Daily globe., 1883-06-28
THE ST PUL DAILY GLOBE THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 2 1883

oe,in any GTdu6 OF Occu pdClOn, unless every
such store, factory, workshop or other
structure shall be provided with sufficient
doors and stairways for the escape of the
employees in event of fire or other accident
happening, under the penalty of not less
twenty-five dollars for each and every of
Tense and the further penalty of fifty
dollars for each and every day
such owner, lessee or agent shall, after the
first conviction, neglect or refuse to COM
ply with any provision of this section.
Sec. so. Every store, building, factory
or other structure, wherein any person or
persons shall be employed, above the first
story thereof, in any trade or occupation,
as workmen or workwomeD, for wages,
shall contain and be provided with good
sufficient tire-proof stairway for each twen-
ty-tve feet of frontage of every such store,
building, factory or other structure.
Sec. 81. In every factory, workshop or
other place or structure where machinery
is employed, the betting, shafting, gearing,
elevators and every other thing, when so
located as to endanger the lives and limbs
of those employed therein while in the
discharge of their duties, shall be, as far
as practicable, so covered or guarded as to
insure against any injury to such en-
ployes.
Sec. 50. Every vat, pan, or other
structure with molten metals or hot LIQUID,
shall be surrounded with proper safe
guards for preventing accidents or injury
to those employed at or near them.
Sec. SO. The walls and roofs, doors and
windows, shall be kept in good repair, so
as to keep out rain, wind and snow.
Sec. 81. Any person or persons neglect
ing to comply with any of the require
| ments contained in the last four preced-
| ing sections, after notice so to do from
the inspector of buildings, shall be sub
| ject to the penalty of not less than ten
dollars for each such neglect or refusal,
| and the further penalty of twenty five
dollars for each and every day such neg
| lect or refusal shall continue.
Sec. So. Hot air, hot water, steam or
other furnace, whether brick or metal, shall
| be kept at least ten inches, and the smoke
| tlue al least twenty inches off from any un-
protected woodwork. All furnaces shall
| be placed on foundations of brick or stone
with pro per hearths, of incombustible ma
| terial, at least twenty-four inches wide in
| front of the ash pit. All hot air conduc-
tors that are placed within ten inches of
| any woodwork shall be made double, one
| within another, with at least one-half inch
space between the two. All hot air regis
| ters shall be set in incombustible borders
not less than two inches in width; all such
| borders shall be firmly set in plas-
ter of paris; openings in floors
for registers shall be lined with
bright tin, to receive the register
boxes, the lining to be kept at least one
inch distant from such register box. 1 G
or Y bright tin shall be used in the con-
struction of all hot air fues and their ap-
pendages.
Sec. So. Floors under all stoves shall
be protected by covering of incombusti-
BILE material; stoves shall be kept at least
twenty inches, and their smoke pipes
twelve inches from any unprotected wood
work.
Sec. 81. The woodwork of all boiler
houses and boiler rooms shall be kept at
least six feet from the boiler, and four feet
from the breeching or smoke conductor,
and one foot from the dome of the boiler,
unless such woodwork is properly pro-
tected with iucombustible material, and
then there shall be at least two feet space
from the boiler or smoke pipe and the pro-
lection.
containing stationary boilers, shall be
made of incombustible materials, five feet
on all sides, and at least eight feet in front
of any boiler.
Sec. 50. No unprotected heater or NOV
able light shall be kept within any room OF
building wherein hay or straw, or any
highly infammable articles are kept or
stored; the least protection in such cases
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screen with meshes less than one quarter of
an inch.
Sec GO. Steam pipes shall be kept at
least two inches from all wood work, other
wise they shall be protected by soapstons,
or earthen ring or tube, or rest on iron
supports.
Sec. 81. Wooden flag poles are permit
ted to be erected on any building, hut
their braces and other parts, if any such
be put on, shall be of iron.
Sec e.. Where awnings are attached
to buildings, the frame work shall be of
metal.
Sec 63. Walls of any building shall be
securely braced during the process of
erection.
Sec, 64. The term "busness building
shall embrace all buildings used princi-
pdllJ LOT DuSIneSo purposes, InuS lncluu-
ing among others, hotels, theatres and Off ice
buildings.
Sec. So. The terms ''wholasale store' or
''storehouse," shall embrace all buildings
used (or intended to be used) exclusively
for purposes of mercantile business or
storage of goods.
Sec. &c. A basement story of any build
ing is defined as story whose floor is
twelve inches or more below the sidewalk,
and whose height does not exceed twelve
feet in the clear; all such stories that ex-
ceed twelve feet high shall be considered as
first stories.
Sec. 67. The height of all buildings for
the purposes of this ordinance shall be
taken from the grade of sidewalk to a
point half way from the lowest to the high
est point of roof.
Sec. 68. Any chimney not forming
part of wall shall rest upon the ground
with proper foundation, and in no case
shall any chimney rest on or be supported
by frame work, beams or posts of wood
work of any description. This section
shall apply only to buildings in the fire
limits.
Sec. 60. No occupant, owner of or con-
tractor for any building, or any other per-
son, shall, in any way, hinder or prevent
any authorized officer from entering, dur