“SIMPLY A CRIME. ”
STRONG COMMENT ON NEW YORK FIRE. DOORS LEADING TO ESCAPES LOCKED. NEW YORK, March 27. The United States Attorney-General opened an investigation into the Washington Place fire to-day. He declares that there are 150 similar lofty buildings in New York that the Building Department should never have passed. The survivors of the fire assert that the doers leading to the only fire escapes were all locked. It is also learned that the employees of the shirt-waist company habitually smoked cigarettes while at work, and threw the butt-ends- about -the floors. Mayor Gaynfr has started a public subscription for the relatives of the victims. Editorial comments on the holocaust are most scathing. The New York ••American” says:— “This frightful catastrophe was not an accident. It was simply a crime.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3189, 7 April 1911, Page 4
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131“SIMPLY A CRIME. ” Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3189, 7 April 1911, Page 4
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