New-York tribune., 1911-12-30
Joy OVER CODES DEFEAT
Foes Objected Especially to Lack
of Time for Scrutiny.

Persons who opposed the building code
at tho hearing before the Mayor III July
were jubilaut last night when they iearheu
of the failure TO pass the measure ny inc
Board of Aldermen yesterday. The archl-
tects particularly and all those interested
I'm the pre,,aration Of the new code. when
is expected to- he ready in February, were
especially pleased. One of the prime OBJ
iections 10 tho code offered yesterday was
the lack OF time allowed 20 those interested
to examine Il. though in some quarters 1t
was condemned generally out OF hand.
THE objections to II would fill volume
said Ernest Flags. ut was the same old
! thing as the code that was offered In the
summer. | have examined II a thousand
times. and the few changes made In 1t this
time would have made no difference. ]
am very much pleased that II was de-
| feated."
Robert n Kohn who is secretary of the
| Joint committee of the New York Chapter
Of the American Institute OF Architects the
| American Society of Civil Engineers the
Board of Fire Underwriters aud the Build
ing Trades Employers Association that
/ has been working for year and half on
4 new building code said last night: 81 am
delighted TO hear that the code was defeat
/ ed by the aldermen. one OF the principal
objections that the architects and all those
! interested in proper code had 10 this
measure was that there was no time 10
examine e. Only thirty hours renal ined be-
tween the time Il was printed in The City
Record yesterday morning and the time
when il came up in the Board of Aldermen.
/ That meant going over two thousand words
/ an hour. and IT was impossible to examine
! II properly and make specific objections to
| IL IN that time. when the change Of word
might make vast difference lii bulidihe
construction. We did not pretend 10 criti-
cisc II in detail. We could not do It,
! THE joint committee Of those who are
concerned in erecting buildings in this city
! expects TO navc its new code ready by fep-
/ uiary l. When it is ready We VIII submit
! i 10 professional mon who are interested
and 70 the various civic organizations Tor
criticism. Then It viii so to the Board ot
| Aldermen II Is q code that IS got mp by
experts ana tderc will he no chance for
private wires 20 be pulled. 1t will be sub
iccted TO full and open and fair criticism
before it goes to the Board Of Aldermen,
ard won't say that we hope TO have It
passed. but We will put up good fight
for IT,"
That's good work. I'm glad to hear 1t,
said c Grant la Fargo. Il hope the defeat
Of this code means that the way is paved 10
get a proper building code, which is what
We all want. The joint committee Of the
building interests will have its code ready
soon. and we will rut up good fight 10 set
it through. any way.
"One great trouble with this code that
was defeated he continued, was that no.
body had an opportunity 10 find out what
was in it. The New York Chapter Of the
American Institute OF Architects was op-
posed to 1t because there was no chance TO
examine it's provisions We simply had
the statement that certain changes were
made to bring it into line with the suggcs-
tions made in regard TO the code that was
brought up last summer. hut We don't know
whether the changes were made or not or
whether they were properly made. We did
not get a chance TO hnd out a building
code Is an important and complicated meas
ure and it must be carefully considered"