Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-30
NEW YORK,s DISASTER.

BUILDING inspectors who will inspect are
greatly needed in this town.-Nea0 York Re
corder.
THE more that is learned as to the Park
Place disaster the more clearly 1t appears
that our system of building inspection and
supervision Is in need OF radical revision
Ne,o York World
As the causes of the Park place disaster
are searched for it becomes more and more
apparent that the building inspection sys-
tenn of New York City, as carried out, Ia
mentally fails to inspect.-Atbory Union.
THE Park Place disaster shows the entire
system OF inspection in New York to be not
only defective but open to criminal neglect,
either because of personal indifference or as
the result of some pulp that may some
times be simply bribery Utica Herald.
MEANWHILE, who is to compensate the poor
people who have lost their best beloved?
Who will pay the funernl expenses of the
dead or supply the void occasioned by the
summary killing OF the bread winner Of the
family thus bereaveS?-Ne,O York Ne,0s.
SUCH a calamity involves responsibility.
1t is clearly a case for the District Attorney
to lay before the grand jury. That body
ought to make full and fearless inquiry,
ana indict all upon whom the responsibility
seems to rest.-Nes0 York Commercial Aduer-
nser.
THE buildings destroyed by the explosion
in New York are said to have been con-
demned years ago. The law is equal to the
case; will New York public sentiment be
equal to the occasion and insist that the
criminally negligent are punished?-BvfdLo
Express
SOME accidents are unavoidable, but the
falling of a building like that in New York,
with its disastrous consequences, is invaria-
bly, the result of somebody's criminal care
lessness. The guilt ought easily to be fixed
and the offenders held responsible. - In
dtundpolts Journal
WHILE the inspectors of buildings are play
ing hide and seek with the public and dodg-
ing the blame which properly belongs to
them, where is the man who has known ever
since he bought the estate that just such
calamity as this might happen at any mo-
ment9-Ne,o York Herald.
THE protection needed in cities is that
which will prevent the overcrowding and
the overlooking of old buildings which have
been cheaply adapted to modern uses. Such
protection can be easily secured, and the
moral of New York's disaster should not go
Observation-Disclosures American.
THE necessity for periodical inspection is
made very apparent in such slaughters as oc-
CURED in New York. 1t was no accident"
evidently The building crashed into ruins
solely through carelessness, the stinginess
and selfishness of man. Such a man is a
Minneapolis Tribune.
THE reckless manner of putting up build
ings is not confined to New York, although
there would seem to be more danger in its
indulgence there than in many other places.
With its experience in the Buddensiek build
ings such fearful loss of life as that Of Sat-
urday was clearly ayoidable.- Washington
Star.
NEW YORK has been killing too many peo-
pie in falling buildings of late, and there is
no better way to break it up than to punish
those responsible for these accidents. The
conviction of Buddensiek was a good start,
but it was not sufficient as this Park Place
disaster shows very conclusively.-Neoo Or
leans Times Democrat.
WHAT public safety demands without de-
lay is a general and critical inspection OF all
buildings in this town in which large forces
of operatives and workmen are employed.
Ordinary methods of official examination
failed to disclose the instability of this
structure and the dangers and risks to which
its occupants were exposed. Something
much more radical and effective will be re-
quired before public opinion will be reas-
sured.-New York Tribune.