Window Cleaner Killed at Widener

While washing window panes facing on the inner court of Widener Library, Sol Rosenblat, of Boston, an employee of the Boston Window Cleaning Company, fell 30 feet to the cement flooring of the court Saturday and received such serious injuries that he died on his way to the hospital.

Rosenblat was standing on the ledge of one of the windows on the second story. Attempting to get back into the building, he pulled the window, which opens outward, toward him, and in so doing lost his equilibrium and fell. He landed on his head and shoulders on the pavement.

The window-cleaner was about twenty-five years old, and leaves a wife of nineteen. The officials of Widener have not been willing to endanger the safety of the regular employees of the building in this business, and have tried to secure the services of experienced cleaners to obviate such an unfortunate accident, which is the first to have occurred in the new building.