The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-01-22
Council Proceedings.

The city dads met in regular ses-
sion Monday night and after allow
ing the usual bills adopted two Or
dinapces. The first provided penal
ty for any person who should keep
more than twof head of cattle or two
head of hogs within the city limits
and also prohibited their being kept
in such a way as to be a nuisance to
any neighbor. The other was a gen.
eral sidewalk ordinance prohibiting
the laying within the city limits OF
sidewalks of any material other than
vitrified brick, cement or stone, the
same to be inspected and approved
by the committee on streets and al
leys. The same prohibition and pro-
visions are made TO apply to relaying
any sidewalk.
The ordinance relating to the keep
ing OF live stock within the city limits
will proba bly, be reconsidered at the
next meeting and may very likely be
modified.
A general fire ordinance was also
introduced which we publish below in
full. This ordinance is in confornii-
ty with the wave of popular sentiment
which has swept the entire world fol-
lowing the disastrous theatre fire in
Chicago. An aroused public opinion
is demanding more stringent protec-
tin, from fro ond manic in all hnild
ings, public or private, where people
gather in large plumbers. This or
dina nee seeks to clothe our city Of
ficers with the necessary authority so
that they may enforce such provis-
ions as will give to the people of our
city reasonable protection from loss
of life. 1t may work hardship in
some individual cases but the welfare
of the public is of greater moment
than any personal considerations.
ORDINANCE No. l72.
An Act to Provide for the Protection
of the Public in Public Halls
and Meeting Places.
Be it enacted by the Mayor and
Council Of the City of Kinsley:
SECTION l.. Every public hall,
opera house, church. or other place
of meeting, with n seating capacity of
not less than one hundred persons
and not more than five hundred per-
sons, shall have at least two exits
therefrom. exclusive of any exits
opening from the stage or platfCrm
Said exits shall be not less tnan five
feet wide, Except opera houses, which
shall have two stairWays leauing
from the landings each not less than
four feet wide, said landings and
stairways to be built under the super
vision and according tn plans furn-
ished by the city counciD, with doors
opening outwardly, and said exits
shall be placed in different walls OF
! the building. The doors to such exits
shall be kept unlocked at all tim -
when any public gathering is being
held in such building. and shall b+
provided with Stairways or steps lead
| ing to the ground of the same width
as the exits.
SECTION =. Every public hall,
opera house, church, or other pla, E
of public meeting, with seating ca
] pacity of more than five hundred per-
sons, shall have provided an addi-
| tional exit for each two hundred and
| fifty persons seating capacity thereof,
| in the same manner, width, etc., as
| required in Section l of this ordi-
nance
SECTION ;. 1t is hereby made the
duty of the Mayor of said city to ex.
anime all public halls, opera houses
churches, and other places of public
meeting, to see that this ordinance j.
complied with. And it shall be the
duty of the Mayor to close any such
public hall, opera house, church. Oh
other place OF public meeting, thai
fails To comply with this ordinance,
and to keep the same. closet until the
provisions of this ordiua nee shall be
complied with.
! SECTION 4. The owner, proprietor
or lessee. of any such public meeting
place, who shall violate the terms oi
this ordinance. shall on conviction
thereof be fined not less than fifty
/ dollars and not more than five hund.
red dollars for every such Offense.
SECTION ). This ordinance shall
take effect and DE in force from and
after it's publication in the Kinsle,
Mercury
|! This ordinance was laid aside fol-
consideration until the next regufai