Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-20

bustible borders and openings in floors fo
|, registers shall be lined with metal, ther:
being at least two (2) inches Of air space
around the register box extending from tn,
ceiling below.
16. Whenever smoke pipe or not air PIPE
passes through wooden partition at an anglc
the pipe shall be wrapped with double
thickness Of asbestos or shall be gua.dcd by a
soapstone or earthcnware ring six t6) inches
larger in diameter. or double collar of metal
with thee (3) inch air space, and holes foy
ventilation.
16. No wooden oists. rsfters, beams nr
grders shall be built into any chimney, flue,
or fireplace. and no W, od work shall be
placed against any fue or ehimno' until the
same shall be well plastered behind such
wood work with some incombDStlble material,
nor shall any nails be driven into the ma 'on-
ry of any tlue or mney to secure any wood
work thereto
II. all the foregoing provisions Of his Sec
tion shall be subject to the approval of the
Inspector.
18. lfany chimney, tlue fireplace or heat
ing apparatus on any promises shall, in the
opinion of the Building Inspector, be dangerous
or unsafe by reason OF endangering the prem
ises by FIRE or otherwise the Binding Jnspec-
tor shall at once notify in writing the owner
or agent or other party having an interest in
said premises and shall require him TO make
the same safe, and upon neglect of said per-
son so notified 10 comply with the provisions
of said notice for period of forty-eight t4S)
hours after service of said notice upon him he
shall become liable to fine of not less than
ten 1O) dollars nor moro than twenty t20l
dollars for every days continuance of said
unsafe structure.
Construction Of Roofs.
9EcTIoN Ix-1. No roof shall be construct
cd without the rafters being securely anchor.
ed to the ceiling joists below
! .. Every building hereafter erected within
the fire limits shall have roof covering of
| non- -combustible material and all roof cover
ings of combustible material now within the
fire limits when renewed shall be renewed
with non-combustiple material
g. Every building of more than one story
in height shall have scuttle in the roof not
less than two % by three 81 feet with step
ladder Of flight or steps leading to it.
Fire Escapes.
SECTION x-1. Every business or maniac.
turing building and every theatre, opera
house, hall, school house, or other building
intended to be used for public assemblage, al
ready built or hereafter TO be built, in which
twenty-five or more persons occupy or gather
in any of the stories above the second story,
shall be provided with proper and sufficiently
strong and durable metallic fire escapes, ex-
tending from the first story to the upper stOr-
les of such buildings and above the roof and
on the outer walls thereof in such location
and numbers as the Inspector may determine
and which shall be Kept in good repair by the
owner of such building, and no person shall
st any time place any encnmbrance upon any
such ire escapes.
Public Buildings, dc.
SECTION XII. Every theatre, opera
| house, hall, church, school house, or other
building intended to be used for public assem-
bage shall be deemed public building.
=. No doorway or stairway leading from
public building shall be less than five (5) feet
wide and the aggregate width of doorway or
| stairway from interior compartments or gal
| eries shall be in proportion of at least twenty
| inches to each one hundred persons at any
time coptsined therein.
Exterior openings or stairway5 Shall have
| the same proportionate width to the whole
number of persons that may at any time be
contained therein.
8. All exit or entrance doors from theatres
| or other places o. public assembly shall open
outward and no such doors of exit or entrance
! shall be locked during any representation or
| when the building is open to the public
T. Every public hall with accommodations
for five hundred or more people shall have at
least two separate and distinct exits to be rs
far apart as practicable.
5. All stairways in public buildings turn.
ing at an angle must have proper landing
without risers or winders at the turn.
6. All enclosed starcases shall have on both
sides strong hand rail firmly secured to the
walls.
7. The overheads Immediately beneath the
stairways or corridors of theatres, opera houses
| and public halls shall be plastered on non
aths or wire netting or protected by incom-
bustibe material unless such floor or stairway
be within three (3) eet Of the ground and the
space Hereunder be enclosed by incombusti-
BILE walls and kept clear of combustible mate
rial or heating apparatus.
s. The stairway and corridor partitions of
theatres, opera houses, and public halls shall
be built substantially incombustible, by filling
in solid with brick or stone set in mortar or
other incombustible filling or be plastered on
iron laths OF wire-netting or covered with
other incombustible non-conducting material.
8. Egress openings in public hall' and
theatres shall have the word exit con5picu-
| ously placed thereon.
10. The aisles and passages in such halls
sh.ll at all times bC kept unobStructcd and
the doors, stairways, seats and aisles shall be
so arranged as to facilitate egrcss III case of
fire or accident.
II. Every building used for purposes of en-
tertainment requiring the use of io1aImable
materials stage, &C., shall be provided with
at least one standpipe AID water plug
connected with the water pipes OF the city,
placed on the stage or platform in its imme-
date vicinity; the same shall be put in under
| H.. = rl.t tirsa
wardens and hose with nozzle and stop cock
shall be attached to such stand pipe, and the
said hose shall be of sufficient length TO cx-
tend to the farthest limit of such building, and
shall be kept in good order and ready for use
at all times.
- In the case of buildings of the charac.
ter specified in this section already existing,
the Building Inspector shall make examna-
ton and submit report to the City Council,
suggesting such alterations or additions as he
shall think proper.
Wooden buildings.
SECTION Kill. All wooden buildings
used for dwelling purposes, costing over $500,
shall be built upon brick or stone foundations.
2. The provisions herein setforth for fues,
chimneys, and heating apparatus, shall apply
to all wooden buildings.
3. In the erection of wooden buildings in
blocks of two or more, or when not separated
from each other by more than four feet, said
buildings shall have lewiston party or side ex
ternal wall of masonry at least every thirty
two t32 feet; such walls to be Of the dimen-
sions for party or external walls as heretofore
set forth and to project above the roofs as
heretofore set forth.
Dangerous Buildings.
SECTION XIII. 1. 1t shsll be the duty of