Woman's day
On march 25th 1911, a fire,
breaking out in the
Asch
Building, near
Washington
Square, New York, where
the Triangle Shirtwaist Co was located, caused 146 victims, most of them young
ladies whose work was cutting cloth, sewing and ironing shirts. From that tragedy stemmed a worldwide
commemoration, held on 8th march, because of a mistake in reporting the news at
that time. Hereunder, the first page of my reportage on the story, appearing on nš
9 1993 of Corriere della Sera Magazine.
