Last night’s Elm
Street fire was a sad business. Some eighteen or twenty people perished. There
was another fire in Lexington Avenue (dwelling houses) due to these pestilent
furnaces. Two factories have just been blown to bits in Brooklyn by defective
or neglected steamboilers, with great destruction of life. We are still a
semi-barbarous race. But the civilizing element also revealed itself this
morning at the Tombs, when Mr. Stephens was hanged for poisoning his wife. If a
few owners or builders of factories and tenement houses could be hanged
tomorrow, life would become less insecure.
SOURCE: Allan Nevins
and Milton Halset Thomas, Editors, Diary of George Templeton Strong,
Vol. 3, p. 6
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