The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-01-24
HODGIN GOES AFTER
x CARELESS WIRING
Companies Must String
Wires to Conform to
New Code.


day formally notified the city light
plant and all companies which have
overhead wires. that they will have
until August six nonths--to con
form to the provisions Of the new
building code. Many wires are now
strung in a most careless, consequent
ly dangerous, manner, and it is going
to be big job to rearrange them.
However. If after August l, wires are
not strung properly, they will be cut
down by Hodgin.
Here is the section of the building
code which the inspector will vigor-
ously enforce:
'All wires must cross other wires at
right angles, or as near at right angles
as possible, and must be drawn taut
to avoid swinging contacts, and pole
or fixture must support the wires as
near the point of crossing as posi-
BILE. Wires must be at least seven
feet above the highest part of fiat
roofs, and at least one foot above the
ridge of pitched roofs over which
they pass or to which they are attach
ed. Must be brought below the roof
of any building, commencing as high
down between and not in front of win
dows, hoistways, etc. and as near the
wall as the character of the service
will admit. Must not cross streets or
alleys overhead below the roof of the
lowest building to which they are at
tached, and service connections from
poles to buildings must be run straight
across the street or sidewalk and then
down on the wall of the building.
Must, In crossing, pass above or bel
low the wires Of another cNnpany, and
not among group Of wires. Wires
must not be attached to chimneys nor
in any manner interfere with the free
use Of fire escapes. No unused loops
or connections from electric light or
power circuits shall be allowed to
remain after being disconnected from
the inside wiring of the building, ex-
cept in cases where it is positively
know that the service will be required
again within three months. When al
lowed to remain, the loop or service
connections must be as we'll insulated
and protected as the line itself. All
dead and unused wires and all loops
and unnecessary wires which can be
removed without interfering with the
system must be taken down from their
supports and removed at once. Wires
must be removed and renewed when
ever the insulation becomes worn
bruised or defective"
Points to Abuses
Look down any alley" said Hold
gin today, land you will find many
wires running straight down poles in
to first stories of buildings, or in other
haphazard ways. In case of a fire
the firemen would literally have to
cut their way through jungle of
wires. That provision relating to the
placing of wires is one of the very
best in the building code"
Hodgin met last night with three
members of a special council COM
mittee-Burdsall Howells and Stein
brink-and discussed proposed amend.
ments to the building code. These
amendments will be introduced at the
next council meeting. 1t was defin.
itely decided to provide a 50-cent fee
for the inspection of wiring in all old
houses, and to provide a permit for
the installation of furnaces, which
must also be inspected, the fee being
so cents. The provision providing for
the tagging of all wires on roofs with
in the FIRE limits will be stricken out
as it was declared to be unnecessary
Today the frst building permit un
der the new system was taken out. II
was issued by the inspector after al
specifications had been examined, tc
Lawler Bros. for the construction OF
a frame store room at 933 North
Twelfth street. The estimated cos
was $1,365, and the fee charged was
one-fifth Of one per cent of the cos,
of construction.