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

opening into the said open courts, or on the side street, there shall be not less than two eN | its on each side, in each ter from ana in- eluding the parquet and each and every gol- | lery, Each exit shall be at least five feet in width in the clear, and provided with doors of iron, or wooden doors covered with tin on both sides and edges, All or said doors shall open | outwardly, aud must be fastened with nov able bolts the bolts to be kept drawn during l performances There shall be balconies not less than four feet in width in the said open l court or courts at each level or tier above | the parquet, on each side of the auditorium, of sufficient length to embrace the two exits, and from said balconies there shall be staircases extending to the ground level with a rise of not over eight and one-half inches to q step, and not less than nine inches tread exclusive Of the nosing. The staircase from the upper balcony to the next below, shall not be less than thirty inches in width in the clear, and from the first balcony to the ground, three feet | in width In the clear, where the seating capac- ity of the auditorium is one for one thousand people or less, three feet and six inches in the clear where above one thousand and not more than eighteen hundred people, and four feet in Y the clear where above eighteen hundred people and not more than twenty five hundred people, and not over four feet six inches in the clear where above twenty-five hundred people. All | the before mentioned balconies and staircases i shall be constructed of iron throughout, ln- cluding the floors, and of amle strength to sus- | tain the load to be carried by them, and they shall be covered with metal hood or awning, l to be constructed in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Inspector of Buildings. | Where one side of the building borders on a street, there shall be balconies and staircases of like capacity and kind, as before mentioned, l but said staircases shall end at a balcony 1 placed not less than seven feet above the level of the ground, and from said balcony to the | ground there shall be arranged hinged iron ladder. When located on a corner lot that por- | tion of the premises bordering on the side street and not required for the uses of the the- | at m if Sunh DOrtiDn ha m than | twenty-five feet in width be used for offices, stores or apartments provided the walls sepa- | rating this portion from the theater proper are carried up solidly to and through the roof, and that 1re-proof exit is provided for the theater, on each tier, equal to the combined width of exits opening on opposite sides of | each tier communicating with balconies and starcases leading to the street. In manner pro- vided elsewhere in this section; said exit pas sages shall be entirely cut off by brick walls l from said offices, stores or apartments and the floors and ceilings in each tier shall be f1re- proof. Nothing herein contained shall prevent roof garden, art gallery, or rooms for similar purposes being placed above theater or pub lie building provided the floor of the same | forming the roof over such theater or building shall be constructed of iron or steel and fire proof materials, and that said floor shall have l no covering boards or seepers of wood, but be of tile or cement Every roof over said gar- den or rooms shall have all supports and raf- ters of iron or steel, and be covered with glass
 
 roof garden, art gallery or room for any public purpose shall be placed over or above that por- tion of, any theater or other building which is used as stage. No workshop, storage or gen. eral property room shall be allowed above the auditorium or stage or under the same, or in any of the fly galleries. All of said rooms or shops may be located in the rear or at the side of the stage, but In such cases they shall be separated from the stage by brick wall, and the openings leading into said portions shall have fre-proof doors on each side of the openings, hung to iron eyes built into the wall. No portion of any building hereafter erected or ! altered, used or intended to be used for the atrical or other purposes as in this section | specified, shall be occupied or used as a hotel, boarding or lodging house, factory, workshop or manufactory, or for storage purposes, ex- cept as may be hereafter specially provided for. Said restriction relates not only to that portion 1 of the building which contains the auditorium and the stage, but applies also to the entire | structure in conjunction herewith. No store | or room contained in the building or the of- hces, stores or apartments adjoining as afore- l said shall be let or used for carrying on any ! business dealing in articles designated as es- peoialy hazardous in the classification of the | New England Insurance Exchange, or for man. l ufacturing purposes. No lodging accommo- l dation shall be allowed in any part of the | building communicating with the auditorium. Interior walls built of are-proof materials shall separate the auditorium from the en- trance vestibule, and from any room or rooms over the same, also from any Hobbies, corri- dors, refreshment or other rooms. All stair cases for the use of the audience shall be in- closed with walls of brick, or of fire-proof ma- terials approved by the Inspector of Buildings, in the stories through which they pass, and the openings to said staircases from each tier | shall be the full width of such staircase. re-wall, built of brick, shall separate the l auditorium from the stage, and the same shali extend at least four feet above the stage roof, or the auditorium roof if the latter be the higher, and shall be coped. Above the prosce- nium opening there shall be an iron | girder of sufficient strength to safely support the brick wall above, and covered with fire proof materials to protect it from the heat. Should there be constructed an orchestra over the stage above the proscenium opening, the said orchestra shall be placed on the auditori- um side of the proscenium fre-wall and shall be entered only from the auditorium side of the wall. The molded frame around the pros- cenium opening shall be formed entirely of tire-proof materials; if metal be used, the metal shall be filled in solid with non combus- tible material and securely anchored to ke wall with iron. The proscenium opening shall be provided with fire-proof metal curtain, or curtain of asbestos, or other fire proof mate- rial approved by the Inspector of Buildings, sliding at each end within iron grooves or oth- CT approved devices securely fastened to the brick wall, and extending beyond the opening not less than six inches on each side, Said fire-proof curtain shall be raised at the com- mencement of each performance and lowered at the close of said performance, and be op- | eTated by approved machinery for that pur- pose. The proscenium curtains shall be placed at least three feet distant from the foot-lights at the nearest point. All doorways or open
 ngs through the proseenium wall, from the auditorium, in every tier, shall have doors of iron, or tin covered wooden doors, on each face of the wall, and the doors hung so as to be opened from either side at all times. There shall be no openings in the proscenium fire wall above the level of the auditorium ceiling. Direct access to these doors shall be provided on both sides, and the same shall always be kept free from any incumbrance Iron lad ders or stairs, securely fixed to the wall on the stage side, shall be provided to overcome any difference of level existing between the floor or galleries on the stage side of the fire wall and those on the side of the auditorium
 There shall be provided over the stage, meta
 skylights, of an area or combined area of al least one-twefth the area of said stage, fitted up with sliding sash and glazed with double
 thick sheet glass not exceeding one-eighth o
 an inch thick, and each pane thereof measur-
 ing not less than three hundred square inches
 and the whole of which skylight shall be SC constructed as to open instantly on the cut ting of or burning of a hempen cord which shall be arranged to hold said skylights closed
 or some other equally simple approved device for openNg them may be provided. Immedi. ately under the glass of said skylights there shall be wire netting unless the glass con- tains a wire netting within itself. All that portion of the stage not comprised in the work of scenery, traps end other mechanical appa- ratus, for the presentation of scene, usual ly equal to the width of the proscenium open ing shall be built of iron or steel beams filled in between with fire-proof material and all girders for the support of said beams shal be of wrought-ron or rolled steel. The fly gal