TENEMENT DANGERS
NEW YORK “FIRE TRAPS” NO MONEY FOR REPLACEMENT. SEVEN MORE FATALITIES. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) NEW Y T ORK, March 21. Seven people were burned to death 5 in a New York East Side tenement, which had been condemned as a tire trap. This brings the death roll to 25 throngn' similar fires in the past 41 days. The tenement house commissioner, Mr Post, who has been conducting a vigorous campaign to clear away all old. buildings, has disclosed the fact that the whole of the tenement, areas aio owned by universities, church and well-known millionaire families, Mr Vincent Astor said the Columbia University led the movement to have these transferred to the city, at a minimum cost, for their demolition and replacement by modern structures. The situation is complicated by the .fact that, although 25,000,000 dollars has been promised for housing, the financial authorities refuse to make advances, owing to the city’s disordered finances.
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Northern Advocate, 23 March 1934, Page 7
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