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Show THEATRES ALL EVADED THE LAW ' Report Had Been Made to May. or Harrison. CHICAGO, Jan. 13. Mayor Ha; : was on the stand today in t!v; w,. quois theatre inquesc. Ilin der.ee related chiefly to a report sifr.;r.;.. ted to him by Cornmi.-sionr r Wi!l:.i:ils which declared that none of the 1 tres in Chicago fully complied wi;., tii term of the building ordinuine. i ;,I mayor described the wanderings of ?;j s report from him to the courx-i!. ;r..':"; the council to a sub-eommitte-. ; -thir. committee back t- th coun-:! ., ; then to the printer. H- said r.- ..'..', had teen taken upon it by the i-.,u m up to the time of the Iroquois fjr, '!' i mayor declared that Building t',, i ;;. , sioner Williams simply reported to i -that there was not a theatre in t!.. . i of Chicago complying with the- !a . . i made no recommendation tha.. .-closed .-closed or the licenses revoked. I' - .-. r rotorated the statement of i;i:M. -Commissioner Williams that th--of the commissioner wh po..Hy -plied with help, and ther- was ... in which assistance c-ouM b- ,.10. .;,- ; except through a larger appn'pri 1 : ; by tne city, and th'u in tlv state of Chicago's finances va3 o r. .; the question. ' No Hecord Kept. William J. McAllister, secret;) ry of building department of Chicago, inscribed in-scribed the routine in tlv ofiice of r: building commissioner. He said tl was no record kept of tbt c.instt u- r,. : of any building suve the. reports of ;h-ir.?pectors. ;h-ir.?pectors. In the case of the Iruu.' theatre, no report whatever v ,1 -brought to him in reference t :'r.a building before the -fire. About a dozen 3tag hand. ar. l flymen fly-men employed in the theatre testili- ! during the day, but their evid-nce ii r not differ from the stories that hnv: already been published, and no ad'l -tional information was obtained fro:.? any of them. They were unanimous i: declaring that they had never receive 7 any instructions regarding their duti- ircase of fire. r t. 1 No Movable Scenery. I Euilding Commissioner Williams f.- 1 ("ay announced to the managers of ttv Auditorium they could open their hail I provided the stage is entirely f-hut oft from the main auditorium by the fire. proof steel curtains. This places th-. j Auditorium practically in the class of ? buildings in which no movable scenery Is used. The managers of the Iroquois theatrs today, through their attorneys, made 1 demand upon Coroner Traeger for tlv pc ssession of the theatre building. The declared that ' there were insurance losses to be adjusted and repatrs to !)? made, and they desired to get about this work as soon as possible. ! Assistant State's Attorney Barne?, re- j plying in- behalf of the coroner, said that the insurance adjusters could visi; the theatre at any time, but that neither nei-ther they nor any other persons would bs permitted to alter existing conditions ih the building until after the conclusion conclu-sion of the coroner's inquest. |