The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1902, Page 3

' CHIEF CROKER DENOUNCES 5 f Ve — SHE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1903, ALL LEGALIZED FIRE TRAPS. Necessity for Changing the Law and Requir- ing Satety Appliances in All Buildings Is Pointed Out in Plain Words—Fire Marshal Blames Park Avenue Hotel Managers for Not Patrolling Hotel! Roof. Ademand too strong to be silenced is being made fcr more adequate projection of jiuman life from fire. The law now permits fire-traps to exist all over the city in the shape of “fire-proof” buildings in which there are no escapes or other applianees to save life in case of emergency. The need of changes in the law is brought out by the report of Fire Marshal Freel of his investigation into the Park Avenue Hotel disaster, He declares that horror in a “‘fire proof” building was due to inade- quate patro! of the roof during the burning of the Seventy-first Regi- ment Armory. Lives were lost be- cause there were no fire-escapes. The number of persons who lost their lives on account of this fire is now twenty. HOW FIRE TRAPS EXIST UNDER LAW. There must be immediately an amendment to the present law gov- erning the protection of life in hotels, apartment-houses, asylums. office buildings and other similar struc- tures. On their face, the statutes, as they stand, are stringent. But there is a joker in them. They do not apply with full effect to “fireproof” build- ings or to buildings under nine stories high. And just now there {s no legal precedent for the determination of; what a “fireproof” building is Fire Chief Croker for the a fireproof ballding in New York. Unless equipped with fire-escapes standpipes, electric alarms. fire extin- gulshers, buckets and every other known appliance for the protection of life the proudest buildings In the city are a menace to the lives of those who toll in them or live in them. A any time there may be a calamity compared with which the Park Ave- nue Hotel horror will sink into in significance. ‘This Hotel “Fireproof.” Supposedly the Park Avenue Hote! was fireproof. The stairways were of iron and marble, the floors were indestructible. Theoretically it was dmpossible for the fire to make heai- way within the walls. After the biaze that cost twenty lives the structure stands uninjured. The in- destructible stairways and floors are there, but that ts little satisfaction to those who mourn the unfortun- ates who were burned to a crisp In their fireproof reoms or smothered to death by smoke in the fireproof hallways. Legally fireproof thongh tt was riment offct trap ns well know that many other well- known hotels are tre-traps they stand. But they were less to enforce to the safety of guests of milar mens im other places more dangerous. The Evening World, with the ap- proval of Chief Croker, urges upon the lawmakers the necessity of an en- tirely new method of dealing with fire protection in so-called fireproof structures. Fire-Ese It should be enacted that no build- ing is to be considered fireproof in the sense that fire-escapes and other safety appliances need be omitted in its construction. Absolute authority should be given to the Fire Depart- ment and the Building Department to enforce the placing of fire-escapes on every building in the city not now equipped with them. In the framing of the law the Chief of the New York Fire Department, the Fire Commis- sioner and the Commissioner Buildings should be consulted and their statements and recommenda- tions should be accepted absolutely. “Hotels,” said Chief Croker to-day, “are not the only buildings that offer) Grossman applied to Justice MacLean continual menace to life In this city. ‘The big office buildings that are not equipped with fire-escapes are as dan- gerous as the hotels. appliance | required in a y oupe Boned to be Srepreot. “A fire at midday me a big office’ building, unequipped with fire-esapes of | Meer, wedded a Jewens Prerererere res Pore Teeter rier rer * * . ro :; “NO SUCH THING AS A 2! * ” id : FIREPROOF BUILDING, t| rs -- z] ba BY FIRE CHIEF CROKER. ¢ - In all my experience in fighting fires | never saw a fireproof « 2 building. There is no such thing as a fireproof building unless {t is = !% equipped with every appliance for safety that is required in a build xa | © ing that is not legally supposed to be fireproof. . be There isn't a hotel in New York, unequipped with fire-escapes, = 2 that I would feel safe above the third foor and I know something — ¢ © about getting ont of a building on fre c and inside appliances for fighting fire,| arm ne hotel. ‘The . would easily prove to be a calamity | eater 1 determine ne that would make the whole world!" Beene ciapecee Cunte, aus stand aghast. I ddread fires in these! (ontriviing fires were named an the buildings. xth floor, in tae towel-room “As the law stands to-day, we have! heamt: corner of the fi no power to compel the owner or| hahaa MEE SL) : window aeinge, and wo forth manager of any building to take! ked a permitte proper steps to protect the lives of er the his guests or tenants if the butiding! Wie hote * due entire! is fireproof according to the generaily accepted idea. There are so-called fireproof buildings {n this town that we Keep spectal watch on, and an alarm from the vicinity of one tnem drags out all the department apparatus in reach. They are not properly protected. and we know it but we can do nothing but watch and wait and trust in the luck that ap- pears to have protected them | Fire-Keacapes for All. “Every building in New York, fire- proof or not, should have fire-escapes | standpipes, with hose on every floor; | wider stairways, remote from the ele-| vator shafts; fire-extinguishers, buckets, a system of watchmen, elec a eee alarm signals and such other) appliances as the Fire Department | r: jand Building might direct “When | ray fire-escapes I do not mean the tron Iadder arrangements Department jin use to-day lescape that is safe is an outside stair- way of sterling construction with a|® j hand rail, and the amendment to the/ | law should provide for such an es- | jeape ‘There ian't » ipped with bat 1 would fe third floor, and T know somet! out a ballding o@ el aboot getting | fre. All hotels should have plenty of fire-escapes and every room not| opening on a fire-escape should have| a well-tested rope, ‘omg enough to} | reach the ground. hanging within| “asy reach of the guest. In so-called fireproof hotel ropes are required by law —._— FREEL BLAMES THE | HOTEL MANAGERS. now no, | Fire Marshall Thomas F. Freel this afternoon made a report of his in- vestigation into the Park Avenue Ho- tel fire to Commissioner Sturgie tn which he placed the blame on the hotel management “As a result f my have that he e nvestigat ve fire mtar ator @haft } of the main staircase on determine the bottom sn wide ip th | etxth e Various people at those po The fire was cn sparks and timbers faillr of the elevator shaft through the aper- |iure in the north wall of the brick head at over aald elevator opening, land also through air Mie against the north wali of pulkhead Wind Caret dropping othe root the Sparkes, “Phe wind was from the north Was quite strong, and a arge number « sparks and considers inning matte were carried through the air from the ra ‘Me only kind of fire- | sparks from the desire to call attention tn the properly to prevent of and po miy ome per- ost the head por- iter, was deputized to wvielt the reef. He silel the roof remained | for fe minutes looked Around to see that everything was mate, | and then left t To the beet of bis knowledge and belief. he had lett ‘oof A eomeen and twenty-five minutes before the diss ery_of fire in the elevator ahatt The cause and origin of the armory fire | have not ae yer deen able t erm mat will make a complet port later Favors Fire-Eachpes After fing hie report Fire Me Prev! maid an Evening Worl! am most hear { escapee being placed on all he how well they may be struct TWENTY DEAD NOW IN HOTEL FIRE.} ot Mrs Caroline LR Hau « New York Ho: | brings the list of dead, as a reeul: he Park | Fellow-Passenger CUSTOMSMENKNEW HOW ABOUT “GOOD. VILLAGE GIRLS GEMS WERE COMING MORNING, cABRE?” OLD MAN'S HES, 'READY FOR “HEALTH BELT” |S IT AN INFRINGEMENT OR FIVE WHO JOINED HIM IN HIS BUILDING DEPARTMENT DIS- WEARER WITH $40.000. of Princes Henry Avenue Hotel fire, up to twent Mrs, Hall, who wan elghty-nine years old, lived in Newark, N. J and ——= body will be sent there for burial. | She was the widow of Rev. Samuel if Lod 2 wd for aty years the head of ine|® " ' nd Society. She was tern | "els } W. 8. Boardman iseesting i ‘ at Bellevue i « this wife bi sted aim n He 4s , " ody and ! the ne eve " Vorone oldenkrang announced batiem wae ‘ yelock (hat he had examined ¢ he gems s o ame * owing personas, Niwat Clerk Turner | a Kran was ( Ww A Ramee and J J Clarkes * ' « ‘Thomas Hoge Cal Award Bru Beventy-firer Regin Harris and Gus Arh street static examine Fire Marana other ‘Thia inquiry is not a judicial on fi toroner “Lam merely taking emenia to ascena he facts | M4 rwn personal guidance te 1} may proceed With care and dis LT enali tmpane! a ou le and make 4 most exhauatice inves gation FATHER DEMANDS BABY FROM WIFE. GOOD EATING 1S CHEAPER AGAIN. eater AGED MAN FALLS WOULD NOT FACE DEAD IN STREET. SCOTLANDYARD MEN FEARS SHE WILL CHANGE SNOW BLOCKADE PRICES. HAS CARD WITH THE NAME THE CHILD’S RELIGION. 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