Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-01-20
Would Prevent Erection of
Wooden Buildings, as Told
in Yesterdays News.
BOUNDARY LIMITS
THEREIN SPECIFIED
100 Feet from Smith & State
Streets and Hall & New
Brunswick Avenues.

By the ordinance "to prevent in GER
tain city limits the erection Of wooden
buildings as a protection against Gre, :"
which was introduced at the council
meeting Monday night, the Board of
Aldermen will protect almost the entire
business section of the city from being
endangered by the erection of any more
frame structures.
When the new ordinance is adopted
the fire limits of the city will include
the following boundries:
Smith street from the westerly sida
of Arthur Kill sound to Davidson ave
nue., and one hundred feet 600 ft. on
each side of said street; State street
from Smith street to Pulaski avenue
and one hundred feet Zoo ft.) on each
side of said street; Hall avenue from
State street to the Elizabetbport ant
Perth Amboy Railroad, and one hundred
feet 600 ft.) on each side of saic
street; New Brunswick avenue from
Smith street to the Lehigh Valley Rail
road crossing, and one hundred feet
600 ft.) on each side of said street.
Neither can any person move frame
buildings into the foregoing fire limits
without being subject to the penalties
mentioned in the ordinance, which does
not apply to any structures for which
contracts have been signed prior to the
adoption of the measure. The passage
of this ordinance will repeal the old
fire ordinance, which fixed Smith street
from the ferry to the Central railroad,
as the fire limit for frame buildings.
Another part of the ordinance which
is practically building code for frame
buildings to be erected within the new
fire limitsks as follows:
All outside and party walls of all
buildings or parts of buildings of any
kind or description built or erected
within the foregoing fire limits shall be
built of brick or stone or other ineom-
bustile material, and not of wood, and
be rooted or covered with metal, slate
or other ineombustible material, under
la penalty of fifty dollars $3.50, to be
collected in the manner privided by law
from the owner or person who caused
the same to be erected or built, and
every person who shall be employed and
assisting in the moving, erection or con-
struction of any building herein pro-
hibited shall ON conviction thereof for
felt and pay the sum of ten dollars
($10), and any owner of such building
shall forfeit and pay upon conviction
the sum of five dollars ($5) for each and
every day that he shall allow the same
to stand after notice to remove the
same. 1t shall be the duty of the street
commissioner to serve the notice herein
provided for.
Last January an ordinance similar to
the one just passed on its first reading,
was introduced at a meeting of the
Board of Aldermen, but as it met with
opposition on account of the proviso
that no frame building could be erected
within 100 feet Of any Of the streets
named in the new limit, it was never
carried any further.
The present ordinance is practically
a revision of the ordinance of last jan
uary, with the exception that 100 feet
from any of the business streets is
specified instead of $50 feet.
The reason for the change was to al
low any person who happened to own a
lot $50 feet deep the privilege of put
ting up small shed or other small
frame building in the rear of their
lots.