The evening world., 1891-08-29
Annie Matte Had Expected the
Taylor Building to Collapse.
She Worked in II Once for ROSGnfeld
and Was a Witness To-Day.
The DistriCt-Attorney's Investiga'
ton Of the Disaster Resumed.
Many Expert Witnesses VIII Testify
at the Inquest Tuesday.

More witnesses were examined to-day by
Acting District Attorney Bedford In his pre-
liminary inquiry into the facts and circum-
stances OF the Park place disaster.
The examination was resumed at 1890 A.
NJ. in the District-Attorneys private oriice.
Ex-Judge Bedford has the names OF some
three or four score Of experts on mis- list, and
proposes, II he can, TO get at the bottom OF
the matter before the Coroner's investigation
begins next week.
Assistant Dlstrict-Attorney Townsend con-
Quoted the examination to-day. and the first
witness to testify was Annie Matte, who was
employed three months ago In the Park place
death-trap. She lives at 141 Delaney street.
She worked for Louis Rosenfeld, who occu-
pied the ground floor OF 20 Park place, and
her work was to label the bottles and boxes
Of gold paint which her employer manufac-
tured.
ANNIE SAYS THE FLOORS sAGGED.
"Ioften used to notice that when there
were barrels moved In the back OF the store,
the door would bend down as though 1t would
give way.
al spoke about It to the foreman several
NllllVo uhu bOId mn Nnht oOhlO hho uhy We
would have the building tumbling down about
our heads.
"The foreman was Neuman Goldschmidt,
who was killed He would only laugh at me
and say that the building was solid, and that
houses did not fall as easily rs that"
she said she had never noticed the shaking
OF the building said to be caused by the opera
tion OF the printing presses, and denied that
she had ever talked about the trembling and
shaking OF the building with other employees
OF the firm.
NEITHER BOILER, BBNzIER NOR NAPHTHA.
There was no boiler in Rosenfelds factory,
and the witness said she had never seen any
benzine nor naphtha about the place.
She left Rosenfeld's place on account OF
sickness, and not because she thought the
building unsafe.
The next witness was Mrs. Amelia Hem
merich, OF 1898 East Ninth street, whose hus-
band, Theodore Hemmerich pressman en-
ployed by Lebler & Mass, the photographers
on the fourth floor, was killed in the collapse.
HEMMERIoH PREDICTED THE DISASTER.
"only two days before the accident, while
we were at supper" said Mrs. Hemmerich
between her sobs, Teddy said to me:
"Amelia, II 1t were not for you and the
baby would not work In that building an
other day.
al asked him why, and he said 1t was not
fit to work in. 1t shook so that every day he
was afraid 1t would tumble down at any
time.
"I told him that he ought to look for an
other place, but he said he would wait until
fall, when business would be livelier."
BUILDER HoGESKAMP EXAMINED.
John W. Hogenkamp, the builder OF the
Taylor Building, said that he had repaired
girder on the third floor about three months
ago at the request OF Mr.. Grain, the owner, by
putting on iron bands.
He had never been in the building while the
presses were in operation, but he thought the
building was very strong one and capable OF
standing under any weight.
"What do you think caused the fall OF the
building2" asked Mr.. Townsend.
IAN explosion, certainly"
But Il is said that there was no boiler in
the buildingW
"Then II must have been something else
that exploded added Builder HogenkaInp.
WAS OFTEN FRIGHTENED by ITS SHAKING.
Andrew Petersen, who kept the restaurant
at No. "A Park place, was then called.
He said he had been in the building for
eight years and had often been frightened
by the awful shakes when the tenants up
stairs moved in big boxes Of paJ ers and lltho-
graphic stones.
Sometimes the shaking was so violent that
II knocked the glass globes Off the chandeliers
and broke them. This had happened sever al
times, he said, the last time about a year
ago.
in the back OF the basement, which he used
as o kitchen. II could not have exploded be-
cause there was no pressure.
THERE WAS NO EXPLOSION.
1t was only for heating water. Besides, all
his men who worked In the kitchen got out
safely and said there was no explosion.
Jacob Freiburg, OF bl3 East sixteenth
foreman OF Liebler & Maass's pressroom, on
the top floor OF No. "A, about a year ago to
apply for job.
FEAR PROBABLY SAVED HIS LIPE.
young man jumping down from one OF the
presses shook the door so that he went away
without asking for the job. What he had seen
had scared him so that he didn't want TO
Mechanical Engineer Carlile was in his
ONCE at college place when the Park place
~ heard an explosion and nothing will con-
vince me that It was not an explosion" said
Mr.. Garlic.
" Row do you know 1t was an explosion ?"
asked Judge Bedford.
HAD BEEN BLOWN UP HIMSELF.
al have been blown up myself" replied the
witness. and / ought TO know an explosion
when hear one"
hIr Carlies once is at Barclay street and
College place.
Mrs. Sophia Deinlein, Of 445 Fast Ninth
street, who has just buried her siXteen-year-
old daughter Mary, one or ROsPnfCldS en-
plOyees said that her daughter had often
come home with q headache, ana complained
that the building shook 30 that IL made her
sick
This closed the preliminary examination,
and ex-Judge Bedford expressed his Obiga-
tiOn to the newspapers, through which he had
nhfnlned The nnmeS OF SO many Nnluahln