The Newtown bee., 1904-02-05
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 Theater Fire at Chicago on hol-
 at Chicago. iday week, when 5s7 women and children lost their lives by fire and panic and when the great Western metropolis and the whole na- tion were thrown into mourning, has set the student of statistics at work to show what other great theater disasters there have been. The Ring theater ire in Vienna resulted in the death of AT persons in the year 1881. In 1876 the fire at the Brooklyn. theater took 2o5 lives. The Charity Bazar fire in 1897 burned to death 131 people. The great Chicago fire in 1871 had 200 vic- tims. Great surprise is expressed that so many lost their lives at Chicago when the theater was supposed to be a fire proof structure. It must be re- membered that the audience was large ly composed of women and children; that the lights were put out; that the exits were not marked and that the people themselves went crazy at the sight of the fire. It was sad specta- cle and 1t made many, many homes in Chicago places of deepest mourning. How to avoid such castrophes is the burning question in the theatrical world to-day. Some advise not allow ing the theaters to be insured, thus compelling the owners to take the greatest care of their buildings. Others call for buildings made only of iron and brick and cement, which cannot burn, and with curtains and stage fixtures treated with tungstate of soda and made fire proof. Meanwhile the public will gradually forget the horror, and probably some new horror will come before anything will be done.
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 Largest Ship of big things and
 Afloat. now the largest ship has just taken to the water, a few days ago, from the yard of Harland & Wolff of Belfast. The new ship is 725 feet long, 75 feet wide, 49 feet deep, and will carry a cargo of 2S.0OO tons. It will be able to take on 5000 passen- gers and will have accommodations for 8 crew of $50 people. There will be large refrigerating chambers for carry ing chilled beef, and the state rooms will be fitted up with special bath rooms and sitting rooms, forming a set of apartments. The name of the new ship will be the Baltic and she will be ready fer use in the early sum- mer.
 THE BEES good friend, E. L. John son, is conferring great favor on the readers of this paper by the highly in- structive and authentic series of arti- cles touching on the early history of the town. And we find in travelling about that they are being largely read in other towns where THE BEE circu- lates. So representative and able a man as Hon F. F. Hitchcock of Wood bury, told the editor, Saturday, he was reading the series with great interest. As showing the marvellous changes in the customs of the people, and the ad- vantages the public have in the year 1904, in the benefactions of the town, state and national government, these articles bring their own moral.
 A SERMON PREACHED IN TRINITY
 CHURCH, NEWTOWN, CONN.,.
 JULY {, 1873.
 BY THE REV NEWTON E. MARBLE, D. D.
 Romans XIII: 1. There is no power but of God; the powers that be, are ordained or dod'
 As the ninety-ninth anniversary of our national existence falls this year upon the Lords Day, it may not be inappropriate to notice the fact in the hol1ae of God. and in connection with