FIRE ESCAPES.
[To the Editor.] Sir, While walking home last night after the performance at the Theatre I could not help thinking what a commotion and rush for the doors might have taken place had anything gone wrong with the apparatus used in connection with the Kinematograph. The late disaster in Paris shows what may happen, and had anything of the sort taken place last night serious accidents, if not loss of life, must have occurred, owing to the want of proper means of exit from the theatre. Whose business it is to insist that such be made I know not, but the owner of the theatre should be compelled to make better precautions for the safety of the public and erect large doors, opening outward. Had there been any scare or rush last night the present doors would have been simply death traps. I have no wish to pose as an alarmist, but as during the coming show and race week, large audiences are likely to be the rule something should be done at once—l am, &c,. Precaution.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 435, 25 September 1897, Page 2
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