The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-24

l course or brick above the under slde ahi
 below the top of each tier of floor beams
 shail project the thickness of the furrng r or l studs, to more eftectually prevent tue tni l spread of fire, The walls and piers ol M aii
 p9 S6s ne pGPsery oss eSnqel on a a With mortar They shall be built 10 s lihs ana pc carried up plumb ana SLrnsntin, tna fnII
 walls of each story shall be built up tne va tua'
 All brick laid in non-freezing weather w SnS' 1nfS he well wet Immediately before pelhg ,"iu, Ss
 The brick, used In all buildings r shasl apG pg
 used for nj mortar in in ali buildings shall be clean, sharp sand, and shall not pc hhsr than the standard samples Kept Ill EIne,emt Ine o1
 nee or the Inspector or buiialhsS,d nd ssSd cement
 in the proportion of not more than three
 parts of sand to. one part or eehneena' e' aiN' aEu
 shall be used immediately after eeing nso niim, | ed. Lime mortar shall be made or hos more more | than four parts of sand to one part or llnle'
 and shall not be used until thoroughly d. siak, l ed. Cement and lime mortar shall De maaG
 three parts of sand to each. Concrete roy | foundations shall be made Of one para 4 4s ! cement, two parts of sand and hVe paaiiss papis
 of small clean, broken st9}ns, o}ns, or mroyel and the other half small, clean, broken stoHe' "''
 Sec 27. Every building hereafter aI[efen hnld' | to be occupied as a hotel, and every pu,.u nnnu | ing hereafter erected or altered to aoment pe
 pied as a lodging house. and every rS,ne. tat9h hnuse | house, apartment house nnd uWt,'ihns hassament
 five stories In height or having pasean1ien' aea1inr | and four stories In height aboVe IeiitHhi tJ 1 hereafter erected or altered, to pc M nIpnva l by one or more families on any noel appho pt | the first shall have the first moor apo'e s .nS cellar or lowest story constructed tfe-proof 1 with iron or steel beams ana pllch alrnes, t | The stairs from the cellar or lower story t9
 the repr9og dR Gof neST apgde sh be ncosed 1 with brick walls The opening through the
 brick wal of such inclosure into the lowest
 story shall have an iron door or tli,c9p- 3,S
 cred wooden door consuucted as hereln- | after described in section thirty or tnls u
 tie, and shall be self-oiosing, Every snch ,t building which exceeds i've stores Ill helSnt, l or having q basement and hve stories III
 height above cellar, shall be eonstruete1n, 1,
 as in this section before described, ana shail
 also have the halls and stairs inelosed Witl | twelve-inch brick walls. Eight,inch brick walls not exceeding fifty feet in their yerti,, | cal measurement may inclose sald nalls anu M | stairs and be used as bearing Walis where
 the distance between the outside bearing
 walls does not exceed thirty-th rect ana | the area between the said brick lnclosufe
 walls does not exceed two hundred super | fclal feet The floors, stairs and ceilings III | said halls and stalrways shall be made or
 iron, brick, stone or other hard incompusti.
 ble materials, excepting that the flooring
 and sleepers underneath the same may pc
 of wood and the treads and handralls or
 the stairs may be of hard wood, provided | that where wooden treads are used the un-
 derslde of the stairs shall be entirely lathe1
 with iron or wire lath and pastered fherega a,gbf | of such stairs in each of said buildings small | extend to the roof and be inclosed n bulkhead built of tire-proof materials. when | trally in or back from the front line of the building, q connecting fire-proof hallway in- | closed with brick walls shall be provided on
 first Sgr Sg berssea sxaea te e a the walls or partitions forming interior light or | vent shafts shall be built of brick or such
 other fireproof materials as may be approy-
 ed by the Inspector of Buildings; The walls
 of all light or vent shafts whether exterior
 or interior. hereafter erected, shall be car
 red up not less than three feet above the
 inch and four-inch hollow tile partition
 walls of hard-burnt clay or porous terra cot | ta may be built, not exceeding in their yer
 tical portion measurement of fifty, thirty,
 six and twenty-four feet respectively, and | in their horizontal measurement length
 not exceeding seventy-fve feet, unless
 strengthened by proper cross walls, piers or 1 buttresses bonded into same. All such walls | shall be carried on proper foundations or on | iron girders, or on iron girders and columns
 or piers of masonry. One line of fore and aft partitions in the cellar or lowest story,
 supporting stud partitions above, in all | buildings over eighteen feet between bear | Ing walls In the cellar or lowest story, here
 after erected, shall be constructed of brick
 not less than eight inches thick, or piers of brick with openings arched over below the underside of tho first tier of beams, or piers
 of brick, or iron columns, with wooden | girders when the first tier of floor beams | are of wood, or iron or steel glrders when l the floor beams are of iron or steel, or roll
 ed iron or steel beams of sufficient strength l to span the entire width for the first tier of | beams may he used, and the stairs shall be | nclosed by a suitable brick wall carried up | to the top of the tier of beams nearest the curb line. Fore and aft stud partitions and such other main stud partitions as may be l required by the Inspector of Buildings, which may be placed ln the cellar or lowest story of any building, shall have good solid
 stone or brick foundation walls under the
 same, which shall be built up to the top of
 the floor beams or sleepers, and the sills of
 said partitions shall be of locust or other ] built five inches higher of brick than the top
 of the floor beams or sleepers any wooden | sill may be used on which the studs shall | be set. Fore and aft stud partitions that | rest directly over each other shall run 1 through the wooden floor beams and rest on
 the plate of the partition below, All girders
 supporting the first tier of wooden beams in
 buildings shall be supported by brick piers,
 or iron, locust or other suitable hard wood
 posts of sufficient strength on proper found
 ations. The floor of the cellar or lowest | story in, every dwelling house, tenement house. apartment house, lodging house and hotel, hereafter erected, shall be brick pay
 ed or concreted with suitable materials not | less than three inches thick The ceiling
 over every cellar or lowest floor in dwelling
 houses more than three stories in height, when the beams are of wood, shall be lath- l ca Wltn metal latn ana plhStefe0 thereon
 with heavy coat of brown mortar of good
 materials When wood wainscoting is used
 in any building hereafter erected, the sur
 face of the wall or partition behind such
 wanscoting shall be plastered down to the | floor line, and any intervening space be-
 tween the said clustering and wainseoting
 shall be filed in solid with ncombustible material.
 Sec 2s All buildings in the Fire District | hereafter built shall have fire stops of in-
 combustible material at each floor, from the
 above the top of the same. Said fire stops | at each floor shall fill the space full be- | tween all of the studdng, and between all l furring on external walls of the building l and throughout the interior wherever the
 floor ioists have bearing. All buildings
 outside the Fire District hereafter built | shall have q fire stop similar to the above
 at the first floor and at each floor above | the first shall have smoke stop of wood
 the full width of studdnG and not less than | two inches thick. An incombustibie fire
 stop shall be put around all vertical pininp
 at each floor ill all buildings. All yentiln, l ton duets or pipes shall be of incombusti.
 ble material in all buildings. All buildings | three stories in height and over, necunied | as tenements, flats, apartments, hotels or | for residence purposes over store or stores
 shall have the whole space of the second, | story floor over said store or stores nrotect | ed by an annroved ife-prOof material or ! layer at least one inch thick of tile brick 1 terra cotta or like re-made material. plns 1 ter, cement cinder, or ashes. or il combinn- l ton of the same, laid between the under
 the upper flooring or between the ioists.
 Sec 29. Openings for doors and windoxps ! in all buildings, except as otherwise proyid
 ed shall have good and sufficient arches of T1-t.. n-pn antf