There was a law forbidding the use of buildings as lodging-houses unless they were licensed for the purpose, and provided with proper windows, stairways and fire-escapes; now, in a “paint-room,” reached only by an inclosed “chute,” a room without a single window and only one door, one hundred men were crowded upon mattresses placed in a solid row upon the floor. Upon the third-story of the “hog-house” of Morton’s was a store-room, without a window, into which they crowded seven hundred men, sleeping upon the bare springs of cots, and with a second shift to use them by day. When the clamor of
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