Show MORE EXITS FOR SAFETY Detroit Free Press To the Editor A few tew years ago It Il was my mr privilege e eto to attend services in the tho Mormon tabernacle tab lab a at al Salt SaIL Lake Lale City If It my memory serves me rl right ht the tho Immense turtle back building seats scats people The day clay I was there Its capacity was taxed to tho limit After the services Immense doors opened up in all directions and I Iwas Iwas Iwas was astonished to see the facility nuci lU 11 ra p ty y Ith h I c h t the ha 1 0 Ing was emptied of ot Its throng It did not t seem eem as though It Jl were five fi minutes until the they were the yard gates There was no no crowding and n no confusion The Tho- incident ent made a 0 lasting hasting Im- Im pr pres Ion on my mind an and 1 I have 0 thought of ot It many times In In connection con CoIl Oll- Oll with the lie problem of ot provIding providing providing pro pro- viding greater safety for our school schoolchildren children Why should not every schoolroom be provided with an outside outside out out- side c e exit not exit not a a. window and fire escape requiring the sId skill II of oC a a. gymnast to It safe safely but a 0 largo large doorway and a a. broad staircase staircase staircase stair stair- case I If It these were on the first floors only they would be the means of saving sl life in iii case of or fire for the younger children as s In the case of the tho d' d farm faim school fire tIre are tho the ones usually i to become panic panic- stricken If It the they could be let out directly through h these theM outside doors without going Into the hall ball at all the lower Jower halls halts would be clear for the theof of older del children en from the floors above As Is Is' w well n known In panics a a. br large e number of people attempt to crowd through a a. little narrow doorway Those from th the rear push down those In front and antI the tho way I Is blocked There cannot bo be too many exits an and the exits to tho the lIre firo escapes should bo be through doors of or ample size and not through high windows ROLLIN H. H STEVENS Detroit t. t March larch 21 21 1908 |