TENEMENT HOUSES
CONDEMNED AS FIRE TRAPS ANOTHER NEW YORK TRAGEDY. NEW YORK, March 21. (Received March 22, at 10 p.m.) Seven persons were burned to death in an East Side tenement which had been condemned as a fire trap, bringing the death roll to 25 in similar fires during the past 41 days. The tenement house commissioner, who has been conducting a vigorous campaign to clear away all old hulks, made the disclosure that the whole tenement areas are owned by universities, churches and well known millionaire families. Mr Vincent Astor and Columbia University led a movement to have these transferred to the city at minimum cost for razing and replacement by modern structures. The situation is complicated by the fact that although 25,000,000 dollars have been promised for housing, the financial authorities refuse to make the advances owing to the city’s disordered finances.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22219, 23 March 1934, Page 9
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144TENEMENT HOUSES Otago Daily Times, Issue 22219, 23 March 1934, Page 9
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