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just going to keep right on building them. You do the best you can to stop it.”

He went ahead and built his bath houses. I invoked all the elements of the law and all the enforcement available, but before they got around to making the inspections, issuing the orders, getting him into court and coping with the various postponements that he was able to get, the bath houses were done and people were going swimming out of them. We knew perfectly well what chance we had in getting the stoppage of the building done before he got it done. He just put on more men and rushed the work. That was all. Instead of having twenty men, he had forty men working and got them all done. He paid them out of whatever funds he had. We might have stopped his funds, but we didn't go to that extent with it. We were content with getting the order served and the case brought to court. I think the court rebuked him, but even the court didn't have the nerve to tear them down. They were built and they were being used.

He had never, so far as I know, stopped to ask at any point, “What is the way that this project is done in the City of New York or the State of New York? What are the regulations?” He just thought the regulations were a nuisance. However, if he had paid attention to the resolutions, he wouldn't have gotten half as much done. He got things