Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-18

| owner, such accidents can be guarded
against or prevented, miscellaneous re-
marks, date of reporting, and finally sigma
ture Of the firm.
Form z is much the same as No. 6, the
former summarized and inspectors report
on it added.
Form is based on section II of the bill,
granting permission BY the Inspector for
the curtailment of the time (45 minutes)
required to be given employees for their noon
day meal. This must be posted in the
main entrance of the establishment.
Forms and 10 are substantially the
same; they are the inspection report, and
must give date of inspection, location of
factory, name, for what purpose used, name
of owner, lessee or occupant, name of party
to be notified, postoffice address, number of
stories, whole number of females EMPLOYED,
number of males and females between II
and 16 years of age, state whether their
names are posted in rooms, whether certif-
Gates are on file for all children employed,
number found without certificates, whether
record book is kept Are any children
under IL years employed? Hours of labor
required of women and children. Are legal
notices posted to that effect? How much
time for monday meals? Are
SEATS PROVIDED FOR WOMEN?
Are children allowed to clean machinery
while in motion? Are betting, shafting
and fywheel well guarded? Are floor
openings protected by trap doors or proper
rslllngs? Are elevators operated by
power or hand, and number Of
them? Have they trap or automatic
doors, and are they in good order?
What safety device is used? Is it in good
order, and when was it last tested? Are ex-
plosive and infammable compounds safely
used? Are betting and machinery well
guarded? Is there communication between
each room and the engineers room? Are
the rooms kept clean and well ventilated?
What appliances are used for ventilation?
Are any gases, vapors, dust or other i'm
purities generated? If so, how are they
provided for? Are q sufficient number Of
water closets or privies provided? Are they
separate for each sex and plainly designated?
Are copies of laws posted in each room?
Are means of egress sufficient in case of
fire? What are they?
Form IL is the deputy inspectors report
of notification of inspection and order to
comply with the law.
Form II is an official request from the
Factory Inspector to owner, agent, etc.,
asking if notice had been complied with.
Form IL is the blank in which deputy
inspectors reports are made and instructions
as to the way they are to be made.
Form IA is notification from the Factory
Inspector to comply with the law within go
DAYS or shoulder the legal consequence.
Form 10 is the requisite blank for COM
plant against anyone employing a child
under 16 years without having an affidavit
as provided by the act.
Form 16 is the blank on which complaint
is made for omitting to keep register of
children under 16 years of age.
Form II is the blank for information
against persons omitting to post notice.
A HARD GAUNTLET TO RUN.
There are other blanks for deposition of
father, mother, guardian or child as to age
and the general form of an information to
be made before magistrate in cases of in
traction.
Instructions are so explicit that Justice
IF the Peace, though a simpleton, NAV walk
n the way appointed and not stumble, but
lust how an extensive manufacturer or mer-
chant is expected to comply with all the
of the act and attend to anything
Else passes ordinary comprehension. ANY |
one who spends half an hour digesting the
lct and then an hour in examination of the |
various blanks may possibly conclude that q |
proprietor who attempts to obey its pro-
visions must hire someone else to run the |
business and he himself devote his |
attention to the act of Doth of May, 1889, but |
Inspector Martin did not make the law, so |
t is of no use to fight.
The provision regarding automatic trap
loors at elevator landings will meet with |
he approval of insurance underwriters. At |
he time of the Monongahela House fire a |
number of insurance men called attention |
10 the necessity OF such traps, and urged the |
passage of law making their construction |
Evidently they had not learned |
VI the passage of the act above noted 1t |
vas claimed that had the elevator at the
House been properly trapped
here would have been but slight damage
lone.
The trouble with the present law seems
hat the lawmakers bit off more than they
an chew, assisted by all the manufacturers
n the State.