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I aH THE GAZETTE TIMES. MODERN WAR revives mm.ic IX THE SUNDAY GAZETTE TIMES Romance and Tragedy of mam broken mi IN THE SUNDAY GAZETTE TIMES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1915 -PAGES 9 TO 16. City Bureau Disclaim Heads Liability Miss McCalliris Death At Roup IsUnexplained CO. R0SENBAUM THE Liberty Sixth and Penn- Trading Stamps in Addition to Fire Manual Issues Statement. County Fire Marshal Thomas L.

Pfarr issued the following statement late yesterday afternoon: If some one will furnish me an attorney, I'll close up 1,100 places in Pittsburgh that violate the building laws. I have the power to act, but no money to conduct prosecutions. The city and county have both refused to give me an attorney. Here is a chance for some philanthropic individual to do something worth while. They can make all the investigations and do all the talking they want to and what does it amount to? Give me some assistance and I'll get action.

together and the former left the For Factory raged (jf jj Reports of Various Chiefs On North Side Fire.l Which Take Form of Elaborated Alibis, Trans- Good rams Bodv Of Woman ound On I P. R. R. Tracks, Well Known Pittsburgher. JEWEIRY IS LOCATED ohrnnds the death of i Miss McCallin, ag(ed 44.

daughter of the late William C. McCailm, i ataHat aH j)mHaW The Top of the Morning to You---and an Announcement that will strike your pocket book about right! orm mayor of Pittstmrgn, anu ua i uiaiuuuu pin umbo, anu on me several years auditor in Controller E. i back was her name, "Sophia McCal-S Morrow's office. Miss McCallin's lin." Meanwhile in the Controller's body was found on the west track of office her absence was commented the Pennsylvania Railroad at Roup upon and friends fearing she was ill Station Wednesday night at 9 o'clock, telephoned her home, but learned that and I or AMI Friday and Sat ii i ii ii mj i Men's and Young Mi $15 to $18 New i- JnV A- Jfk: ci i i i in i nx I Best Values i sirdlaj I erpmce Sir! Men's Suite 1 V5 $25.00 Fibre Wardrobe full size structo uuuul i aim ai mai time Miss McCallin said she intended to visit her aunt Mrs. Houghton, during the evening.

At 7:50 o'clock Miss McCallin talked over the telephone with a cousin. Dr. D. J. Marshall, 6321 Forbes street, and told him she intended to visit her aunt.

Last Trace of Her Movements. This is the last that any of her rela- tives or close friends heard from her. Miss McCallin's body lay all night in the Yesterday morning the she had not been there all night Clerks in the office had read of the finding of a woman's body on the railroad track at Roup Station and Deputy 1 Controller Charles F. Weible visited the I morgue and tilled the body. The body was found by Dr.

J. H. Alexan- i der of the Allegheny General Hospital staff. Miss McCallin was the owner of a large collection of diamonds and other i gems. She was a niece of the late Mrs.

Thomas B. Riter, wife of the former head of the Riter-Conley Manufacturing Company, and when Mrs. Riter died she bequeathed her several thousand dollars' worth of jewelry. Miss McCallin had a comfortable income, but preferred to retain her position in Controller Morrow's office. When former Mayor McCallin died, it is said, he asked Controller Morrow to look after his daughter.

This the Controller promised to do, and ever since she had been in his office. It is said Miss McCallin also looked after the Controller's private accounts as well as those of the office. Controller Morrow at the present time is in the East on a vacation. Miss McCallin had traveled extensively both in America and Europe and had a valuable collection of antique works, as well as jewelry. A little more than a year ago Miss McCallin figured in a robbery flower orange proves good auto roads polo-golf tennis-sailing Surf bat hine out-ofdoors every dav Specially priced for these two days aH rif i JUST how this happens is not necessary for the story we're out to start something! And men will come to this sale knowing full well that the values are here and that what we say is so.

There's no sham in our clothes and we know as well as you do that "saving $15 on a $10 suit" is mighty poor business for in nine cases out of ten you get stung for the "ten." The Suits are Here the Values are Here and the -IT all 1rl "MAT Savings are Generous. I ou 11 iviane io misiaKe Tn Riivine- One or More of These Suits C3 case and she made information against a well-known Pittsburgher, charging him with the theft of J4.500 worth of diamonds. He was brought back from New York, but the prosecution was dropped, the man previously having been a close friend of Miss McCallin. Relatives of Miss McCallin in Pittsburgh include Mrs. Sarah Barkley, widow of Joseph Barkley; Miss Margaret McKee, Mrs.

Mame McCallin, all aunts. Joseph Riter, a cousin, lives in New York. Mayor Pushes Relief Fund For Fire Victims' Families Councilmen to Visit Homes Today Six Girls Buried Val-lone Funeral Sunday. Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong will ask i a score of representative t-itisourgners to serve on a committee to push along the campaign for the relief of families bereavea by Monday's North Side fire.

He announced last night the committee probably would be named today Headed by President John M. Goeh-ring, the special Council Committee named to investigate the needs of the stricken families will make the rounds of the homes this mcrning. Five mothers who lost daughteis in the fire are widows. In some cases the fire victims are said to have been the family's sole support. Funeral services were held yesterday for Dorothea Link, 1531 Bid well street; Sophia Zobok, 856 Carpenter way; Co-letta Sellman, 527 Dunloe street; Helen M.

Waner, 508 Foreland street; Myrtle Miller, 2039 Lautner street, and Florence Baker. 906 Federal street. They were the last of the girl victims to be buried. Italian residents of Pittsburgh will give the body of Pietro Vallone a public burial. Services are to be held Sunday afternoon at the J.

J. Flannery chapel, 514 Grant street. City Council voted yesterday to defray the funeral expenses, and a committee of Italians was named to secure subscriptions jr a monument to Vallone's memory. Gertrude Niedt and Margaret Kins ley, wno were nun in ine nre, were said to be in a serious condition yester- day at me Aiiegneny uenerai Hospital. Loretta Link, twin sister of Dorothea Lank, who was killed, is Improving in condition.

Katie Bittner and Thelma Dieraert, who were also injured, are rapidly convalescing. COURT HOUSE HAS WEDDING Tiptave, Deputy Sheriffs and Others Witness In the presence of several tipstaves, deputy sheriffs and other court officials, who softly whistled the wedding march from Lohengrin. Elizabeth Jarusinsr.ky and Louis Printar of North Versailles township, were married by Charles Shoaf. burgess of West Elizabeth, docket clerk in Criminal Court, in Criminal Court Room No. 2 yesterday afternoon.

The smiling pair announced that they wanted to have their courtship terminated by a court wedding. Mr. Shoaf was the only available person qualified to tie the knot. After the ceremony the pair lingered in the Court House just long enough to receive the congratulations of the spectators. I Winter Garden Open Tomorrow.

The finishing touches are being put on the interior decorations of the Winter Garden, Pittsburgh's new ice skating rink in the main Exposition Building, which will be thrown open to the public tomorrow night. Long rows of seats have been built on both sides of the huge rink, which will furnish a skating surface of over 30,000 square feet. The boxes on the north side will accommodate 5.000 persons. Music will be furnished by Caputo's Orchestra! Band. The doors will be thrown open at 7:30 tomorrow night.

(Political Advertisement.) i I i I Hen's Suits on Fourth Floor.) Quality 4 85c 5,00 $10 Dress Trunks g.95 $8.50 Trunks at $16.50 Dress Trunks. Steamer i Fibre I 12 50 63 aHR Trunk, I hug ii $6.00 Leather Bags S1.50 Black Keratol $8.00 Cowhide Suit Cases. S3. 75 Strong Fibre Cases. make Special ttiiswinterm 1 1 1 WWWttVVWArMWttV mitted to Council and Public Safety Charles S.

Director Charles S. Hubbard of the Department of Public Safety yesterday transmitted to Mayor Joseph G. Arm- strong and Council the reports of his bureau chiefs on the subject of Mon- day's fire at the Union Box Company's factory, Sandusky street, in which 13 persons died. They constitute the only report the department will make, he said, unless additional details are requested by the City Kali. "There is nothing that I could add to the reports," he said.

"What could I say? What could the Mayor say? We have said we regretted the disaster we still regret it. So far as I can see, that's all we could say. I simply sent the reports of the bureau heads to the Mayor. The department has no other statement to make. One by one the bureau chiefs dis-! claim all responsibility for the disaster which cost 13 lives.

While the Fire Pre-I ventlon Inspector and Building In spector make recommendations for preventive measures, the reports largely take the form of elaborated alibis. In that respect they are all alike. Each superintendent takes up the subject from the viewpoint of his own bureau. If their claims and assertions are correct, the Department of Public Safety could have nothing to pre vent the fire and its consequences loss of human lives. in Would Supervise Occupancies.

W. H. Coster, chief inspector of the Fire Prevention Bureau, makes tne longest report any of the bureau heads. Hln chief recommenuanon was for a law empowering the city to supervise building occupancies. Building Inspector S.

A. Dies said he "learns" the girls who were burned "might have been able to have gotten out of the building if they had not stopped to get their clothing." The Building Inspector said he believed annual inspection of buildings sufficient to insure their safety, but said even this was lmposslbe "on account of insufficient help." i F. Shanahan, district fire chief, reported that eight sections of hose, some of it but two years old. burst while the firemen were combatting the I fire. Henry A.

Angloch, superintendent I of the Bureau of Electricity, reported that the fire alarms on which the calls were sent in performed their functions perfectly Th I tnis source he re was no delay irom said. Permit for Only Three Stories. One of the interesting points of the Building Inspector's report was a naive admission that the burned building somehow acquired a fourth story, when the building permit only called for three. "We have no record of an additional story, but the 1 ildlng has lour stones his report, ports represented the ranees of the Depart-Safety or its several I the tire. The follow-ken from the reports quoted verbatim: at prese The first offi ment of I bureaus ing exc as indici Public S.

A. Die, superintendent bureau of building Th" la to corny ready ci i does not give us the power the owners of buildings al-istructed to have enclosed incombustible material, as stairways is required judgment to compel t. new buildings. In my should steps taken of bulldtTiKS to make application in this bureau in the matter of obtaining a license for the occupancy of buildings. In this event we could ask them that the proper law in old buildings conform to the requirements, as the law does now pertaining to new buildings.

From whut 1 can learn the girls who were burned, which I believe was 12 in number, if they had not stopped to get their clothing they might have been able to have gotten out of the building. Our inspector made an investigation of the fire escapes and the means of getting to said fire escapes about one year ago. and louna same to be in good All Right, Declared. Henry A. Angloch.

superintendent bureau of electricity All the alarms from Box 96. ut the northwest corner of Sandusky and Reliance streets, were distinctly received, and I emphatically state that there was no failure or delay in their transmission to the various I have always advocated measures that were close to the people and the home. am fightinp; alone and bow to no power but the people and will continue to be their serv ant. I ask you to stand by now me. iforma wa Mayor By 01 Hubbard.

fire companies that respond to this box. George T. Beckett, inspector of wiring, has made a thorough investigation of the electric installation in this building and reports that he can And no evidence that would attribute the origin of the lire to electric causes. "Hose Aged and Inferior." M. F.

Shanahan, district Are chief (report to Chief James H. Richards) On arriving at the nre I found No. 6 Engine Company work with their line. Truck Company No. 12 had not arrived, and upon inquiry as to the cause of delay, 1 learned that the team had been out exercising.

I found flames and heavy smoke coming from the building from the flrst. second, third and fourth floors on the front and rear of the building. Hp. then describes the scene, the iiremeri euuna 10 iiiu me gma getting out, the finding of the bodies, fi and the like and the condition of the uunumg. in conclusion ne saya.

I wish to state that under the existing circumstances the stairway had been cut off by Are; also the fire escape In the rear of the building, leaving the occupants of the building at the mercy of the smoke and names when we arrived at the scene, and under the conditions we feel that the tire department has done the best that could be done, using all efforts in our power to save life and property. Outside of being handicapped by the bursting of hose, which was partly due to age and inferior grade, and the delay of Truck No. 12 in arriving, the Are could not have been handled better. 1 do not believe this would have made any change in the great calamity that took place. Urges Occupancy Supervision.

W. II Coster. Are prevention inspector The loss of life occurred on the third and fourth floors and was apparently largely due to lack of appreciation of the danger at first and then panic when the building Ailed up with smoke, making it difficult if not impossible to reach the ground by means of the stairs. The disaster emphasizes the necessity fir supervision of the occunancy of buildings in order that the size and protection of exits may be adequate to care for the occupants. This building was of ordinary construction, with on open stairway, one ''Pen elevator shaft and a lire escape.

Had the stair and elevator been enclosed, the fire would have been confined to the flrst floor for some length of time and ail would have, in all probability, escaped. The Are escape in the rear of the building was of the ordinary open type. 1 do not consider these escapes to be of any value. Instead of being required, they should be prohibited, as in a large majority of cases they prove themselves inadequate either throueh faults of design or lack at The requirements should be for enclosed stairways built into the corners of the building and ventilated from the outside. "Many Buildings Carry Hazards." In Pittsburgh, as in all American cities, there are hundreds of buildings which carry, to a greater or less degree.

Are and life hazards such as those of the Sandusky street building. In a large majority of caaes, in the event of Are the occupants escape without loss of life, but every now and then disasters occur such as that at Binghatnton. N. the lloston apartment house fire, the Triangle Shirt Waist factory in New York and others. About four years ago.

during Mayor Maitee's administration. I was authorized to begin work on an amendment to the city charter which would enable us to nroperly regulate bulldine construction and provide regulations for Are prevention and proper exit In case of fire. The city solicitor. Mr. O'Brien, and the Civic Club of Allegheny County co-aperated with me in the preparation of an act which was presented by Senator Kline to the 1SH3 session of the Legislature.

This act was passed by the House and Senate, but vetoed by Gov. Tener. The same act was presented to the 1915 session of the Legislature by House Member William McCaig. It was uassed by the House and Senate and approved by Gov. Brumbaugh, and will become a part of the city charter January 1, 1916.

Council has appointed a building "de commission which Is now work drawing a building code which will provide not only for the construction of buildings, but also for their maintenance, for Are prevention regulations and for regulations providing for the safety of the occupants of build-inas In case of fir. Never Inspected Building. In regard to the building at 207-09 Sandusky street, in which the Are occurred, neither Mr. Shoemaker, my assistant, nor myself have ever been in this building. Our records show two inspections.

One made May 26, 1914. by Charles C. Atkins of hinglna Company No. 46 showed the building to be In reasonably good condition and makes no recommendations. The other Inspection was made July 31.

1914. by James Bowback of Engine Company No 46. and showed the conditions to be the same as those reported by Atkins and makes no recommendations. As a result of these Inspections we maoe no Inspection of the building, merely receiving and filing tho reports. In accordance with Council's demand Director Hubbard called on Building Inspector Dies yesterday to submit a report of all buildings wnicn do not conform to the building laws.

Several days will he required to compile the report, ho said. When a Gazette Times reporter requested permission to examine a Ale of reports on unsafe buildings made in the summer of 1914 by Special Agent D. W. Price, working under the direction of Civilian Aid Archibald Mackrell and the Department of Public Safety. Director Hubbard refused point blank to permit them to be examined.

"Not for the Public." "No. no. no those are department records," he said. "I couldn't let you sco them now. They will all be summarized in my report to Council and any councilman may examine them who wishes to do so.

But I couldn't let you see them a newspaper man! No. no!" Special Agent Price submitted 872 reports. Most of them are said to have shown violations of the building laws. Mr. Price and Fire Maishal Thomas L.

Pfarr asserted yesterday they made a Joint inspection and report on the Brown Building, in which Monday's Are occurred, the last week In July. 1914. Asked If the department had this report, Director Hubbard said: "Now 1 haven't been able to locate that report I've looked for it. too. I don't remember ever having seen It." Tomorrow Is the Last Day.

Thor Si, Electric Vacuum Cleaners, $19.75, today and tomorrow The Electric Shop, Jenkins 1 regular only $14. Arcade. 1 5 I 2 dity OatifoTTiva trains' 16 tions are meeting in executive session as a joint comity committee of the two churches in the First Presbyterian Church. Sixth avenue. In addition to those named, the representatives of the northern and southern churches in the conference included: North The Rev.

Dr. Maitland Alexander, Pittsburgh; the Rev. Dr. F. N.

McMillin, Cincinnati, and William U. Foilansbee, Pittsbargh. South The Rev. R. B.

Willis, Fayetteville, the Rev. T. A. Wharton, Sherman, the Rev. Dr.

Homer McMillan, Atlanta, Ga. Various sub-committees were put to work during the day; The Rev. Dr. William H. Roberts, feecre'tary of the conference, reported that the joint committee representing the two assemblies had "considered all cases submitted, but reached no conclusion." (Kunenbaura Co.

Fourth Floor. The speakers were the Rev. Dr. J. Ross Stevenson, president of Princeton Theological Seminary and moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, North; the Rev.

Dr. W. McF. Alexander of New Orleans. moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, South; the Rev.

Dr. J. S. Lyons of Atlanta, representing the Southern Church, and the Re-. Dr.

William H. Roberts of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, North. All the speakers discussed the friendly and brotherly feeling existing between the various Presbyterian Churches and expressed the hope that the churches North and South would unite in the near future. It is for the purpose of uniting the two churches that representatives of the organiza- Tho head was nearly severed from her body. two fingers on the lett nana mioninir and at first It was be- lieved she might have been robbed and her body thrown on the track.

Miss McCallin usually wore Jewelry valued at from $1,500 to J2.000, and at first it was believed this was missing Later a diamond horseshoe pm, vaiued at about il.200, was found pinned to her clothing, and her other gem were declared to be safe. This practically refuted the suspicion of foul play, bu there yet remains to be learned an explanation of her presence at Roup Station. Intended to Visit Aunt. Miss McCallin left her home at 5S06 Ellsworth avenue some time after 7:50 p. presumably to visit an aunt, Mrs.

George S. Houghton. 214 Elysian avenue. Deputy Coroner John P. Black and Secret Service Operatives Walter Perkins and R.

E. Bevard, who Investigated the case, said Roup Station was out of the way for Miss McCallin if she intended to visit her aunt In the Point Breeze district. Miss McCallin ejid Miss Louella F. Ash have an apartment in Ellsworth avenue, near Maryland avenue. Wednesday afternoon Miss McCallin left her desk in City Hall about 4:30, a few minutes earlier than her custom.

Miss Ash and Miss McCallin had four Stop At Grant! Canyon on your way. Booklets of trains and trip upon request. F. E. Sheliabrer.

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The unity of all the Presbyterian Churches in the United States was the keynote of addresses by four representatives of the Presbyterian Churches, North and South, at a luncheon yesterday in the Fort Pitt Hotel given in their honor by the Presbyterian Social Union of Pittsburgh. IVl THE RED AND GOLD PACKAGE CONTROLLER MORROW INDORSES JOSEPH N. MACKRELL'S FREE HOSPITAL PLAN "Pittsburgh should have a Free City General Hospital, which I have been advocating for years and I am glad that Mr. Mackrell is championing it now. It is truly an uplifting, humanitarian cause, of vital benefit to all." aaaaaaK Speaking of Speed I Did you know that Favorites quickly became the largest selling cigarette in several dues without help and before they were advertised? I was nominated without the support of political factions and without set indorse-in s.

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