The sun., 1900-07-27
NEW ORDINANCE
WHICH PROHIBITS
DEADLY FIREWORKS
Lighted Crackers or TOrpedOes
Must Not be Thrown
Toward Persons.
THE FINES PRESCRIBED.
Explosive Substances Other
Than Ordinary Black Pow
der and Cannot be
Longer Than Five
Inches.

was the new fireworks ordinance intro
duced in City Council last night by
Thomas M. Monaghan, chairman OF the
police committee.
1t was offered as a substitute to the one
introduced two weeks ago and is con-
siderable improvement.
The ordinance is as follows:
IAN ordinance declaring the making,
storing, selling, disposing Of, firing and
exploding of certain fireworks to be
public nuisance and fixing penalties for
its violation.
"Be it ordained by the Council of Will
mington:
section |. 1t shall be public nuis-
ance for any person, persons, firm or cor
poration, after the passage of this ordin.
ance to discharge or explode, or cause to
be discharged or exploded, or to manu-
lacture, keep on hand or store, or to sell,
dispose of, give away or furnish, directly
or indirectly, within the limits of the
city of Wilmington, to any person or
persons: |. Any pistol, revolver or other
weapon intended for the firing or explod-
ing OF blank cartridges, into which bull
let or loaded cartridge may be in any
way inserted and exploded; 2 Any
bomb, torpedo, or device in the nature
of torpedo, to be exploded by
percussion, friction, impact or contact,
in or of which nitro glycerine,
picric acid, chlorate OF potash, any form
of antimony, fulminic acid, permanganic
acid, cyanic or ferro-cyanic acid, hypo-
nitric acid, or any of the salts thereof;
gun cotton, bisulphide of soda or potash,
disulphide of carbon, or any form OF
mercury, gold, platinum or silver is a
component part; and the use OF the
chemical equivalents of said ast-named
ingredients or any of them, shall be
deemed a violation of this ordinance.
8. Any sort of frecracker or detonating
device in the nature of a frecracker,
loadt d OF charged with any substance,
compound, combination of substances or
explosives Whatsoever other than ordi-
nary black guupowder. 4. Any de-
tonatng fireworks of any nature whatso-
ever save as in those ordinances other
wise pi divided, charged or loaded with
any other explosives than ordinary
black gunpowder, composed of sulphur,
satpetre and charcoal. 8 Any fire
cracker or other detonating device what
soever OF a size laIger than five inches in
length and one inch in diameter.
"Sec.ion .. 1t is further dec 'ared to be
a public nuisance for any person, firm or
corporation to sell, give away, dispose OF,
! or otherwise, directly or indirectly, fur.
hish within the limits Of said city, to any
minor, under the age of Is years, any
gun, pistol, revolver or other firearm
whatsoever.
"section 8. 1t is further declared to be
a public nuisance for any person or per.
fons to explode or cause to be exploded
or fired, within said city limits, any
article or thing prohibited in section ! Of
this ordinance.
I "Section 4. If any person or persons.
{ firm or corporation, or any employe Of
any firm or corporation do any of the
things the doing Of which is hereinbefore
declared a public nuisance, he, she, it,
or they shall, upon conviction thereof in
2 the Municipal Court for eaid city, be
punished by fine of not less than So
J nor more than 500.
"Section 5 If any person or persons
;. within the said city limits shall throw
any lighted frecracker or other fire
] works, or any bomb, torpedo, or othel
: device in the nature thereof, at, TO, upor
or toward any person, animal, window
houee, car, carriage or other property, o.
into or among any gathering of persons
d he shall upon conviction in said court
! be punished by fine of not less than 5.
g nor more than $50.
t "Section 6. In any prosecution unde
this ordinance the charge may be lait
against all or any Of the several mem
bers of firm or partnership, or agains
a any employe of any Ierson, firm or part
: nership; and, in case of corporation
the prosecution may be against eithe
P the president or other chief officer there
of, or against the person in charge of o
IS managing the business, or any employ
thereof.
ia "Secton Z. All ordinances or part
thereof inconsistent with this ordinanc
/. are hereby expressly repealed"
The ordinance was read twice and re
ferred to the law committee. IL is likel,
. that it will be passed at the next meet
ing without any change whatever.