The evening world. Newspaper, November 8, 1915, Page 4

| | q ne i es “LAW VIOLATED 9 MONTHS; OFFICERS COULDN'T CLOSE FACTORY WHERE 12 DIED — (Qectemnseststanneenessncneennnernesee b 38, March 17, Moren #8. Ave Industrial Commission Head oe ene ne aa < Tells of Limit to Powers to | wept Enforce Factory Safeguards, | MUST GO TO COURTS, Hundreds of Buildings in the Keeping nuna ‘peril of death every day, and yet he [could not be reached? City Unsafe as Was Will- jamsburg Structure | “Trhy wae Diamond silowed to keep on operating his factory for nine months after he was ordered to pro- wide proper fire escapest” a reporter for The Evening World asked State [Industrial Commissioner James M. Lynch to-day with reference to the) rusting to obey the order of this dee! ‘fre tm Wittiamaburg on Saturday ‘that cost twelve lives. “The record shows that he receive’ the order on Jan. 6 last; that it was repeated LLL | ) { | \ | | OPENS AN ACCOUNT | CREDIT TERMS ose Open Saturday Evenings 104 ST. L STATION AT CORNER COLUMBUS AVE BET.103 & 104"ST At Auction Sales , Your Price Prevails! just step a little closer” ? Says the auctioneeer, “and see ‘The wondrous things we are to sell," | I'm sure you will agree brnat every bargain advertised S In the Morning World to-day Tis offered here at “your wn price” { And is now on display. ‘To make your money go the furthest in buying house furnishings, groceries, paintings, tapestries, bric-a-lrac and » ail manner of stocks of merchandise, ATTEND ONE OR ANOTHER OF THE § “AUCTION SALES” ADVERTISED TROM DAY TO DAY ON | THE NEXT-TO-LAST PAGE OF é ‘THE MORNING WORLD. Name the Price i And Pay What You Please! i 0 6 make the © war ime ment to do any than thar” Comminsioner Lyneh re plea He could detay the work of fire Proofing for more than eight months Ae of girls and men tn the reporter queried *.” replied Commissioner Lynch “Our records show that everything We have no pe because ite fire escapes are not up to the legal requirements We can only Proceed against the owner of the build- , OF the owner of the plant, or both, for @ mindemeanor if they keep on re- partment. We did all the law empow- ers us to do in this cane. “Remember, we have to deal with thousands of factories and we cannot concent: our work on any one fuc- tory, We have to take them all in ny factories are there now ons of the fire eacape law exist and the employees?" could not tell you without hav- ing seen the records searched. Frei erick H. Cunningham, counsel to this department, will tell you what the law ia” Commissioner Lynch hurried away to the investigation in which he, the Fire Department and the Coroner are trying to find out just who Is to blame for the loss of lives in Saturday's fire. NO RIGHT TO CLOSE PLACE WHERE LAW !8 VIOLATED. Mr. Cunningham declared that the State Department of Labor has no right to close a factory, no matter how much it may lack in the way of fire escapes. “Are there factories orn in this city now,” he was asked, “in which there are not enough fire escapes?” “Probably” he replied no aimmary power to atop work and keep people out, no matter how un- safe a factory may be, The most we can do is to notify the owners, as was done in this case, and then, if no action is taken, in spite of our no- | tloes, we can bring @ criminal pro- @eeding for misdemeanor. “I believe that when the present law was framed, a little more than two years ago, an effort was made to give this department the power to keep people out of a factory that was a dangerous fire risk; but somehow the effort failed. In fact, we have to work against a very determined effort by many real eatate owners to hamper us in every way. “I cannot tell you how many fac- toriee are now open and running at the risk of the lives of the people in them; but I know that in the year ending Oct, 1, 1916, T sent out 18,000 notices to owners that they had not Proper fire escapes, You may infer that there are hundreds of danger- ous factory buildings to-day. “It often happens that @ notice from | Seam Allowance: Mi all at THE MVEM ‘Gimi New York, oF by stamps for each pattern IMPORTANT — Write size wanted Add two ce. “ done as promptly as possible to make the owner comply with the law er to order a factory cloned work Is going on in them in spite of those violations, risking the lives of “We have ng Line and Added ne-Pl Dr: nd Small Women, 16 and Donald Buliding, 100 Weat Thirty-second ner £ixth Avenue and Thirty: THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, KOVEMBE DEPARTMENT RECORD SHOWED FACTORY WAS APINE TRAL don 1, 191b—-Owners ordered to Fremreet o Fer Zh Anepecter Ported work net done Merch 12 Beme inepecter on Rosaviet re ome femme inepecter some 20 Beme inepector mer rete tome te com Presecution weuld Sept 2B—Owners eshed tor more ume Bent 2—Inepector Mosaulet re orted werk begun Nev. 6—Fireproeting on one Neer d when BUILDING BURNED with LOSS of TWELVE Live . — ————— juste merely the beetnning of a fent for dometimes owners s and the Court will not vetting fa 7 ' where we that refumed to make the changes we order punished for neanor—trom 82 to $60 fine for first offense @ $260 and thirty days’ imprisonme for the second “It the department had the power mm @ factory not provided with nate fire escapes we could Ket them jl in first class condition in a very short time. Am ft is now landlords and factory owners can keep us wait. | ing almost indefinitely.” HOW ORDER WAS NOT OBEYED FOR NINE MONTHS, The Labor Department records alone show the factory was ordered [equipped wth two fireproofed statr- ways last January, Three subsequent inspections by Bullding Inspector | Rosquist made between Feb. 23 and March 23 showed the work bad not t done, Late In August still another tnapec- , ton caused the delinquency tg be re- ‘ported to the Commission's counsel. jOn Sept. 17 a peremptory threat of | | Prosecution was sent to the Diamond Ten days later Diamond asked for j more time, which was refused. The next day the building inspector re- ported that work had been begun. Only part of one stair had been com- pleted when the building burned Saturday, The owners were not hurried at any time by an order to close the building for the protection of the workers until it had been made safe, The parade of inspectors of all de- partments through the building never paused at the bolted trap door leading to the principal fire escape stairway from the fourth floor. Nobody noted that the wire glass windows, swung on horizontal pivots, opened but a few inches at the bottom for ventilation only, The effect of the opened windows was to suck the fire from below into the upper floors, to meet those who struggled to squeeze out. ONLY A FEW BUCKETS TO FIGHT A FIRE. Deputy Chief Lally said to-day that he could not find that there was any fire alarm bell in the building; there were no fire fighting appilances ex- cept 26 buckets, and it was not pos- stble to say whether they had been tilled.’ Never in his experience as a fireman hed he known a building to burn #0 rapidly, he said, and he could not understand how a properly con- structed building could have burned so fast, It was apparent to him that the first alarm was not given until after the fire had a big start; there were no fire drills in any of the ories in the building and nobody was to AILLE silk and all-over lace are the materinis used for the making of this gown and the trimming ts Wreaths of tiny ribbon rosebuds, Noth- ing prettier or more youthful could be suggested for the dancing dress that is * certain to be in demand at this son The model is one of the very new- eat and best liked. The skirt is simply full, gathered at its upper edge and is arranged over @ panel of lace, conse- quently it is @ very simple garment to make and at the same time an exceed- ingly smart one, The bodice can be treated as it 1s on the figure to become adapted to evening wear or made with yoke and long sleeves, consequently this one pattern can be made to serve for two entirely different frocks. In the back view, there is a suggestion for the use of plain colored taffeta with just the yoke and chemisette portions of lace. That frock is so entirely different from the dancing dress with the short puffed sleeves and ruffies, that one does not in the least suggest the other, yet tn cut, they are the except for the sleev Faille silk 18 one of the best liked ma- terials of the season and Is exo aly handsome but the dancing dress appro yy could pe made of taffeta in pretty light color or crepe de or of the satin crepe that ts #0 ch liked this season and is so very Dewutiful @ will be necded 4% or 44 in wide yards of all-over Ince 80 Inches wide for the panel, the surplice portions Mouse, the sleeves and the ruffies. f material 36 inches wide. or 4% » with 00 yards of lace 00 inches wide for the surplice portions and % yard 18 Inches wide for the yoke. NG WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION reet (oppo ond Street, nts In coin oF mail on receipc of ten ordered. your address piainiy and always specity chereed WIth the Gute of senting a 6 the Fire Department ee oo efter Warens and Inepecter tnepectr bed Guties tf ane “) that belting te protect from past euch @ de + been & Coroner for come 1 beve been & Grand Juror tt hae hewn tiplioe thom Shee wp the responsibility ee ne one can be helt wtrtetiy te « sntebtiity when the wb eyetem ftalle of re ple ie chume opt ated Piven at the terrtite cost wrday'e fire Jhie for the continu fa death trap The which bas on nie and to prevent un ot inspections f that de responsible seary duplication Lat the men at the head partment be for negligence Y 4 1, and Cella Diamond, the owners of be butlding and the candy factory, were arraigned before Cor + Warner to-day and were held in 600 bail to appear before him to- morrow when Distriog Attorney Crop sey will bein @ public tn Himon and Samuel nd Secretary of the Eanex npany, in whose loft was the bolted trap-door, and who admitted ordering it locked. are also under ball, ARE STILL iminaily Samuel President Shire Ce Searchers continued all yesterday and last night in the ruina, but found no other bodies. The number of miss- ing has been reduced to two-Annie Btapourudice, twenty-two, an opera- tor, of No, 187 Scholes Street, and John Lachinsky, forty, of No, 215 North Fifth Street, who before the searched. The corrected lat of the dead, ac- cording to the police, ts: BOOK, SELLIA, nineteen, No. Rodney Street. BERGER, HENRY, forty-five, No. 14 Rutgers Place, Manhattan. BECKER, SOLOMON, thirty-three, No, 1776 Prospect Place, GROSS, JENNIB, twenty-one, No. 262 South First Street. GOLDEN, ROBE, nineteen, No, 224 Wallabout Street, GOLDFEIN, LENA, nineteen, No, 239 South Second Street, NEOPOLITAN, MARIE, twenty-one, No, 210 North Eighth Street. ROSSMAN, Bertha, seventeen, 275 South Fifth Street, SILVERMAN, SARAH, twenty-one, No, 64 Tompkins Avenue. STANWICH, GEORGE, twenty-: en, No, 165 Ten Eyck Street. TUTTA, IRENE, nineteen, No, 161 Hope Street. WALLICH, A., forty, No. 326 Bristol Street. The Silverman girl was identified at the Kings County Hospital morgue by a heavy cardigan jacket she wore. She had complained of the cold Sat- urday, and her sweeth:.©: Abraham Cohen, who worked near her, had in- e'sted on her putting on his coat. He earched through the hospitals all ruins are thoroughly 463 No. v- WINDOWS THAT OPENED SUT A LITTLE WaT IN FACTORY WHERE 12 DIED (mre Lites Writ teeny oe the wae Folied berweern mn @ ‘ wm tor thirty feet be stopped, A te Hoepitat the Between Car and Platform; Dragged 30 Feet ught under the trucks of « * trom Truck No body was rained fainted when her hed t by @ doctor before she Mre Melon B Mitchel, three yeare old w singer pow tm Boston, and tiving at No 46 Ven Rippen «A Jermey Clty, was Killed at the Pulton street | ov by falling petween « trails the platform at 446 & to-day twenty of & cabaret var and it eo be attended wid be taken nue ton ee roruperete mid, Sowa raves, Soups, Fish, Stews, . ot ind Sale. At Grocers’ tetere being hipped [Frere oid Leet wight ther come to! Ferns Manhatten te attend & theatre ant + whe serompeniod the hed eupper afterward «6 ouren: |+ ote a! repented attempts IN SUBWAY: with & cabere “ they boarded power bere at stock parde ‘ 7 , . Pitter Greet o Wee promepte! j they ‘ ot thom ue of ve te omwomble (he Rerece tn thety good apirita Once Mrs Mitenet | wets te ry ot etepe of (he oor foo | -_ | te getting off the train Mra Miteh ae apondpen 5 7 ea . 0 slipped and fel) between the ely pure Mrs. Helen B. Mitchell Fatls strona ens tmrd care — 4 worked in| the basement. It may be several days’ Saturday night and yesterday. He broke down and had t be helped away when he saw the jacket on her ecognizable form, That the bolting of the trap door to the emergency stairway is prima facte evidence of criminal negligence, and that in this case a charge of homicide will lle against those responsible, was the statement to-day of Reuben Wil- son, head of the Homicide Bureau of the Kings County District Attroney’s oMce, Inspection of the building shows the flames practically swept it clean and that the stairway on the west side had been completely destroyed, while the emergency wooden stairway on the same side was almost consumed, ————s GLOBE STILL SUPPRESSED. Calmly Awaits De LONDON, Nov, 8.—The Glob by th police on Saturday, was still in control of the authorities to-day, When asked as to the probable period of sus- pension, Charles Palmer, editor of the Globe, said: “We are under military ‘aw, calmly awaiting developmenta,”** No steps have been taken by the Government to prosecute Mr, Palmer. Household Economy How to Wave the Best Cough Hemedy and Seve 62 by Making Tt a Cough medicines, as a rule, contain « urge quantity of plain syrup. A pint of cranulated sugar with 34 pint of warm water, stirred for 2 minutes, gives you us good syrup as money can bu; Then get from your druggist #34 vnces Pinex (50 cents worth), pour into « pint bottle and fill the bottle with sugarsyrp. ins rye you, at a cost of vnly 54 couts, a full pint of really better ugh syrup than you could bu crate (er PL. lOn-e cleat saving oF #2. Full directions with Pinex, It takes bold of the usual co or chest cold at once and conquers it in 24 $) for whooping cough, itis and winter coughs, It's truly astonishing how quickly it loosens the dry, hoarse or tight cough and heals and soothes the inflamed mem- branes in the case of a cough, To avoid disappointment, ask your druggist for “244 ounces of Pinex,” and don't accept anything else, A guarantee of absolute satisfaction, or money promptly refunded, goes with this prep- ready nearly = for lettce postage if in « hurry. aration. The Pinex Co., Ft, Wayne, Ind, | Advt. DAGRAM SHOWING WINDOW CONSTRUCTION HYPHENATED NUMBERS. ON AUTOS TO AID IN CATCHING OFFENDERS Zone System in State, Alsc Adopted, Will Help in Identifying Cars. | | ALBANY, Nov. 8—In order to fa | cilitate the registration and the iden- | tiflcation of the 250°00 motor cars of | 1916, New York State is to be divided into three distinct zones, says an an- | nouncement from the office of Francia M. Hugo, Secretary of State. The registration plates in each zone will be distinctive, making it easy tor | the ordinary person to recognize at a| glance the section from which the! motor car comes. The number plates to be used in Buffalo zone will carry the letter | “B" before the numbers. The plates in the so-called Albany zone will carry the letter “A” in a like position. The New York City zone pilates will be without alphabetical characterization. The boundaries of each zone are de- | termined by a rule already established by the department, The number plates for next year Will possess a distinctive feature in| that they will be hyphenated, those of five figures having a dash between | the second and third numerals, there- | by separating the hundreds from the thousands and making it compara- | tively easy for the motorcycle officer, the patrolman or other officers of the law to catch and remember the num- ber of a car, The use of the hyphen was decided on by Hugo after several experiments had been made in the office of the Stato Automobile Bureau to determine the efficiency of the dash between the numerals, It was found that in nine cases out of ten a person shown the hyphenated number plate for a frac- tion of a second could later on recall the numbers, whereas in the case of a five figure number plate such as now in use efforts to correctly enumerate the figures were moro or jess futile, The 1916 motor number plates will have numerals of dark blue on a cream background, The plates will be practically the same size as this year's. Another change making the plates | more easily read and remembered | will be obtained by placing the "N. Y., | 1916" beneath, instead of before the registration numbers. Such an ar-| rangement does away with the possl- | bility of a letter or a figure being confused at night as a part of the| registration number itself, Dealers’ plates for next year will carry the letter “M" before the nu- merals, The division of the State into z0ne areas eliminates the neces- sity of using six figures on the num- ber plates, ——.—__—— CRUSHED BY ELEVATOR. ater's Back Broken Skyscraper, by Car tn Albert Lundeck, @ painter employed nt Putlding, No 165 Broadway, was caught between the top of an elevator and the floor of the twenty-second story shortly after & o'clock this morning. Hugh ‘Tierney, the car operator, | stopped the car and then raised tt suf- ficiently to drag the injured man into the elevator, He dropped the car at express speed to the basement Await ing the car was Fred Landeck. a brother of the injured man, Fred {s also em- ployed as painter. When the car door i} was thrown open he saw his brother lying prone on the floor, gDr, Ridgway of the Hudson Street’ Moxpital sald | Landeck had a broken. back. Ho Is twenty-one years old and lives with his er at No. 2919 ixhth Avenue. It xplained that on Monday mornings elevators of the plunge typ it clined to be unusually apri being due to the rest over 8 $ The accident biceked the line for! an hour tn the side of the car to be Jacked up had to be gather 14 firemen, + 1p Since ber husband went to Boston bested West were Mrs. Mitchell Jersey City address with her cousin, ! Delicatessen Stores, “/TEN THOUSAND HORSES ON WAY TO THE ‘oil Made by E. Privchard. 531 Spring St, NY. Holee had to be chopped the wheels had! and seventy-five ripe | PITTSNURGH, Nov. &—Ten thou HORI IC K’S ‘ wt an >. © | sand war horses aasombied here dur- icemen S we iis petting out the bedy. | IN IAAL week from pointe tn the Mid. THE ORIGINAL roignt and ody! MALTED MILK abeth, N J, where|or you may get a cheap substitute it was said they would be allowed to AND PAY THE SAME PRICE ad been living at the| forwarded to El OPPENHEIM. 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