Considerable sympathy will be felt for those who have lost relatives in the hideous disaster which overtook the str. Morro Castle off the New Jersey coast during the early hours of Saturday morning, which appears to have resulted in' the deaths of no fewer than 230 persons. The story is pitiful one and must arouse a feel ing of intense horror at the enormous Jamount of tragic suffering which preceded so many deaths, and, not Jonty that but also considerable dismay that an outbreak of fire can spread 80 quickly in a ship as to prevent Passengers reaching points of the deck Where they may be able to get the boats away to safety. As in the case Jot the str. Georges Phillippar, it does of matter for the moment how the fire was started, whether by lightning Jor from an outbreak apparently in the library, but the flames seem 10 have spread with an almost unaceoun! able rapidity. Undoubtedly modern passenger ship construction, with the long corridors which seem to be necessary, an" outbook easily fanned by" the draught Booth as sue. for "which these passages are hot sence areal not discuss the qu Higgins did or did generally responsible, but even that tion of silk stoeking for female om 4 does not entirely explain the quick-the fact has now emerged that the leers of the Army, hess with which the flames involved. Generatelect does" not disfavour the whole ship: It would seem that the time has come for shipbuilders to Fayon stockings because of. their Gheapness, No question of whether consider whether all this craze for luxury on board passenger vessels they are better looking than confer. tions of cotton or wool appears to will not have to be subordinated the more imperative demands for a have been considered in the delivery of this dictum, s0 the lassies may now maximum of safety, specially from fire, 'That need not necessarily mean deck themselves in the vallute nf that the interior of the ships shall Imitation silk to their hearts' content, be as bare and uninviting as. the But there must be no cosmetics, en: Inside of the average war vessel, eurnadined lips shall not be lifted Up where fire risk has to be reduced to in psalmody, nor mascara-ed eyelids the minimurr, but that the materials reverentially close: and what ig more Used in decoration shall Be as fireproof the uniform and the old poke bonnet possible, and that even then pre-are to remain, The General-elect's cautions shall be taken to prevent a, defence of this anachronistic mode ship becoming a raging inferno in Feads somewhat interestingly. "The what would appear from the reports Present uniform was most: becoming at hand to be a matter of seconds. {o all ages. she said, while the army It is to be expected that as searching bonnet was prettier and more ser. an inquiry will be made into the viceable than the present fashionable disaster as was done in the case of hats which were no larger. than. the ill stated Vestris, and. that. Postage stamps. 'That is obviously an evidence will be forthcoming which asthetie defence, completely lacking will serve as efficient indication not the case of' the imitation sil only of the origin of the fire, but of Stockings. though it could' be ads methods whereby this risk may be Vanced! against the latter that being eliminated to a much greater degree made of artificial material, they were real. and therefore not' true, fror which it should follow that no arden:
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