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kind of thing. But we were growing by observing facts.

The Consumers' League always proceeded - and it was the way in which I was trained and therefore respect very much - by accumulating facts and not starting out with a preconceived idea. We accumulated facts and if the facts are significant enough and if the episodes that you think are wrong are frequent enough, then you proceed to find a remedy and recommend the remedy. But you first have to get the facts and see what it really is you are dealing with. We were proceeding, in other words, in that way without having come to a position where we were urging a particular bill or remedy.

In that spring there was this terrible disaster in New York City, which later became known as the Triangle Fire. The factory was in a loft which was in a building located just back of Washington Square, really overlooking Washington Square, although its entrance was on a side street. That building towered up over the lower buildings. Part of it was on Washington Square, although its entrance was on a side street. The building itself is now used by New York University - on that same side of the square. The building itself had a name, the Asch Building, and the fire was recorded in the Fire Department by that building's name because the whole building was involved. The Triangle name came from the name of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory