The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-07
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orders. She couldn't read or write, she
volunteered. She Cmc to the factory
yesterday to get samples and was at her
sisters home near by when the fire was
discovered. What office did she hold in
the company? She wasn't sure. but she
thought she was the secretary OF 1t.
She held s25, 600 worth of stock in II.
Her husband held only a few shares.
She let her lawyers handle everything
for her. She has five children one OF
them, Charles, was the secretary of the
ny. she believed no. the treasurer.
The business was prosperous. Yes, her
husband was fined last week In the
Court of Special Sessions for not keep
ing mis- place clean, and she drew out a
clipping from a newspaper announcing
Candy Company, sanitary
code, fined $3.50" She said that she
showed her customers the clipping
wherever she went to prove hat their
candy was all right.
Her husband. Edward l.. Diamond.
testified next. When asked IL he was re-
lated Il Benella he replied mo. he's
Italian. I'm a jew" He said he had
no idea of the cause of the fire. lie
old of laying off several girls Friday
night and five. others yesterday at DON
because business was slack. So that
left only five girls in. his factory. The
employees on the other floors were Es-
eek Shirt Company. on the third floor.
sixty Il. l.. IL l.. Company, on the
fourth. forty-eight, and the Barrett
Company. on the fifth. about forty.
there were seventy-nine on the third
floor.
Dia says Tie saved Many.
Diamond threw little light on the
soon. "A ftpts thu fire txus ItS,nt,.r.I nv
cept to say that he helped lets OF
girls out" or his own affairs he ad-
mittcd that eight years ago there had
been an elevator accident in IBIS build
Ing and that TWO men u been killed
The mother OF one of them brought
suit against him for $4,000 and got
a judgment of $4,000. After that n
wen into bankruptcy and the present
corporation vas formed. Three years
ago his automobile ran down - little
girl in Cropsey Venue She wasn't
killed and there was no suit. lie ad-
mitted owing the keppel envelope COM
pany some none and an emissary on
behalf of that company served Diamond
with a TO court on the score
Of a judgment of sa2 while the investi-
cation VAS going m.
Diamond told OF the visit OF an
inspector OF the Department of Labor
six weeks ago. the. inspector ordering
him to have the Railways lined with
hreproof material. Tn next day he
let the contract. said Diamond. and
one of the halls. the third. had already
been ireprofed. He said that the
complainant against him In the viola
ton OF the sanitary code last week
WAS the Hoard Of Health, because he
lie remembered being arrested twice
for making impure candv.
He had little or no iniiammable ma
ierial on the premises. he said there
were four or five barrels in the cellar.
perhaps. and 900 pounds of wax paper
or paraf'in. and the cooking oil he used
never amounted to more than a barrel
, every two or three months, which he
| kept in the second floor rear.
He was asked If there ha been five
fires in or around his building within
the last four years. as ~ncighburs alleged
He denied that any other fire had &c.
Cured. Then. after further question
ing. he remembered an explosion In the
cellar which occurred several years ago
and. after n little more probing. he re
called two other fires. one In "A garage
n tho side of his building
Diamond said he had had a fire drill
a couple OF weeks ago, but an employee
who had been VII him six week.
couidn't remember any such drill
Neither did Mrs. Diamond kuow o, a mr.
drill. Diamond explained that the win
lows IN the front of the building opene,
up and down. while those along the sid,
folded IN and outward on a pivot.
Another witness, Thomas SAVING, CAV
testimony consisting chiefly of has par
IN the rescue work. He is n nigh
Waterman employed by fifty companie:
including the Diamond company. and h
was getting a suit of clothes pr, sse.