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It was probably true. They went to Mrs. Benjamin Nicoll, who was then the president of the Consumers' League, and Mrs. Frederick Nathan and asked if they wouldn't suppress me as it was very dangerous to spread the idea that there were hundreds of other factories that had the same hazards. These people who were my employers wouldn't suppress me because they thought that if I said it, I probably knew what I was talking about.

Actually I was guessing. I didn't know what I was talking about really, except as Woolson and Mr. Stewart had told me that such conditions were not uncommon. These were very careful, very guarded scientific men. They said that incidents like we had in New Jersey were probably not uncommon. There was no law against it. The fire underwriters couldn't insist. They insured the building for its inflammable potentialities. The fact that there were fire-proof windows on the fire escapes didn't add particularly to the insurability of the building, but it added enormously to the opportunities for the escape of people in the building. In that building near Newark, and in other buildings in the same vicinity, it was perfectly clear that many of them were really worse. It might have happened in several other buildings, instead of the building where it