Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24
Council Bluffs
TO REGULATE DRY CLEANING
Councilman Younkerman Draws Ord
nance Intended to Prevent Fires.
DRASTIC IN IT'S PROVISIONS
IL Would COnfine Business to Fire
proof Buildings without Base
ments and Sewer
Connections.

Councilman Younkerman, chairman Of
the fire and light committee. is having
drawn an ordinance intended to regulate
the use of gasoline, naphtha, benzine, etc,
in the dry cleaning business. Two recent
fires in such establishments decided Mr..
Younkerman that some kind of an ordi-
nance regulating the use of explosive oils
in these places was needed. He expects
to introduce his ordinance at the next
meeting Of the city council.
The ordinance contemplated by Coun-
Gilman Younkerman is decidedly drastic in
its provisions and will undoubtedly meet
with considerable opposition.
For the purpose OF the ordinance, a dry
! cleaning business is defined to be the
business OF cleaning cloth, clothing, feath-
srs or any sort of fabrics by the use of
gasoline, naphtha, benzine, benzole or sim
liar light petroleum, or coal tar products
or cleaning by the process NOW as dry
cleaning.
The principal provisions Of the proposed
measure are as follows:
No dry cleaning business shall be car
Tied on except in a fireproof building, not
more than one story high with no base
ment, which building must be of brick laid
in cement, mortar, iron, stone or con-
crete construction with no openings closer
to any other building than thirty feet.
There shall be no Sewer connections from
a dry cleaning building. 1t shall be un-
lawful to heat a dry cleaning building by
any other means than hot water or steam.
The lighting must be done by electricity
in the most approved manner, the wires
to be run In conduits, the bulbs to be
hung In water receptaCles and all keys
and switches to be outside of the building.
1t shall be unlawful to locate, have, use
or maintain a steam generating boiler,
dynamo or motor within any dry cleaning
building, or in any other building adjacent,
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All Of the volatile substances named in
the ordinance shall be stored in closed
tanks.
No dry cleaning building shall be con-
structed or maintained until an applica-
ton for permission to do so. with plans
and specifications showing full details OF
location, construction and connections have
been filed with and approved by the city
council on recommendation of the COM
mittee on fire and light.
No storage tank shall be placed or main
talned under a public sidewalk or In a
sidewalk area.
The ordinance also contains stringent
regulations for the tanks in which the
gasoline and other volatile substances may
be stored.
The penalty section of the proposed
measure reads as follows:
Any person, firm or corporation tina
now have or shall establish, or carry on a
dry cleaning business in violation Of this
ordinance shall, on conviction. be punished
by a fine of not less than $40 nor more
than $50 for each days continuance in said
business and the cost of prosecution.
SATURDAY SPECIALS-In our grocer,
department: Ten bars laundry soap, o
cents; twenty-four pound sack cane sugar
SLS4; E. C. Corn Flakes, package, Z cents
One-pound can DIR. Prices baking powder
80 cents; 25-cent bottle Blue Label catsup
10 cents; 20-cent can pineapple, IA cents
1O-cent can Gem milk, 5 cents; Washburr
& Crosby Gold Medal flour, sack, $1.0
In our meat department: Boneless ril
roasts, pound, 12h to Is cents; pot roasts
pound, 5 to 8 cents; bacon, by the strip
pound, 10 cents; five-pound pail home rem
dered lard, 70 cents. In our hardware de.
partment; Copper bottom wash boiler, 8
cents; one-quart ice cream freezer, Is
cents; folding ironing boards, So cents
good hammock, 95 cents; lawn swing, $685.
three-quarter-inch garden hose, foot,
cents; ovens, SIPS, etc. ]. Zoller Mer
camille company, 1OO-1O2-1O4-1O6 Broadway
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