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.
Not only is this against the principal of home rule, but such legislation transfers the enforcement of the law to an unknown and untried body of men and takes it out of the hands of the Fire Department….one of the most efficient departments of the City of New York.
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Charles F. Noyes “who represents owners of many store and loft buildings in Manhattan”.
The Real Estate Board of New York is informed that thousands of factories are migrating to New Jersey and Connecticut in order to be freed from the oppressive laws of New York State.
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Op-ed by George W. Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board.
[The New York Herald noted that the owners claimed the order amounted to] a confiscation of property…
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New York Herald. Only date available: March, 1911.
