Daily News from New York, New York • 183

HOTiBrlS By RUBEN ROSARIO 4.... 5 5 i i fc City officials yesterday continued to probe the partial demolition of a West Side single room occupancy hotel, as about 30 hotel occupants endured another day without heat, water or electricity. Demolition was ordered stopped Friday at the 54-room, five-story Sunset Hotel at 175 W. 85th St after city Buildings Commissioner Charles Smith visited the site and found that debris in front of the building posed a danger to pedestrians. The order was later expanded to protect building occupants when Smith was approached by persons who claimed they were building tenants.

The landlord, Allan Sackman, obtained permits to convert the hotel into an apartment building after reportedly informing city officials that the site was vacant. "The order will remain until the landlord submits to the city a protection plan for the occupants and we decide to approve it," a spokesman for Smith said yesterday. UNDER STATE LAW, the plan must provide adequately for the safety and welfare of occupants in the building, whether they are there illegally or not, the spokesman said. The plan prohibits a disruption of essential services and requires er sanitary and health conditions while the work is being performed, he added. "The legal status of the occupants CAN tftOMN Oail NdAa "Harry," one of the rent-strike tenants, In his heatless room.

5 if I If is- 1 1 One tenant, Jim Cobb, 25, said the occupants are braving the freezing cold with clothing and precooked food donated by community residents. An unidentified tenant in an adjoining building has also provided water by extending a hose into the hotel, Cobb said. "We are not squatters," said David Jacobs, a building occupant and co-chairman of the tenants association. "We were forced out of the building under the previous owner" before returning. in the building is strictly a civil matter to be decided between the landlord and the tenants in a court of law or by other means," the spokesman said.

Sackman could not be reached for comment yesterday. The city action was the latest twist in an ongoing clash between Sackman and a group of occupants who claim they are rightful tenants of the hotel. The group, which launched a rent strike, alleged that the landlord has cut off heat, electricity and water service in an attempt to drive them out OAN CRONIN DAILY NEWS Sunset Hotel on W. 85th where rent strikers are holding out. For sleuth! It's Holmes dm Fugitive nabbed in Irregulars share a pipe bowl cat crash i V.

tives The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes held their own bash at Keen's restaurant on W. 36th St Their chief, Evelyn Her-zog, said they also had their largest turnout 93 since they were formed in 1967 after Herzog and other women Holmes admirers were barred from the Irregulars' party. A woman, however, always appears briefly at the Irregulars' fete. Usually the wife of an Irregular, she is toasted just before dinner as The Woman, Irene Adler, the only woman to outwit Holmes and for whom he carries a torch. The Irregulars take their name from street kids who' ran errands for Holmes.

them bump by chance and hoist a couple in Holmes' honor. They also research Holmes' adventures, and thus deduced that he was born Jan. 6, 1854. There is still quibbling over his full name. The get-together also celebrated the 80th birthday of Dr.

Julian Wolff, who organizes the annual dinner. Wolff received greetings from President Reagan and from Dame Jean Conan Doyle, the last remaining descendant of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes' creator. BECAUSE women are not permitted at the Irregulars dinner Holmes was the Henry Higgins of detec By GUS DALLAS A 131-year-old beekeeper from Sussex Downs, England, is proof that one can live on love. He is a retired detective named William (or maybe it's Thomas) Sherlock Scott Holmes. He still lives for devotees who believe Holmes is where the heart is, and on Friday, his birthday was celebrated in Manhattan.

About 180 members of the Baker Street Irregulars, an international group organized in 1934, held their party at the Regency Hotel. The Irregulars meet irregularly during the rest of the year, as when two of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes. 01 By RUBEN ROSARIO A reputed Brooklyn mobster who had eluded a police and FBI manhunt stretching from Florida to Italy was arrested yesterday after a car accident on Kings Highway and charged in the slaying of a free-lance photographer -two years ago. Police identified the murder suspect as Rocco DiPiet-ro, 24, son of Carlo DiPietro, a reputed captain of the Genovese crime family who disappeared four years ago and is presumed dead. The younger DiPietro, a reputed soldier in the crime family, was wanted by city police for the murder of William Jenks on Aug.

11, 1983. Jenks, 25, a free-lance photographer who graduated from Brooklyn's Pratt Institute of Fine Arts, was fatally shot when he tried to act as a peacemaker during a dispute between DiPietro and the owner of a bar in Bay Ridge, said Detective Steve Gardell of the 65th St stationhouse. The slaying occurred a month after DiPietro's release on probation from federal prison. He had served six months of a three-year sentence in a $10 million attempted swindle of Bache and a Manhattan investment; Jirm, EUM SAIL FOU THE N.Y. COLIS way, $349,000," said salesman John Sullivan of Venice Marina in Lindenhurst, L.I.

Who buys them? "People with money," he laughed. Not every item in the Boat Show opened its eight-day run. Visitors took off their down coats and wandered through aisles chock-a-block with yachts and boating equipment There is, for example, the Ocean 46 Super Sport, a craft designed primarily for sport fishing. It is 46 feet long, sleeps six to eight in three staterooms and has twin 450- There are smaller boats, and there is all sorts of equipment. Like the big 800-horsepower Rolls-Royce diesel marine engine, $70,000.

Or the Penn 80 SW two-speed brass big game fishing reel, $300. Or the RM Giant Tuna model fishing chair by Pompanatte, $5,500. One four-inch pulley for a racing yacht goes for S232 at the Schaefer Marine booth. "Making a pulley like this is almost like making jewelry." salesman Fred Cook. By DON SINGLETON Blue-green water laps gently at the hull.

The sun is high over the island, and a warm breeze rustles the drooping fronds of the palms. winter daydream? Of course. But it was a daydream shared by thousands yesterday at the New York Coliseum, where the 75th Annual New York National show costs a few hundred thousand dollars, of course. Some people are there just to look; others to buy. "I've bote ntr this at this show." Sullivan said.

"You usually don't actually sell them here, but you the deal here horsepower diesel engines, Price? fthis.