Real Estate
Cry Wolf Quotes
[Sprinkler systems are a] cumbersome and costly apparatus.
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Three weeks before the Triangle conflagration, the Protective League of Property Owners's counsel, Pendleton Dudley responds to Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo order that sprinklers should be installed in a number of warehouses. Only date available: March, 1911.
[Those killed in factory fires are] an infinitesimal proportion of the population.
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Robert Dowling, NYC real estate man, and voice of business on the Factory Investigating Committee. Only date available: 1913.
This condition is depreciating the value of real estate, restricting its marketability, and driving manufacturers out of the City and State of New York.
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Resolution adopted by The Board of Governors of the Real Estate Board of New York.
You can no longer distinguish the real estate owner by the smile of prosperity, because his property is now a burden and a liability instead of a comfort and a source of income. To own a factory building in New York City is now a calamity.
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Op-ed by George W. Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board.
