The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-19
CONDEMN 80 STATION HOUSES.
HEALTH OFFICIALS HELP GEN.
BYNGHAM'S BUILDING BOOM.

Orders Issued to Make Old Structures SanI-
tary at Once-Police Commissioner
Passes the Situation Along to the
Aldermen-Hurry Call for Cash.
Tho Police Department and the Board
of Hellth have locked horns-or maybe
they've joined forces. Alderman Davies,
chairman Of the FnancSCommittee Of the
Board Of Aldermen, called on Deputy Com
missioner Waldo yesterday in relation to an
order which the Board Of Health sent to
COMMISSIONS Bingham, c~ondemning thir-
ty-two station houses, The Commissioner
had referred It to the Board Of Aldermen.
About eadqunreB some people think
that there is a joker In the Health Boards
action and that Gen! Bingham Is forcing the
Board Of Aldermen to give him an e~pproprt-
alton for nav police stations.
Ina talk with the reporters some time ago
the Commissioner said he wished he could
thinkof some plan by which he could make
the Board of Aldermen see the necessity
for new buildings,
II was suggestedto the Commissioner that
n might be q good idea to convince the
Board Of Health that the station houses
were unsanitary.
Hum, that's Q good idea said the Com
missioner With q grim smile.
Nothing moro was heard OF the matter
until yesterday.
Chairman pa vies went up 10 800 Mulberry
street, seemlnely q bit disturbed. He ex-
planned to Deputy Commissioner Waldo
that the Board Of Aldermen could do moth
Ing until the Board Of Estimate and APP
~portionment acted he said, however, that
he was willing to do all he could
to help The Commissioner out Of
the hele. II Ia expected now that the
Corporation Counsel will be called In to help
Gen. Bingham, 30 that the Commissioner
can get after the Board Of Estimate.
The orders Of the Board Of Health were In
thirty-swo separate communications con-
oemnIng thirty-two station houses as being
totally nnsanitary and a menace to health,
The Board OF Health ordered the Police Com
forthwith and informed him that be vio-
lates the law II he does not do 30. The city
ence 10 tho health laws. Section 1862 says
that failure to comply with the Ia wi Is q misde-
meanor and subjects the responsible party
Deputy Commissioner Waldo, In the alb
snee Of the Commissioner ,eays that be 10 not
afraid that he or his superior Ia going to Be
arrssted.
sary repairs, he said yesterday. We put
t up to the Beard q A4asr%sn, az they
and Apportionment. We can only wait.
Something has certainly got to b DONE
though, and I am glad that the Board OF
Health has taken this action, for now the
public will realize what a state these station
houses are In"
Following is a list Of the buildings con-
demned:
The Elizabeth street. Madison street. Charles
street, Fast i2:d street, West Forty seventh street,
West lSsd street, East lesth street, Old Slip, Oak
street, Mercer street, the Arsenal. East Thirty
NTH street. East Fifty-nrst street. East Eighty
eighth street, East Slxty-seventh street, Pas. ioath
Tweniie, aSa s,pes,, S unioin Marked ni Leonard sssss' ., resi-
Madepusl street Anlbeiry street, T:ndsrloln.
seventh greet, pslancey street, West siIty-eIghth
station houses.
In q letter TO the Bosrd Of Aldermen
sarah b. Emerson. first director Of the
Women's Prison Association and Isaao T.
Hopper Home, makes Some soathing re-