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There was also, of course, a lot of inflammable cotton material about.

It was always assumed and always believed that the fire caught on these tissue paper patterns from a cigarette or a cigarette spark, because of the fact that the fire broke out so suddenly and spread so rapidly. The testimony of the survivors was that they looked up and saw fire by the windows. Before they could think what to do next it had leaped apparently from one bunch of patterns to another - it leaped very quickly. Their first sight of the fire was along by the windows. The cloth rolled up in bales, of course, would not be quickly inflammable. But the cloth that was spread out on the sewing machines, some of which was organdy, was mostly heavier than the paper, though some of it was light and thin, and didn't catch fire until later. The machines were not of inflammable material - but had grease in the gears and belts.

By the window also was one of the fire escapes - an outside, open, iron fire escape of the type which was sometimes seen on buildings. That later proved to be no good at all. This was true in my New Jersey fire too. The people that had gone out on the fire escape were badly burnt. The fire escape had no protection and the fire poured out of the