| Show CTT OF CHICAGO MOURNS TODAY bodies to be buried schools and places of amusement closed some a funeral carriages shorty the t 4 great city t t i 2 at midnight only twenty ono dead remain 6 cd in the the total number 0 bodler that leave been accounted tor is of u cco have identified tha public school ot chicago will abo closed on un account 0 abe largo number of funerals 0 vie time of the alro tha church halla of chicago will toll at tomor row in token ot erect tho bodies ot hose their lives at the theater are the last riles chicago jao 1 mayor carter liar today took steps to provide an far against a repetition of f wednesdays borror at the theater a result of an alon made at ills orde ra a few hours nineteen theaters thea tera and museum were ordered closed of being abong the leading and most popular play houses ot the city the action of the was based on einsig violation of alio which aye intended to protect alio patrons of the theaters thea tera atom just such an occurrence which haa cost many this was that overy one or ataee places bad omitted to auprly an asbestos curtain the orrt erod closel are T jacks marlowe ew american olympic academy 0 tousle alhambra Alb ambra avenue bijou chicago opera mouse columbus i shifty criterion jirgen gen avenue Aven pe fand in addition to these the london globe museum and the clark street wire also chicago opera house and the olympic vaudeville house s of the and probably do ln point of numbers as auy the theaters in the city at any angle they give however a matinee every day in alio week ami it Is beldom that acate can lie obtained or any performance at the fmc q opening in addition to tills hey been tb larget ot tickets kcjr dlag and as a general thiap more people are within these places of amusement at an average performance than can be found at any other play honeo in th city the garrick theater which was ordered ioard Io aed Is a play housain hou saon th e side ot the city should not bo walli the larger atar of tho same namo bit on randolph street one block west of the iroquois tho by or today was carried out by commissioner and ot colico tolico 07 alie of tho in no further than as beito siu altae alio lu williamg to rc fiort at the elon af pf bis that U waa hia intention that no theater ua doors in chicago hereafter it aoa provided witha an curtain ot standard quality that would werk nt all llaca aej un der all 1 it bo 31 51 to prevent lose of when audiences rush for the doorways hut I 1 bavo determined to aeo haac efty aff fairer avirt ant ruyh wirl alarm the people TiM w for the exits it Is all very well 0 o ay that the great life in the theater was due to the fact that the people lost their headdi and crowded into tho doorways and aisles like maniacs but the fact remains and it cauuet ho denied that thorn would have been no panic 11 the apparatus in alila theater which judged by all ordinary standards waa the best equipped play u in tho fity had been in proper working condition there ta no getting beyond eliat act from all alio evidence now in hand it laflour la floar that II 11 taft curtain aft in gioi 1 should there bould have becil no loss ot ly tho report of hillding Hull ding commissioner williams showed that the academy of 1 with a seating capacity ot ai bad a curtain of burial the alhambra with a capacity 0 2300 the avenue GOO tho 1300 dark street museum 70 criterion 1 howards lson new american 1100 all had cur tatna ot linen he tain in alic chicago opera house was ot burlap with hrc proof paint la the columbua stock theater anil ao 10 sam T jacka it was of canvas tho olympic theater which holds ad least people at two every dar it Is open had a curtain of cau vae thero are other glaring sald Dull ding which were noticed in eoma of thoi houses but wo were not paying particular attention to them today al though f apted thorn and the ilni aart cal managers ahl bo compelled to edy them ae eoon as possible SORROW a but found hie children allye ono ot tho saddest cac was that ot herbert and I ant uoti children had attended tho cr furm anac and after many houra ol 01 ireless searching the brokenhearted broken hearted father finally found the laug luor agnes in the undertaking establish ment lango almost through hia trapa arom to margua and roin to hospital from office and they back round again and again came hie afternoon la despair to tho 0 chief of acir and begged two detectives to ham bip men and hta voice chol pil ho tr Ms vv auy utterly prostrated at their home mr lango thero were LIs only call dren and alio detectives and newspaper nian promised though themselves worn out by long hours 0 work in behalf ot people Bi rollar to that in which langa their aid finally 0 body of the girl was found and tho brokenhearted broken hearted father smiled through hi tears as ho gathered up the little form and carried it to his carriage 1 I have one of them at ant he eald anti this alii bo a great corn cort to hoc mother the absolute failure of mr langa to identity any of the bodlos as that ot hi aroused the hope that tho boy may bo nelll alive and cored tor in soma 1 mr langea was turned to joy when ho reached hia home at forty nath street tonight As ho drove up to th duoor with the body which he had brought from the morgue as that of his daughter he was greeted with his wife alio told him that their two children had returned bunio this evanine in safety they haj bacomo lost and had been wandering wan derina around the city without knowing where they were mr lango at once returned to the morgue with the body of the luttio girl which he though to be that of his own child on it there waa so little by which I 1 could recognize the body ho eald that I 1 was confident that I 1 never would be able to satisfy my own mind absolutely that it was my daughter but at the same time there were agomo strong points of resemblance and I 1 concluded that it must be she overwhelmed cannot supply carriages for the many funerals the funeral ot the two lebensberg He children was held this afternoon atter noon at tl ic home of their parents in the heart ol 01 the aristocratic section of the south side because of the many calls upon harf time dr emil G hirsch vho aho conducted the services announced that lie would be ablo to deliver only a short address in four other houses of tho members of ills congregation lax bodies of children waiting tor him to officiate at their funerals it was impossible for the bereaved relatives to secure all the carriages they wished to convey their friends and relatives to the cemeteries in many cases it was not possible for all the members of the family to ride in the cortege because no carriages could be procured for them the liveryman liverymen livery men were simply overwhelmed by the demands rabie upon them and earnestly urged that as far as possible the relatives should content themselves with carriage for the pall bearers the hearse and one other carriage tor th family where there were those in the family than could conveniently ride in the single carriage they were compelled to make their way to the cemetery by other methods ot transportation n this was in chicago today and tomorrow it will be intensified the coroners office today Is cued nearly three hundred burial for people killed in the firc some of these for people g ln other cities but they were lew A DAY OF FUNERALS people of chicago watch hearse af ter hearse goby 1 chicago never that ed in the new year in every portion of the city almost it as though there were funerals going or under taker js with lead who were beans brought to their hom for the vast time f walle the funeral professions processions process ions acro moving through tho snow covered streets to various cemeteries tho throng about tho various morgues and undertaking establishments seemed almost largo as ever the scenes here were the same as those of wednesday and thursday night many men appeared at tho door of Rols tons and jordans morgues this afternoon who had been for forty eight houra constantly searching for those they hart lost tho greater number of dead arc in aliese two places and men who had viewed the ghastly rows ot corpse before and had gono on an unavailing search to every other morgue and undertaking room in the city to which the dead from the theatre had been taken came back more to and jordans almost in despair but hoping against hope that they might have overlooked their dead in the great number that had crowded tho tables and on thursday morning an fn u cases they were successful in many others they were not J practically all of tho bodies which admit 0 careful identification have bran carried away and of those which remain tha majority are in a condition that only tho most minute and careful inspection will bo able to reveal their identity to who knew them best IN THEATER mayor carrlson Karr lson gives his opinion after a visit to the house mayor harrlson Harr laon toady in company with commissioner williams alderman mayor and several architects visited the Iro quola theater building and went over it thoroughly tuc mayor went out on the firc escapes tried the exits and anally mounted into tha rigging loft above aitho stage the tf rooms were visited and tho whole interior explored thomas marshall the architect of the building accompanied abo mayar throughout the trip the failure 0 o comply with tho ordinance requiring that the exits shall be indicated by printed sign struck tho mayor and when h e noted that tho heavy damask curtain were hung before some of these doors ac inquired why they had been ilacad bhore clr marshall replica that it was done to improve tho appearance ot tho house it was also noted by iho mayor that alic ordinance requirements quire ments which insists that the galleries abobo tho ground floor mist each have separate stairway leading to the street hul been disregarded returning to his office the mayor salil 1 I tank as I 1 nought yes 8 is CHEAT CHICAGO FIRE continued from page 2 berday of the theater I 1 could not beeny ee ny explanation for the disaster the failure ot the curtain to pvn down T tried a lot of the doof and they seemed to open and Act readily I 1 got into the rigging aft which IA ot with fota trac 0 abelt it I 1 think it would have j C als however it the manage bleat had not placed heavy curt alna ta of the exit I 1 abbad a better of the horror ot tho thing giov than I 1 had t t ff WAT r i I 1 1 i |
