The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-24
CITyi ORDINANCES.

or steel or suitable thickness" etc. In the thirty-thtrd line, after the eighth word insert Tor steel"
 Sec. ls2 Use of Wooden Beams-- All wooden beams or other timbers in the party wall of every building built or stone, brick or iron shall be separat- cd from the beam or timber entering m the opposite side of the wall by at
 least four inches of solid mason work. No wooden floor beams nor wooden roof beams used In any building exceeding dhree , stories In height. hereafter erect three inches. All wooden trimmer and header beams shall not be less than one Inch thicker than tho floor or roof beams on the same tier where the and where the header is four feet and not less than fifteen feet In length, the trimmer and header beams shall be at least double the thickness of the floor or roof beams. or shall each be made properly spiked or bolted together, and when the header is more than fifteen feet In length, wrought iron Hitch plates of proper thickness and depth shall De placed between between, two wooden through the iron plates in constructing the trimmer and header beams; or wrought iron or rolled steel beams of sufficient strength may be used Every wooden beam, except header and tall
 
 inches in the wall. or upon a girder as authorized by thds title. All wooden | floor and wooden roof beams shall be properly bridged with cross-bridging, between bridging and walls shall no, | exceed eight feet. Every wooden head | CT or trimmer more than four feet long, used in any building. shall be hung in stirrup-irons of suitable thickness for the size of the tmbers or jolst hangers approved by the Inspector of Buildings. No timber shall be used in any wall of any building where stone. brick or iron is commonly used, except lintels, as hereinbefore provided. The ends of all wooden floor and roof beamS where they rest on brick walls. shall be cut to a bevel of three inches on their depth. so that in case of fire they may fall without injury to walls. All wooden beams shall be trimmed away from the fues, whether the same be smoke. air, or any other hue, the trimmer beam to be eight inches from the inside face of tho fiue in straight way and four inches from the outside of chimney breast. and the header two inches from the outside face of tho fiue.
 Each tier of beams shall be anchored to tho side. front rear or party walls at intervals of not moro than six feet apart. with good. strong wrought iron anchors of not less than one and al half inches by three -eighths of an inch| in size. we'll fastened to the top orI sides of the beams by two or morsI nails made of wrought iron at least| one-fourth of an inch in diameter. The ends of beams resting upon gird-| CTS shall be butted together, end toI end. and strapped by wrought iron| straps of the same size and distance apart, and In the same beams as the| wall anchors. and shall be fastened in the same manner as said wall anchors or they may lap each other at least II inches and be well spiked or bolted to gether where Tapped. Where the beam. are supported by glrders. the girderi shall be anchored to the walls and. fastened to each other by suitable irot| straps. Every pier and wall. front rear. shall be well anchored to thu beams of each story, with the sam( size anchors as are required for sid walls which anchors shall hook oveI the fourth joist. and the 5oists to bI steadied with scantlings not less thaf two inches by four inches cut in be tween the same. Each tier of beami front and rear. opposite each tiei shall have hard wood or Georgia pin anchor strips dovetailed into the beam diagonally, which strips shall cover q F least four beams. and be one incl thick and four inches wide, but II k such anchor strips shall be let in with in four feet of the center line of tli beams; and wooden strips shall Hk nailed on the top of the beams adH kept in place until the floors are beirI laid. Wooden columns slpportirf wooden girders and wooden floor bear4 and wooden roof beams, in all built ings more than two stories in neigh shall each have cap and base plates
 iron or steel of suitable thickness, al
 of proper size and shape. Said wood
 columns. when placed one over anotht shall not bear upon any wooden girdt but shall bear directly upon each othf H or shall have between the iron or stt 8 plates suitable iron dowels passiI # through the girders. All timbers a H wood beams used in any building sh # be of good, sound material, free fra N rot, large and loose knots, shakes, X any imperfection whereby the strene r may De impaired, and be of such s
 and dimensions as the purposes
 which the building Is intended requi
 Sec. 1S3. The last sentence W read No frame or wood E dwelling house hereafter cree v shall exceed three stories or Z feet in height" so that said sect 7 as amended shall read as follows: t}
 Sec. 1Ss. Wooden buildings outs
 fire district. Outside of the fire disti
 before prescribed herein buildings
 frame or wood may be erected, but "A frame building, to be occupied or uI Nl { as stable, workshop or manufactq
 shall be built more than two stot
 or 25 feet In height, nor shall X wooden tower or spire be built or
 built to a greater height than 50 f
 "No frame or wooden dwelling hd
 hereafter erected shall exceed tA 1. stories or S7 feet in height"
 Sec. 1S4. Fourteenth line to read underpinning' walls of frame or w4
 en buildings" etc., so that said seci as amended shall read as follows: Sec. 1884. General Restrictions Wooden Buildings. When two or nH houses, mentioned in the preceS
 section, are built contiguous, the pl
 - At,,tstop otuddipu shall fe mt than four inches thick and filled solidly with patchwork, or the divf walls may be of brick not less eight inches above the foundd wall; and ends of the floor beams be so separated that four inchel hrick will he between the beams wi