Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-01-01

the department. Here there seem to
he ample exits on paper. but number
Of friends of mine got badly scratched
just the same"
"On the first floor they got out" said
Stanhope.
my friends were on the first floor,
but they received baroness on their
backs, Just the same" Alderman Her
man rejoined.
Alderman Friestedt declared that in
the second balcony there was not suf
ficient room when the seats were down
to allow anyone to walk between them.
Alderman Scully and Alderman Co
merry took from the floor of the stage
bits of curtain, none of which were
larger than the palm of the hand, to
the store of an asbestos company. The
bits were shown to be of asbestos. al
though the examiner pronounced it of
a low grade.
They wanted cheap curtain and
they got It," an incautlous clerk re-
married.
He was instantly hushed up by one
of the members of the company, who
added that they did not want to dis
cuss the matter, inasmuch as they had
a bid on supplying the curtain to the
theater and their bid had been reject
Ell for u lower one. From the action
of. the committee of prominent archi-
tects OF Chicago tonight. there may
result a recommendation to Mayor
Harrison to close every theater in Chi
cago until its exits and construction
have been examined.
This idea was suggested to President
Beaumont OF the Chicago Architects
association today by w. A. Pridmore.
an architect who lost some relatives
by the fire.
President Beaumont refused person
ally to make a recommendation to
Mayor Harrison, but called an informal
meeting of the association, al which
it was decided that a larger gathering
of the members would be held tomor-
row to take action.
Mayor Harrison said tonight: 81 see
! no more reason for closing all the thea
ters than for stopping all railway
trains after a disastrous wreck. There
is no necessity Of becoming hysterical
about this matter, although this hor-
rible disaster has taken place in prob
ably the safest theater in Chicago"
The mayor tonight sent the following
letter to all theatrical proprietors in
| Chicago:
November Of this year I transmit
ted to the city council a report on the
theaters of Chicago, calling the at
tention of the council to the failure
of all the theatars to comply fully with
the terms of tie building ordinance
relative to places of amusement The
council sent a communication to the
committee on judiciary for considera-
ton, and. pending the report from that
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Of building to suspend enforcement of
the ordinance.
THE city ordnance, among other
things, requires each theater to employ
fremen, 10 be approved by the chief
of the fire department. to lcok after
the fire protection of each house. 1 am
advised by the chief that several thea
ters have refused to comply with this
ordinance. Pending the investigation
OF this terrible disaster at the Iroquois
theater and pending the action of the
city council, | have directed the chief
of the fire department to assign one
regular member OF the department to
each theater not complying with this
ordinance relating to the employment
of firemen.
The fremen now employed by
theaters should be assigned to the
front of the house. while the firemen
assigned by the chief should be as
signed to the stage l have further di-
rected the chief, in cases where the or
dinahce has not been obeyed to assign
two regular firemen to the duty of pro-
tecting the public against fire The
wages of these firemen will be billed
direct to the theaters to which they
are assigned, and the service will be
continued until the council has finally
acted on the ordinance"
After despatching this letter, the
mayor said:
IF any one Of the theatrical man
agement refuses to pay the wages of
these men, as several of them have
refused in the past, | will close down
the doors Ot the theaters and keep
them closed until they agree to act as
they should"
All during the day kilograms o.
sympathy to the people of Chicago and
offers of aid poured in by telegraph 10
the mayor.
He announced tonight:
Il have received many offers of aid.
1t may be that before we get through
with this trouble a few persons will
be found to be in need. but Chicago
will he able 20 give that aid herself
Most of those killed and injured, now
identified, can be abundantly cared
for"
On every train which arrived today
came relatives of persons who are
thought to be killed or injured in the
fire.
The lobbies of down town hotels
were scenes Of many happy meetings
as well as of anxious inquiries on the
part of fathers, mothers and more dis
tant relatives of persons of whom no
trace could be found.
Many of these people returned to the
hotel late in the evening after either
a fruitless search for thir loved ones,
or after finding in the charred and dis
figured bodies lying in the morgue all
that remained of relatives or friends
for whom they had searched. From
early in the morning until late at night
crowds besieged the undertaking
rooms and hospitals looking for dead
and injured. The policemen were de-
tained at all places where dead and
injured had been carried to restrain