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Show 1 NEWrORK I ! Hundreds of Buildings I Like the Washing I ton Place H J Now York, March 27. "Give us not M f merely fire-proof but 'death-proof m :i buildings," bids fair to becomo a "ma- B :y uicipal slogan in the many-sidei H campaign of investigation which ii H $ under waj in New York today aa a jH result of the "Washington Place fire ?m Saturday afternoon. zE$ Tbo fclogan was coined by Fire jK'1. Chief Croker as summing up his rec- :, ommendatlons for the future. The ; future nation, ho declared, will learn ; a lesson from Saturday's fire, which, 0 as it was learned only twice of lato H-; years once when the Colllnwood WD)'': district school taught the necessity j3 . of adequate firo protection in school !S ' buildings, and against when the Irl- H i quois theater fire taught the same K; luBEon, for theaters. fm ; Mr Croker's recommendation is: JM i "The 'City Beautiful,' Is less vital Ml ; f, than the 'City Safe, " he said. "'Let H ' us see first that our people live and S3 ' work under adequate protection for S3 ft their lives and persons. Q "I would have fire escape landings d extending all along the outside of ev-flfl ev-flfl a ery office, loft and factory building. k i I would have the balcony buildings jCT I built wide enough for two persons jf fl to pass In safety without crowding. I Jm J would have the stairways at each end, II and I would have them bulk .with S hand rails so that women and children H a could descend them no ladder os-w os-w a capes or stairways built at acute V augles. 9j i "Let us have all Inside stairways up iuclosed in a fire-proof partition.- Let m;1 us require fire-proof exit doors and at? all doors to open outwnrds. Never I11 aljow an exit door to be Jockcd or blocked and make the fire escape windows open to the floor level, like a door. Trotect each floor with all available automatic safety devices t and sprinklers. Last, but not least, make 'fire drills at frequent intervals, compulsory In all factories, lodging houses and institutions.' There were similar statements today to-day from the coroner, the fire niar-Bliall, niar-Bliall, the district attorney, the building build-ing commi8SiOn, the board of fire underwriters, un-derwriters, the Woman's"1 Trade Union leagues and other bodies which are independently investigating ihe die-aster. die-aster. The Woman's Trade League an nounced the bogiuniug of an Investigation Investi-gation which is expected to embrace every factory where 'union labor is employed They will ask the follow -ing questions ' "Do you work in a fire trap? "Are the doors locked while you SV) work? iQg $ "Are there bars on the windows? "D" "Are? there fire escapes on all m& floors? oH "Are the escapes readllv accesses) access-es) Ible? JS "Are scraps of waste allowed to ac-JJjT ac-JJjT J cumulate near the motors or steam e44 j plant?" Jfa I Fire insurance men are inclined to iitj? I urKe a complete revision of the New fife York building laws The limiting of jfS i tno nelBbt oi a'' buildings andjjven ,5s the tearing down of the existing" sky-fs sky-fs sciapers, Is recommended by Thoo,-ij Thoo,-ij I re H- Pr'ce a prominent fire in-i5 in-i5 Burance man jilr "The height of everj' building should H; be governed." he says, "by the char-:K char-:K acter of Its occupancy Four or fie JBf stories should be the legal maximum H( where manufacturing or industilal ;Br pursuits are followed. . W "Just as surely as the little frame Urn building was doomed, so will the IW skyscraper loft buildings go," said H,Mr. Price. "It Is a crime against IH J humanity and beauty that we havo m permitted the orection of any of these 9Mi monstrosities, but we should not build JMJ any more A firo in the financial dis-B dis-B trlct could in a small radius, wipe ajH out the available firo insurance' cap-H cap-H ital in the United States " mBi Fire Marshall Beers summoned the H proprietors of the Triangle Waist nHt company and several employes of the jMVy firm to testify at the public Invefiti-IH' Invefiti-IH' gallon he instituted today. He has U'i een busy collecting all available in-fjm in-fjm j formation regarding the conditions In jj&a i the factory when the fire started and uS-iYIH Inquire particularly into the Ht!uth of statements that doors lead-j3M lead-j3M Hng to the exits were lacked. $M f "So far as I have been able to dis-jggl dis-jggl !fj cover," said Mr Beers, "there has jSineer been a fire drill in this fac-MVrtory fac-MVrtory In my opinion it would take TMKtho 700 girls throe hours to isnch tho Jig street D-v tttf fire escape that' was HjUfed in the building I can say tlmt ',r4 1 the shutters obstructed this fire cs-"jjf.cnpe. cs-"jjf.cnpe. iujii "There are a thousand othe'r bulld--ow'gfHcgB In this city in the same cbndl-&W& cbndl-&W& tlon aB "o scone of Saturday's dTs-0 dTs-0 f afier Hz! ' i. "Tbe b"'1,1JnSs arc passed as loft jUtfL buildings and are thon converted In-& In-& ; to factories. Nine-tenths of the om-&A om-&A tfoyeB cannot read EngllBh, jot In nijgS the examination I have made, I could J 3 not fincl n 8,sn In the Yiddish or nrfl ItnHau tonue8- which most of "(he 4S ,f employes bpolje, pointing to fire os- |
