The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-08-27

inches thick All such walls shall he
eoped with metai-covered wood. stone.
terra Gotta, or other material satisfaC-
tory TO the inspector.
ANCHORS.
Each tier OF floor beams shahl be
anchored to the bearing walls at intervals
OF not more than eight feet apart. with
good, strong suitable iron anchors.
Where the anShtfed beams rest on
girders they shan be bUtted together and
anchored TO each other with wrought
iron straps or rods. or said beams may
zap each other at least twelve inches and
be well spiked or boited together Where
girders are used TO support floor beams
the girders shall be anchored 10 the walls
snd TO each other by suitable straps or
rods, and anchors.
COLUMNS.
All iron columns in buildings exceeding
one story In height shall have shells
not less than three quarters OF an inch
thick and shall not have an unsupported
length of more than twenty times their
least lateral dimensions. except the same
b. OF some special design OF wrought
iron, or may form part OF an elevator
enclosure or staircase. In which case
the inspector may specially allow great
er unsupported length. All columns must
Al
perpendicular to the axis Of the column.
Iron plates not less than one inch thick
must be used under the bottom tier OF
columns and wherever else they may be
necessary.
Wooden columns or posts supporting
wooden girders and wooden floor and roof
beams, I'm all buildings more than two
stories In height, shall each have cap
and base plates OF iron not less than
one inch thick and OF proper size and
shape. Said wooden columns. when placed
one over another. shall not bear upon
any wooden girder but shall bear directly
upon each other, or upon suitable iron
post caps or pintles All timber columns
or posts shall be squared at the ends
al right angles to their axes.
SKELETON STEEL STRUCTURES.
Walls of brick built in between iron or
steel columns. and supported wholly or In
part on iron or steel girders. in skeleton
structures, shall be not less than eight
inches thick for thirty-five feet OF the
uppermost height thereof, or 10 the near
est tier of beams to that measurement.
in any building so constructed. And each
section of sixty feet or to the nearest
tier Of beams TO such vertical measure
ment. or part thereof, below said thirty
five feet shall have a thickness of four
inches more than Is required for the
section next above II down to the tier OF
beams nearest to the sidewalk or ground
level. and thence downward as prescribed
for foundation walls.
When two Independent buildings Of
skeleton type are Of the same height and
ad1oin each other the thickness Of the
said Independent walls above the founda-
tion for such distance as they adjoin
may be not less than eight inches
HEIGHT OF STORIES AND OF BUILD
INGS.
Sec. Is. The height of stories for all
given thicknesses of walls except for
skeleton steel structures shall not exceed:
First story Is feet in the clear.
Second story. II feet in the clear.
Third story II feet in the clear.
Fourth and upper stories. IL feet in
the clear.
And If any story exceeds the foregoing
heights. the walls of any such story and
all walls below that story shall be in
creased four inches in thickness.
The height of a story shall be the per-
pendicular distance from the top OF the
finished floor In one story to the underside
Df the finished ceiling I'm the same story.
The first story shall be taken to mean
the story the floor of which is first above
the basement or cellar.
The. upper stories shall be taken to
mean the stories the floors OF which are
above the first story and numbered in
regular succession, counting upwards.
No non-freproof building structure
hereafter erected shall exceed sixty-five
feet in height: such measurement not TO
include the following structures on roofs
whose heights are to be taken from the
highest point OF the roof abutting said
structures stairway bulkheads not over
ten feet high Enclosures for elevator ma
chinery not over fifteen feet high. in
closures or towers for tanks or other
safe purposes not over twenty feet high,
and church spires in the first district not
over twenty-five feet, or in the second
district not over fifty feet high all Of
which structures shall be covered with
incombustible material and shall In no
case cover more than ten per cent of the
area of the roof upon which they are
located,
No fireproof Ordinary building or
structure hereafter erected shall exceed
one hundred and twenty feet in height.
except that structures or appendages may
be built upon roofs OF said buildings, not
exceeding twenty feet in height, provided
that said structures or appendages shall
be built of incombustible material
throughout
Every building hereafter erected or al
tered to be used as a theatre or public
station which exceeds three stories or
more than forty feet in height shall be
built iireproof (absolute), except as here
Every building hereafter erected or al
tered in the first district TO be used in
whole or In part as a hotel, apartment
hotel. lodging house, tenement house,
school. Jail, hospital. asylum, assembly
hall, or institution for the care or treat
ment OF persons, which exceeds four
stories or more than fifty feet in height
shall be built fireproof (absolute). Said
buildings when located in the second dis
trict may be built fireproof ordinary,
provided they do not exceed six stories or
more than eighty feet in height.
ROOF COVERINGS.
Except sheds or buildings for the tenn
porary use OF builders or the protection
OF lumber. the roofs OF all buildings here
after erected or recovered in the first
district shall he covered with incombusti
BILE roofing. In the second district. except
as herein otherwise specified the follow
ing buildings hereafter erected, or al
tered so as TO require new roofs, shall
have their roofs covered with incombus-
tible roofing: all non-fireproof buildings
except dwellings not exceeding forty-fve
feet in height: all wooden buildings to be
used for hotels. apartment hotels, apart