be-"
! The Building law regarding foundation walls
| be we'll bedded and laid crosswise edge TO edge
and "etones shall be firmly bedded in cement
mortar and all spaces and joints thoroughly
| filled"
A eursory inspection yesterday at No . O5e
| 1st-ave., however, showed that sections OF these
walls had apparently been formed of mica stone
| and flint so undressed TO project ragged teeth
in some cases several inches apart many of the
| interspaces being only partly filled with a MKT
/ ure or cement mortar and plain Manhattan
mould. all more or less brittle and readily fri