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Show CHRISTMAS MADE DAI By the Chicago Fire Disaster-No Santa Claus For Many Chicago, Dec 23. Flro Marshal Homo, Ho-mo, who lost hla llf In tho stockyards stock-yards fire yesterday, told the city council building committee last Wednesday Wed-nesday that be did not care how high buildings were in the downtown districts, dis-tricts, but what was needed was better bet-ter building's at the stockyards. The marshal waa a great lover of children. In bis desk at the city hall yesterday wero more than 100 requests for tho flooding of back lots for skating rinks. Each letter bears the O. K. of tho dead chief, who wai planning to send out members of tho department to hasten the making of rinks so that Chleago'o youngstcrj might enjoy their Christmas vacation to tho full. "We are going to have an old fashioned fash-ioned winter," said tho chief a day or two ago. "and I am going to give the kids of Chicago the skating of their lives." Horan was a baseball enthusiast and witnessed most of tho big leaguo games In this city. He also went to Philadelphia as tho guest of President B. B. Johnson of the American league, .during the world's series. In place of happy Christmas gatherings gath-erings there will be funerals In many Chicago homes. One of the most reliable reli-able aftermaths of the stockyards tro was the scene In the homo of Wllllum Weber, a member of engine company No. GO, and one of the victlui3. His company was one of the first at the Are, and he was killed by the falling of the first wall. When hU bruised and blackened corpse was taken from the ruins three little letters to Santa Claus in children's handwriting and a list of presents bo was to buy were found In his pocket. Ho was to hav been off duty at 8 o'clock yesterday morning and had Intended spending the day uptown buying progenia. Word of his death was taken to his home at 10 o'clock. !n tho parlor of tho home his widow and three children chil-dren wer busy unpacking household furniture, they having Just moved Into In-to the home. A Christmas tree had been one of the first things to bo put up In the parlor. At noon, whea the body was taken to the homo, tho little lit-tle tapers that had stood unllghted on the tree were lighted and rlaced at the head of the coffin. Instead of the family reunion and a merry Christmas which was to hav been celebrated In the home of William Wil-liam Morlarlty, the funeral service will bo held over tho body of Albert J. Morlarlty, member of truck company com-pany No. 11, who perished In the 3re. William Morlarity, a member of a southern basoball team, and George, third baseman of the Detroit Tigers, bothers of the dead fireman, reached the fire In time to see a number of bodies taken from the ruins, and a few minutes later Identified that of their brother. oo |