| Show M R l His Ills Action Based on Violation of or orAn ofin An in Ordinance Intended to Protect Public Pubic THEIR NUMBER HUMBER IS NINETEEN lie He is Determined to See Sec That my Precaution for the Preservation of Human Life Is Taken Chicago n Jan l t Mayor loor litter Carter Jar Har Harrison hon rison today took steps step to 1 ns a afar far tor ns lIS S possible t a n repetition ot oc Wednesdays horror at ut the theater As s a II result of ot an nn lion made by b his hI orders and anti lasting Io nineteen theaters but tint n A 1 few C hours hour tums were WOre ordered closed gomo omo of them being among the tie leading lending and most popular playhouses of th city Tho TJ action of tho the mayor was Wn based on ono oni mule Ingle violation of tho the ordinances which Arc L r to protect the patrons of 01 theaters from Just Ju t Huch un alt occur occurrence rence as that which cost W many lives liveson on Wednesday dl This WU WIS that every everyone everyone one of these places had omitted to sup up an on asbestos curtain THEATERS CLOSED The theaters ordered dosed closed arc nrc Howards Sam T Jacks Jack Marlowe New el ev American Olympic Academy of ot Music use Avenue Chi Chitwo ChIago two ago opera house Columbus Stock t street Criterion lesen I bums bourns Milwaukee Avenue Garrick and nd Glickman In addition to these the London GlobO museum and the Clark street museum were niso com orn wiled lIell to close cloe their doors l The Chicago ocra oera house houge and tho Olympic theater nN arO vaudeville houses housell if of 01 the highest class nut probably bably do doM doat M at 5 much business In point of or numbers ii as a any nY of tho the theaters S In fl the tho city nt at Ingle They Th rho give how vcr ever a II matinee every ever day in the week and It Is seldom Feats cats cnn can ba bo ob tamed mined for tOl any allY performance nt LIt tho the Urn It of 01 opening enIn In addition to this thoy hive have been accustomed to Belling largo large numbers numb of ot tickets for standing room Mid and as a n general thIns thing more mON people aro am within these places of ot at nt atan an average rage performance than cun bo be found round nt any an other playhouse in the tho city The his larrick theater which was wa or toed 1 c tod II Is a R small playhouse on th the northwest side of or tho city anti hould should not be bo confounded with the tho larger Jarger theater of the th same Nimo name nane sit lilt Bitu situated u t d on Oil Randolph street ono one block bl k vest welt of e the tho r INSPECTION CARRIED OUT the Inspection ordered by the tho mayor today was ns carried out by Commissioner Williams And Chief of or Police ONeill Tho flo of the tho In Included no other feature than thin asbestos lUI curtains The rhe mayor In Commissioner Williams to re report I port rort to him promptly nt at tho the conclusion I t of 01 his ht investigation declaring that it t was vas his Intention that no nt theater be allowed to t o open Its doors In leago hereafter unless II it I Is Ii I provided an asbestos curtain of ot 1 standard quality tint that would work ork ut nil alt times end and n under nil all conditions MAYOR MAYOn TALKS TALt S SIt It may 1111 not be said Mayor nor Harrison to prevent losH of 01 life lite when hen c s rush for the tho doorway but I lavo determined to see that every pro pre precaution caution Is IK taken to prevent such lIuch oc occurrences occurrences ns os will vIlt alarm tho the People and anti flirt m tart them on n II rush for or the tho exits H R Hit ItIs RIs Is it all very Cry well to say soy that lint the great IMS I lo I of ot life 1110 In the theater was 08 due td the fact that tho the lost their eads and ond crowded Into the doorways and aisle like maniacs maniocs but th the fact re remains reo remaIns mains and ond It cannot be denied that th there thre re would been iteen no if It the In this theater which judged by all ordinary was vu n tho the best equipped playhouse In tho the been In ID proper working condition There Thele Is IK ro getting beyond the fact From nl nil all th evidence now In hand It II Is clear cleor tInt that II If the asbestos curtain in this then lien theater ter tr had been In tho tim condition It should shook have ave been there hero would have been be n no ito IMS l of life comparatively p SEATING I CAPACITY Th report of ot Building Williams that tIm the Academy o ot or with a n seating capacity of ot 2000 had ad a curtain of burlap The Ilie Ira lra with a 1 rapacity capacIty r of 2300 the Aye Ave tue too 00 the Iho 1300 1309 Clark Street Street t uin Criterion l Figen I I Howards DOO OW 0 Marlowe 1300 New American 1100 oil all had cur curtains of or linen The In tho the Chi Chicago Chicago cago opera hoice hOIl woe was of vI burlap cot cov covered ered with paint In III the Co Stock theater and In III Sam Bam T J lacks Jacka It Willi of ot canvas The Ilie theater which holds hoId nl ot least Ita t ICO plu pili pi at two performances every day It Is open had hall u n t of oC canvas There were VeI e other glaring salt said BuildIng which were noticed In lit sonic nomo o of 01 the houses but wo we were welO not paying particular ular attention to them today although I noted them and the tho theatrical will wll be bl compelled to lo remedy them theta themus us as soon a MAYOR MAYOn VISITS TIlE THE Mayor Maor Harrison today todA In company with minding Williams Alderman Mayor und and several torts visited the iroquois theater building and auth Went over It t thoroughly As they the stepped Into tue tho building tIm tho ho mayor accidentally trot trod on a II largo large lock of oC human hair which had been torn from the tho head of or somo victim of oC the disaster He lit shuddered nod re removing removing moving the flair from his hi shoe placed laced Jt it iton on Otto ono tilde tide of or the hallway und arid passed In InThe The mayor went ent everywhere except Into tin tIm cellar lie He went vent out on tho tIm lire escape tried the tho exits anti and finally mounted tho the rigging loft above tho tim stage The dressing rooms were vero visited and thin the whole Interior explored T P 1 P 1 Marshall lie architect of or tho the building ln accompanied d the mayor throughout tho tIm trip When In the gallery the mayor paid particular attention to the tho exits mill and tried nil tho the handles by hy which thu doors ore LIre opened NO EXIT mIT SIGNS UP The failure allure to comply with tho the ordinance nance requiring that exits shall be In by b printed signs struck the tho mayor nut when ho noted that heavy helY damask cUrtaIns wore worl hung before Home of or these doors ho Ito Inquired of or Architect Marshall why hYI they tho had been boon placed there hero Mr Marshall replied d that it WM was done to Improve the tho lie appearance of ot tho the hOUM It H was noted by b the tho mayor that the thc ordinance requirement which In Iii Insists galleries above the ground floor nOor lIch have u n separate stair stairway way wo leading to the street had been ills dis disregarded regarded This circumstance excited the Indignation of o Harrison who said This never have hIo been allowed to the on gallery stairways S has received no attention and lias ims been hellI disobeyed Th Tim 3 occupants of oC the tim second balcony we were compelled com to uso the name sante exit no us those tho o of ot the first balcony halcon Tho exits should hould have beta been separate and It If they thoy hud hat been I think moro more people would have escaped ARCHITECT EXPLAINS Explaining tho Ito lack hack of ot a separate staIrway for tor the tho second balcony Ai Marshall harshall saId eald There was more Inore total space for or the tho people leople to get out ot of the thu gallery than if separate hail had been heen pro liro provided vided The law requires eight Inches ot of nod door space for each persons tonI we le have nearly three feet of such splice space To o this Mayor Harrison said nothing but commented again on the lie fact that damask curtains had covered tho the doors and that lint there were no signs Indicating ing lug the exta The signs vero iVere being made ready rend Mr Marshall sold said hut but temporary signs were tero not being boing used because It was 1111 not desired to mar tho lie beauty of oft tho t lit Interior hit with l Ii them the nt To tills this Mayor Harrison rejoined This theater was opened on Nov N 23 3 It U has been running miming fully five weeks In heavens name how hov long does docs It take to make n a 1 few signs 7 To o this Mr Marchall offered no reply WHAT MAYOR THINKS Returning to his hi ollIce tho tIm mayor mayorI said I II I think exactly as aK I thought thou ht ester yester yesterday day da of o till the theater I could not nol see sec any nn explanation of tho tim disaster except the tha failure of tho the curtain to come como down I tried a n lot of the tho door doors and they seemed to open and shut readily I got Into tho the loft which Is III of solid metal without a trace of combus combustible tible material about It I think It would have iRO however if Ie the management hat had not net placed heavy curtains In itt front of tim the exits I gained n a better Men idea of o tIll HIM horror of oC the today than I 1 hud before Jim Jun think of oC upon a 11 of hu bu human titan man hair while walking about In the theater SCHOOLS TO LOm OD ODThe The public schools of ot Chicago will be he closed on Oil a Monday on account nt of the large nobler ot of funerals of victims of the tire lire All the tho church bells hells of Chicago will toll At nt noon tomorrow In token of or grief while the bodies holles of those who lost their lives at ut the tho the lie theater titer liter ore are ar receiving the last riles rites Mayor lInor Harrison at tho the Instance of ot several ministers suggested ted that Mie he church bells be sounded ll for or live five min minutes utes |
