The sun., 1902-03-12
new DYNAMITE REGULATIONS.
MAYORS COMMISSION SUGGESTS
A LICENSE SYSTEM
With Bonds for Damages and Good Behavior
Also q Permanent Paid Municipal
Explosives Commission, With Power
TO Make and Alter Regulations.

The commission appointed by the Mayor
TO devise new rules TO govern the handling
Of explosives in this city has sent in a pre-
liminary report which the Mayor sent to
the Aldermen yesterday and the Aldermen
sent to their Committee on Legislation
The report recommends, first, that a
Municipal Ex xplosives Commission b. created
with power to make and alter regulations
touching explosives; and secondly, that
license or certificate shall be taken out by
every person who handles explosives and
that the employer shall give bond for
damages. Here are some of the details:
The commission TO he appointed by
the Mayor; TO consist Of four persons, one
chosen from a list TO be submitted by the
American Chemical Society; the Fire Com
missioner to be n member eN-officio and
chairman the regulations made 10 he ap-
proved by the Mayor commission TO meet
AT call OF the chair and each member to get
$40 for each meeting; it shall issue licenses
revocable by the Fire Commissioner, II
he decides that the regulations have been
violated, without which license:
No person, firm or corporation shall have.
keep sell give away, or transport, any gum
powder blasting powder. gun cotton, dyna-
mite, ntroglycerine or any substance or
compound or mi Nture or aTticle, haSlng proper
bination or in contiguity With other sub
stances or compounds. II may decompoSe
ms or pressure. or all of them, 50 a. to pro-
duce rapid flaming combustion, or admin
ister a destructive blow 20 surrounding per
sons or things WITHIN the corporate hiI's
OF the city Of New YORK.
Every person employed in the use or care
OF explosives must have certficate OF
fitness issued by the Fire Commissioner
under the regulations OF the commission;
the manufacture of explosives in the city
is prohibited; the licensce must give bond
OF not less than 81 600 or more than $4,000
as the Commission may prescribe TO
| paw damages from explosions; 20 per cent.
| of the bond 20 be forfeitable TO the Fire
Denartm mt Relief Fund for any breach
| Of regulations; no vessel carrying more than
| twenty-eght pounds OF explosives shall
| be at any pier without a permit except
| vessels OF war at the navy yard)i all the
| Ammunition in armories shall be stored
| in vaults so arranged that they can be
| flooded at the order OF the Fire Commissioners
| or. IL there are troops under arms IN the
| armory, at tho sole order OF the officer IN
| command. ,
| Charter by the Legislature on the theory
that only the Legislature can make the
| changes. But the Mayor II ADVISED thdt inc
Aldermen have power under the charter 10
amend the sections involved whCh are
sections 703 and 701 relating to explosives
and 70 he sends the report TO the Aldermen
| The commission consists of Hon George
| O. Eaton, William Barclay Parsons, j. A.
| Haskell, DR.. Charles +. Mchenna ana the
| Fire Commissioner II has held a number
| OF sessions and is still holding them, con-
sulting experts about the regulations to he
| prescribed II will be glad To have sug-
gestons from the public which should be
! sent 10 Secretary Bion Burrows at $50 BROAD
way not later than March 20 Yesterday
| Capt f. L. Zalinski, inventor Of the dyna-
mite gun; DR. C. W. Nolney, chemist, In.
! spector George Murray OF the Bureau OF
| Combustibes: b. b. Lawrence, manager
Of n large Western mine, which uses 900
pounds Of dynamite a day; James Macbeth.
a manufacturer Of fuses, +. X. Brewster
maker Of explosive caps and j. {. Schrader
Of the Atlantic Dynamite Company were
questioned regarding the transportation
and storage of explosives; how much should
be kept about the city on boats, in wagons
and under sidewalks and where the storage
magazines should be.