The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-17
s3,o0o VOTED
 TO PAY FOR
 BUILDING CODE
Section Permitting Combustable
 Grain Elevators Eliminated
WHEELER THINKS IT DRASTIC
Draft is Held up to Receive At
 tentiOn of Common Council

Samuel H. Wheeler, builder of the Security building. the Hotel StratfieId, the Newfleid building, and a number of other buildings in this city, to say nothing of the several scores of fire proof buildings. in Chicago. may be heard from before the proposed build ing code is adopted by the common council.
 MT. Wheeler called at the city hall, last night. shortly after the meeting of the common council and secured a copy of the proposed code. A promi- There should be nothing in the code that would affect you, when it is taken into consideration the kind of buildings you put up"
 That may be true" said MT. Wheeler. "but I am fearful that they that will make building so expensive that they will stop the growth of the city. New York has had 40 men working for the past three years try ing to perfect a code Chicago and other cities have had the same trou- hle. If five men in Bridgeport have secured a code that will be satisfac- tory to everybody this city is getting off easy- On the other hand, if they are going to make it costly to build
 
 have to be looked into."
 The common council voted unani- mously to pay s3,000 or $500 each to Charles H. Botsford, Robert B. Hur- ley. Joseph W. Northrop, Abram Vel lingtou. and Clifford B. Wilson, the committee which prepared the code. The council referred the draft to the aldsrmanic committee on ordinances to act upon. Whether the aldermen will be able to agree upon the pro- posed laws is not known. The code committee delivered the goods and
 In it's communication to the coun- cf the committee stated that it was appointed by Marcus l.. Reynolds and that it had held 150 meetings. The that it does not demand too much of builders.
 It should be a fairly good code in view of the fact that it was clipped from two codes which are said to be as, good as there is in the country From the proof sheets of the code the Farmer was able to find entire sec tions that had been scissored from the two codes mentioned above. Ere quently when a word was changed in an attempt to avoid plagiarism it was for the worst rather than for the best
 The gentlemen of the building code committee had as much trouble de- ciding that the National Underwrit- CTS codes and the Cleveland codes were all right as Gene McCann would have in deciding that Napoleon Lajoie and Hans Wagner were ball players.
 That section of the code providing for a flreproof center in the heart of the fire limits and then permitting the building of frame grain elevators end coal pockets within the fireproof center has been changed. The Far 1Ler called attention to this clause and objected to it. Now the build CTS of grain elevators or coal pockets will have to build them fireproof if the code is adopted.
 Each alderman received a bound copy of the new code last night and in the communication from the com rnittee it was stated that the printers were prepared to proceed with the work of getting out the entire code as soon as the council has adopted the same
 The resolution to pay the commit tee was introduced by William E. Primrose.