Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-04-10 | Page 4 | Make Buildings Safe.

I MAI MAKE A E BUILDINGS SAFE T The revelations rc made public b by the factory fire ii il ill the flip New ew York skyscraper per have hae astounded the p people of that cit city eity The They find that the so called li manufactories manufactOries' which formerly w were re in great p part rt tarried on in tenement houses are arc no now no found it iii jq tall buildings all over o the city Thc They fin find further fur fur- Uler ther that the tile so called fireproof buildings building are arc indeed ined in in- deed ded ed fireproof on the outside but when combustible ble bic material materi l on the inside takes fire firc those outside fireproof f walls waIls but turn the building into a a tr trap p for the victims inside Further that I those j structures arc are not provided with any adequate ade ade- mate quate means of escape in iu case of one of those in in- in- in fires And the ta task k of making these safe hafe is so o great that it is not liable to be undertaken One would think that through h the iJ insurance su e charged the rents charged and tl through ordinances es compelling necessary changes in the structures the needed remedies could he lie supplied but we doubt if anything will wili be done Hilt But one thing th should be demanded and insisted upon I here hare us ns I well as 3 there which is that i high huigh buildings shout should b bi bl made fireproof within a as well wail as without The rubbish which caused the spread of the New Y York Olk fi fire fine should have burned up with without ut damage larnage to an any I in that building building- except the flie room th the fire was in The only l a way to make a fireproof building Is Isto s to make every room and hall hail fireproof It can be done Brick and cement are arc not very costly and there arc are other ch cheap ap materials Then Theil the means menns t o or or cS escape ape should be he ample and the building inspector inspector inspector in in- who does not riot insist upon them should on oni i cO conviction be 00 sent to prison It is useless to pun- pun 1 ij-h ij him fine He that hat he be Jil by reasons may caught on once e in a hundred times and thus makes m money ne by byU U king the risk of punishment But to bo be sent sent to to the thc or to the penitentiary rr with the felons he does docs not relish that thought It is eaR easy enough to make great buildings s safe and this his sh should be enforced ever everywhere