The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-23

opening into the Sald open courts, or on the side street there shall be not less than two eX-
 its on each side, in each tier from and in-
 cluding the parquet and each and every gel
 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 of said doors shall open
 outwardly, and must be fastened with nov able bolts the bolts to be kept drawn during
 performances. There shall be balconies not
 less than four feet in width in the said open
 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 rise Of
 not over eight and one-half inches to 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
 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
 shall be constructed of iron throughout, 1n-
 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,
 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,
 but said stairoases shall end at @ balcony
 placed not less than seven feet above the level
 of the ground, and from said balcony to the
 ground there shall be arranged a hinged iron
 ladder. When located on corner lot that DOT
 tion of the premises bordering on the side
 street and not required for the uses of the the
 ater may if such portion be not more 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 soltdly to and through the roof,
 and that a fire-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
 staircases leading to the street, In manner pro-
 vided elsewhere in this section; said exit pas
 sases shall be entirely cut off by brick walls
 from said offices stores or apartments and
 the floors and ceilings in each tier shall be flre-
 proof Nothing herein contained shall prevent a 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
 no covering boards or sleepers 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
 or fire proof materials, or both but no such
 roof garden, art gallery or room for any public
 purpose shall be placgd over or above that por-
 tion any theater of 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 fire-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
 atrcal 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
 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-
 fees stores or apartments adjoining, as afore-
 said shall be let or used for carrying on any
 business dealing in articles designated as es-
 pecially hazardous in the classification of the New England Insurance Exchange, or for man.
 ufacturing purposes. No lodging accommo-
 dation shall be allowed in any part of the
 building communicating with the auditorium Interior walls built of fre-proof materials shall separate the auditorium from the en- trance vestibue, 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 iri-
 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 starCases from each tier shall be the full width of such staircase. A wall built of brick, shall separate the auditorium from the stage and tho same shall
 extend at least four feet above the stage roof, Tho lat An k1N 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 fre- proof materials to protect 1t from the heat.
 Should there be constructed an orchestra over the stage. above the proscenium opening, the said orchestra shall be placed on the audtori- um side of the proscenium fire-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 fire-prsof materials; if metal be used, the
 metal shall be filled in solid with non-combus- tible material and securely anchored to tAe wall with iron. The proscenium opening shall be provided with tire-proof metal curtain, or
 a 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- erated 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 ings through the proscenium wall, from the auditorium, in every tier. shall have doors of iron, or tin covered wooden doors, on each 1 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 fre- 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 1 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, metal | sRylights, of an area or combined area of at | least one-twelfth the area of said stage fitted l up with sliding sash and glazed with double l thick sheet glass, not exceeding one-eighth oi | an inch thick, and each pane thereof measur- 1 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 l ting of or burning of hempen cord which l shall be arranged to hold said skylights closed
 or some other equally simple approved device
 for opening them may be provided. Immedi-
 ately under the glass Of said skylights there | shall be a 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 and 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 fre-proof material, and r,irS.N for ,f hanr, ,al1