The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-25
r1R1ANGr.1s FIRE ANNTIvERsARY TO RE Con1n1EN1oRA1ED TODAY.

Today is the fourth anniversary of the terrible Triangle shirtwaist fac tory fire in NeEv York, in which 147
 persons, mostly girls. lost their lives.
 and more than half a hundred were injured. The survivors of this hor- TOT, and tho relatives and friends of the victims will commemorate the anniversary and the fire department officials of the American metropolis will as on past anniversaries, take advantage of the memories of that day to impress upon the people the
 necessity for better protection against
 fire.
 common with many other cities in
 America, sti1I harbors numerous fire traps in which a repetition Of the Trf- angle horror is possible, but great improvements have been made as a.
 result of the investigations follow
 ing that connagration- Owners of
 buildings and employers Of labor
 have been impressed by the lessons
 of the Triangle disaster
 One of the most vital of these les sons is the necessity Of fire drills in
 schools and factories. Even in sup posedIy nxeproof buildings, supplied
 with every protection, it has been
 found that many of the workers are ignorant of the location of fire exits
 and the use of fire appliances in case
 Of emergency.
 As a result of the Triangle fire, the workers in many New York build ings have been so thoroughly trained
 by fra drills that they are able to vacate in a few minutes One New York factory building has so perfect ed the drill that 3.7O0 employees can reach the street in six minutes, and in another twe1ve-story edffice D.
 GOO workers have been dismissed in
 five minutes In multitude of buildings there have been organized
 lire brigades trained to handle cer- tain fire apparatus, and when the alarm rings to take definite stations.
 It has been discovered, as a re- suit of the investigations following l the Triangle disaster, that six-tenths of the fires in New York are caused by cafe1essness-the lighted cigar and cigarette and the youngster- playingLwfth- matches leading the iessness is the negligence In the dis posai Of infIaKxrnable waste. in lsfsparking,s motors, in uncleaned Ichinaneys, careless electrical wiring and dozens of other ways. The en- forcenent of the mo smoking law in factories, cleanliness, and an a.u- tomatic sprinkler equipment. constd- tute the principal measures recom- mended to prevent such horrors as the Triangle fire The provision of acSQuate means or escape, coupled with the fire dr1I1,, should ba enforc- ed, gay the investigators, even in buildings containing the most per l feet of fire prevention appliances. It is declared that no building can be made absolutely nreproof, but proper building construction is never theIess highly important In this matter most American cities lag far behind Europe. New York city has 800 fires per hundred thousand pop uIation, as compared with ninety
 seven in Berlin, eighty-one in Lon don, seventy-five in Petrograd, sew enty-four in Paris. and fifty-nine in States is about eight times that of
 Europe, and this is largely due, say the experts. to Europe's superior building construction. In freight | ing the United States leads the world l in effectiveness-but this is 8 case where an ounce of prevention far outvreighs 8 pound of cure