The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-29

ment OF the situation as practically
sized up.
Aside from the fault that attaches 10
the uou-enforeement OF the fire drill, /,
was shown that in this Binghamton fire
there were inadequate means Of exit
and the absence Of freproof protection
for the s,airways, as well as of the best
provision for the saving of lie in
the shape of a dividing 6rc-wall were
completely lacking: and these were re
,ponsible in the Binghamton case, a IT
tho Triangle Waist disaster, for tho
shocking deaths of scores OF human be
ings.
II is quite true as a usual thing
that inspection is not rigid enough II
these factory FIRE traps. The disaster:
in fires in them as pointed out BY
Safety Engineering in New York, arc
numerous, although the public i:
startled only by those in which great
loss of LIE occurs. A rccapitulation OF
the worst fires shows that in the muslin
underwear factory fire in Newark, y
j., in 1910, women and girls to the mum
Der OF % lost their lives. In 1911
women and girls 20 the number OF Ids
employed by a waist company in New
York City were burned TO death, OF
killed by jumping from the windows
This was the notorious Triangle Waist
fire.
The property loss in these fires is tre
mendous also. Since 1908 more than
$50 fires have occurred in clothing
establishments in the United States
The property loss has exceeded $4,000,
600; an average loss for each fire OF
more than $4,000. In 1912 in a cloth
ing factory fire in the King Shirt Waist
Company in Newark, n. j., the girl en-
ployees numbering 100 escaped safely
although by an exceeding narrow mar
gin. During the year 1911 there was
an average of nearly three fires each
loss totaling almost $2,000,000. AS
stated, "Clothing factories are in the
front rank of rapidly burning indus
tries and the cause OF this care
mainly due to defective administra,
ton and housekeeping. The fires de.
stroyed the entire buildings because the
buildings invariably are not designed
constructed, or equipped with devices
TO quickly arrest fire in its incipient
stages
The frequency of clothing factory
fires in 1913 has not been as great as
in former years, but this Binghamton
calamity brings the average well to the
front. The record Of clothing factory
fires the present year up TO the present
time is given by Safety Engineering as
follows:
January s. Fredericksburg, Pa. Lie.
bowitz & Company: loss. $4,000.
January 10. Baltimore. Nd. Wolf &
Weller: loss. $50. 900.
January 20, Troy, n. Y; Collar & Cuff
Manufacturing Company; loss. SIS 900
January 23, Ashland, Pa, Hunter T..
Bright: loss. Sl5o000.
January 23,. Ashland. Pa, Cumberland
Shirt Manufacturing Company: loss.
February Is. Kansas City. Mo, West
ern Oil Clothing company; loss. $500.
March l. Philadelphia, Pa, Joseph
March IS. south River. N J.. Mark 6
Dawson; loss. $4,000
April 81. ST Paul, MINI. Skormlsh &;
Sons: loss. $4,000
April % Delhi. Ont. Sovereign Mitt
Glove Robe Company: loss, s25
May 30. Chicago. H.. Ederhelmer. stein
& Company: loss. $3.50
June :. Pittsburg. Pa, Caddock Shirt
Company; loss $4,000.
loss, s@5, 900.
June so, willinrsntic. Conn, Connectl-
cut Neckwear Company; loss. $40, ,O00
July e. Baltimore. Nd, l.. Freuden-
thai; loss. $50. 900
July 30. Binghamton, y. !, Bingham
ton Clothing Company; siXty-hve lives
lost. others injured: loss 100000
No argument should be necessary in
view of the appalling facts to call for
the enforcement of the most drastic
legislation and impose under heavy
penalties the strict enforcement of that
legislation.