Show i THE STITCH El ElIn 1 In i the humorous department of one onel 1 of ot The Heralds contemporaries c theother the theother 1 other day dar a prospective tenant was was made to say y to the janitor of ot a build building lug ing J see flee you ou have no fire escapes And the Janitor ja replied We dont consider fire escapes necessary You Youlie sea gee lie we have hi ve never had a big disaster dis ster here There la is more nore than humor In those lines One of the th great American tendencies Is 18 to t the barn an wide ld open ope 1 until after aCter the valuable al quadruped has liaa been een fi 4 Then there is i a great peat hurrying and scurrying loud de ile denunciations of ottle the thief crashing crit mit criticism and 0 1 double o bl l lo of This goes 0 OH 00 for for a few days and arni the tue the matter l 4 is 18 forgotten Presently there t ere Is an another another another other disaster The public sits up sympathizes with those that are be bereaved bereaved passes resolutions possibly In Indicts Indicts Indicts somebody who Is never brought to 10 trial and again forgets When the country was startled by bythe bythe bythe the Iroquois disaster and it was learned that hundreds of ot women and children had lost their lives because the door of ot the tile theatre opened inward Instead of ot outward a countrywide crusade for doors was a Inaugurated Inaugurated Inaugurated rated City councils passed ordinances on the subject legislatures leg ll ures enacted laws prominent men gave b e out inter interviews Interviews InterViews views Then everybody forgot that is everybody except the relatives and friends of ot the women and children who lost l st their lives In the Iroquois disaster Ster And presently their cries were stilled A little opera house in a small maIi Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania town burned one night When the debris had cooled sufficiently near nearly nearly ly 1 two hundreds bodies were taken t len out of it The fire lire escapes and the doors opened Inward Inard Again the wave of or horror again the loud outcry again the Indignation the reso resolutions resolutions resolutions the ordinances the indictments that never come to trial And again the public forgot this time even more quickly than usual For grass had luil h not n t grown on the graves of ot the Pennsylvania victims when a school building near Cleveland 0 O was destroyed destro ed by fire Agonized parents seeIng the flames and the smoke hurried to the building and nd ar arrived arrived arrived rived only In time to have their hearts torn by the most appalling sight their theire eyes e es had ha ever witnessed They saw their children burning to death they saw them suffering torture unspeakable able because the doors opened inward and there were no tire fire escapes Another er or tragedy of oC forgetfulness So It has gone and so It will go In spite of or all the pleading all the warn warning warning ing lug all the moans of ot the dying tha th lamentations of the bereaved There Is Isa Isa Isa a sort of fatalism about It There does not seem to be such a thing as contin continued continued continued wakefulness for the public con conscience conscience conscience science And yet there should be such wakefulness It means so much to the public so little to the men whose duty It Is to t safeguard the public The Herald hopes the local authorities ties will III see to It that every hotel and every ever public building every school schoolhouse schoolhouse schoolhouse house and every theatre in Salt Lake City fr m the most Important to the least important is thoroughly equipped with fire escapes with ing door and with every other appliance appliance appliance ance necessary for the protection of those who dwell have business or seek pleasure within It is the stitch in time that thai counts |