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.
We are of the opinion that if the present recommendations are insisted upon…factories will be driven from the city, labor will be compelled to accompany them, factories, tenements, and small houses will become tenantless with the final result of demoralization in tax collections by the city. What is wanted is evolution and not revolution.
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Resolution adopted by the United Real Estate Owners Association’s against the Factory Investigating Commission laws.
You must relieve [New York's] real estate from the terrible yolk of oppression which has been throttling it for some years past…
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Charles F. Noyes, president of the Charles F. Noyes (Realty) Company, on the Factory Investigating Commission ’s new laws.
