New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-08

told the story Of "how Lena came home
TO u.s."
LENA came home 90 dinner and then
went back 90 work in the factory. Late
IN the afternoon some one telephoucd
90 Us that Lena had been killed IN the
fire and we were 20 go and find her
maybe In a hospital My father went
all over. and then policeman seat HIM
to the place where they put dead PEG
pie.
Father knew Lena by her face. even
though 10 was terrible black We did
hot let mother see her, because my
mother is very sick and she couldn't
stand g.
To-day we had the funeral, and there
were lots Of flowers. People are very
kind TO us and speak softly all the time.
! am sorry. Lena was a lovely sister.
and she helped father take care Of the
family"
A white lace drapcd doorway at l6l
Hope Street marked a home where an
other victim OF the factory fire lay,
Irene Totta, Just twcnty-one years old.
who had worked on the fifth floor for
the Abraham Barasche Cloakmaking
Company.
Grouped around her. whose face was
SCARED and set i'm rigid horror, the
entire family sat dry-eyed, with hands
c.asped
"Ireac was a good girl" her father,
pomiuick. repeated over and over.
"She go away and just a little Will
after She is gone for always. Look
az her. my beautiful girl. She made
the home bright with her singing and
the bird in her throat has flown
away"
NY niece was four years in this
country said Joseph Castolina, in
speaking of Marie Napolitano, went
one years old. who lived with the Cas-
,o'ira family 40 2l0 North Eighth
Street
Yesterday there came a boz ruh-
Ming. He tell mo. The factory where
Marie work is all fire. ! run quick
there. as quick az ever I can. The
policeman push me and ] say. ave
my Marie, and they promise. but they
no can do. She work with the Essex
Waist Company. on the third floor.
Her people all in Italy. but VIC give
her the finest funeral.
Victim Almqst Saved.
81 sec one drcman try 10 reach Ma
ric. She stand ON the fire escap, and
reach ont her hands, begging for HELM.
and she burning ell the time ana
screaming. The fireman no could get
90 her
"I 80 after awhile and policeman
help me 20 pick out Marie in the STA
tion house. ] no can tell her face,
but know her teeth"
The father OF Cecilia Brook, nine
teen years old, who worked for the g.
J. r. Tnf1orfucr COr~nru- on fho fourth
floor, at his home, 463 Rodney Street.
Yesterday echoed the expression OF
VIII Irwin when he said. IF my daugh
ter. Cclie. had had o vote she ou.d
not have been buried to-day
When VIII Irwin gave his reasons
for favoring woman suffrage lie iald:
ar the girls who lost their ives IN
the Triangle fire had had a vote that
accident would not have occurred
"The girls were not taken good care
Of In that factory" said Mr. Brook. F.
"They didn't have enough fire es-
canes. 7 was always afraid for ny
daughter, and now ] am sorry ] let hen T.
work there. but, then, We are not ricn T.
people. and we must take the work
where we find it.
Women are more interested than 4
men in how other women work, and n
the women were voting there would
not be so many fire traps. Now they
come 10 us and tell us how sorry they
are at the accident Accldenti' an I .
the father shrieked the word n l-orr. I
"Mavbe there viii he no more like It. /
What do they care for the poor nj.
who are killed? Sorrow is cheap when
IL doesn't touch your family, when it'll
is not your daughter Celie.'