Assembly Bill A7731

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

Directs the office of general services to install and maintain a commemorative plaque in the Capitol honoring Samuel J. Abbott

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A7731 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5570
Law Section:
Public Buildings Law
Laws Affected:
Add §5-c, Pub Bldg L

2017-A7731 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the office of general services to install and maintain a commemorative plaque in the capitol honoring Samuel J. Abbott.

2017-A7731 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7731
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 11, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the public buildings law, in relation to  directing  the
   office  of  general  services  to install and maintain a commemorative
   plaque in the Capitol honoring Samuel J. Abbott

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds that at
 2:42 a.m., on March 29, 1911, Fire Box 324  was  pulled,  notifying  the
 City  of Albany Fire Department of a fire at the State Capitol. Investi-
 gators would later determine that the fire originated in the third-floor
 Assembly Library, spreading  quickly  to  the  adjacent  State  Library,
 before  engulfing  the  building's fourth and fifth floors. According to
 reports, the building, known at the time as "one of the most costly  and
 celebrated  buildings  constructed  in  19th-century  America", had been
 burning without impediment for at least  thirty  minutes  prior  to  the
 alarm.   Firefighters, operating with horse-drawn pumpers, found a roar-
 ing inferno when they arrived on scene.
   The mammoth fire burned so forcefully that it twisted metal framing in
 the iconic skylight above the Great Western Staircase, sending the glass
 panels raining down on the stairs below; the stairway's carved sandstone
 filigree melted, and at  the  top  of  the  "Million-Dollar  Staircase",
 prized   archaeological  objects,  including  the  State's  world-famous
 Iroquois collection, were consumed by  flames.  When  extinguished,  the
 fire had decimated the entire collection of the State Library, with more
 than 800,000 books and manuscripts being lost.
   According to the March 29, 1911 edition of the ALBANY EVENING JOURNAL,
 at  approximately  3  a.m.,  shortly after the fire alarm sounded at the
 Capitol, Mr. Samuel J. Abbott, a 78-year-old watchman in  the  building,
 "was seen by an orderly opening some windows".

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10738-02-7
              

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