Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-25
THAT OVERLOOKED
BUILDING ORDINANCE

The publication IN the Inter Mountain
yesterday relating to VIOLA, ions of the
city ordinances by building contra ct ors
has borne fruit, as he building in
spector his morning warned the con-
tractors that unless they complied with
the ordinances he would be Obliged to
, arrest them.
The publication also broughE to light
the fact that one accident such as was
set fon-h in the article occurred Tues
day night, in which the S-year-olI
uaug liter OF Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Darch of
No All West Park street was seriously
injured
The little girl was returning home
from her music lesson at o'clock, and
WHEN She reached the postotiice sn-
turned around and walked backwards,
as the wind was blowing hard at the
time. Wholly unaware of the danger
OF walking on the sidewalks of the city
the lit,le girl continued walking back
wards ard fe.l into the excavation for
the new block to be erected by w. A.
CLARK ~Jr., at the northwest corner or
Park and Academy streets. She fel!
distance of Is or 16 feet, and, striking on
a wooden horse, rolled some distance
under ladder.
A man standing in the vicinity heard
the cutlery made by the girl and made
an investigat ton. He found her lying
unconscious on the ground and, pick
ing her up. carried her to her home. AN
examination showed that the little one
was badly bruised on the back and had
sustained number of scalp wounds So
far as known at the present time there
are no broken bones or ixt,rnal injuries
The excavation referred to is pro
tecteu' by board but it was so high
up that the girl walked under IT,
Building lnspec tor Kennedy was seen
to-day in regard to the viola tons of
the ordinances and stated that he had
visited all of the contractors this morn
ing and told them that they would have
to comply with the city laws. All of
them readily agreed to do so for the
building inspector made it PLAIN to them
that unless they did he would be COM
PEELED to place them under arrest The
principal violations are the occupancy
OF more than One-third of the street ard
the failure to build walks around the
material.
In EXPLAINING his position Mr. Kennel
ly. said that he flied to have the ordin.
ances enforced but the contractors had
fglsat deal to contend with They
have repeatedly constructed sidewalks
itOutt the material OccuDVinp the
stree. but these walks have bee1 COW
cred with lumber and stone by the
teamsters anu i, has been almost i'm
possible to keep them clear. This morn
int ia quantity of iron was delivered on
| the street for the Goldberg block on West
roadway and a portion of the railing was
torn down to admit of its being transfer
red to the excavation. The chances are
that some of the iron will be left on the
stree tonight. Mr. Kennedy says that
while this might be technical violation
of the ordinance it would not be right to
cause the arrest of the contractor He
says that if he commenced to arrest peo-
pie for things of this kind he would soon
fill the jail.
There is nothing in the ordinances
which requires a contractor to fence ,n
the building material on the street but
Mr.. Kennedy says that the contractor for
the new opera house on West Broadway
and N ntana streets asked and was
gran ed permission to put up fence