The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05


telligence, language and personal adj
dress than we had expected to see.
Their Sunday evening worship was the
occasion of some little negro eccen-
tricities, but at the same time respect
ful and solemn. i <
Kenosha, June Sd, 1885.
(To be continued meat soeek.)
We have been requested to call par
ticular attention to the following acts
passed at the last session of the legisla-
ture. 1t is the duty of our city fathers
to see that the law in each case is en-
forced
CHAPTER 100.
An act to provide for the public safety in
the construction of public and private
school-houses, churches, hotels, fac
tories and other manufacturing estab-
lishments.
The people Of the state of Wisconsin, repre-
selatcd IN Senate and Assembly, do enact
as foHoWs
Section /. All churches, public and
private school-houses, hotels, factories
or other manufacturing establishments,
constructed at any time after the pass
age of this act shall be so constructed
that the doors shall swing outward, or
both in and out, as the builders thereof
may elect.
Section 2. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its pass
age and publication.
Approved March 80, 1885.
CHAPTER SO.
An act relating to fre-escapes, and
amendatory of section 4575dof the re-
vised statutes.
G'he people Of the state Of Wisconsin, repre-
se,atcd IN Senate and Assembly, do enact
as foRoWs
Section 1. Section 4575o Of the re-
vised statutes is amended so as to read
as follows Section 4575a. Any person,
persons, or body corporate owning, oc-
cupying or controlling any factory, work
shop or structure three or more stories
high, in which several persons are en-
ployed at any kind of labor, on or above
the third floor or story, shall provide and
keep connected with the same one or
more good and substantial metallic or
fre-proof ladders, stairs or stairways,
ready for use at all times, reaching from
the cornice to the ground, on the out
side of such building, and placed in such
position as to be easy of access to the
occupants of such building in case of
| fire, and sufficient to furnish reasonable
means of escape to the persons employ
ed therein, from each and every floor or
story. And any such person, or persons,
or corporate body, who shall for three
months after the passage and publication
of this act fail to provide and keep such
means of escape from fire, shall be sub
jected to fine not exceeding one hun
dred dollars, or to Imprisonment in the
county jail not exceeding three months,
at the discretion of the court.
Section 2. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its pass
age and publication.
Approved March 9, 1885.
CHAPTER 375.
An act to protect life and property from
destruction by fire.
The people Of the state Of Wisconsin, repre-
sented IN the Senate and Assembly, do
enact as toNoaos:
Section l. Every inn or hotel, or other
building in this state, more than two
stories in height, containing apartments
above the ground floor designed for oc-
cupation for fifty people or more, shall
be provided with no less than two flights
Of fire-proof stairways outside, said stair
ways to be located On different sides of
said inn, hotel or other building, in each
case connecting the cornice with the top
of the first story of any such inn, hotel or
other building, with platform, balcony,
piazza or other safe and convenient rest
ing place on level with the floor of each
story so connected. Such stairways
herein named shall in every case be
convenient of access from the interior of
any such buildings, commodious in con-
struction, and of sufficient strength and
firmness to render the same amply safe
and reliable for the purposes of ascent
or descent in case of danger from fire.
Section 2. The inside walls or castings
of every elevator for the conveyance of
passengers to and from the upper stories
of any such building as is described in
the preceding section of this act shall
be constructed of fre-proof material
throughout.
Section 8. In all inns, hotels or other
buildings hereinbefore described, not less
than one efficient and faithful watchman
shall be on service from ten o'clock P. M.
until five o'clock A. M. during each and
every night that said inn, hotel or other
building described is occupied, and every
said watchman shall be required to es-
tablish the fact of his fidelity on every
occasion when on duty by the most
efficient methods in use for that purpose
Section4. In every inn, hotel or other
building hereinbefore described, there
shall be posted in every room, in legible
print, brief and accurate statement of
all means efsafety and escape in case of
fire.
Section 5. Any owner, landlord or
other person in charge Of any building
hereinbefore described, and coming
within the provisions of this act, who
shall omit to comply with the provisions
of this act, shall be held guilty of mis-
demeanor in permitting the violation of
any provisions of this act, and for such
misdemeanor may be punished by fine
not exceeding one thousand dollars, or
by imprisonment not exceeding ninety
days, on each conviction thereof.
Section 6. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its passage
and publication.
Approved April 9, 1885.
The $500000,000 now in the United
States Treasury is said to be the largest
sum Of 1aannnv arnr accumulated n, ana