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The casus belli between Mr.. Reiss
and Walter kraS,ow of the kraslow Con-
struction Company. ISIS Montague street,
is that when Mr.. Kraslow was building
the apartment house next door last Jam
nary he obtained Mr.. Reiss's permission
TO store his building materials on the
latters sidewalk and In his rear yard
When the work was completed. Mr..
Reiss asserts. he found his concrete side
Walk ripped up In eleven places. his
stone curbing cracked and broken by
heavy trucks. his back yard lawn COW
cred with blobs OF cement and paint
ten inches across and his windows and
walls smeared with paint that had been
spIhshed across fifteen feet OF SPACE to
MS property. \ ten foot fence in the
rear Of his home had also disappearei
MI helss declares that he r.mon-
strhted with NJ. kras.ow. who rom
lSed TO repair the damage. \ few weeks
ago he did so. ReIss continues. bu, in
stead OF putting in a new sidewalk he
1ali patches of a different colored cem.n.
over the breaks. giving the effect OF a
crazy uilt and the cement itself rum
o'eu away INSIDE three weeks the fence
n" replaced with one OF rough hnar1s
covered with whitewash which the first
t'ln removed the hlohs of ceuen, aud
paint on the lawn and windows remained
as souvenirs OF the operations.
bhd blood arose between kras,nv and
ar heIss. One argument resulted in the
HulIutT having the yachtSnau ar-es,.d
,o' assault, and soon after Mr.. Reiss
nau the puild"r arrested on the same
Ch'rs"' The 4 coupromis. was r.
Irc'eu' a contract was drawn up by
Wnlch the builder agreed to make good
an damages within thirty DAYS Tb,,
was signed on June - ard nothing has
heen done yet, Mr.. Reiss declares He
threatened at the time to rent his hous.
u" tol'Fed a unless ne 90, salts
I~ac'Ion. and the threat was ignored
yesterday he took action and. besides
the sign. he intends To- build a nft.en
critics. "oP
Il dou', care wha, it costs me"
stoutly maintained NJ. Eeiss Yesterday.
I've !ost $1,000 before and ! can afford
10 lose /; again. I'm not going 10 ne
~himiammed after | d!d A MADNESS.
mats al. I've bought another resi-
dence at Ninth street and Prospect Park
"tst ana m going to occupy II shortly.
That sign Is going to stay up. I've
already had a message from Mr.. Kras-
low oferirg to put u pond VI 10 make
all the repairs. I've got him on the
run.
Il had that sign up at 6 O'Clock this
morning and ] kept watch on 1t with a
club IN my hand until one of the biggest
negroes I've got ON the Reiss Company's
contract az Sing Sing could come down.
He wont take that Sign down for any
body. not even FOR my wife. was
warned that there'd be a white can
brigade tonight TO tear 1t dow. That's
why h!tched i've electric Light wires OF
10 volts each onto IT,"
Mr.. Relss IL treasurer OF the Marine
Wrecking Company and we'll known as
a yachtsmdU. He was one Of the owners
cf the old cup defender Columbia and
recently presented the mast OF thai
yacht as a fiagpole for the Park Circle
near his home.
~ the offices OF the kraslow Con-
s'ruction Company u was said yester-
day that nobody present cared what Mr..
Reiss did and nobody was interested In
the negro question.