The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1904-02-17
NEW FIRE ORDINANCES.
City Council Accomplishes
Many Things Last Night.
Department Rssrgauized and Limit
and Escape Ordinances Read -lnpor-
tant Action ON Fire Protection.
Jacobs Chief = New License Law.
Failed To i,amnramise.

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tant Action ON Fire Protection.
Jacobs Chief = New License Law
Failed to compromise.
From Thursdays Daily.
The adjourned meeting OF the City
Council last night was one Of the mosi
! important in the history OF the city
1t was productive OF results aadlhad
the meeting Monday night beat by q
block. All the councilmen were pres
enl except Jamison, Price and Hayes
They showed disposition to getsto
gether on the problems that confront.
ed them and opinions were freely ex
changed.
The Fire Committee recommended
the appointment. Of Elmer +. Jacob.
as chief of the Fire Department, Ed
Hayes and Geo. ~ Breakiron, assist.
ant marshalls, and A. L. DeMos:
and q. X. Fife, council members Of
the department. Their recommends
tions were all adopted by council
| The ordinance provides that the
Fire department shall consist Of five
mem bers, including the above named
officers. They have power to employ
twenty fremen, under the new regu-
lation. They are presumably better
qualified 10 select these than the coun.
Gil, and will do IL before the Il
meeting, The Fire COMMITTEE further
recommended that hereafter the com
pensation of 6remen shall be by the
hour. This recommendation was also
accepted by council, but the rate was
not fixed.
Two new ordinances were submit
ted by CITY Solicitor Beall, both Of
which passed their first reading. Tn.
| drst Of these fixes the Sire limits
within which no wooden building oil
any kind shall be erected in the flu
ture. The limits are as follows: Be
Creek, thence down the Monongahe,s
TO Hough street, thence with Hougt
street to Wiley, along Wiley to The
ravine between Morgantown and East
Morgantown, thence down the ravint
TO Deckers Creek and with Deckers
Creek TO the Monongahela.
This ordinance Is one OF supreme
Importance to verybdoy, and IL passed
will make necessary radical depar
ture 10 the building operations in The
J bird Ward. The ordinance furthel
provides that II any such building bt
erected, the owner shall remove it al
his own expense, and shall pay into
| I'm citv traacurv % r~ar cant ~ thu ,oc
OF removal, with a q ne OF so much pei
day for every day such building stands
| The second ordinance pro sides thai
the owner OF any hotel or tavern shall
provide suitable ire escapes rom every
roum above the frs floor; that the
owner OF any theatre shall provide Ire
escapes aud exits from every floor Of
the theatre above the first; that the
owner Of every business or manufac'
turing BUILDING, shall provide iron o.
metallic fire escapes for every foo
above the second
! Both OF these ordinances must b.
complied with within so days of Jhei
passage. No theatre license will bt
| granted TO any one unless these re
quirements are complied with. Som,
changes in details will probably b.
made before the ordinances are passed
A new amendment TO the license or
dinance was enacted requiring travel
ing statesmen OF stoves and ranges, ant
of fruit trees and shrubbery to pay !;
license.
The proposition OF Barbe and Ridge
way to compromise the cnndemnatioI
proceedings against the John Davil
property was withdrawn and the cas-
will b., settled in court.