The evening world. Newspaper, March 16, 1922, Page 4

THEATRE COLLAPSE INQUIRY TAKEN UP RENEWS DEMAND FOR ACTION IN CASE OF STRATHMORE Hirshfield Says “Swann Wouldn't Petr poem a THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1922, Greneker sald en the Messrs tlon will continue, Mr ugreement Bb pert and Mr. E and fainted. She was carried out and revived and Warren waa sent to Relle- vue for observation, s SHUBERTS AND ERLANGER|" NOT CO-PRODUCERS |. SHORT SKIRTS AND HIGH STEPS MAKE CHICAGO UNSAFE Spectacle of Women Climbing been extended to ry, For instance ~ Agr a bi 1 comedy hit will Act on Collapse—Asks on Cars Creates Danger for ©. PB. Greneker, press representative |, anger opposition in t Hon of Lee and J. J. Shubert, denied to-day |, Chicao" SF" WHER@ hate Banton to Do So. : Motorists. & published report that the afessrs || otha lic the. Grips abs Explaining that he thought Magis- CHICAGO, March 16. Shubert and A. L. Erlanger will form a fiat hha: been, adopiaa, trate McAdoo's strictures on the Longer skirts for women, tower | combination next season for the produc- Greneker, and no other meateeaccons Rae ee Called Into Session by Brook- lyn District Attorney—4 Accused Are Held. The February Grand Jury in Brooklyn, which was held over for duty this month in anticipation of action on the American Theatre col- lapse in which seven workmen were killed and many more injured, was called into session to-day by District Attorney John E. Ruston. Nearly all the witnesses who ap- peared in the John Doe investigation of City Magistrate McAdoo were sum- moned to tesfify before it. There ap- Peared also a number of other wit messes whose presence could only be explained by the assumption that some person in addition to Sylvester Rosenthal and Samuel Moskowitz, owners and builders of the theatre; Joseph Gaydiica, the steel contractor, and Building Inspector James M Finlay, the steel inspector, may be investigated. Mr. Ruston, who spent the day before the fury, would make Ro statement. - vife.”” he id, 3 i Png pee CR Mtl Ai [eettitied copy of the approved nae rmarvied ialigetale “and drunk when 1 eee New York—Philadelphia grain leather . i eu ys G ble, Fs be: E. Klei ty x for the informatio nof inspecto: He said he married No, 2, tain vrenoble, France rt nert, who is the father] iy ta SEtHS Works TAUltG 16 Pi irre Dn Chrletman tive, 168 before Easter of the engineer who prepared the first plans for the steel work, afterwurd @searded, without official permission, by Gaydlica. Borough President Riegelmann, an- mouncing Finlay'’s suspension, said he would not at present comment on the indictment of the personnel and efficiency of the Building Departinent of Kings set forth in Justice Mc- Adoo's decision. “Anything I might have to say,"’ Mr. Riegelmann said, “might interfere with the District At- torney and with his plans for bring- ing to justice the persons responsible for the disaster. I have given the District Attorney my fullest co-opcra- tiop in the investigation and will give him all the help possible in the prose- cution. If the circumstances show that action in the Building Depart- ment is necessary that action will be taken, no matter how drastic it Tay be.” Inspector Finlay and Contractor Gaydlica are under $10,000 bail fol- lowing their arrest yesterday after :he publication of Magistrate McAdoo's decision. The theatre owners have been under the same ball since their arfest immediately after the fall o1 the building. WABED FOR ALLOWING BOY TO Mapas IN STORE. proprietor of a candy “ne ne Ne. 108 Sullivan Street, was fined $10 in the Municipal Term Court to-May for allowing a fifteen-year-old boy, Michael Valinote, who lives in an apartment over the pandy more, to loiter around the place during school hours. ‘The complaint was by John J. Kane, en attendance officer of the De- partment of Education. Building Department of Brooklyn warranted a renewal of his request for action in the criminal courts in the case of the Strathmore Building at Broadway and 62d Street, which collapsed Dec. 20, 1920, Commissioner of Accounts David Hirshfield to-day forwarded to District Attorney Ban- ton the testimony and report sub- mitted by him to District Attorney Swann after it had been sent to the Mayor May 16, 1921. District Attor new Swann had taken no action, Mr Hirshfield said, and he invited the present District Attorney to do so. In his letter Mr. Hirshfield summar- ized the following charges: That the Bullding Department had been negli gent in considering the reports of the plan examiners who reported on the proposed plans for remodelling the building; violations of the building code by the Building Department in permitting the removal of the brick walls of the lower four floors without approved plans; fatlure to supply a nize that the structural changes wer such as to make underpinning works unsafe under the old walls; neglect of proper shoring precautions in view of visible cracks and other defects in the walls; the permitting of storage of strucutral steel on the floors of the building though no: plans calling for the use of this steel had been filed. One man, an tron worker lost his life in the collapse. The building was controlled by the Strathmore Leasing Corporation of No. 17 West 42d Street of which Walter J. Spellman is Presi- dent. ———— WHITMAN OPENS INQUIRY IN CASE OF MRS. BROOKS WIN Investigate Her Immanity From Trial in Horton Murder. Former Gov. Charles 8. Whitman, acting as a special Deputy Attorney General, began to-day in the District Attorney's office an investigation into the tmmunity from trial which has been pig ono by Mrs. Lucitie Emma Brooks, who present when Lieut, Floyd Horton of the Police Department. was murdered 01 » 1920, at 146th Street. and. Broadway, by Nicholas Loresch, Mrs. Brooks went before the Grand Jury and without waving immunity gave testimony upon which — Loresoh vee indicted and later convicted. Be- is former connection with the ton could not offic Gov, Whitman was appointed to take up the case. ‘The first witness called to-day was Loresi was brought down from Sing Sing on a court writ. Franklin Simon & Co. A Store of Individual Shops FIFTH AVENUE, 37th For -Madame and 38th STS. steps for street cars or bitnders # being considered for men—Chicago must have one of the three in order to prevent a steady increase in accidents, Al- derman Leo Klein declared in in- troducing an ordinance before the City Council providing for lower street car steps, Women wear such short skirts that when they climb up the high street car steps—well, men can’t keep thelr eyes to the front and many accidents happen, particu- lurly among motorists, explained Mr. Klein. tion of plays. Competition in produc- p: Long Gloves With short sleeves, long sleeves, or no sleeves at all—the Centemeri Mousquetaire is charmingly apropos — The glove par excellence for Easter gifts and gowns- So exquisitely made that it “just moulds onto the hand”— of French kidskin so soft that it “crushes” beautifully at the wrist. 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