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Show FRENCH HEELS ON TRIAL BY CHICAGO OFFICIALS CHICAGO. April 19. French heels were put on trial yesterday by the city's building department at the Instlgatlon of two Chicago women who believe that the heels or the present fire escapes belong on the fire marshal's blacklist. Upon the verdict may depend the remodeling re-modeling of all the four bar stylo stair fire escapes In the cUy unless Chicago women forsake the teetering heels to adopt the chunky kind. .lust what a menace to human life French heels have become developed through the building department's examination ex-amination of downtown buildings, .lames Prcndorgast and John F. Carroll. Inspectors, learned ot the new phase of Hns protection from Miss Kmma Scliultzc. who Is In charge of the girls employed in a factory in Market stroet. Miss Schultzc. after the Fish flro on M abash avenue recently, in which twelve girls lost their lives, put them all out on the fire escapes overhanging the river at Jucknon boulevard and had them practice, climbing. She found that the !TL.slon,(k!V ,j:,J,s w,,iu1' rn'i -neh of the stairs of the firo escape were set just far enough apart to catch and hold the l-remdi i heels of young women running down the steep inclines "The stairways and the heels together const I tu to n. terrible danger to the l,ls working all ovor Chicago, where this Schultzc "wai5 is used," said Miss "Your recommendations aro going to the city mil.;1 said Inspector Prender-gast Prender-gast to Miss Schultzc. "Tho danger Is a real and a serious one." |