The evening world. Newspaper, September 8, 1908, Page 4

u i tH EVENING WORLD, TUBSDAY, SEP | MILLIONAIRE WHO | | —_—— UR LED BLAZE STARTED BY A FREBUG Blaze in Water Street Suffo-| cates Workers Asleep in Sweatshops, RENOUNCES MOTOR SPORT AND RACING, TWO FIREMEN INJURED. Ruins Explored for More Bod- | ies—Nearly 1,,000 Thrown Out of Work, At an early hour to-day the police | ead not succeeded | positively identi- @ying the four persons who ‘ost their) ves in 4 fire last night in the seven- @tory brick building, at Nos. 64-648 ‘Water street, which Chief Croker said) wore every evidence of having been in- | cendiary, but it is believed they knew) the name of one. | When the 1,000 employes tn the thirty-four sweatshops in the build. y ing gathered about the building to- IN S \ day, they began to investigate, and| Adi VAVDERBILZ/A i wes generally agreed that one dl the dead is Isaac Rosenstos, forty, a “OF AUTOMOBLING: Three watchmen employed by on the fourth floor, Water street side, have mot been seen since | the fire, and It is believed they also| perished, | At daylight firemen began explor-| ing the ruins for more bodies, Be-| tween 80 and 1,000 persons are thrown | out of employment by the fire. The bellef that other bodies will be found ia strengthened by the fact that from one to three men slept in each shop/| @s watchmen, The victims were trapped in | top story, and no doubt perished while unconscious from smoke. Two firemen were hurt, and two other per- sons were overcome by smoke, Other| victims may be found in the ruins. Fifteen persons who had crowded to! ' the upper windows of the sweat shops in the building, and were preparing to! 1), dump to mattresses thrown to the side- | , walk, were rescued by policemen and firemen, They included several women, and all were frantic from fright, McDonald a Fire Hero, Four men were dragged to the fifth floor fire-escapes by Christopher Me- Donald, a young man living at No. 610 street, McDonald herolcaliy | stuck to his post until bi his hands and one arm were bad| ed and all chances of rescuing more of the impris- oned victims was gone, To Lieut. Edward F. Howe, he four persons, two of whom we than Liebo Bers street, elghteen, of These two men window of Nos. 5: ready to fall to t Donald grabbed thi to Howe on the fi McDonald saw gray whiskers on FOREVER, HE SAYS aS W.K,, Jr. Chief Promoter of the Sport in This Country, Renounces It. o-day de it wasn't be er Wilhelm LL, of the d n Lioyd It Real Reason For, no May Be Hidden. reason matt real what th passed tying: tree at the hear Paris automobiling porter, know= foreign trip plac do man with | f itth floor racing ! through the fir smoke like a maniac, He shou o him and tried to catch him, but tim fled to the rear, whe was furlous, and probably was caught in the falling floors, Was on Fatal Site. ; The burned buliding. extending through to Cherry street, was on the site of the Haywood tactory, which Was desi ot lite in iwi, Blooms liv the ground Livy: rescued Woraed anu sy Time ana Mor ed Buying Cheap, Low " D Powders. THIS FOWDER WILL DO THE WORK der C The Pow 15c and 25 re Stores. ‘WN ROUGH ON Has Bev Bucs ed Bugs, POW cleanly t the upward rich of the Two Firemen Injured. 6 Was ra THE LIQUID sername Ore KCurh on Fleas The Po Dogs, Cais and Other Anivals sof by Mai fee oa E.S. WELLS, Chemist, Jersy City, N. J. mx. It is fa insured. Ortgtnat ff “Rough-On” (reparations. n ; ‘Beware of Amitatlens er Wabetivutes.” | . | Out PLANS UNION OF age {00,000 JANITORS AD ASSSTHNTS They Want to Be Given Au- thority of “Specials” Under Health Board. CAN ENFORCE RESPECT. Editor of Their Journal Prom- ises Better Relations With Tenants, Too, the window of a litue it No, 6H Lenox avenue, a sign, in blue Ink, which | Pasted on storeroom “phe Janitor, September Number Inside, a middle-aged man, bdald, | gray, soft-volced and humbie, sits at! a desk wielding and welding the| power of four hundred thousand lords | of the dumb-walter. | “Yes, there are 40,00 in New York,” said the editor, Alexander Schlesinger, | to an Bvening World reporter, "Tha takes in the janitors and their asa! ants, We are getting them together tn one organization. The paper is sim-/ ply the mouthpiece of the union.” ‘What do you propose to do with them n you get them together?" | “Improve their condition,” declared Mr, Schlesinger. "Lift them up from thelr present condition of servitude. Give them self respect and author Ity’"— “authority? Are you going to give! them more authority than they have?” Give Them Shields “Oertainly. We have a nice little plan| to take care of them. We will put them) in a position to command the respect of thelr tenants. Now what do you suppose we propose to give them?” ‘A nightstick,”” ventured the reporter, “Oh, no; not quite that,” laughed the editor, “But we mean to take steps to ma shieald—to have a law passed | 1 ee eee QUIPS FROM THE JANITOR, ORGAN OF NEW UNION. ot the 400. now 400,000. Ail have heard they will hear from the ‘The janitor is a private employe; by right he ought to be a public employe under the control of the Health Department Public health is just as important as public order, The Police De- partment gives official shields to and exercises a supervision over private detectives, guards and watchmen. Why should not the Health Department give an oficial shield to the janitor The union should be maintained at all hazards, in defeat as well In victory. ‘The shorter workday insures higher wages and more permanent employ- ment. Remeber that~ “Whether you Work by the piece, Or work by the day, the hours Reducing | Increases the pay.” mel ety iat | making them agents of the Board of Health. ‘They can have @ badge of) office and the people will respect their! authority, | "You can tell the people that in !m- proving the condition of the janitor we will improve the relations between the; janitor and the tenant. The new janitor, wil be one who will really take same interest in giving you heat and hot water. “The jokesmiths have made @ merry Jest of the janitor,’ mused the editor, | “They picture him as a Csar-like brute, inhuman and unkind, where, mat ter of fact, he js really a human being, often @ man of high attainments tem- porarily forced by poverty to take his family and do mental work {in return | for the shelter the landlord gives in a small hole of @ cellar. He Js often the superior of those he serves.” | ‘Does the unton lay down any new | rules for the conduct of janitors?” Just Organizing Now. “No, we haven't got to that vet. We/ are organising now. That will come later, Some day we will have the whole 400,000 in hand, and then we will be in a position to rule. Few people realize the conditions. Now, there are some, janitors who get as high as $8,000 a/ year, and there are thousands who get | nothing but their shelter, and who have to pay for their shelter, besides serving as janitors. 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