In 1910 , Woerishoffer 's money helped establish the New York State Bureau of Industries and Immigration . She passed the Civil Service examination to work as a special investigator for the bureau . She was part of the investigation following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire . While traveling to a labor camp for her work in 1911 , died in an automobile accident near Cannonsville , New York . She was 26 years old . Among the speakers at Woerishoffer 's memorial service were Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman , Florence Kelley , Helen Marot , Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch , George McAneny , and M. Carey Thomas . The following year , her Bryn Mawr classmates and Ida M. Tarbell assembled and published a biographical tribute to Woerishoffer . Her estate donated $ 750,000 to her alma mater ; it was used to establish Bryn Mawr 's graduate department of Social Economy and Social Research
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Carola Woerishoffer