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Show THAT OLD PIEE TRAP THE INSURANCE COMPANIES SERVE ANOTHER NOTICE UPON IT. It Must be Redeemed From the Hands of tho Firo Fiend or the Rates will bo Advanced The Herald's" Very iv.y Defense, Captain Donnell, the vigilant surveyor of the Insurance Union, has served notice on thu owners and management of the old the-atrical the-atrical lire trap that ho will make another investigation of the concern this week, to see that they have carried out their assurances assur-ances that the plat e v. ovld be cleaned up and the torch of death and desolation removed. re-moved. He is determined that his subscribers subscrib-ers shall be protected and to that end will leave nothing undone. In the meantime Major Stanton, the ubiquitous ubi-quitous chief of the tire deparlment is keeping keep-ing an eye on the trap, and should a blaze occur by night or day will he prepared to make a heroic charge. The play it-elf. is taking a rest. It probably needs a rest. So do the public who have paid tribute to such nttrocities as go travelling through tho circuit cir-cuit under the ancient and corroded titlo of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "A Hole in the Ground," etc., nauseutA, The subsidized mouthpiece of the temple of rot with characteristic recklessness in-for in-for ms the public that the raid upon the tire trap was made because Manager Burton had removed an "ad" from the columns of Tim Times. That is a fabrication and the author of the charge knew he was fabricating when he fabricated. He is an owner in the theater and is forced to fabricate for the protection ot his cousin's investment. Manager Burton Bur-ton nuver withdrew his patronage from these columns until THK Tim.cs declined to receive it. Ho never withdrew IPs passes to this empire of death until they were declined de-clined with thanks. If he told the subsidized subsi-dized mouthpiece of the fire; trap anything lie told it this. He will substantiate it un-b un-b - like the . in. lie has secured excursion rales on veracity. He knows, and so does the subsidized mouthpiece of the fire trap, that the writer of II. at slander was represent! d the day that the tire inspector and the insurance agents went through it. The beneficiary of his cousin's investment and Man-ttrer Man-ttrer Burton both knew that the basement base-ment of the theater was in shocking Condition, that the lives of every man Woman and child w ho paid a dollar to get Into the trap was Imperilled. I f the indictment of The Times was not valid w hy did tho chief of the lire department depart-ment order the cleaning up of the trap? If human life was not at the mcroy of the , fire fiend why did I be repre-entattfei of the Insurance companies demand of Lester Wul lack Howe and his confreres, that the place bo redeemed from the salamander or they w ould increase the- rate of insurance. I "We are not insuring a guaranteed fire," wrote a prominent insurance company to the surveyor of the union, "and unless the owners of the theater are willing to remedy the dangers to which Tin: Times refers, we don't care about placing any risk on the plaeo. We are glad to see tho papers take up tho fight they should he encouraged." Hut the papers have not taken up tho fight The IHttMM endorses the action of the chief of the fire deportment, the insurance insur-ance representatives and The Times, hut where Is the Keraid and the .Wim? The Jfcnihl ns lias been urged had a reporter re-porter in the bowels of the lire trap the afternoon af-ternoon of the Inspection. The reporter made no reference to it. Was he overcome by the nasty nmes'.lieties of the basement, or was he afraid to open the odoriferous mass to debute? de-bute? lie was seen by an insurance man and undertook to set aside thu verdict of persons who had been through tho trap with him. But the public must learn to overlook a whole lot in life. If mutt learn to realize lliat nature in its spiteful moods has made Ignoramuses and people who are ignorant Enough lo die in the championship of a wrong. Forthcse curios tho newspaper writer however, are not responsible they are journalists jour-nalists whose Illiteracy is inllii ted on the "dear, constant render" at the rate of It) a Bcck. A tinker's d n would be an ex- lorlionste price. The theater owners have paid too much for them. It is by their own admission a fire trap, and the patrons of the place will again comrxatulato The Times that it has accomplished a service to them. |