Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-05
Cant. Crosby Of Fire Department
Points Out Some Room
For Improvement.
ROLLER ROOMS AND JANIToR.
There is Slight Discrepancy Be-
tween Fireman's Statement
And That Of Officials.
r.d NJ Education Representative
,m,,ns That Furnaces Are Not in
puildings Proper--Fire Escapes.

M co,l5 there be a repetition of the
n co,irwood holocaust in Salt Lake?
H rolks with Clerk L. p. Judd of the
III hoard of education and Capt. Crosby
"A NJ the salt Lake fire department would
N indicate not.
The former is emphatic in his mega
~ tive reply, but Capt. Crosby reminds
that constant vigilance is the only price
OF safety.
~ eft Is the little bits OF forgetfulness
~ and oversight that cost lives" says
# tho fire captain, who goes on to show
SO how care may be taken in every detail
M fo, wears and then the slightest over
3f SIGHT upon someone's part costs hum
81 dreds Of lives
Have there been any "oversights"
81 in Salt Lake? Have Salt Lakes school
"a children ever been exposed to a horri-
n bic death by flre2 Are there. now any
"A conditions which are not safe?
81 Capt. Crosby answers all these
81 question and the hundred and one
4 which crowd to the tip of the tongue
s when the Collinwood horror is in the
N mind.
Il Clerk Judd outlines the board of ed
n ucation's view OF the matter and
shows what it has done and Is doing
q toward eliminating the great dangers
d OF fires and attendant horrors.
a The burning to death OF over 15C
d school children near Cleveland is the
Fl horror of the century. It was worse
n Than war. Men and women in Salt
d Lake shuddered as they read the
n sickening details of the scene, when
81 five foot deep piles of little bodies
twisted and turned in the agony OF
II the last moment.
The story liz told-and it is a true
one-that a newspaper man of this
Il city. who helped edit the story for his
d paper, sobbed as the details came
clicking over the wires. Newspaper
a men, of all men, get hardened to the
n horrors of bloodshed and loss of life
i by constant handling of stories which
4 tell about it, but at the thought of
little children being caught in a trap
and then falling into seething fur
mace where their bodies piled up, al
most filling the collar. the most
A hardened heart was torn.
Loving mothers and fathers in this
y city read, shuddered and then with a
y tear OF sympathy for the broken
s. hearted mothers and fathers who had
|
q 20 to horrible death, began to ask
VI about their own little ones In the
n schools of this city.
II The questions mothers and fathers
III are asking have been asked proper
81 sources of information, and the in
Il formation obtained follows.
8 BOARD OF EDUCATION SIDE.
There Is not a city In the country
Il where the conditions surrounding school
buildings are more favorable and safe
as regards the matter of fire than In
a Salt Lake." said Clerk L. Z. Judd, in
y the absence of Supt. Christensen, of the
n board Of education today. II realize"
Il he continued, that the parents OF child
II rem Of this city are wrought UP in their
"a feelings because of the terrible holo-
Caust yesterday at Cleveland, Ohio. 1t
n is due the patrons of the schools here
that statement be made through tho
press as TO the comparative immunity
from fire of Salt Lakes public school
buildings"
NO INSIDE FURNACES.
Mr. Judd then went on to say that
not one of the school buildings OF this
city has a furnace inside the structure
h proper The engine room of each is
separate and apart, and the furnace is
\ located In n room with brick walls and
cement floors. Tho heat Is conducted
H through pipes from tho furnace room
into the main building. thus making IL
Impossible for hre to enter any room
occupied by the pupils. The only way
that a blaze could start inside the
school would be from eleceric wires. and
with the present perfect methods of
wiring and insulating. with the close
Inspection that prevails, danger from
conhagrations from that source Is so
Improbable as to give cause for little
alarm.
SPACIOUS EXITS,
All Of the school buildings here, OBJ
served Mr.. Judd further arc construct
cd with spacious halls, stalrWays and
exits, II would be almost impossible
for Jam to occur even should panic
be precpitated Six or eight children
abreast could descend the stairs, while
the Wide swinging doors would permit
OF rapid egress. In the iire drills that
are practised weekly IN every school OF
tne city, the largest buildings are
empticd in thre minutes. at the utmost
and the others In from one TO Two min
utos
FOUR HAVE FIRE ESCAPES.
Four schools, the Fremont, Hamilton
Union and s3ryant, are provided with
method alone would furnish exit IN q
very brief time, even were all othel
avenues OF escape shut off,
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
The favorable conditions that obtair
IN the schools OF Salt Lake are found
in most OF the schools OF the state
according TO the statements made bS
supt " Public Instruction Nelson. liz
nays that there is scarcely buildlnf
under his supervision that rs not pro
Nlded with outswinBing doors, and tlr'
escapes, where the structures ARE mor'
man one-story high, II any are lack
lns IN this regard, Mr.. Nelson hope
mat steps viii be taken at once L
remedy the defects Most of the build
lngs have Vide halla and stairways
ana In all of them fre drills are prac
used every week. Janitors have beel
instructed that in case OF fire the
Me 70 appraisc no one but teachers, s.
mat when the alarm u sounded tn
PUPILS VIII not know but what a mer
GRIN Is TO be engaged IN,