Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-03-03

The new building ordinance, which is
now formally before City Council, having
been presented on Thursday evening, has
been changed in several particulars from
the original draft, which has been under
consideration for some time.
As the first building inspector under
the new ordinance is to be elected by
City Council at its first stated meeting
in May, 1907, provision is made that the
present. building inspector shall hold Office
at the salary he now receives until that
time. IL is proposed, however, that the
ordinance shall become operative upon
;ts massage by Council and approval by
tbe mayor, and the inspector will be re-
ouired to perform the duties imposed
therein. Provision is made, however,
,hat upon the ordinance becoming a law
,bo INSPECTOR can appoint an assistant
al an annual salary OF $1,000, whose duty
I, win be to keep the Office open at all
times issue permits and attend to other
office affairs not requiring the personal
sttention OF the Inspector Under the
nressnt law the term of Inspector Con-
pellv will expire next May and the pre-
senf Council will elect his successor.
Under the proposed law the qualif-
cations for Inspector are as follows. "NO
nerson shall be eligible for the Office of
bnldine Inspector unless he has been or
il al the time of his election a carpenter,
brick mason, architect, engineer or builder
and shall have been engaged in business
as such at least seven years or shall have
been employed as a journeyman at any
of the trades or professions above mem
toned for a period Of 10 years"
The building inspector is required to
bond in the sum of $1,000, with good and
sufficient security, which evidently makes
It optional whether it is corporate OF
real estate surety. His salary is TO be
$500 year. with S25 month additional
for keep OF horse. The term will be
three years, as at present.
The filing of a full set of plans, with
the application for a permit, will be re-
ouired for operations for new buildings
costing more than $1,000, or alterations
costing more than 81 500 also a dupli-
cate set of plans, approved by the in.
spector, to be kept at the operation
A written statement is all that is re
qured for operations costing less thar
the above amounts.
A change has been made in the ordi
nance concerning party walls, as follows
down below the joist line of the street
10 the depth of seven feet for dwelling
houses and business houses, shall be re
paired or underpinned where needed
and protected, at the entire charge anC
and cost of the owners thereof. Pro
vided, however, that it shall be the duty
of the adjoining owner wishing to sinl
walls to a greater depth than these ad
"a a
joining aforesaid walls"
A board of arbitration, TO settle dis
putes, is provided for as follows; "In cas-
OF any dispute arising between the owne
or contractor Of any building and tn
building inspector, the owner or contracto
shall have the right and privilege of ap
pealing to the city engineer from sue
decision Of the building inspector. If
deposit Of Sc is made by the perso
appealing, there shall Immediately be 81
lected commission of three, to consis
Of the city engineer, who shall, in a
cases, be chairman; another competer
person to be selected by the perso
appealing, and a third person to be s.
lected by the other two. Their finding
shall in all cases be final and the cit
engineer is required by this ordinan'
to notify each party Of the decisio
without delay"
Much objection having been made
the original provision prohibiting Il
erection of frame buildings anywhere
the city, the ordinance has been chang
in this particular, the clause bearing {
this subject reading as follows: Gro
and after the passage Of this ordinance
shall not be lawful to erect or constru
any frame building at any place with
the city Of Wilmington, except east al
south Of a line beginning at the mort
easterly boundary Of the city at the int
section Of said city line and the p, B.
". railroad, thence southerly and wester
along the line of said p, B. 4 w. railro
70 the intersection of said railroad wi
the southwesterly boundary of the cit
and west of a line beginning at the int
section of the P, B. & w. railroad a
the southwesterly boundary of the eli
thence following said boundary line Of t
city northerly to Rising Sun lane, then
hortherly along said lane to Church Lar
easterly along Church lane to Riverve
avenue, thence northerly along said aven
to the city line, thence easterly to {
place Of beginning. In the terrific
above outlined it shall be lawful to ere
frame buildings only for manufacture
establishments and their storehouses q
in this tprrftor,, IL ebal1 not he lawful