The evening world. Newspaper, March 22, 1902, Page 5

THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1902. TRIUMPH OF EVENING WORLD'S CRUSADE FOR FIRE-ESCAPES. Supt. Stewart Orders That 249 Hotels Place| Safety Appliances on Their Buildings, and! Thanks This Paper for the Great Pub-| lic Service it Has Rendered Present and) Future Residents of This City. a | os So Sinee tae Park Avenue Hetel fire New York City, particular. Borough of Manhattan, has undergone the most rigid inves buildings in its history. Every employee of the Davartment of Buil under Supt. Perez M. Stewart, has worked day and night. | Every hotel building city has been gone over thoroughly, apart-| ment houses numbering several thousand Aave been inspected, and numerous factories, office buildings ani business bloc The result has been that 249 hotels have escapes on their buildings, while the number of other buildings received similar orders wil. reach inio four figures. | The Park Avenue Hotel horror showed that hotels, and ly those which were supposed to be fireproof, did not have sufficient means of egress | in case of fire or accident. The smoke of burning furnishings was as) deadly as the flames of a burning building. | The Evening World, after a conference with Mr, Stewart, decided on! @ campaign which would awaken the people to the needs of adequate pro- tection in time of fire. New York, per haps more than any other city in the worl, has a large “ hotel popula Each day since then the Rican World has preached the necessity of means of escape from hotels and other buildings. Now that every hote! has been inspected, Supt. Stewart is unstinted in the praise he gives the Eve- ning World for the great assistance it has been to his department. indered to place flre- been hich have} BY PEREZ M. STEWART. | The Evening World deserves that the publicity the Evening! credit for the work it has di World gave to t matter, showing | this most important field. The the absolute av rity possessed by | tlon has been one of saving human | this department to order fire-escapes, | life, and there: of a noble cha the protesting landlords to acter. From the result of the Park sider and consent to do as we Avenue Hotel fire this department | ordered realized that there were other hotels| Publicity in this matter has taught like it, perhaps worse, and we started|the hotel people that the saving of) out to reach them | human Iife is worth the minor sac-| The responsibility of this depart-|rifice of architectural beauty ‘That If a building burns| has been the plea of some of thore who at first were inclined to disre- gard our orders respecting fire-es- ment is great and people are burned in it because there not sufficient means whereby they could escape the blame | were apes is on us for not » that meana | escape would mar the architectural of escape were p Jbeauty, but the persistence with| Greatest Ass nee to City | which the Eve V if has kept} In this overhauling of the city the|up the fight has ¢ f this depart- Evening World has of the, ment te overcome these objections greatest assistance to depart-| without a court's mandate ment. Without the ty It gave for 240 Hotels. the matter and the ¢ ag Since the Park Avenue Hotel fire tion it has kept up pe ing out! we have ipspected something like the necessity for would | 1.800 hotels. Of course, most of these have had much more trouble. As it! were adequately supplied with fire is, we have avoided lawsuits. A few | escapes y hotels objected at first, and it ap-| found Peared as though | id have to take them into court: but I helleve r those they had were not | properly placed Their protest was that a fire} All of these wi the order of this department ing flre-escapes. Many ha had the escapes erected having them put on have been satistie: orders to the rush of business in the delaying the work This fight f& newspaper est. of which ev BENEFITS WILL BE OF WIDE EXTENT. FINES CRUELLY IMPOSED ON OVERNOE NED FIREMEN. Three Men *pockedRive FIRE HERO NO. Days’ Pay Secause They Were Unable to Respond to Alarm Aiter Having Worked Steadily for 2! Hours. Here real life the twenty-o of each « the when ext man who whole twenty-four wust unable of other fires, ts Fire Commis: toner and he avily fined three mpany A.M, until plosion with the ot mained at t 6 o'clock the next with floor. atth hours. They wo raw © along the copt debris. ledwes between the bri where Haa Only I the mortar had worn ont, he They ate only dr: wrought them cup of hot thelr engine-no ing her peaying. The morning Foley, M ant bed was already on fire, and ng the turn to clear * flames were coming through the floor. He carried her out of the | window, back over the narrow! ledge and to the scaling Indder. | Th was met b: turned into bed, St by other members of the company the apparatus, Before the engine wns cleaned an- other alarm came in, Those who were working on it took ft out ¢ the fire he famous while the two or three men who had ark, and her they! a did nor wake ried her down to the ground. gone to sleoy THE MAKING OF DOUGLAS. » exhauste One of the rom jwhen the alarm sounded [three did. Ho was sick, though, sourtsh- geottiah Author whose Book Ie the exposure and insufficient 1 jment. He reached the slide = n to th i t ht . Grew li dead walt) ngth failed him and he fell to the may or may: ries tons In this if Nie two companion it I lishers, MoClui wae leather Rees Be bat whe | was a faine alarm and the ¢ was the “book of t ity | soon back, Charges were proferred woe against the three men who had falled eee ene man ile Rory te | 0 &o with the engine on t siding ail about 3 se | of the alarm, and the th them those who ‘ike “A ‘Little Min and| Foley, | MeNulty ewion “The Bonnie Brier Bush, “tried” like convicts ra thalswice who writen it is 4 far greater po than Barrie or Maclaren. 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