The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-30

said garden, art gallery or room for any
public purpose shall be placed over or
other building which is used as stage.
Sec. IT'S. Work shop, Storage and
Property Rooms
No work shop, storage or general prop
erty 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 To-
Gated in the rear or at the side of the
stage, but in such cases they snail be
separated from the stage by tlre PROOF
wall, and the opening leading into said
portions shall have fire proof doors on
each side of the wall over said openings,
hung to iron eyes built into the wall.
Sec. I79. Theaters Prohibited for
Certain Uses
No portion of any building hereafter
erected or altered, used or intended to
be used for theatrical or other purposes
as herein specified shall be occupied or
used as a hotel, boarding or lodging
house, factory workshop or for storage
purposes, except as may hereafter be spe-
ciaIly provided for. Said restriction re-
lateS not only to that portion of the
building which contains the stage, but
applies to the entire structure in con-
junction herewith
No store or room contained in the build
ing or the offices, stores or apartments
adjoining as aforesaid shall be let or
used for carrying on any business deal
ing in articles designated as specially
hazardous in the classification of Fire
Underwriters.
No lodging accommodations shall be
allowed in any part of the building COM
municating with the auditorium.
Sec. $50. Interior Walls Fire
prOOfed-
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shall separate the auditorium from the
entrance vestibule, and from any room
or rooms over the same, also from any
Hobbies, corridors, refreshment or other
rooms.
Sec. ISL. Enclosure of Stairway
All stairways for the use of the audi
ences, other than those looking from the
first gallery, shall be inclosed with walls
of brick, or fire proof materials, IN the
stories through which they pass, and the
openings from said stairwayS to each
tier shall be the full width of said stair
way.
No door shall open Immediately upon a
flight of stairs, but a landing at least
the width of the door shall be provided
between such stairs and such door.
Sec. IS2. Proscenium Wall and
Girder-
fire wall built of fire proof material
shall separate the auditorium from the
stage and the same shall extend to at
least three feet above the stage roof, or
the auditorium roof, if the latter be high
er, and shall be COPIED. Above the pros
cenium opening there shall be an iron
girder of sufficient strength to safely
support the load above, and the same
shall be covered with fire proof materials.
A relieving arch shall be constructed
over the girder, the Intervening space,
the full thickness of the wall, to be filled
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be constructed an orchestra above the
proScenium opening, the said orchestra
shall be placed on the auditorium side
of the proscenium fire wall. and Shall
be entered only from the auditorium side
of said wall.
Sec. IS3. PrOscenium Frame Fire
Proof
The moulded frame around the pros
cenium opening shall be formed entirely
of fire proof materials; if metal be used
the metal shall be filled in solid with nom
ccmbustible material and securely an
chOred to the wall with iron.
Sec. Is4. Fire Proof Curtain
The proscenium opening shall be pro-
vided with fire proof curtain, or a cur
tain of asbestos, or other fire proof ma
terial sliding at each end in grooves, Sc
curely fastened to the brick wall and
extending into such grooves to a depth
of not less than six inches on each side
of the opening. Said fire proof curtain
shall be raised at the commencement
of each performance and lowered at the
close of said performance, and be placed
at least three feet distant from the foot
lights at the nearest point.
Sec. IS5. Iron Doors in Proscenium
Wall
All doors or openings through the pros
cenium wall from the auditorium in eY-
cry tier shall have doors of iron or wood
on each face of the wall; if of wood, the
doors shall be constructed as hereinbefore
described, and 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 in
cumbrance. Iron ladders or stairs secure
ly fixed to the wall on the stage side
shall be provided to overcome any diff
ference of level existing between the floor
or galleries on the stage side of the fire
wall and those on the auditorium.
Sec. Ise. Metal SkyIights--
There shall be provided over the stage
metal skylights of an area or combined
area Of at least one-eighth the area of
said stage, fitted up with sliding sash
and glazed with double thick sheet glass
not exceeding one-twelfth dip of one
inch in thickness, and each pane thereof
measuring not less than three hundred
square inches, and the whole of which
skylight shall be so constructed as to
open instantly on the cutting or burn
ing of a hempen cord, which shall be ar
ranged to hold said SkylightS closed, or
some other equally simple approved de-
vice for opening them as may be APP
proved.
lmmec lately underneath the glass Of said
SkylightS there shall be wire netting but
wire glass shall not be used in lieu of
this requirement.
Sec. Is7. Construction of Stage
Floor
All that portion not comprised in the
working of scenery, traps and other me-
chanlcal apparatus for the presentation
Of a scene shall be built of IRON or steel
substitution and fire PROCEED.
See. ISS. Fly Galleries.
The fly galleries entire shall be con
Structed of iron or steel beams filed with
or sleepers shall be used as covering
over beams, but the said floors shall be
entirely fire proof
Sec. Is9. Rigging Loft
The rigging loft shall be fire proof Eek
cept the floor covering of the same).
Sec. 100. Stage Scenery
All stage sceenry curtains and decora-
lions made of combustible material and
all the wood work on or about the stage
shall be painted or saturated with some
non-combustible material, or otherwise
rendered safe against fire, and the finish
ing coats of paint applied to all wood
work throughout the entire building shall
be of such kind as will resist fire.
Sec I9I. Roofs and Galleries to Be
Fire Proof
The roof over the auditorium and the
entire main floor of the auditorium and
vestibule, also the entire roof of the sec.
ond story of the front sunerstrl1cf1l1a over