The Tenement Acts and The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trips May 2 and 4th $7 per scholar

Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.
                                                          Yiddish Proverb



Additionally, in the beginning of May, we'll be visiting one of the sites of NYC's worst disaster prior to The World Trade attacks.








He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
                                                                      Yiddish Proverb

Early Tenement Acts

This was not the first time that New York State passed a public law that specifically dealt with housing reform. The First Tenement House Act (1867) required fire escapes and a window for every room, the Second Tenement House Act (1879) required that windows face a source of fresh air and light, not an interior hallway.


 An amendment of 1887 required privies interior to the building. The failures of the Second Act - the air shafts proved to be unsanitary as they filled with garbage, bilge water and waste—led to the 1901 "New Law" and its required courtyard designed for garbage removal.





     Who were the victims? 





   what does this cartoon mean?    


     1911 aftermath of Shirtwaist Fire
  

“Life is the greatest bargain - we get it for nothing”
                  Yiddish Proverb




http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/


Murder or a tragic accident predicated on several different failures?


“Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out”
                                                             Yiddish Proverb