Building Codes
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.
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.
They pay absolutely no attention to the fire hazard or to the protection of the employees in these buildings. That is their last consideration.
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Retired New York City Fire Chief Edward F. Croker, 1913
I want to say that a bakery that conducts their business in what you term a cellar can keep it just as clean as though they were in any other part of the building. I believe it entirely depends upon the person who is running the place.
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Leslie A. Ware, baker.
