Show FIRE DANGERS I 1 and it serves once more to show shaw how careless as a v p cople we are 0 or I 1 our own liess says the denver news fire Is one of the lew few real wastes of modern society but it is a waste as enormous and as fright rui as it is needless two ino thirds or me theaters clutches clure clur hes ches music halls and department stores scores of our land are utterly unitt for places of human assemblage they aro are sate safe only when everything everi thing goes g well let fire or panic start and they ari are deathtraps death traps at manhattan beace ac other night the best evidence seems to agree that the theater was totally uninhabitable live minutes arter after the blaze was discovered with vit h t ans 11 e vest pest of fortune and the most orderly of haste it w would have taken nearly twice that time lime to empty the building set these two facts together ponder nabat they mean ana it if you can suppress a s we envy you your nerves and wh why oh why do we keep dawdling along walking on the edge of tho the pit of destruction arien wo we ehnow L now perfectly well that it Is the pit of destruction the lire fire in the iro ker snuffed out WO lives in ix minutes the net result wo we believe oo 00 has been an improvement in me character of theater curtains and tile the multiplication of exits in chicago playhouses we we be believe aleve there has also reen a slight improvement in the theater curtain matter all over the country but it has stopped there churches with narrow marrow crooked stairs department stores with narrow crowded aisles and few doors hotels which wait only for a tool fool a match and a quiet moment moment to furni furnish sli a cenap ter ler of horrors these you can find in any city in the united states we ar are C al all I 1 t tarred a with the same stick to single out any building or type ol 01 buildings for special condemnation would be grossly unjust but to say that the usual american method oi of building structures which must house large assemblies Is either cri criminal minai or idiotic is to state an unquestioned ti uth |