The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-22

wall In all furred or studded walls the course or brick above the under slue anu below the top of each tier of hoor beams shail project the thickness of the tulrihg, or or studs, to more efiectually prevent lue spread of fire. The walls and piers or all buildings shall be properly bonded ana oiIoi Soti with mortar They shall be built to me ihe and be carried up plumb and straight Ihs fiIe walls of each story shall be built up tne IuIl thickness to the top of the beams above; All brick laid in non-freezing weather shall be well wet immediately before being iaid. The brick used in all buildings shall be good, hard, Yeil-burnt brick Tne Sso,s saha ha clean, sharp sand, and shall not De hner than the standard samples kept in the of flee of the Inspector of Buildings. cement mortar shall be' made of sand and cement lu the proportion of not more than three parts of sand to one part of cement, ana shall be used immediately after being mix ed. Lime mortar shall be made of not more than four parts of sand to one part of lime, and shall not be used until thoroughly slak- ed. Cement and lime mortar shall be made of one part of lime, one part of cement ana three parts of sand to each. Concrete TOT cement, two parts of sand and five pnriIss pIs of small. clean, broken stone, or ohe-hali of the five parts may be clean graVei gravel aan aii the other half small, clean, broken stone' all carefully mixed
 Sec 27. Every building hereafter altered to be occupied is hotel, and every pulia- ing hereafter erected or altered to pe ucUu aut pied as a lodging house, ana every teliGilivne ,ue house, apartment house ana uweii1ns lUont five stories in height, or having basement and four stories in height aDoYe cellal, hereafter erected or altered, to pc occupleu by one or more families on any noor apoIe the first shall have the first floor aDoVe tne cellar or lowest story constructed 11ie-prooT with iron or steel beams and brlck arches. The stairs from the cellar or lower story 10 the fre-proof floor next above, wheh ne pIaeed pIaeedd with brick walls. The opening through the brick wa. of such inclosure into the lowest story shall have an iron door or q tin-coy- cred wooden door constructed, as herein after described in section thirty of this ti- tie, and shall be self-closing Every such building which exceeds five stories in helght, or having a basement and five stories III height above q cellar, shall be constructeni as in this section before described, and snail also have the halls and stairs tnciosed wlth twelve-inch brick walls Eight,inch brlck walls not exceeding fifty feet In thelr verIi, cal measurement may incose said halls anu stairs, and be used as bearing walls where the distance between the outside bearing walls does not exceed thlrty-three rect ana walls does not exceed two hundred super ticial feet. The floors stairs and ceilings m said halls and stairways shall De maae or iron, brick, stone or other hard incombustl- ble materials, excepting that the flooring and seepers underneath the same may be of wood and the treads and handrails ot the stairs may be of hard wood, provided that where wooden treads are used the uli, derside of the stairs shall be entirely lathed with iron or wire lath and plastered thereon or covered with metal. At least one night of such stairs in each of said buildings shall extend to the roof and be inclosed in bullhead built of tlre-proof materials. When the said halls and stairways are placed cen trally in or back from the front line of the building connecting flre-proof hallway in closed with brick walls shall be provided on 10 frSt and extend to the street. In every building hereafter erected, all the walls or partitions forming interior light or vent shafts shall be built of brick or such other eproof materials as may be anproy- ed by the Inspector of Buildings. The walls of al light or vent shafts, whether exterior or interior, hereafter erected, shall be car level of the roof Eight-lnch brick and six inch and fourinch hollow tile partition walls of hard burnt clay or porous terra cot tn may be built, not exceeding in their yer tical portion q measurement Of fifty, thirty six and twenty four feet respectively, and in their horizontal measurement length not exceeding seventy five feet unless strengthened by proper cross walls, piers or 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 the 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 girders when the floor beams are of iron or steel or roll ed iron or steel beams of sufficient strength to span the entire width for the first tier of beams may be used, and the stairs shall be incosed 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 required by the Inspector of Buildings, which may be placed iii 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 sils of said partitions shall be of locust or other suitable hard wood; but if the walls are 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 through the wooden floor beams and rest on the plate of the partition below. All glrders 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 paw cd or concreted with suitable materials not less than three inches thick. The ceiling over every cellar or lowest floor In dwelling horses more than three stories in height, when the beams are of wood, shall be lath- ed with metal lath and plastered thereon with a 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 wainscotng shall be plastered down to the floor line, and any intervening space be- tween the said clustering and wainscotlng shall be filled in solid with incombustible material.
 Sec. 25. All buildings in the Fire District hereafter built shall have fire stops of in combustible material at each floor, from the bottom of the floor ioists to three inches above the top of the same. Said fire stops
 at each floor shall fill the space full be- tween all of the studding, and between all turing on external walls of the building hoor, joists have bearing. All buildings outside the Fire District hereafter built shall have fire stop similar to the above at the first floor, and at each floor above the first shall have a smoke stop of wood the full width of studding and not less than stop shall be put around all vertical piping at each floor in all buildings All ventijo. tion ducts or pipes shall be of incombustI. be material ill all buildings. All buildings three stories in height and over, occupied as tenements, flats. apartments, hotels or shall have the whole space of the second. story floor over said store or stores nrotect- ed by an annroved fre-proof material, or a layer at least one inch thick of tile. brick terra cotta or like fire-made material; plas- ter, cement. einder, or ashes, or a combipa- ton of the same laid between the under the upper flooring or between the ioists
 Sec. 20. Openings for doors and windows