Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Progressivism/Factory Fires

Today I looked up,"factory fires" in a newspaper archive. I found many results but ultimately decided upon a smaller story by the Brooklyn Eagle rather than a story by one of the large newspaper like the New York Times or The Sun. The Brooklyn Eagle talked about the Diamond Candy factory being caught on fire and dwarfed in flames. Upon inspection of the building, the owners Celia and Edward Diamond were found to be in strict violation of the fire code that had been installed after the Triangle Fire. 12 people lost their lives in the Diamond Candy factory fire, but the losses could have been much, much worse. The Brooklyn Eagle claims that an employee that was walking to the factory saw the fire and ran in and saved up to 75 distressed women, the fire marshall says that these women owe that man their lives. In court Celia Diamond plead guilty to second-degree attempted manslaughter, but had not yet been sentence, as I continuedd to search for what happened to her the only website with results claims that her and her husband were arrested for criminal negligence and homicide, but the source was not very credible. I found another article by the Brooklyn Eagle published in 1917 5 days after the original article. The case made it to the Supreme Court where Justice Callaghan suspended Celia's sentence due to her being "ruined financially, physically, and mentally".

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