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	The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial
		The bodies of seamstresses, who jumped from the factory floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company to avoid being burned alive, lie outside the building.
		Triangle employee William Bernstein grabbed pails of water and vainly attempted to put the fire out.
		In the thickening smoke, as several men continued to fling water at the flames, the fire spread everywhere--to the tables, the wooden floor trim, the partitions, the ceiling.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/trianglefire.html (168 words)

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		The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the largest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York, causing the death of 146 garment workers who either died in the fire or jumped to their deaths.
		The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers in that industry.
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Company had already become well-known outside the garment industry by 1911: the massive strike by women's shirtwaist makers in 1909, known as the Uprising of 20,000, began with a spontaneous walkout at the Triangle Company.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire (1558 words)

	Bibliography of Triangle Fire (selected)
		Max Steuer, lawyer for the defense in the Triangle Factory fire trial, won the case for Harris and Blanck, owners of the Triangle Factory.
		Discusses the significance of the Triangle Fire in the context of the surge of reformist activities in favor of protective labor legislation in New York State.
		This is the first exhaustive history of the fire since Leon Stein's book. It places the fire in the political and social context of the times, and provides a listing of the victims.
	www.ilr.cornell.edu /trianglefire/bibliography.html (2201 words)

	OpinionEditorials.com — Privatize Fire Departments. The Triangle Shirtwaist fire proves it. - Curry
		The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire of 1911 is often misused as a example of the need for child labor laws and safety codes.
		In comparison, the government-operated fire department was slow to arrive, it's ladders could not reach beyond the 6th floor, to the fire that was raging on the 9th floor.
		In a market system with private fire departments, there is a more direct incentive for the users of the fire prevention service to make sure that the department is properly equipped to address their particular building's needs, or for customers to provide for their own safety and fire equipment.
	www.opinioneditorials.com /guestcontributors/rcurry_20040907.html (1047 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Triangle Factory fire
		The Triangle Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was a major industrial disaster, causing the death of more than one hundred garment workers who either died in the fire or jumped to their deaths.
		The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers in that industry.
		The death toll was 145; 91 died in the fire and 54 died by jumping.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Triangle_Factory_fire (1065 words)

	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire is vindicated
		The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire of 1911 is often misused as a example of the need for safety codes and child labor laws.
		In comparison, the government-operated fire department was slow to arrive, and it's ladders could not reach beyond the 6th floor to the fire that was raging on the 9th floor.
		In a market system with private fire departments, there is a direct incentive for the customer of the fire-prevention service to make sure that firefighters are properly equipped for their particular building's needs, or for customers to provide for their own safety and fire equipment.
	rexcurry.net /shirtwaist.html (812 words)

	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New Bjork City on Mocktober 32, 1911, was the best thing to happen that year, causing the birth of more than one hundred squirrels who were either concieved in the fire or spontaneously came into existence.
		The fire led to legislation requiring improved squirrel control standards and helped spur the growth of the Awesome Squirrel Standards, which fought for better nests and nut collection spaces for squirrels in the forest north of New Bjork City.
		The factory got its name from the triangular shirts the squirrel workers were required to tie around their waists in a yuppie fashion.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_Fire (473 words)

	History, First Hand- Triangle Fire
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was a catalyst for reform.
		In 1909, an incident at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sparked a spontaneous walkout of its 400 employees.
		With fire doors locked on several floors, the elevators insufficient and fire escape blocked, many women turned to their only means of escape, the windows.
	www.ecfs.org /Projects/Fieldston57/triangle (1017 words)

	j. - A novel twist on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
		Her attraction to the material is based in part on the fact that her paternal grandmother worked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory as a buttonhole finisher in 1909.
		One of Weber’s chief characters is Rebecca, whose grandmother is Esther Gottesfeld, a survivor of the Triangle fire.
		Weber’s fascinating, fictional account of the Triangle fire is an intriguing approach to the story of a tragic event.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/30350/format/html/displaystory.html (604 words)

	The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911
		At the time of the fire the only safety measures available for the workers were 27 buckets of water and a fire escape that would collapse when people tried to use them.
		Upon finding that they could not use the doors to escape and the fire burning at their clothes and hair, the girls of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, aged mostly between 13 and 23 years of age, jumped 9 stories to their death.
		Restrictions were made to prevent fires from happening and to prevent the blockage of escape routes.
	www.csun.edu /~ghy7463/mw2.html (1410 words)

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		When the fire started most of the women tried to go escape through the doors, but they were locked.
		Two fire companies arrived on the scene but were powerless to help because their hoses only went up to the seventh floor.
		Now there have to be multiple fire exits, sprinkler systems, fire extinguishers and unlocked doors just to name a few of the laws that were passed after the fire.
	www.angelfire.com /ny3/mbhs5028/trianglereport.htm (292 words)

	Lesson Plans
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Causes and Consequences
		Triangle's mostly immigrant employees soon found that the doors leading out of the upper floors were locked, and that other safety precautions in the building were faulty or nonexistent.
		Through the activities presented in this lesson, students will be become familiar with the conditions facing factory laborers in the early part of the 20th century, as well as the causes and consequences of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
	www.thirteen.org /edonline/ntti/resources/lessons/fireinthesky/index.html (660 words)

	Teaching American History in Maryland - Documents for the Classroom - Maryland State Archives
		Although she was not working in the factory at the time of the fire, many of her friends perished.
		In this brief excerpt from their testimony before the Factory Investigation Commission, New York City Fire Chief Edward F. Croker and Fire Marshall William Beers commented on the safety lapses—the locking of an exit door, the inadequate fire escapes, and the overcrowded factory floor—that led to the deaths of the Triangle workers.
		Fire in the Sky: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Causes and Consequences
	www.teachingamericanhistorymd.net /000001/000000/000024/html/t24.html (1902 words)

	The Progressives
		The fire, presumably set by a lit cigarette, spread quickly and had consumed most of the interior of the structure within 7 minutes.
		Once the fire trucks arrived, their ladders and hoses could not reach high enough to help the trapped people.
		This factory was a non-union shop that had been the site of a large strike in 1909-1910.
	home.sandiego.edu /~shobbs/TriangleFire.htm (232 words)

	The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
		For the fire department, the horror story that unfolded was compounded by the fact that although their equipment was the most sophisticated of its day, the ladders only reached up to the sixth floor.
		The Triangle Fire catastrophe stirred the conscience of a city that had long closed its eyes to the deplorable working conditions of the poor.
		This gave the fire department additional powers to improve factory safety and marked the beginning of the ‘golden era of remedial factory legislation.” The result was the passing of thirty-six new safety laws between 1911 and 1914.
	ct.essortment.com /thetriangleshi_rkko.htm (910 words)

	Etude \| Autumn 2003 \| Triangle: The Fire that Changed the Nation - David Von Drehle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the course of the fire, 146 employees lost their lives; 123 of them women and mostly Jewish immigrants.
		In Triangle: The Fire that Changed the Nation, David Von Drehle provides a detailed account of the worst disaster in the history of New York City prior to 2001.
		The story is made painfully real with vivid detail of the Triangle employees who tried various routes to escape the fire as they found doors to the factory locked, and fire department ladders unable to reach them.
	etude.uoregon.edu /autumn2003/books/triangle.html (213 words)

	HistoryBuff.com -- History Library -- The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
		The distraught fire fighters pulled out a life net and attempted to catch one girl but three more hurled themselves immediately after the first and all four bounced out hitting the concrete.
		Their function is to rid factories of fire hazards.
		Such was the case with the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire on March 25, 1911.
	www.historybuff.com /library/refshirtwaist.html (1986 words)

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		Panicked workers rushed to the stairs, the freight elevator, and the fire escape.
		Although there was widespread revulsion and rage over the working conditions that had contributed to the fire, many defended the right of shop owners to resist government safety regulation, and some in government insisted that they were at any rate powerless to impose it.
		The Factory Investigating Commission of 1911 gathered testimony, and later that year the city established the Bureau of Fire Investigation under the direction of Robert F. Wagner, which gave the fire department additional powers to improve factory safety.
	www.authentichistory.com /images/1900s/cartoons/triangle_fire_cartoon_06.html (364 words)

	The Triangle Factory Fire Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Triangle Factory Fire Project by Christopher Piehler is a fact based drama that uses eyewitness accounts, court records and other material records in order to share the horrifying and heartbreaking story of what happened to the 146 women inside the triangle shirt waste company in 1911.
		The triangle factory fire project by Christopher Piehler is about a tragic event in 1911 where a business’s inability to enforce safety precautions led to the death of 146 women.
		While a convincingly tough Charles Bostwick in defense for the Triangle Factory workers, played by AJ Reiser, attacks the fearfully strong Kate Alterman, by Nicole Montes, tension builds as both characters share an intense scene while Kate attempts to prove that the events she says happened at the factory was her true, unrehearsed story.
	www.cappies.com /occ/reviews/TE-Triangle-07.htm (11918 words)

	Triangle Waist Company — FactMonster.com
		Fire companies could do little, as neither water from their hoses nor their ladders reached above the seventh floor and their safety nets ripped with the weight of so many.
		The company's owners were tried for manslaughter, but acquitted (1914), and their liability was limited to $75 in damages paid to 23 of the victims' families, awarded after a civil suit.
		The ultimate result of their investigations were new labor, health, and fire safety laws, which, among other things, mandated outward-opening doors, sprinkler systems, fire drills, and regular building inspections, and forbade locked doors during working hours.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0930651.html (337 words)

	EconEdLink \| EconomicsMinute \| Worker Safety - The Triangle Fire Legacy
		The Triangle Fire was the worst industrial fire in U.S. history.
		Triangle Factory owners hired new workers and called in thugs to break the picket lines.
		After the Hackensack fire, a New York Fire Chief warned that the conditions in New York City were perfect for a similar or greater tragedy.
	www.econedlink.org /lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM542 (1164 words)

	NPR : The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
		A pivotal case in point is the fire at a New York City clothing factory almost a century ago.
		The "Triangle Fire" started on an upper floor of the high-rise factory building in Greenwich Village on a Saturday afternoon in March 1911.
		The Triangle Factory Fire exhibit at Cornell University
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1416870 (541 words)

	The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial
		In the thickening smoke， as several men continued to fling water at the fire， the fire spread everywhere――to the tables， the wooden floor trim， the partitions， the ceiling.
		Fire Marshal William Beers stated that the fire probably began when a lighted match was thrown into either waste near oil cans or into clippings under cutting table No. 2 on the Greene Street side of the eighth floor.
		Despite an announced policy of no smoking in the factory， Beers reported that fire investigators picked up many cigarette cases near the spot of the fires origin， and that many employees reported that smoking on the premises was commonplace.
	www.for68.com /new/2006/7/wu56283183192760022262-0.htm (2488 words)

	TACT - The Actors Company Theatre
		The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 took the lives of 146 workers, most of whom were young women immigrants between the ages of 13 and 23.
		Considered at the time to be among the most up-to-date and modern of factories, Triangle employed as many as 500 workers a day, the vast majority of whom were young immigrant women.
		The showroom where the Triangle salesmen would occasionally stop by to pick up the latest samples or bring a particularly important buyer, was located in the brightest corner of the floor where Washington Place and Greene Street met.
	www.tactnyc.org /show.php?id=3&sid=4 (1220 words)

	The Story of the Triangle Fire: Part 6
		Perkins assisted in the factory investigation from her position as executive secretary of the New York Committee on Safety.
		This board, consisting of representatives from the clothing industry and from the union, was established a year prior to the Triangle Fire in the aftermath of the 1910 Cloakmakers' Strike.
		The event, as it faded from immediate public outrage, was not forgotten nor was it isolated in the course of the history of American workers.
	www.ilr.cornell.edu /trianglefire/narrative6.html (561 words)

	Sticking It To The Man - History of The Man
		1911 - A turning point in labor laws -- especially concerning health and safety -- occurred as a result of a tragic fire in a New York City garment factory.
		The 18-minute fire left 146 dead; but they did not die in vain as new laws were passed to protect children and others from slave-type labor conditions.
		The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company were indicted for manslaughter.(The History Channel)
	www.stickingittotheman.com /history/history_mar_2.html (494 words)

	The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. A Journal for MultiMedia History web site review.
		The cartoons, mostly from ILGWU publications, highlight the inadequate safety precautions that led to the Triangle fire and express some of the outrage of New Yorkers against the unsafe working conditions and the uncaring attitude of the employers.
		There is also a wonderful bibliography on the fire which includes archive sources for scholars wishing to carry out original research, and a host of secondary sources including juvenile literature, fiction and poetry, videos, and instructional materials for middle and high school students.
		The Triangle fire is, and should be, the main focus of the site but the fire could also act as a window to show more union history.
	www.albany.edu /jmmh/vol2no1/trianglefire.html (999 words)

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