TENEMENT FIRE.
Seven Deaths in Condemned Building. NEW YORK SLUM CRISIS. NEW YORK, March 22. Seven people were burned to death in a New York east side tenement which had been condemned as a fire trap. This brings tlio death-roll to 25 through similar fires in tho past 41 days.
The Tenement House Commissioner, Mr. Post, who has been conducting a vigorous campaign to clear away all old buildings, has disclosed tho fact that the whole of the tenement areaß are owned by universities, churches and well-known millionaire families.
Mr. Vincent Astor and the Columbia University led the movement to have these transferred to the city at a minimum cost for their razing and replacement by modern structures.
The situation is complicated by the fact that although a sum of 25,000,000 dollars lias been promised for housing the financial authorities refuse to make advances, owing to the city's disordered finances.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 70, 23 March 1934, Page 7
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