New-York tribune., 1911-04-02
ALTERS PLAN Of TABLES
Waist Company FOLLOWS
The Tribune's Suggestion.
|cIvEs ECRESS TO ESCAPES
Firm Pays Of Survivors ana
Families of the Dead-Tnree
Victims Identified.

-,. 4, Harris Of the Triangle Waist
c-.,,,o,, changed the machines IA their
. .1'.dr,. q, No University Place yester-
| &C no, 20 block tic way to the fire
T-be machines had run In long
- rarauel 10 the windows, through
s..h wa the esress 70 the escapes. hut
| -.a.so,. n,acbirists were busy placing
.ho .,ahIes AT riskt angles To their former
no.i,ion and making aisles TO the windows.
Tho change was ordered after tho members
of the firm had read in The Tribune yester-
6av morning the description of their work
room
..rhA machines have stood the other way
.,r elk years said Harris yesterday, and
never could sec anything wrong with ".
,n the girls had to do. If they wanted 70
set 70 the fle escapes. was To climb over
these boxes around the shafts. But The
tribune says II was wrong. and We are
making tho change. You had man here
,ostsr3ay and he said VIC ought 20 change
n asked him how he wanted IT. and he
ss,d he wanted the machines put 50 there
would ae aisles 70 the windows
well YOU see that's what We are doing.
To-day Is a holiday and We are making
tho change il only takes one day and
costs $50. md what manufacturer would
object to tnat?
While Harris was overseeing the Job up
stairs rlanck was IN vacant storeroom
on the ground Hoor of the building with
IS ~, and four policemen. paving off those
who survived the Washington Place fire
and the families Of the dead. The books of
the firm had been destroyed. and the EN-
Moves were paid what they said they had
bocn accustomed to make. Brothers or Sis
,ors Of the dead told what had been
,roupb, home TO the family usually. and
rsceiyed tho same amount. $40, Sl2 or SIG
m most cases.
Harris said that he could not understand
why any one had been killed in the Wash
incton Place fire.
IF one could get out. why couldn't three
hundred" he asked. S"The doors never
we're locked. night or day. We had two
sets Of watchmen and we never had 10
,cck the doors. but there was lots OF girls
didn't know there was any Washington
Place stairs. and there was more than half
Of them didn't know there was a fire es-
care. They all used the Greene street
stairs because there was windows on it.
That Washington Place stairs was all dark,
the girls use IT.
But the doors wasn't ever locked. and
We had 10 have those partitions up. ] will
pay money if YOU will show me any fac
tory that hasn't got them. The girls won't
work unless there is partition in front
Of the elevator TO keep off the draft. They
won't sit there. and YOU have got to put
up a partition. Maybe II should ought to
be of brick or something like that but
YOU have got to have 1t or the girls won't
work, and the men are just the same way
we had eighty on the tenth floor and
only two got killed one jumped out OF
tho window and one was burned to death
We had two hundred on the eighth floor
and only three or four was killed there
They should all ought to have escaped. If
two hundred can get out why can't three
or four more? We had three hundred on
the ninth floor and there was ought not 10
Ia no one killed there. II some could get
out why couldn't they all get out?
1t was that the door was big enough
and the stairs was there. ] went down the
stairs myself. The elevator man tells me
that he tried to pull me on the elevator,
but l wouldn't go. He says l made him
take the girls. and l wouldn't go myself.
] didn't know it. l only know | went down
the stairs, and they was all right. 1t was
that there shouldn't ought TO have been
no one killed except that they was 'steric'.
II one could get out all could get out"
While MIR. Bostwick, Assistant District
Attorney, was examining witnesses yes
terday. Coroner Holtzhauser went through
the Criminal Courts Building and discov-
cred that in the building where the ex-
animation into the disaster is beng con-
Quoted there is no water in the standpipes
and the hose racks are empty.
The bodies OF three more victims Of the
fire were identified at the Morgue yester-
day. They were: Sarah Brennan, seven
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