The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-03

shall fix; and may, by vote Of the ma
jority OF said Commissioners, be dis
missed as a fireman.
SECTION s. No person or persons shall
break through, or attempt to break
through, any blockade established by
the Department, or run over with any
vehicle the line of hose in use at fire;
and any person so doing shall be guilty
of misdemeanor and be subject to fine
OF not more than two hundred and fifty
dollars.
SECTION 9. No person shall, unless
by permission of the Chief Engineer,
kindle any fire, nor in any way auth
orize any fire to be made in any street,
road, lane, market-place or other high
way, or on any pier or wharf in the city,
except for the purpose OF boiling tar,
which fire shall not be more than ten
feet from the end Of the pier or wharf;
and 10 person shall kindle or light, or
cause to be lighted, any rubbish or any
bonfire in any place whatsoever within
radius of one mile OF the present site OF
the Bell Tower Of Honolulu without the
permit III writing OF the Chief Engineer.
SECTION 10. The Chief Engineer, by
and with the approval OF a majority OF
| the Board of Commissioners, may d.
rect any house or building to be pulled
down, blown up or otherwise demolished,
when they deem the same to be neces-
sary in order to prevent the spreading of
! fire.
SECTION IL. The Chief Engineer may,
during the continuance of fire, require
assistance from the persons present for
extinguishing the same, and for remov-
ing furniture, goods, merchandise lad
property from building on fire or in
danger thereof, and may appoint guards
to secure the same. He may also re-
quire assistance for pulling down or de-
molishing a louise or building when he
judges it necessary, and may suppress all
tumults and disorders at such FIRE. All
persons at fire shall obey the orders of
the Chief Engineer.
SECTION II. During the prevalence of
fire it shall be lawful for the Chief En-
gineer, the foremen Of companies, the
Marshal or his deputies, to remove or
cause to be removed and kept away from
the vicinity OF such fire, by force if ad-
visable, all idle and suspicious persons,
and all persons in their judgment not fit
to be employed, or not actually and use
fully employed in aiding the extinguish-
ing of such fire, or in the preservation of
property in the vicinity thereof.
SECTION Is. Any person cutting or in
any way wantonly or Intentionally injur-
ing any portion of the fire apparatus
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor,
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be
fined sum not exceeding two hundred
and fifty dollars.
SECTION a. 1t shall be the duty OF all
persons owning or occupying premises
adjacent 10 fire to allow free access TO
the same by the Fire Department., upon
the order OF the Chief Engineer or Fore
man of Engines, for the purpose OF OBJ
tanning water or using the fire apparatus
for the extinguishing OF any fire; and in
case such access is refused the Chief En-
gineer or the person acting in his place
is hereby authorized forcibly to enter
such premises for the purposes aforesaid
and no person shall refuse such free ac-
cess or in any way obstruct the same.
SECTION 10. All engines, carriages and
other movable apparatus OF the Honolulu
Fire Department shall have the para
mount right of way through all streets,
lanes, alleys, highways and byways,
places and courts OF the city and fire dis
tricts of Honolulu, when running to a
fire, and such apparatus, together with
all other vehicles thereto, excepting
street cars, shall take and keep the right
side OF the street, unless the same be OBJ
structed, and all street cars in the vicin-
ity OF any such apparatus going to fire,
shall retard or accelerate their speed, as
may be required, in order to
give the apparatus of the Fire Depart
ment the unobstructed use of the street
for the time being.
SECTION 16. No person, or persons,
having the control OF any vehicle shall
wilfully or carelessly permit the same to
obstruct the progress of the apparatus of
the Honolulu Fire Department going to
| fire.
SECTION II. Whoever wilfully, wanton-
ly or maliciously obstructs or retards the
passage OF an engine, OR any fire appar-
| atus of the Fire Department, while going
to or at fire, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be punished by fine not
exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
SECTION Is. Every building occupied
as dwelling house, or as store-house,
or regular place of business in Homo
lulu, shall be furnished with at least two
fire buckets, which shall be kept in good
condition, ready for use, in conspicuous
place, and upon which the name of the
owner shall be painted, provided that an
order to that effect in writing or printing