The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-28
THE ROWLAND
 DRY GOODS co.

sion upon his hearers with the result
 that a unanimous report was forth coming.
 There is every reason for assuming that the House will concur with the action of the Senate in this matter and the bill ia sure to meet with the approval of the governor.
 The text of the bill follows:
 An Act Concerning Fire Escapes on
 Public School Buildings.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House
 of Representatives in General Az
 sembly convened:
 Section 1. Every building used as a schoolhouse, which is two or more stories in height, and in which the greatest elevation of the floor of any pupils is ten feet or more above fhe adjoining ground at any accessfbIs door, window, or other suitable place of exit, shall be provided with aE least one adequate fire escape, of iron or other uncomfortable material, se- cureIy erected on the outside of safd building, for each two hundred and fifty pupils or fractional part there of; and such fire escapes shall at az times, be kept free from obstructiOns shall be so designed as to prevent per sons from being pushed off or Ga1IlmE from same, shall be conveniently ac- cessible to and from each floor of ten or more feet above the ad5ofuinR ground of said building, shall be 0f sufficient width and strength at all parts so that the same may be crowd ed from top to bottom with adult per sons descending two abreast, and the exits of each floor to same shall con sist of doorways whose base shall be ! level both with the floor of sa8d I building and the landing of the fire escape to which it leads. Said door ways shall not be less than three feet wide nor seven feet high, and shall be closed by double doors hinged at Gtls sides to swing outward arranged SO as to be readily and quickly opened from the inside and shall have clear glass panels or sashes extending from not more than eight inches from the top to not more than two feet from the bottom of each door; and the land ing of the fire escape at each floor, if there be two or more separate rooms or railways adjoining each oth- CT and convenient to said landing shall have two or more doorways leading to it, each doorway to be from a separate room or hall The pro visions of this section shall not apply to two-story buildings with fre-pr0of halls and two or more exits on the ground floor opening out
 Sec. 2. The chief of the fire depart nent of any city or borough and the agent of the state board of education having Jurisdiction therein shall have power 10 enforce the pEOF4SlCIA8 or EE8tM act, and it shall be the duty of aaid officials, acting conjointly or singly, immediately upon it's passage. to forthwith order the proper school au- thorities to place, on all scfooIho uaez or buildings used as schooIhouses fo which the provisions of this act are applicable, such number of fire es- capes as will equip said buildings i1 accordance with the provisions hereof. Sec. 3. The chief of the fire de partment of any town, city, borough or fire district, or, if there be no suc5I chief, the principal or superfutendefs- of any school, with the approval OE any agent of the state board of adu- cation, may exempt any school buffr- ing which has two or more ways oi egress by stairways on the inside frosf the provisions of this act.
 Sec. 4. Any school building whi,-f is not equipped with fire escapes 5-s accordance with the provisions Of thts act within sixty days after notice ziv- en as provided in section two, saaE such notice, and shall not thereafteT be used for school purposes until tl1f provisions of this act have been com piled with. In case any such buif5- ing is used for school purposes aft being so condemned, the officials 1r charge of such building shall be sub ject to the penalty provided In sec tion 2633 of the general statutes, ana the town in which such building j. so used shall forfeit the state euumer- ation grant during the time sucH building is so used. The officials making such order may cause fire es- capes to be erected on such school buildings in accordance with the pro visions of this act, and the cost there of shall be paid by the town.
 Sec. 5. All acts or parts of acts im- consistent herewith are hereby repeal ed.
 Sec. 6. This act shall take effect from it's passage.