The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-07-07
Fire Chief Lind Files Report With
Council Giving 80 DAYS
Notice.
MANY HAVE FAILED tt
COMPLY WITH TIL LAW
Ordinance Recently Passed Pre-. ides
for Fire Escapes, RoTcs, e.
tinguishers as Precautions

At thc meeting Of the oity coin
ell yestdday morn u ;, ire Chr {
Lind fled a notice in which fifteen
proprietors of hotels. boardinc Z
houses, restaurants and clubs are
given thirty days notice IN which
to comply with ordinance t., recent
~ enacted, which provides for the
installation of apparatus and ncces
sary precautions to facilitate es-
cape IN case Of fire. Those places
mentioned in the notice are:
Christ Beck of the Colonial Ho.
tel, T.. j. Stubbins OF the Halliday
House, Guy Eichenberger of the
nlue Front Restaurant George
Craw ford of the Three states lIo
tel, Paul Phelfs o. the Phelps
IicJse, w. J. Hopkins of the flant-
ers Hotcl. John r Ford of Ford's
Place, the Board OF Directors Of the
Alexander club. Mrs. Charles Wen
ger OF the Wenger House. Mrs FAR
row OF the Farrow and Francis
fats, Mrs. S. =. George oi thu
Green Tree Hotel, Mrs. Webster and
Beck 0f the Webster Hotel, Mrs. w.
J. nugan OF the Seventeenth street
Hctel. Ed Maley of the Marion Flo.
tel and Mrs Burns of the Kluga
Building.
The notice was reverrcd to Com
missioner I!urd n The ordinance
the word hotel" is construed as be
ne every building or structure kept
used or maintained rs an inn. hotel
or public lodging horse, or place
where sleeping accommodation art
furn ished for hire to transient
guests, whether with or without
meals, IN Wh1ch ten or more room.
are used for the accommodation ~
such guests The ordinance rr'.
vidcs that everv hotel of thrcc "
more stories must be provided win
an iron stairway fire escape on the
outside of th1 building constructed
as specified in the ordinance, manila
ropes attached in every bedroom or
or above the second floor in every
hotel of two stories or more, the en-
CLOSURE with iron G, steel shcctinE
of that portion of all elevator shaft;
which extend below the first floor
trap doors in the coverings of insid'
courts. chemical fire cxtingushers
and provides that any per1sn con.
victed for violating the ordinanc,
shall be 1ncd not less than s25 nol
more than 500, and shall be sub
;ect to a fine of $50 for each addl
tional week of neglect and failure
to comply with the ordinance.
The council granted the petition
of the Woodmeu of the World
Egypt Camp No. Is for license &c
hold their carnival here whicl
starts today and lasts through JUS
II. The petition was submitted by
w. n. Young, James II. Davis ant
J. w. Hodge. The issuance of tn,
license was held mp for some tim'
owing TO the fact that no formal ap
plicatior had been made.
The petition of the T. =. Raxtei
estate tn transfer dramshol
license to John w. Tippitt at St;
Ohio street was granted.
The following building petition,
were presented and referred t,
Commissioner Feuchter:
Carl E. Swoboda to erect two one
story cottages of rooms to cos
about $3.50 each In block o
Highland avenue.
Gilbert E. Swoboda to erect TIVE
one story cottages of rooms Il
cost about s1,25o In block !! ,
Highland avenue.
d. Ed Stone tc erect a front ad
dition to replace north end of fee,
barn at 3z7-29-31 Twenty-sccon,
street.
II Z. Halliday to make altera
tions and repairs on his residence
property at 29os Washin gton ave
nue..
Fire Chief Lind reported 20 fir,
alarms during the month. Police
Magistrate Lutz reported a tollec
tion in flies of s419.le and chic
of Folice Fuller reported 1a1 ar
| rests.