| Show SIL SILENCE fA AND O n DEATH T I CHICAGO I I Mayor Harrison that No Noisy Demonstration be bc Made On New Years Advent FLAGS PLACED AT heroic Work Worl ork of Peter Quinn In III As Assisting Assisting to Save the thc Lives of More Luau a i Hundred Chicago Dee Dea 31 Following Is the text of f C a proclamation Issued by b Mayor Inor harrison on today On ench recurring New Ne Years y urs eare eve ese annoyance huts has been caused to the sick nail and Infirm by the Indulgence of ot persons In noisy nol loni ot of the passing flaMing of ot the out old year Tho The city authorities 11 have hans hl M It mt all ull times hues discouraged this practise but hut now when Chicago o lies In tho the shadow of ot the he disaster IlIsa ter In her history for tor fori tora a i generation whether by hells belie whistles cannon camion horns or any other means 19 IS particularly objection objectionable able II I As mayor of ot Chicago I 1 would there ther therefore tore lore request eli all persons to refrain retrain trout from bile Indulgence and I would timely arty oak ask all railway and mill all Persons Arsons In lit control of factories boats ani mills talus to direct their employee not to lo blow blo whistles between the hours of ot 12 12 and 1 tonight CANTER II I FLAGS FIGS AT VT HALF MAST Flags were nero placed nt at nil all over oser O r the city today Mayor Harrison on setting the lie example at tho the city hall ball One Ono of ot the heroes of ot the fire 1110 wn Peter 1 nina chief special agent allent of ot the he Santa le I e railway system who assisted In sun nv Ing lag time the lives of ot or more of ot tho the per formers fr from m a n fate as All horrible ns as ho victims of the thc theater proper pro Wedged co ho o tightly In n a 1 crowd at the lie door of ot time the stage entrance that times they could not move mOI tho tha women men nail and children composing the company of ot performers Were Snore standing landing helplessly and with ago looks on op 01 their faces Tho The stage door was WIS closed The massive stage door of the time Iro ho said ald Mr QuInn today Is like ninny many others ethers of ot lt its kind The two main doors are used Usel when scenery II he s taken Inken to 10 or troth from the time theater and built In the swinging structure Itself IB Is Isa I a iv small enroll trap traIl rat d or used mused lU d by tho the players In iii leaving or entering the stage This Thill trap rap door opened Inwardly A As I I passed It t I J heard a 1 commotion and sow HAW time the door was Willi uva open and peering Into Int tIme tho opening I curiously asked what was tune tho tire trouble troubie Then Thou for tho ho first time I anti and line others other who haul had hn arrived about the mime time learned that hint tIme the theater was fas on our lire The rhe who sho had lied rushed rn hell for tor the hue trap door ulcer got rol caught In a 1 solid nines mass summit nHI were so firmly wedged together that hint they the could not move mot They were banked against the thc little door dOM and amid It could not be opened Nearly nil mull the tho players were In their heir stage rOil cos tunics tummies and the lie women had hlll not even een time to wash the paint ort off their faces We tried to force torce the thc door dool open ogen but the thie crowd erot was 1188 banked up too tightly lightly against It II Thou castro camo a n volume of o smoke and ond far Ir In iii tho the rear cf ct a the thre crowd we tue w could see tho the from froni the he I had n a number of or small tools toole In my may III pocket and Immediately proceeded to remove tho the metal attachments which held the tho door In place This was wan no Ill with sonic difficulty and then wo we managed to force torce the crowd hack back probably an Inch the tho door then timen dropped from rota Its place and amid one by one time the Imprisoned players were assisted Into tho the alley aile I 1 walked In III upon the he stage and found It a n seething furnace The Time players hind had been rescued Just In time Iliac of Dt thc lie theater place the time ter Cr loss lose of ot life lite to tho the Jamming of ot the asbestos curtain At every eer per nf ot the time show time the asbestos cut cur taut tain line has been raised rind and lowered It lusts has always run ruin smoothly according to 10 the It was BO so arranged that should one euro of ot the cables holding It break brenk the lit curtain would descend by b Its It own nun weight TIme The Th asbestos curtain vas vae held by h four tout steel cables cable It 11 slid up amid nM doWn don donon on and und was ty by Ii two others ammo ona on oil each ench side sub These four cables ex e tended above the lie gridiron the limo frame framework work which supported 11 tho time tackle by which the scenery Irener Is raised and low lowered lo lowered ered erel to the side wall 1111 There Ther they wr attached to a n largo large steel plate To the tho tel steel plate was Willi attached a n Manila rope This i mope ope IO led INt down to the tire stage around a mu t block It rt then lien led 1 aloft amid ran mum through h live other blocks timid and pu leys les On the lie side sub im UI tho the weights w were ole attached hed on oil which hl i there were lero enough to make lets Ie than limn an on nb mib solute balance tot for tho tire curtain Tire The ihen asbestos n curtain was so heavy hen that li It hi released It would conic coma down ot o Its It on accord All of or tho tue deny d deli nr there thero han hn been tummy any nil previous tire nrc In lii the thc house Time The also nl o deny dell that any amry nil of ot the hue to exits o were IWO locked lock d |
