The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-27
Even New Buildings Unprovided
With Necessary Equipment
for Pupils Safety.
CITY HOSPITAL Is ALSO
!: WITHOUT NEEDED ESCAPES
Recommendation that Trained
Nurses in. Institutions Be
Paid Better Wages.

That the public schools are made
aintcly provided with fire escapes. and
that such lack is "a grave menace to
the lives of the pupils" and that the
City Hospital and Tuberculosis Hos
pitat, mt Verona, are also lax I'm this
rerpect. are the principal points of the
preseptment turned I'm by the second
December grand jury, which was for
p,olIy discharged by Chief Justice
tiummcre, in the Court of Oyer and
srerminer today.
firhs is the charge in full:
I'VE have visited the city and county
Institutions and found them all con-
Quoted i'll a careful and business-like
manner. We believe that the authori-
ties should make some effort to in
crease the wages of the female nurses
i, the insane asyluns. We learn that
in these institutions the female nurses
t'ork ON the average of thirteen hours
"a day and receive $40 a month in pay.
We believe this compensation to be in
adequate i'll view of the long hours and
the trying conditions of the employ
racnt
1T came to our notice that the tubcr-
rtiloss hospital at Verona was with
out adequate fire escape facilities. Fol-
lowing this we made special investi-
cation of the other Institutions and of
the public schools in Newark, with q
view to ascertaining with what means
Tor escape from fire these buildings
We're equipped. We found the condi-
tions IN this respect to be deplorable
and we earnestly recommend the ap-
pointment of commission by the
proper authorities to study this ques-
tion and to propose measures to rem
edy the evil. We believe, further, that
the nurses should have one day week
ITO themselves, instead of one day in
1.-TWO weeks. as at present.
schools in Peril.
THE public schools we visited in
Newark we found to be absolutely
without outside e-escapes. This does
not apply to old buildings only, but to
those recently erected. We examined
one school four stories high, erected
last year. which'has 1.500 pupils at it's
daily sessions, and not only is 1t with
out exterior fire escapes, but every one
of its four stairways is constructed of
wood, In the same school every one
Of the windows ON the ground floor
was found to be covered on the out
side with an iron grating. making
cgress from the windows in case OF
panic an impossibility.
''We believe that all the public schools
three or more stories high should be
. provided with adequate outside metal
f1re-escapes, constructed like stairways.
At present the safety Of the pupils de-
pends almost entirely upon the train
ing they receive in fire drills. We re-
gard the lack of fire-escapes a grave
menace TO the lives of the pupils.
needed at Hospitals, Too.
The City Hospital should also be
equipped with fire-escapes. 1t is a
four-story building with q capacity of
betveen 300 and 400 patients. There
are no outside fire-escapes on the build
ing. We think this condition should
be renledied at once, especially as q
certain percentage of the patients are
either partially or completely neip-
less."
The jurors were headed by former
Mayor WILL. n, II. f., Fielder, as fore
man. A batch of indictments was
turned in with the presentment. After
this had been done the chief justice
asked whether it was necessary to read
the pr6Htlitlcnts diio Whtii e,iO iDAN
man had responded IN the negative he
directed that 1t be merely filed. Then
he thanked the jurors '.for the val
liable services you have. rendered" as
he put it, and they retired. They had
their farewell dinner last Thursday
night in the Krueger Auditorium
While the usual secrecy about indict-
nents is maintained. IS is understood
that none was found against Policeman
Thomas S. Adubato. of the Third Pre-
tinct who early this month shot and
Killed Raffaele Santamarie, q saloon
Keeper, at 3S Adams street, during a
scufie. AS told at the time, the ro-
licernan fired because he feared that
his own life was in danger, as Santa
maria. was after him with . gun. He
was wounded and kept in ST.. James's
Hospital for time. Pending formal
charge made against him by Police Cap
tain Christie. of the Third Precinct. Po-
licenaan Adubato was held in $4,000 bail
for the grand iury's action
what Architect Guiibert Says.
Supervising Architect Ernest f. Gull
bert. of the Board Of Education, when
asked today for an expression of opin-
ion, ON the grand jury presentment,
said.
= ..sss=s-s modern school architect IN the
country is against outside fire escapes