The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1908, Page 2

vs 2 ITheE EVENING © FRE PERIL HANGS OVER RAMSHACKLE ~NEW YORK SCHOOLS | GCRLvY, FRIDAY. MARCH 6 [Type of New Xork’s O14 «sor, MOTHERS IN PANIC CROWD THAILLED TWO REMARKABLE Ramshackle Fire trap School, OVER A BLAZE IN | 1908. ~ ihengs Jum about fitteen minute: Metre Grandfather Suffered Tcrments erate ial Aarne aa da Mn Hinder gg lent; ana sprMAET Roce aeH MeGui with the Disease —-Virulent Sores | fhe ast of the Bnacyeeniel i ceGuire Acts as a Human Developed from Knees to Toes, eee a un an orderly! ~~ Bridge on Which to Pass onthe, SUT AR poe | From Fire. ae Canale = UTICURA This was class &B. The boys and physioal instructor Clyde Nesbitt, who iad directed them, were summoned and stioned by the Fire Marshal. Mr, Nesbitt said that none of the boys left SS aa the gymnasium during the time he nad P : in his charge and that all went ia |__ Bix feet of blue-coated brawn and’ grit amtheneshi ial a ry ! was nak ee “In 1884 my Json, a babo, had w ap M Th H lf ; om the gymnasium to tietr @ them warn thin| f0fmed the human bridge that stratehed In 1884 my grandson, a babo, Bui Ings hat Are ore ana he pees MGW thomta tamicnts fee ener a ane +g, OP attack of eczema, and after trying | ; indows belts Sealey 4 ho an the doctors to Phe boys said that In pasting through Take 7, eas’ side blaze early pre : extent of beay vail after leaving the gymna © YOYG WARD ‘utiain Fe oan aoe Hib comil. pak We a way to s a Century Old Are in Daily they smetied smoke. but thought it wa Med Bie A r ‘ ~ the d 4 U b Th d e furnace in the cellar. eading the sing! trapped in. 1 a furna cellar. iahuretwerer eae ; fe caeeae & nd suffering, j se Vv 10usands Ol Alexander told Mars oytreepaetianenece foes: cit recommended Cus ‘ t three days ago he e drili 2 h ° ticura and ina few om in which the fh was is. breathe lest the ro pay for his cou weeks the child was, ? Nes {eeee ore 4 with his life, and perhaps with : He js to-day Young Fupils. nett fe eile Heed te ihre wieae eof one of those whom he soug g man and _ » of paper in e closet or the lutely free } é which were ablaze whe e firemen Pollceman Thomas! EF. AcGuire wa from the disease. 32 New York Danger Spots ceived Yovday aaa a Ae eeteO a ool No. 165 is a new five-stc E 2 Rararlese hearin Wee tal contrac ted 7 ms . brick and glass struct nd- f c i 1D jow policeman ¢) street eae , e Ov 24° 50 Ye Old aTuna 2 Dosit x tense sufferer. A whole w TB, oJ nx thro m One Hand au station, John Gilmor by two i once a C. (676) oS) Ve7 oD ars bi to One Hundred and! atRGe poll ee manne Gane Tibet nee having cn Eighth Two wings. running out | in time to be | toes bei Ry es ——— & & from the main buiiding, form @ court-/ fire was st No, 2% Hast Houston street, tried f me + area eenas % the Ninta | soon after midnight vg a few of the public school buildings. P45 rd on the One Hundred and i eilidron iasttey A i adme ol i r i . 4 re in Ke Street side. Tae halls and stairways | rom ¢ 5 Bee ree Four Were in Peril fy AIS ELA ca the latest safety 3 ion for the lives of the th Fire Drill Held. Amsterdam svenue Bven the ene! on the sixth floor of the tenement. A. the ( and found ir Ss —the awe and deiignt of the New Yc couch outside the door of th apart- | media and fi cure, was held vesterday | pov and sirl—talled fo divert the atin’ ment caught fire in soine mysterious | till to ough well elong in years, lorompted by the Cleveland disaster | R50. [Gp 7 ines | way, cutting them off from the hallway | Zam as though I had never had that ) well known in the vicine | y them daily | An extra fire drt sands of New Y t nee. Built. i ‘ ' 5 he dri] the teachers addressed | west in woth and. ang the fire-escape. disease. | a ascuring them that there |One ined and Ninth streate, Thev | °C Sin policemen va Ane of Lon! Cincinnati, and all whatever if ther obeyed | Were h when they were out of the) | Th if ‘th a by witne {way of the firemen. street and got into the ville y reached the fire-e y could ey heart the fire driit) PASS ae { Blaze Easily Extinguished. Principal Devid EB, Gaddis and Supt. ind nt of hose, was aui atman f! e complet 9 th floor ¢wo firemen wil ma a Mil BO le and the danger Ww: | wife and their (wo infant 001 to-day when Miss Stan- | “Aj through the excitement M\20 | standing in terror. A gr |aope, in charge of a classroom on the bells, the shrieking of Wits: i. street stood with upturned faces 4ith floor. t tles, the shouting of firemen and poltce- |Afth floor, saw smoke filtering through TU "ttle ones in the courtyard watching the situation, from which jshe cracks of a door leading to the yopt up their singing. Mise Rogers re seemed no escape for tie far 1 deinand remes |next room. She knew that the room | gulded them from one tune to another, mbei over the fire-escape, virtues to successf! i [next door waa unocoupled, and that | And) the terre ieee ee away, | - along the coping. which That Cuticura Soap, Ointment. and I ve smoke was a sign of a fire back by policemen helt fii sound of |was less than three inches wide, Gil-| are such stands proven by testin Following the rule, ae sent one of children's voises that fonted 0 ther. more Held iim oy his coattalla, The Ofremasial le cures shan ‘ ile to notify the assistant prin- After @ conguitation with Capt, Kelle: Coo watched the polle esandkavoninbeatels Hise te her and Gntet Binns, Principal Glagdis crowd watched the policeman work One set is often sufficient ‘pal, Le Roy Herman. Her boys an. qecided to dismisx the school with: and nearer the window. At although the volume of smoke w@8! allowing the children to re-enter ths enough to touch eum tumor ris | growing, sat quietly at their desks! upper floors. First the primary and x vi hi ignel. Kindergarten pups were led back into pecrundiees sithe ground fluor halls where teachers In a few seconds It was sounded—four | aiiethuted their wraps, They were re- | five weeks old. G street, xt atreet.. t Pith street. : sMott and Spri streets. . nion and Sheriff str West 40th 5 | Schoert Jo: head: the facial disfi ) to Cleanse the te the Skin form of Choe: urity the fv ands of cura Re Sote the dab) Solath more drew his com- : State Orders Schools in New } ork Inspected ‘ 2 eg 23. fe RR ee } ltaps of the gong. This indicated to the/ teased in groups and piloted by police- | panion hak to the tire-escape, aided by d r f ict! a i |children that they were to leave the men to the fire lines, ~ erepmomier two other polic aide rand § pp eee 3 be . a building without wraps or books. Simul- swocpsd cows upon them |Spitzel, who haa arrived by this time. ; ALBANY. March 6.—Commissioner A. S. Draper, of the State s taneously from atl parts of the great MEM OWOY: | os iis were then Spread Life Nets. (Ce Education Department, announced to-day that. in consequence of che = 200" ce laren mented on ORES aA Ee Atay eon ety. Sl enh pects ira ued f Just gee e Collinwood horror, he has directed Boards c ; ia the mug t wen the coatrsoms then firemen of Truck No. 18 arrived Soe the inwood horror, he has directed Boards of Education in the Sing as They March. ne dig boys went, to the costroeich The firemen spread the life nets beiow e and carried down piles of wr: Principal Guddis was hearing a clase: Ade cuisly dietrmuted, Fal an hour to save the victims if the policeman n the fourth floor, when he heard the fret alarm was sounded next Ciecut lose his vaiance and fali six culists-Opticians cities and school districts in this State to make an immedicte ex. amination of school buildings under their supervision If any of these buildings do not conform to the requirements of the law the Boards are instructed to take immediate steps to have them put in proper conditi uur taps of the géng. He made about ree jumps in getting to the door, but herr ie y said he never! The second’ child. Lillie, was passed POET Gs Die PR { bravery to McGulre. Then c z out the pupils in the) Battalion Chief Cro ne for the march women ¢ oss a ck up “Maron He considered band leason of the thor- " me the wife. Hus- | Dey nd policeman strafned under her 11 aot WAS EY STE LOS The local authorities are advised by Commissioner Droper as | anya three aes of cughness of the fire arih in th we! ace Not a sound eres pea from the EDw. JOHIy ON, Wi.D the provisions of the law relating to fire LO FER SARS td ta jump, intent upon York public echools and the capad' crowd below as, i y inen, the wo- uny years it e brse tonth ite A of relating to fireescapes, fire drills. and [rendering what assistance might) be 2 she teachers, man was worked over to tne fire cs. ¢ ,, MARCUM KENYON the construction of doors and stairways in school buildings. so as | [cape tanding, When she was safe M. UNDEAOTH M.D | | great shout went up from the street Late Brookin Bye and Ear Hosn to afford proper egress from the buildings in case of sire. ‘ | ‘ ORT } That the Collinwood (O.) school tragedy could be du ES . ESTABLISHED FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. 101 Nassau st. edged by fire inspectors and representatives of who have looked closely into this grave shackle structures still occupied as ¢ 1 buildings after fifty-two years are scattered over the lower section of the city, and the decayed brickwork, rotten walls, splintered wooden partitions and non-fireproof Stairways would, experts succumb quickly to flames and burn with | the fury of a volcano. REFUSED MONEY FOR FIRE-ESCAPES. OMcials of the Department of Education declare that a recent ap- propriation of $148,000 to build fire-escnpes in the oldest atructares wan refused by the Board of Extimate and Apportionment. This in itself is n direct confession that the public schools are not as safe as the department heads believe they should be. Secretary A, Emerson | Palmer, of the Board of Education, sald to-day that Mayor McClellan dia not state why the $145,000 requented for safeguarding the school| (2°° HRding to the trout of the children had been refased. Is the non-fire fing of the ola moo vuitding, and a single fire-escepe shackle school buildings going to be another mark againat the Board ipese qe Sat of Estimate, as in the recent case of lamentuble Rotten Hose Scandalt naar TS Sarena c. B. J, Snyder, superintendent of public school buildings, of iielliee eal in Ratt eel Greater City, left yesterday for Cleveland to attend personally the inquiry AOS, ebro into the Collinwood horror. erton L. Winthrop, jr, President of Fite Another School Trap. ie: every school in sident McGowan, of the Board of to-day declared himself op- ' Astor House Block, fn almost any one of thirty-two public 101 building s | 7 , ——“,.———_-- Rare anaes which were built ten years before t 1 of the civil | for School l re l 1SCapes GARY ELECTED U. S. SENATOR 350 sixth avenue 1274 Broadway | ‘ 217 Broadway aoe ; COLUMBIA. S.C. March 6—F » 228 Sixth Avenue, near 15th St, nen 1 to placing flre-escapes on public af Gary was to-day ed to succe = United Star lic schoo! saree = = — - — every mea ————= | ool buftidings on the ground that in- |Comptrotier Metz : flying ma, ¥ y © Latimer in t Gary was chosen on the fourt ves: | ballot. receiving eighty-one votes, Tie " ed in special sess} ainayl As the purpose t Le MARINE Titimers successor, hut untt Board of afternoon a deadlock had prev, safety devices fire-escapos = stead of She) ould be found in times of peril to be | serious Impediments, He thus ex pressed himself at the meeting of the Board of Estimate when a resolution nate President McGowan was in lating an appropriation of $41,- | telephonic communication with | Supt ie capes on| Maxwell, President McGowan asked if there existed any school In New York FURNTURE ON OUR [* @LIBERAL CREDIT SYSTEM YOU CAN PURCHASE HIGH GRADE FURNITURE $50 worth, $3.00 down 75 “ 5.00 “ a 7280)" OPEN EVENINGS. won't save capes said Presiient ne vote on the question the appropriation was yrs owing the meeting of t el se inspe es one to won cussion, hich could not be ; opposed to fire-escapes | two and a balf minutes, Ehyae oi ‘With three or possIbly four excep. s, there Is not a public school which not be emptied of tts full mem- hip of puplla within two and a half minutes,” was Bupt. lax wels dof pupils in ( e © schools, and there is not 5 1 principal in this city a public sohoo! pr r ho does not agree with me," said President McGowan. according to Mr. McGowan. ‘There is not a school in any borough | “7 go not know of any really y that cannot be emptied of} ous school building in the ofty porter for e school chil ea vening World. “There may ve ind a half minutes, If fire escapes Or® butgings fifty years old. but careful seeps pat up. the fire aritt wilt lose its attention has been devoted to then oben PAE ve lidren | With a view to making ready and quick and effectiveness. Children | yr eas from those buildings posdible, In eir necks on fire escapes | my talks with Supt. Maxwell I became of Public Sehvuol No, onic nee, WU on y investi- y one me n this oft fi co to two| President McGowan to en in from tw ee mplicity will break Board of Education, directed Mr. Snyder to make the trip in the ho; Public § No. 3 i | s pe that ‘3 ee 5 protected. rove death-traps | convinced that it és utteriy impossibie the facts brought out at the inquest might be of service to the superin. | 200, 1 “Hiluren'® lives : ant! coverd | Fire encapen, Gorn to wafety. 1am | for a calamity such aa that whiten betel | vesting WAY. atte foean av |} was completed In 184 fa flre|and a set Cleveland to happen in this city.” tendent in suggesting ways of better safeguarding the local schools, st th in N cut off ‘nqualifiedly against fire escapes. 'M/ “Mayor ‘McClean declined to be inter. | escapes, i |The husband's rescue was accomplished | Glasses Always ut Moderate Pric McGowan Aaits Move RTGS aa aN coer e, 9 Ehiilich &Sone. ‘er in which our public | viewed. are constructed and Ne efficiency of the drill whieh empties les school in two or three minutes. TO) ake children down fire escapes will be | just the thing to produce panic, and it | Ames longer to | view of the mann school buildings Public School No, 106 is a fair example of the unsafe buildings used | a * by the Board of Education. It is located in Lafayette, near Spring street, | (274 and the daily attendance of 950 children comes wholly from the tenements |.” No. 106 was built in 1843-—cigiiteen years before the civil war began—and | sverase atten! to-day the old building is one of the busiest schools in the city, It is four | Ravnor js the prin Co GRAND RAPIDS FURNITURE CARPETS RUGS ECOCING stories high, with brick and stone walls, but fitted out with wood on the! PROP REDS SRY he will take three or four t | inside, and with only three dark, narrow exits to the street, building. cperewoue c e empty a school. Fire escapes tn this BAe PAR 2, ASN 8weo dark, “unnnolenomn ie as 2 reat danger, Pais matter +498 47958 124,58 If a fire were to start in the first fl: front, of No. 106, the: would happen. Wh avette street and two smaller doors make an exit for the children who at nd classes first floor. A single up persistently, last and al! wrance | Although there 2,000 pupils at No of fire escapes 1s coming yut T am against ft first, § Remember when $I ° 9 WE E KLY you were young, CREAMED GRENOBLE WALNUT GOODIE S school, th school house Was surrounded by fire-escape leads to the south passuge-| in hur ane flrecencape, Tw the time. Pererail ae Lie cies ne nre nece tikes oe ir} tenhe Fire) Department, pee when you wanted to express a thiny #8 the best ever, yon called it a WRITE FOR LISTS OF WUTFITS. \ south, where there is Would Have No Chance. SURO to ry mende: Ines Coenen ae “goodie.” Loft has a way of remembering these little favored tastes that | | Q%/ MONDAY & SATURL ‘of about three feet. One 1 tirekworeltolareepitneaticat 1a HO RUGE work: of nearest NEN hip pace ARE A SNAP FOR THE || date back to childhood, and our Creamed Grenoble Walnut Goodies make p r r weep the firs! Depa DO? A the centre of the building 18 it is hardly ble to nulld Mans ROMS CSCO TS FIRB DDPARTMENT."” replied Mr. /f you think of the day when home-made candy guaranteed purity and relish i ak = : asi Pherae ate eae ae) McGowan. “I am as careful as any/] in all their fullness. A delightful combination of specially selected wal- (See Page 6 for Story.) nade; the w n é iH en ir T. i PL EA Ue Hee ae nuts cracked to the Queen’s taste and surrounded , funds : ' ! for their safety cor ae coat Gan thi Sbssesesensesnene SSPELEOPSOERERERABEBDAEEAEGE OEE EY | SHIN! oid-tiy «ul i It i iS edna i fares Britis pee at i esl Letina ghey agg Pi POUND 15c . i: t r ‘ rs | have great evices wh! y : £ | stan a he city to take up, but'’-— because Loft offered it at........:-2++eree eee 3} OFFICIAL VOTING COUPON. |} .*:: int Pipes arouse THIS FRIDAY] SPECIAL FOR TH - meour |) ae you Bre inte ET SPECIAL FOR | SPECIAL FOR THIS SATURDAY + ; rf > | als nUIN ot graft. If you have d | : BOL f AY $ This Coupon Entitles the Holder to Cast One ae ‘ | CULO Ue Aina COFFEE MARSHMALTON { Oc Ce pA 10c FURNITURE, CARPETS, i ton of the Fire De- ( eee | ane cae | ’ 5 ; Vote for the KING or QUEEN of the ; : exit at N oe pa mere | BON/BO! ‘Rte, AT LOWEST PRICES 3 1908 A t ° 5 . wan, “and if Laid know | SPECIALS FOR THIS ateralata we + u omobile Carnival * no prompting. I have|f qy . ti ach ti + 5 i POUND < FS — | ppecia sor iy 0c0 a eS Kinds ) 5.00 Down * i |e r Dows $ WEEK OF APRIL 6th TO 11th, 1908. . ; Is He Must ICAN | ASSORTED MILK - Sone 5 , At Broadway. and Spring etreets at/] MEX! 3) execerive ap rivayce comatirrer, wromonine canyivar, |B our but on Blackwell noon a poleeiman saw Viola trying to|f KISSES .. .. POUND 19c! CHOCOLATES, POUND 29c ee : R. Newton, aaa tay 3 Oth 1 Buildings sand |throw himself under a southbound — yi eo er, ' |3 1 : routway ors and he took him int 14494, Grade Bon Bons and Chocolates, Pound 25@ | SiisIs MON Eai nea S\ Contest to Close Tharsday, April 2, 1908 Y feted : ‘ Moton Vics Decks Set: And Park Ri Sexien at aite aise | Sees pi ae elie | While in station house he at- es BRITT On March 5, JOHN te - 3| J Vote tor . oie |S nie In the station nou be at WE DELIVER FREE RON ea oy saan nahin 5 ri ASES OF ONE DOLLAR AND : Mah VOTES EVENING WORLD AUTOMOUILE CARNIVAL ED. |® and when refused he ted his belt || BVBRMOETWeeN BATTERY AND 200ch ‘shone, Mra. J, Allen, 308 $F] rrr, 0. es : ae jp | ana ra wound ois neck and fastened {t to an|{ STREET; also all Brookiym proper. We OF SB 27th st, Us wae & ae he arid’ s hes: ire ie jron beam in a cell. ‘The belt broke, and Igliver t to 10 ib for de. w soints 1a a GOs BLAKE ws & » Boowdway: Hi 125th: | ammany La \ p ia got a nasty knock on th ; Manhattan above Hoboken and m= 3 Beookivn, 2:3 Wink F pte rying a the head. City. Ci c.0. Duane 3 Sins Shire Boral 2 S| eo oe wtctoul| eh, Hate Mame a] | ap trace cee gaged sence ge ‘a