Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-08
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times. In addition to the requirements
contained i'm this section, there shall be
provided four inch standpipe, running
from cellar to roof, with one two-way
placed on street above the curb level and
with one two and oue-half inch outlet,
with two and one-half inch hose attached
thereto on each floor. placed as near the
stairs as practicable. A separate and
distinct system of pipes and automatic
sprinklers approved by the Board OF
Public Works, supplied with water from
tank or tanks Of not less than 1000
gallons capacity. tanks to be kept full
Nt all times. located on the roof over
the stage, and not connected in any
manner with standpipes, shall be placed
behind the proscenium opening and on
the ceiling or roof over the stage at
such intervals as will protect every
square foot of stage surface when said
sprinklers are i'm operation, Automatic
sprinklers shall also be placed, wherever
practicable, In the dressing rooms, under
the stage and In the carpenter shop.
paint rooms, store rooms ana property
rooms A proper and sufficient quantity
of two and one-half inch hose, not less
than one hundred feet In length. fitted
with the regulation couplings of the fire
department and with nozzles attached
thereto and with hose spanners at each
outlet shall always be kept attached to
each hose attachment. There shall al
ways be kept in readiness for immediate
use on the stage at least four barrels
rel which barrels and buckets shall be
painted red There shall also be pro-
vided portable liquid chemical fire eX-
tinguishers at least four axes, and two
twenty-five foot hooks. two fifteen-foot
hooks and two ten-foot hooks on each
tier or floor of the stage. Every portion
of the building devoted to the use of the
public, also all outlets leading to the
streets and including the open courts
and corridors. shall be well and properly
lighted with electricity during every per-
formance. and the same shall remain
lighted until the audience has left the
premises. All said lights in the halls,
corridors Hobbies or any other part of
said building used by the audience. ex--
cept the AUDITORIUM. must be controlled
by AZ separate shut-off located in the lob
by and controlled only in that particular
place. Gas mains supplying the build
ing shall have Independent connections for
and provisions shall he made for shut
ting off gas from the outside of the
building. All lights In passages and
corridors in said building. whenever
Works, shall be protected with proper
wire network. All border lights shall be
constructed according to the best known
methods and subject to the approval of
the Board of Public Works and shall be
suspended for ten feet by wire rope. All
ducts or shafts used for conducting heat
ed air from the main chandelier. or from
any other light or lights, shall be con-
an air space between. vented at the top.
A diagram or plan of each theater gal
lery or floor each occupying a space
not less than fifteen square inches and
showing distinctly the exits therefrom,
shall be printed in black lines in a
legible manner on the program of the
performance. Every exit shall have
over the same, on the inside. the word
EXIT" painted in legible letters not
less than six inches high and also
red light on a circuit Independent from
all other lights in the building.
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Sec, 1853. There, shall be provided
over the stage. and in direct and open
with the ceiling thereof, two
metal flues, at least thirty-siX inches
above the roof, and securely stayed.
The tops of these fiues shall be closed
with an balanced metal disk,
hinged to one side thereof, and held
closed, or nearly so, by metal catch.
Said catch shall be liberated by a wire
or metal cord in each fly gallery,
marked: ITO ventilate stage and clear
of smoke pull this cord' Also by
closed electric circuit, operated from the
fly galleries and from the box office, by
a lever marked: ITO ventilate stage and
clear of smoke, push this lever to the
right
THEATERs-BoILER AND HEATING
APPARATUS
Sec. 154 No steam boiler which may
be required for heating or other pur-
poses shall be located under the audi
torium, stage, property room or main
entrance, and there shall be no com
between these parts of the
building and the boiler room except
through the open air, and the space al
lotted to the same shall be enclosed by
walls of masonry on all sides, and the
floor and ceiling of such space shall be
constructed of fireproof material All
doorways in said walls shall have fire.
doors
heating shall be permitted. No coil or
radiator shall be placed in any aisle or
passageway. used as an exit but shall
be placed in recesses formed in the
All supply, return or exhaust pipes
shall be properly encased and pro-
tected where passing through the floors
or woodwork.
TERS-WORKSHOP. STORAGE
ROOM. PROPERTY ROOMS, ETC.
Sec. 155. No workshop, storage or
general property room shall be allowed
on the auditorium side of the proscenium
nor in any of the fly galleries. All of
said rooms or shops may be located in
the rear or at the side of the stage, but
in such cases they shall be separated
from the stage by a brick wall, and the
openings leading into such portions
shall have fireproof doors on each side
OF the opening constructed and ar
ranged as specified in Section 11S
hereafter erected or altered, used or in
tended to be used for theatrical or other
purposes, shall be occupied or used as
hotel, boarding or lodging house,
factory, workshop or manufactory, or
Tor storage purposes except as
specially provided for. Said restriction
relates not only to that portion of the
building which contains the auditorium
and the stage, but applies also to the
entire structure in conjunction there
with. No store nor room contained in
the building. nor the offices, stores or
apartments adjoining. as aforesaid,
shall be let or used for carrying on any
business dealing in articles designated
as especially hazardous in the classif-
cation of the Board of Fire Underwrit-
ers of the Pacific nor for manufacture
ing purposes No lodging accommoda-
tions shall be allowed i'm any part of
the building communicating with the
auditorium.
THEAFERS-LIGHT AT EXITS
Sec. 156. At each and every exit in
any building or buildings described in
this Ordinance, there shall be placed
and maintained a lamp in which only
mineral, sperm, nut or other non-in-
hammable oil, or electricity upon an
Independent circuit, satisfactory TO the
Board of Public Works. shall be used,
and said lamp or lamps shall be lighted
previous 10 the opening of the doors of
such building or buildings. and shall
be kept lighted until the audience shall
have npna ed from "a