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frantic efforts of the firemen. It was a long time before they got the fire, as a fire, under control. People who lived in the Benedict, which was a bachelor apartment house on that side of the square and I think is now part of New York University, were warned to get out because the brands were falling on the roof. All the other buildings over there were either business or factory buildings. That one building had people in it. It was a residential building. I think the fire people made them get out on account of the hazards. That was in the afternoon and by night everybody who was around there was just terrified. You didn't know the number dead, you didn't know anything. It took place, I should think, about four o'clock in the afternoon - early enough so that special editions of the papers were on the street that evening.

A great many social workers went to the AICP - the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor - to see what they could do - it was a terrible accident. Somebody conceived the idea that there ought to be a mass meeting on Sunday afternoon. They arranged a mass meeting at Carnegie Hall on Sunday afternoon. Notice of it was in the Sunday morning papers and the whole town poured up there. At that meeting there were a lot of speeches made by many people spontaneously. I can't remember anybody's