Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-15
ARE OUR CEEIRCRQES SAFE,
observations Wade nv the safety Com.
observation-disclosures SOsed i'm Different
Church Edifices.


safety commission regarding the condition OF
the various churches of the city:
Metropolitan VI. f. church. main exit doors
open the wrong way. Door rear Of gallery
should be reversed. There should be a tin shield
over the gas in the kitchen.
First Presbyterian church, the hall and stair
way ample. but the doors are too narrow,
and open wrong.
Trinity corner 81 and c streets the main exit
doors are wrong: they should be locked back,
and fly doors be put Oh the outside.
st. AlOysius sill right.
Assembly. corner 5th and l. all right
st. Marys, 5th, neal H. main doors open
wrong.
Immaculate Conception is all right
Hamlne VI, f., doors open wrong.
Mount Vernon. X and 9th streets northwest,
main exit doors open wrong.
Mckendree chapel is all right.
Asburv is all right
Ninth Street Presbyterian. the exits are all
right. The smoke-pipe from the furnace should
De at least sin inches
St Patricks. main exit doors should be kept
locked back during service
Ninth Street Methodist Protestantis all right
Street Baptist. main exit doors wrong. In
the basement there is q stove pipe through a
wood PARTITION
Wesley Chapel. main doors are swung wrong
Lutheran, corner 18th and III streets. main
doors open in; should be locked back during
service
Ascension. all the main doors open wrong.
The smoke pipe of the furnace in north end
passes through a lath partition.
Lutheran Memorial. exits to the church both
In front and To the annex are very bad
ST Augustine, main exit doors open wrong;
should be kept locked back during service
All Souls church. main exit doors are wrong
and should be kept locked back during services.
In this church the ais!es are Obstructed with
Chairs which is contrary to law
15th-street Presbyterian is all right
Dunbarton strcetM f. church, Georgetown
The doors from the lower room to the hall and
from the hall to the east and west sides of the
building are swung out. They should be
changed, and double storm door is recon-
mended.
st. Johns. Ge0rgetOwn-An the exit doors
are wrong. and should be changed The smoke
pipe is located too near the partition wall.
Grace church. GeOrget own-DoOrs open wrong.
The Tabernacle. 9th near B street southwest
Main exit doors open wrong, should be fastened
back during services.
Ryiand chapel-Main exit doors open wrong
Grace church, Dstreet southwest-DoOrs open
wrong.
Main doors open wrong
st. DOminic's is all right
Virginia avenue Baptst-Main exit doors
open wrong.
Sixth Presbyterian main doors open wrong
Wesley Zion, main exit doors are too small and
open wrong. The pillars in the lower hall are
dangerous, and should be renewed.
Church of the Reformation is all right.
Metropolitan Presbyterian church, main exit
doors are hung wrong.
St Peters church. main doors are wrong
Ebenezer church. exit doors are hung wrong;
should be arranged to lock back.
Fourth street Methodist. mainNoOrs are hung
wrong
Second BAPTIST. main exit doors are wrong.
First Methodist Protestant, main doors are
wrong.
Christ church is all right except the furnace
smoke pipe.
st. Marks q small frame building main doors
are wrong.
Waugh Chapel. main exit doors are hung
wrong stove-pipe passes through wood par
New Jerusalem, main exit doors are hung
wrong.
Washington Hebrew Congregation The pine
from the north furnace passes through wood
partition should be protected by four inch
brick wall.
Grace NJ. f. church. north and south exit
doors in basement wrong
Frame church, 6th and P streets, main exit
wrong
Stickney Memorial Chapel is all right
Gurley Mission is all right.
German Methodist Protestant frame bIljIdjnp
exit doors open wrong.
Emanuel German. 9th near N i. Avenue.
main exit doors are wrong; should be locked
back.
> III
streets, is all right.
Calvary Baptist church, exit doors open
Swrong
ST. Matthews is all right
New York Avenue Presbyterian. main exit
doors open wrong. On either side from the
cnurcn 10 the yestibule are double doors one
permanent of wood and the other ordinary
storm doors. The latter open wrong. and should
De reversed At the exit from the gallery there
should be space for the doors to open out and
I0eEe should be additional Sta
structed both from the gallery and main body of
the church at the southwest corner.
Ihirteenth-street Baptist church. the main
exit doors and those leading from the lecture
room 10 the vestibula are wrong
Epiphany, main exit doors open wrong The
smoke-pipes OF the north and east furnaces are
TOO Close to the i0or where they connect with the
nue. They should be lowered at least one foot
Inc gas brackets in the cellar should be made
Nationars, and the floor above them shielded
with tin
Foundry Church. iron gates i'm front of the
main exits should either be removed or
changed TO open out. The east and west main
exits open wrong.
Nineteenth street Baptist, exit doors in the
baOement open wrong.
Western Presbyterian church. doors from the
lower room open wrong
German Evangelical church, Goth and G.
Streets. the three exit doors are wrong
Union Chapel is all right
ST. Pauls. 23d and /, near PENNSYLVANIA ave-
nue., IN the cellar, the pier which supports the
center loist in the west end is unsafe and should
be rebuilt. The main roof should be tied with
iron rods. as it is pushing the side walls out of
plumb, making the building dangerous for as
sembles.
st. Johns is all right.
ST. Stephens is all right
Second Baptist. Gay and Congress streets.
Georgetown, main exit doors wrong
Christ Church, Georgetown main exit doors
are wrong and should be removed. The smoke
pipe OF the brick furnace is out of order and
should be repaired.
West Street Presbyterian church. Georgetown
Main exit doors wrong; the smoke pipe of the
south furnace is too near the floor and should
be lowered
Mt Zion NJ E. church, Georgetown, is unfin-
1shed. but appears to be all right
The walls of st. Paurs Episcopal Mission on
I'D street, are found TO be spreading out on each
SIDE and file yestry will be notified to have them
tied with iron rods and brick pier constructed
under the basement TO strengthen the founda-
tion: quite large proportion of the churches
are found to be in good general condition with
ohy shght alterations necessary, such as turn
Ing the doors outward
Iney report the follov-ip., tSoIlu oJ1;t;on