St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-10

Sec. %. Every plumber before doing
any work in building shall, except in the
case of repairs land repairs are defined 10
consist of leaks in waste or supply pipe,
forcing out waste pipe, repairing valves or
faucets) obtain permit from the Building
Inspector and certificate from the City
Engineer that the drain conn Getting the
premises with the sewer has been accepted
and shall tile in the office of the Inspector
of Buildings upon blanks TO be provided for
that purpose q notice of the work TO be per-
formed, together with plan which shall
show the whole course of the said pipe from
its connection with the house drain 10 its
termination above the level of cellar bot
tom of the house, which plan must be APP
proved by the Inspector Of Buildings before
any portion of the work shall be accepted.
Sec. 90. Every building land each build
ing shall be construed TO mean each dwell
ing or store) shall be separately and indie
pendently connected with the public sewer
when such such sewer is provided, and, il
such sewer is not provided, with a stone
and cement ceSspOol of a capacity TO be APP
proved by said Inspector.
Sec. 81. Drain, main-waste and soil
pipes through which water and sewage is
used and carried shall be of iron when
within building; they shall be sound, free
from holes and other defects, of uniform
thickness of not less than one-eighth of an
inch, or q diameter of not less than four
inches, or tive-thirty- seconds OF an inch for
a diameter of five or six inches. with pro-
portlonal increase of thickness for a greater
diameter. They shall be securely ironed 10
walls laid in trenches of uniform grade, or
suspended to floor timbers by strong iron
hangers, as the said Inspector may direct.
They shall be supplied with suitable trap,
placed, with an accessible clean-out, either
outside or inside the foundation wall of the
building, that shall have a proper fall of
not less than one-Quarter OF an inch per
foot toward the drain or sewer, and soil
pipes shall be carried out through the roof,
open and undiminished in size, 10 such a
height as may be directed by the Inspector;
but no soil-pipe shall be carried to height
less than two feet above the roof; changes
in direction shall be made with one-eighth
bend and \ branches, and connections with
horizontal pipes shall be made with
branches. In estimating the length of soil
pipe it shall be measured from point five
feet outside the front foundation wall of
the house, or from the ceSs-pool to a point
three feet above its roof. All lines of soil
pipes and the fittings on it. over fifty feet in
length to be the standard, extra heavy pipe
and the weight of standard extra heavy pipe
shall not be less than five pounds per foot
when two ~ inch pipe is used; nine pounds
per foot when three ~ inch pipe is used;
twelve and one-half pounds per foot when
four a. inch pipe is used; sixteen and one
half pounds per foot when five 90 inch
pipe is used; and nineteen and one-half
pounds per foot When six 90 inch pipe i S
used.
Sec. 95, Rain-water leaders when within
a building shall be standard cast-iron pipe
when connected with drain, waste or soil
pipes shall be suitably trapped, said traps to
be of extra heavy weight with one IL myth
of extra heavy soil-pipe between it and
main run of sol-pipe inside of such build
ing.
Sec. 81. Iron pipes. before being put in
place, shall be inspected by the said In
spector, and coated inside and outside with
coal tar pitch, applied hot, joints shall be
run with molten lead and thoroughly calked
and made tight. Connections of lead pipes
with iron pipes shall be made with brass
ferrules or brass solder nipples properly
soldered with wiped joints and caulked or
screened to the iron.
Sec. SO. Every sink, basin, bath. tub,
water-closet, slop-hopper and each set of
pipe shall be furnished with a trap which
shall be placed as near as practicable to the
fixture that it serves; traps shall be pro-
tected from espionage or air pressure by
special air pipes of size not less than the
waste pipe; each vent pipe shall have a
trap screw soldered into vent pipe not more
than six inches above where it connects
with trap, but vent pipe outside of water
closets shall be not less than one and a
quarter inch for fifteen feet; one and half
inches for ten additional feet; two inches
for thirty additional feet and three inches
for fifty additional feet; where two fixtures
connect into one vent where such con-
nection is made to be not less than one and
half inch pipe; where three OF
more fixtures connect such connection
to be not less than two-inch
pipe, but air pipes for water-closet traps
shall not be of less than twO-inch bore for
thirty feet or less; and of not less than
three-inch bore for more than thirty feet;
air pipes shall be run as direct as practical
bic, and in all cases they must rise above
the fixtures and shall be of not less than
four-inch bore where they pass through the
roof and vent-pipes, where increased Ia
five-inch, shall be at least eighteen inches
below the roof; each and every vent-p pipe
oilsAA 1NAh ONb NlC lOOA.
Sec. 80. Drip or overflow pipes from
safes under water closets and other fix
lures, or from tanks or cisterns, shall be
supplied with suitable strainer and be run
to some place in open sight, and in no case
shall any such pipe be connected directly
with drain, wastepipe. or soil pipe.
Sec. 101. Every water closet or line of
water closets, on the same floor shall be
supplied with water from tank or cistern,
and the flushing pipe shall not be less than
one inch in diameter. The placing of the
copper-pan closet inside Of any building OIL
house is expressly prohibited.
Sec. 102. Pipes and other fixtures shall
not be put inside of partitions unless SUP
piled with face board put up with screws,
and it shall be the duty of the plumber to
see that said face-board is so placed and
shall not be covered from view or concealed
until after the work has been examined BY
said Inspector, and he shall be notified by
the plumber when the work is sufficiently
advanced for inspection.
Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be in force
and effect from and after its passage and
publication.
Yeas-Ald. Cummings, Dowlan, O'Con-
nor, PetSch, Cullen, Sanborn. Van Slyke.
Kahn, Bryant, Mnea, Long, Mr.. President
Ia.
Nays-Ald. johnson and Starkey-2.
Passed April 6, 1856.
Robert a. SMITH. President of Council
Approved April z, 1856.
ROBERT A. SMITH, Acting Mayor.
Attest:
THos. A. PRENDERGAsT, City Clerk.
April 10.
ORDINANCE No. GA.
Permitting F. S. Nichols to Change Fence
and Remove Frame Building.
The Common Council of the City of st.
Paul do ordain as follows:
Section 1. Permission is hereby giveI