The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-11-22
BAD FOR FIRES.
Inspectors Report Danger
GUS Places In the
City.
EXPLOSIVES STORED IN FACTORIES
Lodging Houses and Schools
In a Poor Way for
Escape.
EXPLOSIVES STORED IN FACTORIES

In compliance with orders issued by
Fire Chief and Marshal John Conway the
captains an dother members of the var
ious fire companies of the city are making
a round of the buildings in their re-
spective localities examining them relative
to their protection against fire and the
spread of confiagrations. Chimneys are
being examined to see if they are free OF
SCOT, stoves, ranges, pipes connected with
boilers, etc, are undergoing rigid examina-
ton
Special attention is being given to the
matter of fire escapes and other safety
equipment in case. of fire. School build
ings, churches, theatres tenement houses
and public halls are bing especially looked
after and the reports of their conditions
will be made to the proper authorities.
1t is said that the inspectors were sur
prised at the lack of fire protection in
some of the public and private schools in
the Hudson City section. In some of them
not even buckets of water or fire extin-
guishers were found. The inspectors are
also surprised to find so many tenement
houses with scuttles with a ladder with
which to reach the scuttle in case fire
should necessitate escape by the roof.
A rule adopted by the Board of Fire
Commissioners December 27. 1882. is said to
be still in force. 1t reads as follows
Rule 21-An ehimneys shall be kept
clean and free from SCOT, and for
every fire originating in a chimney
caused by an accumulation of SCOT,
the owner, lessee, Or person in charge
of such chimney shall be liable to a
fine of five dollars. All stoves, ranges
furnaces and heating apparatus, in
cluding pipes with which the same
may be connected, and all engines,
boilers. theatrical scenery or other
things which the Board of Fire Com
miSaoners may deem unsafe or un-
usually tending to produce or extend
cOnfiagrations, snail be removed, al
tered or made secure as the said Board
shall direct, by written or printed no.
tice. to be served as hereinafter pro-
vided.
Reports were made to the Fire Board
by the Captains
Captain William F. Miller. of No. 8
Truck, reported that the factory of E.
S. Wells, of No. % Summit avenue, a
manufacturing chemist had in storage one
barrel of alcohol, barrel of cologne
spirits one drahm of ether, containing
five gallons and five barrels of gun cotton,
stored in a two story fame building.
Captain James eUfeman of No. 2 En-
gine, i nthe oliver section of the city,
where there are a large number of manu-
featuring concerns, reports that the
majority of the buildings are in good con-
dition. He calls attention to the lodging
houses in his district, where there are
from one or two hundred people sleep
ing in each place every night. He states
that they are nothing but death traps,
an dthere are no fire escapes on any of
the buildings.
Captain Costigan of No. Engine. re-
ports that wochts' Hat Manufacturing
Company's building, which will be re-
moved to Newark avenue and Fifth
street is in very bad condition.
Goodman's paint shop at No. 4S5 Grove
street, he states. is very careless in the
storing of oils and turpentine.
The other captains in their reports to
the chief say that their districts are in
very good shape.