People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — DANGEROUS SKYSCRAPERS. [ARTICLE]

DANGEROUS SKYSCRAPERS.

New York Buildings Adjoining the High Structures Made Unsafe. Superintendent of Buildings Constable made the statement in a conference with Mayor Strong of New York the other day that there are 8,200 large buildings in that city that are unsafe, and as many as 7 that have cracks and fissures in them and have to be constantly watched. The unsafe buildings, Mr. Constable said, are those adjoining skyscrapers. The architects of the new buildings were not negligent in the way of providing proper securities for the new buildings, bnt they did not pay enough attention to the bnildings adjoining. For the skyscrapers it was necessary to sink deep caissons, the sinking of whioh and the driving of piles were, Mr. Constable said, responsible for the unsafe character of the bnildiDgs be mentioned. Another danger to the city from the erection of these high buildings, Mr. Constable added, is that arising from insufficient sewers. In a few years the present sewers will not be sufficient to carry off all the sewage, and the result might be an epidemic.