Download book Report of the Factory Investigating Commission Volume 3
Download book Report of the Factory Investigating Commission Volume 3

Report of the Factory Investigating Commission Volume 3 by New York Factory Commission
Report of the Factory Investigating Commission Volume 3
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Author: New York Factory Commission
Number of Pages: 336 pages
Published Date: 13 Sep 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130467444
File size: 21 Mb
Download Link: Report of the Factory Investigating Commission Volume 3
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...ten minutes in getting back, but there was a case where the alarm was given without previous notice to the working women and girls, who arose at one time. The men in charge of the various departments were at their posts at once, and everyone left the building in good order. Now, in the establishments such as Miss Dreier referred to in her question, where panic would arise on the tenth floor or fourth floor, if they were to move in good order they would still be trapped, and a holecaust possibly occur? A. Well, there perhaps may be a limit somewhere, but I am not sure that ten stories is the proper height. There, perhaps, must be a limit of height somewhere, but I do not know just where it should be. By Commissioner Gorrrnns: Q. The purport of Miss Dreier's questions and the counsel and chairman, were to find out what we ought to suggest in establishments such as now exist. and such as are constantly being constructed, where we have the great factory and loft systems. This Commission has been created to discover, if it can, some means by which a repetition of a great disaster may be prevented. In answer to a question of Chief Counsel Elkus, you said you saw no reason why the building in which workmen and workwomen are employed might not be continued above sixteen stories.-If that be so, there ought to be some means in addition to the automatic sprinkler system, and in addition to the pails of water, and in addition to the party walls, by which large numbers of workers in these large buildings might be protected. and it is one of the things on which we would like to have the fullest light. A. I think I said in addition, proper means of exit. Commissioner DREIER: Well, is there any possible means except a fire wall? The WITNnss: A fire...

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