. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. street last week. E. A. F. 170 THE SANITARY NEWS. [ , No. 130 SWIFT BURNING CONSTRUCTION. Concerning the rapid burning of the Bentonhouse, a cheap lodging house in Chicago a fewdays ago, the Chicago Times has this to say inits editorial columns: All accounts of the burning of the Bentonhouse, on Clark street, early Monday morning, were clearly violated in the conversion of thebuilding into a lodging-house in the manner inwhich the work was done. The inspector of thebuilding department who fa
. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. street last week. E. A. F. 170 THE SANITARY NEWS. [ , No. 130 SWIFT BURNING CONSTRUCTION. Concerning the rapid burning of the Bentonhouse, a cheap lodging house in Chicago a fewdays ago, the Chicago Times has this to say inits editorial columns: All accounts of the burning of the Bentonhouse, on Clark street, early Monday morning, were clearly violated in the conversion of thebuilding into a lodging-house in the manner inwhich the work was done. The inspector of thebuilding department who failed to report thedangerous character of the alterations is crimi-nally culpable. The whole sad affair indicatesonly too plainly that Chicago ordinances are notmade to be enforced except under rare condi- shall arouse the city authorities to a realizationof their duties in the premises. Architect E. R. Krause, of the Opera-houseblock, will prepare plans for remodeling theNorth Side Turner hall on North Clark floors, bath rooms and new gutters will beput in, at a cost of $5, agree that the hotel was a veritable fire-trap;that it had been fashioned out of manufacturinglofts by the construction of flimsy lath-and-plas-ter and even pine-board partitions; and thatfrom top to bottom there was an unprotectedopen elevator shaft, through which the flames,when once they had taken hold of the structure,rushed from floor to floor. Under such condi-tions the only wonder is that the loss of life wasnot greater than befell. The city ordinances tions. The two lives lost in Monday mornings firecan not be restored; but there are scores ofbuildings in Chicago where the menace of life isequal or greater than was apparent in the caseof the Benton house. Official dereliction willsooner or later have more to answer for than inthe case under consideration, unless by Vigorousmeasures the existing perils are obviated. Thetragedy will not have been fruitless of good if it ILLUSTRATION. Th
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